As Ignorable As It Is Interesting: Increase Productivity With The Sounds You Won’t Hear

Jun 29, 2016 | Android, Apple, audio

“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.“ – Brian Eno, liner notes for Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978) Ambient music and sounds can...

How To Improve Your Password Security

Jun 8, 2016 | Android, Apple, Google, LastPass, Microsoft, security, web_services, Windows10

We’re drowning in passwords. Slowly – slowly! – we are moving out of the Age Of Passwords. Better alternatives exist. Apple has integrated fingerprints deeply into iOS and fingerprint readers are turning up on many Android phones. Microsoft has built Windows Hello...

The World Is All Facebook, All The Time

May 22, 2016 | Android, Apple, business, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, mobile

On a recent earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said that “people around the world spend on average more than 50 minutes a day using Facebook, Instagram and Messenger.” Facebook has more than 1 billion active users every single day, more than 1.6 billion active users every...

Office 365 And The Sharing Problem

May 18, 2016 | Android, Apple, Microsoft, mobile, Office 365, Outlook, phone, web_services

The Exchange mailboxes run by Office 365 are now standard in businesses of all sizes. They are supported on every device imaginable, from Windows and Mac computers to the native mail/contact/calendar apps on iOS and Android. Office 365 is one of the most commonly...

It’s Now Or Never For Windows 10 Upgrades

May 8, 2016 | Android, Apple, Microsoft, updates, Windows10, Windows7, Windows8

Microsoft says that the offer to upgrade Windows 7 and 8 computers to Windows 10 for free will end on July 29, one year after the release of Windows 10. The free upgrade was always described as a one-year offer but many people expected Microsoft to extend it...

No One Wants A Chromebook For Business, Right?

May 1, 2016 | Android, Chrome, Chromebook, Dell, Google, Google Drive, HP, laptops

One is an aberration. Two is a coincidence. Three is a trend. There are three new Chromebooks on the market with some interesting things in common. It’s a trend. It might be an early sign of an important shift in the devices we use. Let’s get some background, then...