Productivity Hack: The Surprising Benefits of Using Your Apps on Separate Devices
If your app is installed everywhere, then your notifications are everywhere. To be productive, you might want to try accessing certain apps on certain devices only. The experiment might surprise you.
Use This 3-Tier Communication System to Resist Distractions
The need to constantly stay connected is distracting. To manage your relationships and time, also manage the way you communicate with the world. Create a smart 3-tier plan.
Want Windows 10 Features? Buy A Mac Today!
Windows 10 reintroduces real desktop search, includes multiple desktops and adds a start menu with live tile "widgets" – so why should you buy a Mac instead?
6 Personal Alerts You Should Set Up Today
We receive a swarm of notifications which, to be honest, are often useless. There are some useful notifications however, that are easy to set up and help us keep tabs on what actually matters.
Pushbullet Puts Your Android And PC On The Same Wavelength
Find out how you can keep your Android perfectly synced with your PC -- push your phone's notifications to your desktop, share files, and much more!
Snooze And Group Android Notifications With Echo Lockscreen Replacement
Want a better way to handle notifications on your Android device? Echo works as a lockscreen replacement and can group your notifications into categories and mute them based on time or your location.
Enhance Your Android Notification Experience With Floatify
For an improved notification system that pops out at you, check out Floatify.
Put iOS Notifications To Work For You With These Apps
Did you know that with the right apps you can be notified about pretty much anything using your iPhone?
How Windows Phone 8.1 Is Enhanced With The Action Center
Microsoft kills the toast! Now you can finally manage your notifications on Windows Phone.
Catch The Buzz: Google Trends Offers Email Notifications
Stay in the know with email notifications for Google Trends. You can now subscribe to your favorite search topics, "hot trends" for any country, and the U.S. monthly top charts.
How Google Analytics Alerts Can Email Or Text You About Site Problems
Google Analytics offers a special alert feature that sends out an email or an SMS alert when any event happens on your site. Setting them up isn't as complicated as you think.
Become a Boss on Craigslist With These Apps and Services
Sellers on Craigslist usually want to sell as quickly as possible, meaning if you find an item before anyone else you're more likely to actually get it. Job searches, similarly, offer an advantage to the quick. So be the quick. A variety of apps give you super powers when it comes to Craigslist. If you love the things you find on Craigslist, but hate the process of actually finding them, these are the tools you've been looking for.
4 Easy Ways To Keep Up With Breaking News Online
In today's world of fast-paced breaking news, it can often times be difficult to keep up with everything that's going on. If you want a targeted experience — one that includes smartphone alerts from your preferred news networks, emails with breaking news as it happens, and, of course, a healthy dose of Twitter-delivered news — we've got you covered.
Managing Notifications in Windows 8
Windows 8's new app platform provides an integrated notification system for Modern apps. Windows 8-style apps can use several different types of notifications -- traditional toast notifications, lock screen notifications, and live tiles. All of these can be managed, whether you want to disable an app's notifications, allow notifications only for certain email accounts, or temporarily silence notifications. Unfortunately, Windows 8 doesn't include a notification center that shows a history of your notifications in one place.
Facebook Search Sucks - Use Facebook Email Notifications As A Workaround [Weekly Facebook Tips]
While there are several ways to find stuff on Facebook, they are all but comprehensive or reliable. This situation also forces you to spend even more time on Facebook, increasing the likelihood that you will get distracted. One way to increase your chances of finding something and thus waste less time, is to enable Facebook email notifications. As I explore the benefits of email notifications, I will also show you other ways to search Facebook.
365Scores Notifier - A Great Way to Keep Up With Your Favorite Teams [Firefox]
Are you an absolute sports junkie who needs to keep up with everything happening with your favorite team? There's no shame in that, as plenty of people love their favorite sports. There are plenty of websites out there that help you keep up with your favorite players and teams, but what if having to go to a website is not enough for you? What if you need your sports scores in your face at all moments of the day?
How to Hide the Bottom System Bar on Android Tablets
If the status and navigation bars are getting in your way on Android, you can hide them easily with these apps.
Toastify Adds Global Hotkeys & Notifications To Spotify [Windows]
One thing that has managed to turn me away from Spotify for quite a long time is its limited support in hotkeys and media keys. Spotify works great with a select few Logitech keyboards, but not so much with hundreds of others. For years, I've been a loyal user of Winamp Lite because of the awesome support for global hotkeys. Spotify has yet to improve in this area, but luckily enough there are third-party developers who are willing to pick up that slack for them.
How To Turn Off Distracting Tech Notifications Almost Anywhere
These days, we're constantly barraged with email updates, system alerts, and annoying texts from hypothetical neighbors named Brad about how he got his pet chinchilla stuck in the dryer vent again. But for some reason, techsters tend to play the victim by saying they have to have their notifications turned on whether it for their Mac, PC, iPhone, or Android mobile. "Oh, but I may miss something..." "Oh, but I need to be available at all times"...yeah right.
Do You See Too Much From Too Many People? Manage Your Facebook News Feed with Ease
If you are spending too much time on Facebook, digging through updates you don't really care about, only to randomly discover what you are really interested in, and while feeling overwhelmed or guilty for wasting so much time, it is time to start managing your Facebook friends like a pro. Facebook offers several features that allow you to group your friends and manage what (likely) appears on your Facebook homepage.