Become a Google Calendar Whiz With These Keyboard Shortcuts

If you rely on Google Calendars to plan out your day, these time-saving keyboard shortcuts will turn you into a scheduling master.



Track Down Your Missing iPhone With ‘Lost Mode’

Nothing can help the gut-wrenching sensation of despair you’ll feel when you realize you’ve lost your smartphone, tablet, or laptop. But by following a few simple steps in iOS, there’s at least some hope it can land back in your hands.



Here’s How to Bypass Those Infuriating Automated Phone Menus

Having to enter phone number extensions or deal with multi-layered phone menu systems is a pain whether you’re on a landline or a mobile phone. Luckily, there’s a way to skip those annoying automated menus and dial your contact directly on your smartphone.



Always Know How Far You Are From Home With Google Now

Your smartphone has some remarkable time-saving features. Take for instance, Google Now. When you’re short on time, you can actually just ask it, “Give me directions home” and wherever you are, Google Now will calculate the travel time back to your abode.



Turn Your Smartphone Into the Ultimate Fitness Tracker

Turn Your Smartphone Into the Ultimate Fitness Tracker

You can shell out between $100-150 for standalone fitness trackers like the FitBit Flex and Jawbone Up24. But chances are, you already own one of the most powerful activity trackers around: your smartphone. All you need are the right apps.

    



Find Exactly What You’re Looking for With Google’s Custom Search Feature

Find Exactly What You’re Looking for With Google’s Custom Search Feature

If you find yourself searching the same sites and using the same criteria over and over, you can simplify things and save yourself a lot of time by using Google’s Custom Search.

    



Total Recall: How to Back Up All the Text Messages on Your iPhone

Total Recall: How to Back Up All the Text Messages on Your iPhone

Need to save that text message for proof in a friendly dispute? Something more salubrious? Here’s how to back up all the text messages on your phone.

    



Learn to Ignore the Internet and Steal Back Your Concentration

Learn to Ignore the Internet and Steal Back Your Concentration

If your willpower alone can’t keep you off the “fun parts” of the web during work hours, here are seven software tools that’ll do it for you.

    



Embed Instagram Photos in Your Twitter Feed With This Workaround

Embed Instagram Photos in Your Twitter Feed With This Workaround

Want to embed your Instagram photos directly into your tweets? We show you how to do it.

    



Take a Lot of Screenshots? This Desktop-Cleaning Trick Will Change Your Life

Take a Lot of Screenshots? This Desktop-Cleaning Trick Will Change Your Life

Anyone working in a collaborative, digital field knows that screenshots can be an essential part of daily life. Although it’s much easier managing them on OS X than Windows, if you’re not careful, you can still really junk up your …