Best Android Keyboards for Every Need: Level Up Your Texting
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Finding the perfect Android keyboard can make using your phone a better experience, whether texting friends or composing emails. While your phone’s default keyboard gets the job done, switching to a specialized keyboard can make typing faster, easier, and more enjoyable. Today’s keyboards offer much more than basic typing, with features like gesture typing, voice […]
Rain or Shine: The 5 Best Weather Apps for Your iPhone
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The iPad doesn’t come a with native iOS weather app like the iPhone does, so this list will be useful for iPad owners. And for those looking for apps that have more detailed weather information check out the 5 iOS weather apps below. Yahoo! Weather Utilising beautiful photos from Flickr, the Yahoo! Weather app is […]
What is Android Safe Mode and How to Use It?
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At one point or another, you may have encountered your phone suddenly coming out of your bag or pocket with the words “Safe Mode” on the screen. This may scare a first time user, but fear not. As the mode says, this current state is pretty safe for your phone. In fact, it is in […]
How To Pair a Bluetooth Headset With Your Phone (2026 Guide)
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Bluetooth headsets and earbuds are supposed to make life easier—but only once they’re actually connected. If yours is sitting in the box because you’re not sure how to get it talking to your phone, this guide walks you through the whole process in about five minutes. The short version: put the headset into pairing mode, […]
The Best To-Do List Apps (for Android & iPhone)
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We’re not robots. We forget birthdays and anniversaries, we miss deadlines and goals, and we even forget how old we are sometimes. That’s why we need tools, in the form of productivity apps, that will help us get through each passing day. Today, we bring to you the best to-do list apps available for Android and […]
4 Essential News Apps for Your iPad
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While news organizations have been publishing content in various electronic formats for some time, they have all embraced tablet computers – mostly notably Apple’s iPad – as the newest device to bundle and deliver their information. Apple’s App Store lists more than 3000 applications in the News category alone, with seemingly everyone with something newsworthy, […]
The Brief, Remarkable History of Cell Phones
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While it seems like everywhere you look today there is someone staring at their phone, the creation of consumer-friendly mobile phones wasn’t that long ago. In less than a century, mobile phones have gone from hardwired devices tied to vehicles and limited to a few callers at a time to pocket-friendly computers that can place a video call […]
Cell Phone Etiquette: 13 Tips for Minding Your Mobile Manners
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Phones… We use them for pretty much everything. But how can we use them respectfully and responsibly to avoid being a jerk — or worse still, putting ourselves and others in danger? Even if you’re familiar with cellphone etiquette and social manners, the following guidelines can serve as a refresher. Mobile Rules to Live By […]
Avoiding Wireless Industry Pitfalls
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The US has 181 million wireless subscribers. Canada has 12 million. Wireless subscribers of both countries account for nearly half the total population of each country respectively. More than likely, you have already been through two or three cell phones and have changed service providers at least once. Chances are you have at least one […]