Tips and Tricks

It took me a while, but I finally learned the number one rule of online shopping: never hit "buy" without first searching for a discount code. There are a lot of great coupon sites online , but now there's a simple add-on for Chrome [upd…

Coming off the heels of last week's disappointing Instagram's break-up with Twitter , good news comes to those of us who take and tweet photos because photo filters have come to Twitter. Hooray! Twitter has made this available as an upda…

This morning the announcement by Instagram was made that when you share your Instagram photos via Twitter, they will no longer be properly displayed. Gah. For people like me, who love sharing my Instagram photos on Twitter--and seeing th…

Yesterday, pretty much everywhere I went, I overheard people discussing the new iTunes 11 upgrade that had just launched--on the subway, in a movie theater, on line for lunch at the deli. And I must say, the reports are very mixed. Now t…

Yes, it's that time to start thinking about ways to organize your gift lists. The holidays will be here before we know it. Luckily, these days. there are really a lot of tech resources out there for managing the holiday shopping process,…

Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us , then take a peek at the five coolest Pinterest pins from this week that you won't want to miss. 1. A must-have safety resource for any parent with kids on Facebook . 2. Smart tips on how to …

With Hurricane Sandy, aka Frankenstorm, about to make landfall on the east coast, many of us are stocking up on bottled water and charging our gadgets. If you're not in the evacuation zone but are still battening down your hatches, here …

Obsessed with Pinterest like us? Follow us , then check out our favorite pins from this week. 1. It's pretty amazing what you can do with speakers these days. 2. 10 quick tips that will have you taking better photos of your kids in a fla…

I've loved my iPhone 4 ever since I got it, but I admit that I've been anxiously awaiting to upgrade to iPhone 5 considering I held off on upgrading to an iPhone 4S. So when my pretty, new iPhone 5 arrived last week, I couldn't wait to t…

After we posted instructions on how to get your personal information off Spokeo , we received numerous comments and emails from our readers with concern about having to share your email address in order to remove yourself. While we under…

As predicted, Apple officially launched the new iPhone 5 today, and it's slated to be the lightest, thinnest, and quite possibly the fairest iPhone of them all. If you've been waiting to upgrade from your older model iPhone, or are wonde…

Since my job is primarily on the Internet, I'm pretty vigilant about my family's privacy. So every now and then I'll search my name to see what comes up. And even though I removed myself from the Spokeo database a few years ago, I was sh…

I was obsessed with getting the very best photos of my kids on my iPhone on their first day back to school. But since I happened to be away, my husband had to stand-in as family photographer--which doesn't sound so bad until you see some…

These days, I take so many photos with the Instagram app , I was happy about the recent update and intrigued by the Instagram Photo Map feature. If you haven't upgraded yet, go for it. You'll find cool changes like a cleaner, prettier in…

The next time you hop on Facebook, you may be delighted to see that the photo of your friend's beautiful new baby is displayed prominently across your page. Or...you may bummed to see that your friend's drunken wedding photos are display…

More and more, you're probably hearing about checkpoint-friendly cases for your laptop--in other words, cases that make things easier for the TSA; and help you get through that security line quickly, so that Mr. Grumpypants Impatient Fre…

Q: I am tired of the piles of bills every month that I have to stuff into a file, cram into my filing cabinet, and never look at again. Can you make any recommendations on tech that can help get them organized? - Sarah Hi, Sarah. Good qu…

If you've recently noticed a lack of updates from your favorite brands, bloggers, or fan pages on Facebook (or maybe you haven't realized it until just now), it may be because of the introduction of Facebook's new Promoted Posts . But we…

I have been told by various people that various planets are in retrograde, which evidently explains why all of my favorite sites have been going down this week. Including Twitter. Of course without Twitter, how the heck was I going to go…

This month I received several ominous warnings from my ISP, popping up to interrupt my web pages as I was browsing - We are replacing your wireless router! Order now or your service will be interrupted! You have T minus 14 days...13 days…

My husband and I have been using our Kindle Fire and NOOK Tablets respectively for the last six months, and over that time, we've definitely developed strong opinions about these two new tablets. Let's just say one of them is getting a l…

Just this week, Facebook leaked that they are considering allowing kids under 13 onto the site, albeit it with parental supervision. There's been lots of speculation as to why (stocks down, need new readers for page views), so it makes s…

With Instagram finally available to Android users and now getting snatched up for 1 billion dollars by Facebook (whoa!), it seems like soon everyone will be on our beloved photo sharing app--aw Instagram, we can say we knew you when. So …

You've probably been hearing a lot about Google Play lately, especially if you're an Android user. What exactly is it? Well, in a nutshell, Google Play is the company's attempt at re-branding the formerly-named Android Marketplace--going…