Saturday, March 29, 2014

Internet Problems and Solutions

So you feel horribly unmotivated. The solution? Momentum, a kind of personal dashboard, generates a different "New Tab" screen every day with a photograph of beautiful scenery and a motivational quote. It also provides a space where you can list your goal for the day -- so every time you open a new tab, a reminder of that one thing you need to get done is staring you right in the face. Another issue that everyone is faced with is that there are way too many passwords to remember if we actually make the effort to make them different. LastPass, an award-winning password manager that allows you to save your passwords and categorize them, meaning the only password you'll ever have to remember is your LastPass password. In addition, LastPass also helps you generate stronger passwords and speed up your online shopping by adding credit cards and shopping profiles while you browse. Good thing that the advances in software development help us with passwords and we do not have to carry little sheets of paper in our wallets.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

iPhone Tune Up

If you are the person that gets a new phone every time something shiny comes out or lose your phone every couple months, just move along. For the rest of us that keep their phones for more than a year, it might feel like it is running a bit slower than usual. Well do not fret and think that the whole thing needs to have a software development overhaul. There are a couple things that you can do right now to make it run much more smoothly. First of all, get rid of the apps that you do not use and are taking up space on your phone. Also clear the browsing history and cookies which are taking up space. Make sure that you delete your old messages too. In particular, photo and video texts take up space. Lastly, turn off the location services. This is important for speed, battery life and privacy. A lot of apps use location services to determine where you are, and it's generally not necessary.