Find My iPhone is a free service from Apple that allows you to locate your iPhone if it's lost. Play a sound, lock the screen, display a custom message and phone number, or even erase the lost phone from a web browser or from the free app.
Read how my mom and I used it to get her missing iPhone back.
Read MoreIn 2007, Microsoft threw away more than a dozen years of baggage and clutter when it introduced the Ribbon. The bold move signaled a dramatic rethinking in how to present relevant tools at appropriate times. New Office users uncovered powerful functionality fast, much faster than they would have in a previous version of the suite. However Office experts, some with many years of experience, battled the new user interface and were confounded by some of the arbitrary placement of their favorite tools. Fortunately, Microsoft created guides to lead them into the new world.
Read MoreiOS has a number of accessibility options that make iPhones and iPads ideal devices for those with movement, vision, or hearing impairments. Some features, like Speak Selection, are useful for anybody. When enabled, a Speak button appears on the iOS Edit menu. Touch it and iOS reads aloud.
Read MoreMany people know that in Outlook, signatures matter. Even the newest users of Microsoft's email program find their way into settings on the desktop app and enter one that often includes their place of business and contact telephone numbers. What most people tend to overlook, however, is that Outlook Web App (OWA) is a separate program that has its own place for closing text.
Read MoreiOS has several available gestures available on the home screen. On the iPhone, there are 5 one-finger swipes. The iPad shares these and also has a few four-finger swipes for switching applications.
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Dragon Box is a multi-platform math game. It makes learning algebra every bit as fun as playing Angry Birds or Cut the Rope. Don't tell your son or daughter, but he or she is secretly learning how to balance algebraic expressions.
Read MoreIf you have more to do than you can possibly keep track of, then I recommend reading Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen. It is available in both paperback and Kindle editions.
Read MoreFor those of you who haven't heard about the Heartbleed Bug, please take a few moments to read on. This may be the most important security story of the year, or maybe ever. After you read, you may want to share this with everyone you know, because it's just that important.
Read MoreIF THIS THEN THAT is a free online service that allows you to connect many different online services together. The idea is simple, if a certain thing happens on one web application, then do something on another. For example, if someone tags me in a photo on Facebook, then save a copy of that picture to my Google Drive account.
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In 1992, Good Technology released the GoodLink G100. It was the company's first product. It ran the GoodLink OS and communicated with a "GoodLink wireless data access service." The product focused on enterprise and was released to solve a specific problem
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