Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Chromebooks are wonderful in their simplicity. Just turn one on and you can start surfing the web or working with your favorite web-based applications in less than a minute.
As Google likes to say about the Chromebook, “It just works!” Well…except when it doesn’t. [Read more…]
Night Mode is absolutely awesome if you use your mobile device at night. Night Mode inverts the colors on the screen, making the device emit a lot less light – which in turn results in a lot less strain on the eyes.
While Night Node is built into a handful of popular apps, it isn’t a standard feature on all iOS devices that works regardless of what you happen to be doing with the device at any given time.
But that’s ok, because we can easily “create” a virtual Night Mode on any iOS device that can be toggled on and off as needed with a single button! Here’s how: [Read more…]
Do the colors in your photos look different on your computer monitor than they appeared on your camera’s LCD display? Or do your printed photos look different than they looked on the screen?
If so, you probably need to calibrate the colors on your monitor. Actually, it’s a good idea to do this every few months even if you don’t notice a problem.
The steps outlined below explain how to calibrate your monitor’s colors. [Read more…]
If you enjoy reading Shakespeare, it might interest you to know that you can read all of his classics online for free.
Our friends at MIT have put all of Shakespeare’s writings online in HTML form and you can read them right in your favorite web browser. You can also print them if you wish.
Simply head over to shakespeare.mit.edu and click on the appropriate links!
As you probably know, most everything one could want to read or experience can be found online today. And if it’s in the public domain (as are the works of Shakespeare), it’s absolutely free for the “taking”!
Whatever you’re looking for can probably be found online within minutes with a quick Google search. Enjoy!
Netflix has just announced that they plan to raise the fees charged for their service by “1 or 2 dollars” per month.
The rate hike will affect new customers only for the time being, but current Netflix subscribers will see their monthly bill increase also “after a generous time period” has elapsed. [Read more…]