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Feeling Overwhelmed? Stop! 4 Time Management Tools to Save You

When you’re at work, does your mind wander to the hundred other things you have to do? When thoughts and worries about the future distract you from the present moment, you’ll feel overwhelmed. Finding time to run errands, remembering to do something when you get home, or even shopping for essentials or gifts can all make… read more »

Your Pebble Smartwatch May Stop Working Soon

Pebble is shutting down, with Fitbit acquiring its technology, software, and other intellectual property. This will affect anyone who currently owns a Pebble product, because it means your smartwatch is likely to stop working in the not-too-distant future. After much speculation that an acquisition was imminent, Pebble has announced it’s actually shutting down. Fitbit is… read more »

How to Stop & Remove iCloud Calendar Spam the Right Way

Email spam is bad enough. But now spammers are turning to calendar invites to push their products using bogus event invitations. iCloud users have recently seen a huge surge in the practice, and most Mac and iOS users have Apple’s calendar enabled by default. Notifications for these bogus events will appear on all iCloud-enabled devices. Don’t simply click “Decline” on the event invitation… read more »

Stop Wasting Money in 5 Minutes or Less

The most basic principle of getting in financial shape is to save more and spend less. Every dollar you don’t spend on something frivolous is one you can save for something important. Unfortunately, while this is easy to discuss, it’s a lot harder to live out in practice. We’ve recently talked about ways you could… read more »

How to Stop Losing Your Stuff (And 7 Trackers to Help You Do It)

Current technology allows us to track just about anything in our lives. This includes everything from how many steps you took during your lunch break to how many times you’ve listened to your favorite song. Even with these capabilities, however, it’s all too common to misplace everyday items like your cell phone, car keys, or… read more »

How to Stop Checking Your Phone by Replacing It With Your Computer

Isn’t it annoying that when you’re on your computer, you always have one eye and one ear glued to your phone to check for incoming beeps, rings, and pings? Having to hop back and forth between your computer and phone for responding to calls, SMSes, chats, and so on can drive you crazy. We recommend… read more »

8 Tips to Stop Your Bookmarks Folder from Overflowing

Buried in bookmarks? I have been there, too. Never again though, because I now have a fail-safe system to tackle bookmarks. The trick is to stop them from piling up in the first place. Failing that, your best bet is to redirect information from bookmarks to other digital repositories. Let’s see some easy ways in which… read more »

How to Stop GIFs From Auto-Playing in Your Browser

Somehow, even as more people started getting high-speed internet and video streaming became more mainstream, GIFs still remain intensely popular. As attention spans continue to shorten, GIFs make more sense. They’re the TLDRs of video. But because a GIF is technically an image, you can’t prevent it from playing automatically with click-to-play plugins and the like. But… read more »

4 Reasons to Stop Buying Digital Comics

It’s a good time to be a comic geek: thanks largely to Marvel Studios, which not only produces brilliant movies for geeks, but also brilliant Netflix originals. Then there is Image Comics’ The Walking Dead TV series, which continues to go from strength to strength. This all means comic books are more influential than ever… read more »

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