June 2015: The digital currency called Bitcoin isn’t just for techies or people who fly under the radar anymore. The decentralized, open-source P2P (peer-to-peer) payment system is catching on. You can use bitcoins to buy and sell products all over the world and, now, even at your neighborhood Whole Foods and Kmart. But how secure …
June 2015: If you want to be even more brilliant when using Excel, our frogs have compiled a list of Top 12 functions that you may not know about — or forgot about. These functions were selected across Excel’s 14 categories and can help you breeze through your work. We’ve included links to the corresponding …
May 2015: The new Microsoft Windows computer bug that everyone is talking about isn’t new at all. In fact, the “new” flaw in every version of Windows — including the yet-to-be-released Windows 10 — would be old enough to vote if it were a person. The reason it’s important now is because of all the …
May 2015: There are a ton of apps and wearables for tracking or analyzing sleep — but what about devices that actually help you get the Zs you need? The blue wavelengths in light emitted by our many screens — smartphones, tablets, TVs, computers — reduces production of melatonin, the hormone that regulates your sleep …
April 2015: Wearables are amazing! They’re changing the way we go about our days and what we know about ourselves. But they’re also portals into our personal information. Security for wearables is a mindset: being aware that your favorite new device is an information gathering and sharing machine. So you need to pay attention to …
April 2015: What if you could buy your favorite Google gadgets from a single, streamlined, easy-to-shop website with a high-concept design and lots of white space? And what if the apps for those gadgets were pre-vetted so you knew they didn’t contain malware? Sound like the Apple Store and iTunes App Store? Definitely! Except they’re …
April 2015: Oh, no! You deleted an important email — or appointment, task, contact or note. And now you want it back. If you use Outlook, you’re in luck. You can easily recover deleted items from your Deleted Items folder or, slightly less easily, from the place deleted items go when they disappear from your …
March 2015: Real email finally comes to your pocket! The mobile version of Microsoft Outlook behaves more like your desktop email — and offers genuine breakthroughs, like setting appointments directly from the email app and attaching files from your DropBox, Google Drive and other cloud storage accounts. Plus it’s free and works on your Android …
February 2015: Windows 7 users, welcome to the “extended support” phase! The “mainstream support” phase has ended and now … what? Don’t panic — this is not the same as the Windows XP end-of-life situation last year. You have until 2020 to panic. Meanwhile, here’s what you need to know about the differences between mainstream …
February 2015: Microsoft Office 365 comes with super-productive ways for you to communicate with others and get rid of annoying email strings — woo-hoo! With Office 365, the online version of Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and others), you get access to features similar to those in DropBox, Google Docs and social media newsfeeds without …