LogMeIn, the remote control, file sharing, and systems management and data backup site and service, started offering invitations to their new beta cloud service, Cubby. This website and mobile file sharing app service is very similar to Dropbox but with several unique features that may appeal to many users. Cubby consist of an integrated desktop, [...]

If your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is your daily resource for getting things done, you will want to take advantage of every feature the operating system has to offer – from hidden keyboards, system-wide font size settings, to speech-to-text dictation. The following is another potpourri of iOS tips you may have overlooked for the iPhone 4S and/or the 3rd generation iPad.

The popular pinboard, networking, and product sharing site, Pinterest announced on Tuesday that Vimeo.com videos can now be pinned and thus embedded to user boards in the same way video YouTube videos were integrated back in August of 2011. The video sharing site, Vimeo is similar to YouTube but its content tends include more artistic [...]

Nearly six months after Adobe released its PDF reader app for iOS devices, it posted this week a much needed features update that includes sticky notes, a highlighter, and other annotation tools found in nearly all competing iOS apps in this genre. The recent version of Adobe Reader also includes a nifty feature for writing and [...]

Sooner or later, a social networking site for video blogging is going to be as popular as Twitter and Facebook. With more and more people owning cellphone video cams, it makes sense to shoot and post a quick video to your friends and followers. Well, it looks like a fairly new iPhone and Android app named Socialcam might very well become the Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram of video sharing on the net.

If you need to use your iPhone with another carrier besides AT&T, now you can. Beginning April 8th, AT&T will unlock off-contract iPhone for customers in good standing with the company. This policy change is most useful for customers who travel outside the country and need to change carriers in order to use their phones. [...]

In its iOS 5 update, Apple added a Reminders to-do list app that also includes a location-aware alert feature that many iPhone users still may not be aware of. The feature allows you to set reminder alerts based on your geo-location, in addition to, or in lieu of, a specific time or date. This article explains how to use and setup location alerts in Reminders.

If you’re budget conscious, you’ll know how saving a few bucks on several items might well increase your discretionary spending. Sometimes ordering an item online and waiting a few days for it arriving in the mail can mean savings of perhaps $30-$50. For those of us who look for the best deals before making a final purchase, a few helpful mobile apps on our iOS or Android device could lead to even more savings.

When my sister and I had to had to make a very difficult decision to take our terminally mother off life support last year, facing the decision was a little more comforting because we had discussed the circumstances with my mother over a year prior to her passing away. But there were particular care choices we didn’t discuss with her that a living will would have been useful for at the time.

These days, most of us would agree that text messages are often the fastest way of contacting people other than emails. Text messages are typically shorter, more immediate, and of course mobile. This is where the new web service SendHub.com, comes in. It allows you to send and receive group text messages from your mobile phone or web browser.