Why Clear's Dead-Simple List Stands Out In The To-Do Market It's easy, it lets you swipe away tasks, and you literally can't get too detailed while using it. And Clear might just be the thing you need to make knocking out tasks fun again.
Updated Tue Feb 21, 2012
Organize Your iPhone Or Android Home Screen For Smarter Daily Use If you think you’re tapping, swiping, and sighing over your phone more than you need to, you’re probably right.
Updated Mon Feb 6, 2012
Facebook's Timeline Movie Maker, Starring Your Jacked Ego The visualization tool brings home the point that your Timeline is supposed to be a survey of your young life so far. And it makes you want to upload more and better pictures.
Updated Thu Feb 2, 2012
How To Claw Back Privacy Under Google's New Policy The step-by-step guide to using Google's best offerings, but spreading your online eggs into more than just one big basket out in Mountain View, California.
Updated Tue Jan 31, 2012
How To Get The Most Out Of Google's Share-Happy World If Google's going to keep tying all their services together, you may as well know how that will work, and how you can benefit from it.
Updated Tue Jan 31, 2012
Jot Once, Remember Anywhere: The Best Tools For Universal Note-Taking You've got a system for your documents and files, but what about your quickly scribbled-down ideas? We review the modern tools of universal capture.
Updated Thu Jan 26, 2012
How To Talk To Your Boss And Fix Your Job It's all too easy to spend long stretches simmering at your desk instead of having a straight-ahead talk with your boss. Here are a few strategies to help you start the conversation.
Updated Sat Jan 21, 2012
How To Work From Home Like You Mean It Working from home requires a new mindset and a good system, not just a nicer pair of pants (but put those on, too).
Updated Thu Jan 12, 2012
The Pen Is Mightier Than The Phone: A Case For Writing Things Out Paper, with your handwriting on it, makes the best idea space, to-do list, and performance anxiety reliever. Here's why.
Updated Mon Jan 9, 2012
Why In-Person Socializing Is A Mandatory To-Do Item We are genetically oriented toward learning from others, an easy thing to forget these days. Here's why in-person socializing is so important, and efficient.
Updated Mon Jan 9, 2012
How To Make The Most Of The Post-Holiday Lull What can you get out of a week where nobody's around? New clothes, new perspective, and a healthier, more productive schedule, for starters.
Updated Tue Dec 27, 2011
Secure Your Digital Life In The Time It Takes To Have A Coffee Break Fix your passwords, safeguard against email break-ins, and theft-proof your devices before that cup of joe gets cold.
Updated Tue Dec 20, 2011
Upgrade Your Family And Coworkers' Tech Without Becoming Their Help Desk Installing a bunch of new stuff for a less tech-savvy person just leads to future "Where's My ... Fill In The Blank?" calls. Here's how to set someone up to solve their own dilemmas.
Updated Tue Nov 29, 2011
Unpredictable Rewards: Twitter's "Activity" Stream And Our Dwindling Attention Reservoir Do Twitter's Activity area and Facebook's Ticker give you anything you really need to know? With features like these, says Mike Monteiro, design director at Mule Design Studio, "you’re sniffing the exhaust fumes of activity.” That doesn't sound good.
Updated Sun Nov 20, 2011
What The Bin Laden Raid Teaches About (Project) Execution The Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's compound was the ultimate lesson in project management. Here are four relevant lessons in planning, executing, and shifting on a dime.
Updated Fri Nov 11, 2011
Microsoft's Envisioning Lab Reveals The Future Of Productivity Microsoft's Envisioning Lab has a vision of the future, and you can watch it in HD. Learn how the lab sees the future of contextual data, smarter interfaces, and a "five-minute mode" on your phone.
Updated Sun Oct 30, 2011
TV That Fits Your Life And Doesn't Make You Dumb We all have busy lives, and catching all the good shows on TV is one of the things that gets missed in the daily grind. Here's how you can get your television fix, and in ways that are convenient for anyone.
Updated Mon Oct 24, 2011
30,000 Feet High And Rising To The Challenge: Staying Productive In The Air Grab the best of the cheap seats, use a tray-friendly laptop, and crank out some serious work, even if your plane seems designed to stop you.
Updated Sun Oct 16, 2011
With Siri Interface, Apple's New iPhone Changes Mobile As We Know It The voice recognition engine inside the iPhone 4S isn't an "app," it's a whole new interface called Siri. Here's how it works, and why it could bury the competition.
Updated Wed Oct 5, 2011
How To Read The Link-Crazy Web Without Going Insane Feel like your attention span operates at an inverse rate to your broadband speed? Here's how you can give the good stuff on the web the attention it deserves.
Updated Mon Oct 3, 2011
