About Tina Sieber
While completing a PhD, Tina started writing about consumer technology in 2006 and never stopped. Now also an editor and SEO expert, you can find her on Twitter or hiking a nearby trail.
3 Must-Have Skype Apps To Enhance Your Chat Experience
Skype is a free video and audio chat client that is available for many different platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Google Android. One reason Skype has been so successful is that besides high quality online audio and video chat, it offers cheap rates for calling phones and mobiles around the world. What most people don't know is that Skype also supports apps.
5 Independent Netlabels Where You Can Download Free Music Albums
Netlabels are online record labels that distribute music primarily in digital audio formats, such as MP3, Ogg Forbis, or WAV. Typically, netlabels offer a great share of their releases for free, often under a Creative Commons license. The netlabels presented in this article cover a wide range of genres, including electronic, punk, metal, hip hop, and classical.
3 Everyday Questions & The Resources For Refreshingly Simple Answers
Did you ever venture out onto the Internet to look up a simple fact and then found yourself reading Wikipedia for hours? No, it is not just you! It is our human nature to be fascinated by information. But in this world of overwhelming information and infinite complexity, it seems like there are no longer simple answers. But do you really need to know everything?
3 Reasons Why You Should Avoid Cheap Junk When Gift Shopping On Black Friday [Opinion]
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, traditionally is the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Retailers across the country attract customers with some of the best promotional offers of the entire year. Black Friday is the embodiment of consumerism, but also a blessing for those who cannot afford expensive gifts.
3 Cool Helper Apps To Improve Default Functions Or Introduce New Features [Android]
Helper apps are those little tools that either solve minor shortcomings of default functions or introduce new ingenious features. You end up using them all the time because using your device has become faster, more convenient, and more fun. The apps I will introduce in this article will help you toggle your screen timeout, manage your files more conveniently, sort your apps and access them faster.
The 5 Best Music Apps for Your Android Device
Your Android device is a great mp3 player, and using some of the amazing apps out there, it can be much more than that. You can access Grooveshark, stream your own music collection from your computer anywhere over the Internet, tune into radio stations worldwide, identify and get lyrics to any song that is playing, and keep track of tour dates of your favorite bands.
How To Train Your Unconscious Mind While Working on the Computer [Windows]
By training your unconscious mind, you can influence and potentially change your behavior. You can for example do this by repeating affirmative statements to yourself. A much more subtle method is to use subliminal messages, that you pick up unconsciously. Wouldn't you like to find out whether this zero effort technique can be used to train your unconscious mind?
4 Creative Ways To Securely Password Protect Your Computer [Windows]
Passwords are a first line defense to your privacy and often they are the only one. If you are concerned about your data, you will want this barrier to be high and strong. As has been written many times before, this involves using hard to crack passwords and different ones for each and every account you use. In this article I want to explore some less common ways to password protect your computer.
4 Common Ways To Password Protect Your Windows User Account
Protecting your computer with a password should be common practice, especially if many people potentially have physical access to it. Windows provides several levels on which you can set passwords to lock your user account. This article will introduce you to all common options and hopefully one will work for you.
5 Resources Used To Find Free MP3 Albums For Sound Sunday
This is a special edition of Sound Sunday, in that it's not published on a Sunday and it doesn't contain any free albums. However, if you have ever wondered how I have been able to track down 10 free and legal album downloads for Sound Sunday every single week since May 2010, read on! I will share my strategies with you.
Multibar - An Eyecatching & Multifunctional Application Dock [Windows]
Multibar is a stylish and smart application dock for Windows. It is designed to help you get to your files, folders, and tools faster. For instant access, Multibar supports hotkeys and quick launch commands. As an added bonus, it also helps with un-cluttering your desktop. When Multibar first launches after its installation, it will proceed to index your files and folders.
Windows 7 Power Options and Sleep Modes Explained
When Windows 7 launched, one of Microsoft's selling points was that it was designed to help your battery last longer. One of the main features users will actually notice is that the screen dims before it turns off. There are many more small changes that allow to save power, but as with everything in life, you get what you put in and it helps to have a manual.
How To Use Your Extra Google Mail Storage Space With GMail Drive [Windows]
Google Mail offers 7,641MB or roughly 7.5GB of free storage space for your emails. That's a lot of space for emails and chances are, you will never really need it all. Don't you wonder how you can actually make use of it? GMail Drive is a tool for Windows (XP through 7) that allows you to access your Google Mail storage space.
How To Make Skype Video Calls On Your Android Honeycomb Tablet
Skype, the popular application for voice and video calls, supports a range of mobile operating systems, including Android. Unfortunately, the list of supported devices for video calls is limited. This has been a major source of disappointment. With its recent upgrade, Skype for Android white-listed 14 more devices for video calling, including three tablets running Android Honeycomb.
5 Must Have Add-Ons For The Dolphin Browser On Your Android Honeycomb Tablet
Dolphin Browser HD is one of the most popular browsers for Google Android, a fast browser that sports a clean interface and provides quick and easy access to full screen mode. It supports tabs, bookmarks, and you can add favorite pages to the Speed Dial tiles, which are shown on every New Tab. While browsing with just the plain features is fine, there remains plenty of room for improvement.
When Is It OK To Borrow Or Download A Windows Installation Disk
Nowadays, most manufacturers no longer ship their computers with installation discs. Instead they deposit a recovery partition on the hard drive or provide software that allows you to create your own recovery media. Now what do you do when the hard drive breaks and you never prepared recovery CDs?
5 Things You Can Do To Potentially Retrieve Your Stolen Laptop
Laptop theft accounts for millions of dollars of losses per year in the US alone. These figures not only include the physical value of the device, but also the associated costs when company information and private data are lost and measures must be taken to contain the damage. The consequences can be painful.