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How To Supercharge Search Results on Google, Bing, Yahoo!, and DuckDuckGo
You can use double quotes to search an exact phrase. George Carlin has a great bit about losing things, and one of the things he mentions is frozen banana guacamole. If you want to make sure you get all those words in that order, use quotes: “Frozen banana guacamole” In the image below, you can see…
How to Identify Power Bricks in One Clever Stroke
What? I'm OCD about cords. Don't judge me. Or ask about Son of Box of Cords. Contained within are all manner of cables, wires, and cords. Power cords with those bricks in particular. You know, those maddeningly generic wall warts that have a meaningless sticker applied to them that tells you precisely nothing useful, like…
U.S. Appeals Court Rules Microsoft Must Turn Over Email Hosted in Ireland
Microsoft's Deputy General Counsel has written about the original issue on Microsoft's site, discussing the challenge filed and outlined the reasons why it felt compelled to challenge the law in this case: It’s generally accepted that a U.S. search warrant in the physical world can only be used to obtain materials that are within the…
How to Filter Email Messages Using Sub-Addresses
This is a two-phase system, but it's pretty easy to set up. First off you want to make friends with the plus symbol on your keyboard. You can use it to create specialized email addresses without creating a new email account. So if your email address is jimmy at iCloud dot com, you can use…
How to Report Spam To Common Email Providers
Stop Spam Even if you're good about unsubscribing (or not signing up at all), you might need to report a particular account for one reason or another. Here's how to report spam to the most common email providers: For iCloud, open the message in Mail.app and choose Message > Forward as Attachment, and send it…
Quirky Launches Wink Home Automation, Releases Hardware and Software
Here's how it works: There's this Wink app, that's free in the iTunes App Store, which you can use to connect to a variety of devices like Honeywell thermostats and Schlage door locks. For things that don't fall in the “Ready to go” category, there's a Wink Hub which will communicate to those devices, like…
Twitter Shanghaied Email Notifications - Here's How to Take Them Back
First, go to Twitter and log in. When you're logged in, you'll see your timeline in the middle of the page. Click on the gear in the top right corner, and then click Settings from the menu that drops down. Why yes, that IS Neil Patrick Harris barefoot on a unicorn. Why do you ask?…
How To Create A Recovery USB Drive in OS X
There are a couple of methods for doing this, which both lead to the same place: A USB drive (8GB or larger), safely stashed in a drawer, which has a bootable OS on it, as well as an installer to put that OS on a hard drive. First up is the “official” method, a utility…
Backing Up and Restoring in iOS 7 - Now With Less Suck
In iOS 7, restoring from backup can be paused, and then resumed later. So if it takes longer than you anticipated, you can always click the little X in the iTunes window and eject your iPhone. When you come back later, you can plug it back in, hit the sync button, and pick up where…
Google I/O 2014 Keynote Highlights: Wear, Cars, and 'L'
First off there's a new version of Android, so far without a dessert-y name, so it was referred to as “Android L.” One of the new features of this version is a feature called “personal unlock,” a rather clever way for the device to determine if it is in a trusted environment and if so,…
Starbucks Announces Wireless Charging On Tables
The circle that looks like a coaster is a Powermat Spot Duracell is partnering with Starbucks to provide the charging spots, which comply with the open wireless charging standard used by HTC, Samsung, Microsoft, and others. Charging an iPhone is also possible, but requires either Duracell's Powermat case or a small device for charging iOS…
Amazon Puts Customers in the Middle of Warner Brothers Dispute
Want The Lego Movie? Look elsewhere. As we told you previously, Amazon currently in a standoff with Hachette Publishing, not only posting interminable wait times to get Hachette titles, but then publicly suggesting in customer forums that someone who wants the titles sooner should get them someplace else. If this is the same situation as…
More About Patrick Kane, the Kid With The Bionic Arm
According to a BusinessInsider profile on Mr. Kane, his previous prosthesis would only remember four grips, and if he needed others it required a trip back to his computer to update it. Now he can use his phone with the new one, which gives him access to a wider variety of grips and operates everything…
Pixar Restructures RenderMan Pricing, Non-Commercial Licenses Now Free
ooooOOOOOOoooooh. RenderMan is the software package Pixar built for rendering its own computer animation, and has been in use for computer effects going back to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan through today, noted as being used on The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter films as well. This new RenderMan release, version 19,…
Iovine and Dre to Report to Apple's Eddy Cue, Beats Electronics Reports to Phil Schiller
Jimmy Iovine, Tim Cook, Dr. Dre, and Eddy Cue (from left). It goes on to state that Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young (sorry, I mean Dr. Dre) as well as their employees will be joining Apple. Then the memo actually gives some news the announcement didn't have, stating that the Beats Music team will report…
T-Mobile Surpasses Sprint; Uncarrier Now Third Largest US Provider
Other notable numbers from the report include Android rising to 59% of smartphones shipped, and that three of four phones shipped in the quarter were LTE smartphones. Samsung was the top handset supplier in the quarter and Apple was the top smartphone supplier, with Apple accounting for more than half of shipments to Verizon and AT&T. Handsets by…
Algoriddim Releases Djay 2 Update With Spotify Integration
day 2 on iPhone and iPad For those new to djay, it’s the digital equivalent of a couple of turntables, allowing users to mix tracks making for a seamless stream of music. Previously that mix was limited to choosing from what was synced to your iPad, or available via iTunes Match. With Spotify Premium, you…
Patched Security Flaw In Mac OS, iOS Unpatched in iTunes for Windows
One bug squished, one bug survived. Unfortunately this is just a case of history repeating itself. When this flaw was discovered the update was released immediately on Mac OS, but three weeks later on iOS, drawing criticism from a former employee for the delay. Unfortunately, that delay for Windows users is approaching two months now,…
OmniFocus 2 Drops May 22, Ahead of Announced June Release
I'm guessing this isn't actually what Ken Case's calendar really looks like. OmniFocus is virtually an institution of productivity software, an app that helps people juggle multiple projects for both home and work. This new version was a long time coming, having started as a demo at Macworld last year, then beta testing generated a…
Apple Court Filings Say There Are No Settlement Talks with Samsung
Hang on, this gets tricky. Those aforementioned reports are based on something from the Korea Times on Monday, claiming there were “working-level discussions” happening to settle all of this once and for all. On Tuesday, the story was that Samsung tried its hardest to offer an olive branch, but gosh darn if meanyhead Apple was simply…
That Time Apple Changed Focus From Video To Audio In Record Time
In 1999 Steve Jobs went on stage and showed off iMovie, declaring how FireWire was The Way, and explaining how amazing all the movie creation tools are and what a standard issue Mac user could do with all that video they have accumulated. Then just 14 months later, Steve Jobs walked out at Macworld 2001 and unveiled…
Trip Chowdry's iWatch Deadline Arrives: RIP Apple
Sixty days ago today, Apple watchers received some startling news: Without an iWatch, Apple will disappear in sixty days which is today. Well…it will take time. Well…a lot of time. Well…they won’t actually just vanish in sixty days. Well…it might be best to let Death Knell Prognosticator Trip Chowdhry lay it out for you himself, from…
Jim Henson: Thought Differently from Sept 24, 1936 - May 16, 1990
Drawing from Disney Employees sent to Muppet Studios after Jim Henson passed. He was a creator who still has an impact today, not only because of people from Ricky Gervais to Toy Story and Up director Pete Docter who cite the Muppets as influences, but because lots of kids today still watch Sesame Street, the…