If you’ve updated your iPhone to the latest “iOS 5” operating system, you may have noticed that the battery drains faster. Here are some tips:
Set the time zone manually. Otherwise, it will constantly readjust itself, making repeat calls to the GPS radio signal. Tap “Settings,” “Location Services” and then “System Services.”
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It seems like desktop publishing has been around since the Ten Commandments went viral. But we didn’t realize how sophisticated it has become until we tried the new “PagePlus x6” from Serif.com.
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Viber is a competitor to Skype and one we’d never heard of till last week. But we woke up and found that 50 million people are already using it and it’s only a year old.
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Bloggers have gone nuts for the website “Pinterest,” which has been adding millions of new users each month. We finally woke up and tried it ourselves. Now we’re addicted. Pinterest is an online “pinboard” for pinning interesting things from the Web. Put a “p” in front of “interest” and you’re there.
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Do you ever wish you’d saved a copy of your most brilliant remarks on Facebook? Who doesn’t? What wit, what style, what delicate subtlety. Or maybe not. Anyway, all that stuff is still there — as well as every photo and video you ever posted.
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When Joy showed Bob an advanced yoga move at the dining room table, she broke her Kindle 3 when her heel slammed down on the screen. Whoops. So we replaced it (the gadget, not the foot) with a new $79 Kindle, which is so light it nearly floats. It was a roundabout way of doing it, but that’s how we discovered what’s new with book borrowing.
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“Microsoft Excel 2010 Formulas and Functions, Inside Out,” $60, Microsoft Press.
There are more than 350 functions built into the Excel spreadsheet, and several experts have gotten together here to explain how to use them. Spreadsheets were originally written for accounting but they quickly expanded to enable users to do statistical analysis and probabilities. Their primary use remains the “What-if?” scenario. What if we changed some things like price, size, availability, etc. How would the business change? The answers usually come back in seconds. Believe it or not, experienced spreadsheet users say they’re fun.
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If you type almost any computer problem into Google’s search box — just literally type it in — you will almost always get a solution. This also works for searching newspapers and magazines online. Google’s search works better than most publications’ built-in search function.
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