Barbara Krasnoff

Some recent staff favorites that have Black Friday deals.

You can leave X for greener social meadows.

Prime members get deals via Amazon’s Black Friday sales.

Keep your Chrome tabs in order using labeled groups.

Smart speakers can be good companions.

Gmail is email and email is Gmail — but what else could there be?

Some October Prime Day deals for stuff we use at home.

Some of our favorite stuff is receiving a Prime Day discount.

Add some interesting color to your homescreen icons.

The best free or low-cost photo storage services

It looks like the fediverse is opening up. In late March, Meta’s Threads introduced a beta feature that allows users from the US, Canada, or Japan to cross-post and view likes from Mastodon and, presumably, other federated social networks. If you’re a Threads user from one of these three countries and want to give this beta a try, it’s not difficult. You can do it from the mobile app or the web version: * On Threads’ mobile app, tap your profile icon in the lower-right corner, tap the two line…

If you want out of Otter, there are other transcription services to try.

Some of the staff’s fave headphones and other audio devices.

Keep yourself safe after a data breach.

What’s on your desk can tell us a lot about how you work.

Our favorite accessories that popped up during Prime Day.

YouTube videos come with handy, if inaccurate, transcripts.

When my partner and I moved in together, we didn’t just have to combine furniture and posters and clothing but also two very large collections of books. Those collections have grown considerably since then, and should we ever have to make a move again, we’ll have a real problem on our hands. What to do with all those books? Unfortunately, because so many people are now reading on phones, tablets, or portable reading devices like a Kindle, it can feel more difficult than it used to be to sell or…

Create a new PDF using Apple Files or Notes.

Stack, one of Google’s experimental Android apps, is due to disappear on September 24th. A product of Google’s Area 120 incubator, Stack was one of those overlooked gems that was just, well, useful: it allowed you to create or import PDFs and store them in different categories that it called Stacks: tax, insurance, medical, etc. The app would pick up data from the PDF to suggest a title, add searchable details like the date of the document, the amount (if it was a receipt), or the organization…