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May 24

Magazine-Style News Aggregator, Flipboard, Turns iOS App Into Content Consumption Powerhouse

Flipboard is an excellent mobile app for iOS and Android that takes linked stories from your social media accounts and RSS feeds, and presents them in an extremely attractive, touch-friendly interface that feels more akin to reading a magazine than simply scrolling a web page. When I first heard about it, I thought the praise was pure hyperbole, but after giving it a try, it was easy to see that app experiences like these were the future of content consumption.

Now, the service has updated their iOS app (and Android app, as well) to further enhance both the utility and collaborative aspects of the service. Read more

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May 22

Aggregate Related Chrome Tabs Into Windows With TabJuggler

TabJuggler

One area where modern browsers often fall short for the power user is tab management. When you’re done working through the keyboard shortcuts and limited preferences you can set regarding your tabs, it becomes obvious that you’re going to need to look to the developer community for extensions that expand this circumscribed functionality.

TabJuggler is an extension that will give you the power and flexibility you need to be a more productive web worker. Read more

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May 20

Encrypt Your Android Device

Android Encryption

In an age where an increasing portion of the population is transitioning from feature phones to smartphones (and other extremely mobile computers), it is always surprising for me to discover how few people I know actually employ encryption on their devices, particularly when it comes to Android users.

Since Android Gingerbread 2.3.4, users have been able to encrypt their device’s contents, and it’s a relatively painless process to set up. So, let’s dig in and learn how to properly secure our Android devices. Read more

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May 17

Great Tools For Importing RSS Feeds Into Your Feedly Account

Feedly Bookmarklet

For those of you still reeling from Google’s decision to axe its venerable Reader product, finding an RSS management replacement has been a top priority. Most of the digerati has seemed to settle on Feedly, and in the past few weeks, its developers have been continually innovating to ensure that its influx of new subscribers have all the bells and whistles they expect from a comprehensive RSS management solution.

If you are still finding your way around the product and would like to know a few easy ways of getting new RSS feeds into your account, check out these simple options. Read more

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May 15

Selectively Employ Facebook Chat For Your Closest Friends

Improve Facebook Functionality

The constantly changing interface and flippant attitude towards privacy that are hallmarks of the Facebook M.O. might irk you, but, unless your middle name ends with -ek and you are continually fantasizing about all the redonkulous ways you’d use Google Glass, it is probably your social network of choice. More importantly, it is also very likely where the majority of your friends reside.

One area that is seeing increased relevance with the inclusion of useful new features (e.g., video calls) is Facebook Chat. Maybe you’d like to better utilize it, but the prospect of making yourself available to all the people in your network finds you shutting that bad boy down fast.

Fortunately, there is a way to leave this feature on and selectively choose which buds/budettes can chat with you. Read more

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May 13

Get A Handle On Your Student Loan Debt With Student Loan Hero

Loan Hero

The specter of paying off massive student loan debt is a burden that weighs heavy on most of the Millennial generation. Trying to start a life, never mind a family, in today’s economic milieu with the additional burden of debt from a process that was, ostensibly, supposed to help you find gainful employment is a tough pill for many to swallow.

While technology cannot provide a panacea to address these grievous issues, it can make dealing with them a little more palatable. Read more

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May 10

Utilize Automator To Quickly Quit All OS X Applications

Automator

Sometimes, you need to quickly restart or shutdown your Mac, but if you have many applications open, or worse, if one of them is misbehaving and preventing the system from shutting down, you’re probably going to get very frustrated. What you might not know is that OS X has an incredibly handy (and often underutilized) application that helps you create automated workflows, and that can help you address this issue. Read more

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May 8

Export And Organize Your Gmail Messages With Gmail Print All

Gmail Print All

If you’re a Gmail/Chrome power-user, you probably utilize this combo to handle a variety of personal/professional correspondence to stay productive and organized. Even though Gmail has a fantastic built-in search functionality to help you find what you’re looking for, it is still sometimes necessary to export your messages outside of the Google ecosystem, either to print them for some kind of official documentation, or to save them to PDF for storage purposes.

Instead of doing this manually, one by one, you can utilize this excellent Chrome extension to automate the process. Read more

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May 6

Auto-Hide Visited Links With RapidReddit For Chrome

RapidReddit

The “Front Page of the Internet” (a.k.a., Reddit) is an excellent place to find interesting stories, heated debates, and to pass some free time. As you peruse the site, you may find yourself jumping back and forth between the various subreddits, so, in order to improve the quality of your experience, it may be useful if only novel links were shown each time you viewed a page.

The Interwebs love of Reddit has engendered just such a solution. Read more

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May 3

Clean Up Your Media Library With Filebot

If you’re anything like me, you have a hodgepodge collection of audio and video content that you’ve been collecting for many years from varied sources. When piped into slick media center software (e.g., XBMC, Plex), ripped CDs, DVDs, and digital purchases may not always have the correct meta information, and, therefore, may not be correctly displayed/recognized in your chosen media management software.

There are ways to obtain this information through the media management software itself, but these solutions don’t always provide the best results. Filebot is an open-source, cross-platform solution that gets the job done, with aplomb. Read more

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