Your iPad has terrible posture. Here are a few of our favorite options for teaching your iPad to stand up straight. You're in charge of teaching it to use the correct fork in fine dining establishments.
I spend most of my life chained to a laptop. Though it wouldn't seem
like a physically demanding lifestyle, I've got the burn marks (from
overheating computers resting on my legs) to prove that technology can
be a little rough sometimes. So to soften the burden of carrying around a
hunk of metal at all times, I thought I'd round up
35 of my favorite ways to dress up technology: laptop covers!
The Flip is a popular handheld digital video camera used by many to
capture precious family moments and create stunning viral videos for
display on the web. While the cameras themselves are super simple to
use, the results are often less than glamorous. With the help of the
experts, we share 6 ways to make your Flip (or any other brand of
camera) clips look like a pro handled them!
Modern technology makes home automation an easy task for just about anyone. From the basics of controlling lights and appliances to more advanced home automation, your life can be easier than ever before. Kipkay for Make Magazine, a DIY (Do It Yourself) technology magazine, shows you how to automate your home in this video.
Your iPad is so shiny and delicious, until you trip and it skids across the sidewalk. Here are a few of our favorite options for protecting your iPad without ruining the pretty.
When I was growing up, words like e-mail and Internet were just beginning to creep into the common household vocabulary. As a late 80s baby, my family had an internet-capable computer by the time I could read, but of course I could never venture online too long for both the fear of using up the minutes (imagine that) or that I would wander onto a virtual world I had no business visiting. In today's computerized society, however, going online has become as essential as sleeping. While your young ones (especially those 12 or younger) may still need a bit of guidance in navigating the wild, wild Web alone, these online resources are a great way to enjoy a few moments of quality, educational time together.
The garage sale is the classic low-tech moneymaker: put your stuff on the curb, sell it to passersby. Success has everything to do with weather, location and the effectiveness of homemade signs nailed to telephone poles.
We give you five simple steps to finding and building your own online community. From finding your passion to engaging with an audience, we give you a 101 primer on how its done and point you to the web communities that can get you started.
With over 400 million active users around the world, Facebook has become for many people the go-to place for managing both personal and work connections. But the site's tendency to change their privacy policies every few months makes it difficult to ensure that information you want to keep private (or semi-private, at least) isn't shared with everyone who has an Internet connection.
With all the noise online these days, it's tough to know who you can trust when it comes to recipes that work. There are few things more frustrating than searching for a recipe, shopping for the ingredients, and putting the time and effort into making it, only to discover that it doesn't deliver as promised. As a professional recipe developer, it's my business to know the (mostly) friendly competition. Here are the online sources you can count on for consistently great recipes and ideas.
