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Three Photos to Keep on Your Smartphone
In addition to candids of your family and pets, there are a few other photos that you might find handy to have when you’re out and about. 1. Photos of your printer cartridges: No [...]
Is It Facebook’s Fault if You’re Self-Centered?
Does Facebook turn you into a narcissist? This is the question posed (but not answered) by a recent column in the New York Times. Citing a number of recent students of Facebook users, the [...]
Save That Cellphone Battery! Five Settings to Change Now
If it seems like you’re plugging in your smartphone to recharge everyday (or worse yet, more than once per day), it might be time to adjust a few of your settings to make that [...]
Save Space in Your Carry-On by Downloading Travel Titles
Next time you’re planning a trip to a new location, skip buying paper guidebooks and download them onto your e-reader instead. Not only will you be able to carry all of them with you [...]
Email Wedding Invitations: ‘Reply All’ to RSVP?
More and more people are skipping paper wedding invitations to send email instead. A new article (written by one of my students at Columbia University) describes the trend: “There are good reasons a growing [...]
Making Commercial Breaks Healthier—One Step at a Time
I read about this cool study the other day, where researchers found that people watching one-hour TV show who simply got off the couch and walked in place while their program went to a [...]
Bad Manners: Using Twitter to Hound People
Director Spike Lee caused a stir this week by gossiping on the Internet. Lee re-tweeted to his 250,000 Twitter followers a Florida address purportedly belonging to a man who last month shot and killed [...]
Can an Interest in Pinterest Get You Sued?
I like to pin pretty pictures on my online bulletin boards as much as the next Pinterest user. And I love it when people “like” my choices or repin them. But not everyone feels [...]
The New Rules for Your Cell Phone at Work
When your cell phone accompanies you to the office, it’s no longer a toy. Make sure it acts like a grownup and doesn’t distract others from work. That’s a message we hear frequently nowadays, [...]
Be Nice on Pinterest: The polite way to ‘pin’
I’ve been obsessed lately with Pinterest, the site where you can “pin” collections of interesting pictures onto an online bulletin board you share with your friends. Yeah, me and nearly 11 million other Pinterest [...]
