My Mother Is Gone. But Her Digital Voice Helps Keep Me Well
One afternoon, a couple of months before my mother died of colon cancer, I crowded onto her bed to join...
Gear / How To and Advice
These Tools Can Help You Find Your Lost Devices
You might have noticed Apple AirTags in headlines lately—as new Apple products tend to be—but these little tracking discs are...
The Best Way to Get a VR Workout (That’s Also Fun)
VR workouts aren’t for everyone, but for some people they might be the thing that gets them to start working...
The Case for Letting People Work From Home Forever
In 2020, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, almost 70 percent of full-time employees worked from home. Many employers that perhaps...
How to Take a Slick, Professional Headshot With Your Phone
Style is highly personal, but if your goal is to create a versatile headshot that won’t look dated by next...
How to Use Tech to Capture Your Family History
In less than 10 years, one in five Americans will be over 65 years old. As our parents and grandparents...
Want to Grow Your Own Food? Try a Hydroponic Garden
A more artful approach to this is the forthcoming system made by Soilless. The company is the brainchild of Westen...
Here’s a Calendar Trick to Ease Post-Pandemic Reentry
Vaccination rates are up around the US. Even new hot spots around the globe are getting help to control infections....
Forget To-Do Lists. You Really Need a ‘Got Done’ List
Technology has produced a variety of productivity tools, from task boards to to-do lists, from relational databases to outlines. Yet,...
So You Got a Clubhouse Invite. Here’s How to Get Started
Clubhouse is a hot commodity. It has grown considerably since its launch in April 2020. Last December there were approximately...
How to Use Browser Profiles to Separate Work and Play
Most of us are trying to manage a mass of logins and browser tabs, and not just multiple websites or...
These Learning Tools Are Shaping the Online Schoolhouse
“Coursera is basically a platform for online teaching, not online learning,” says Paulo Blikstein, a professor at Columbia University who...
The GPU Shortage Deepened My Existential Dread
My preteen son’s laptop had been warning us for months that it was ready to quit forever. The battery had...
7 Great Apps to Edit Photos on Your Phone
One of the more fun and friendly photo editing apps available, Pixlr gives you access to an impressive number of...
How to Reduce Motion Sickness in Virtual Reality
VR is more accessible than ever, thanks to affordable, stand-alone headsets like the Oclulus Quest lowering the barrier to entry....
Speakers Are Great—but Don’t Underestimate the Soundbar
A soundbar requires, in most cases, one power cord and a couple HDMI cables. Even if you have a subwoofer...
Don’t Underestimate the Challenge of Building a PC
A noise like a freshly lit sparkler in no hurry of going out told me Bad Things were happening. Flames...
How to Rank Up In Overwatch, According to the Pros
Are your Overwatch skills rusty? After playing the hero shooter for a few years, my gameplay approach could use a...
