Data Doctors

The latest Android operating system is 5.0 and codenamed Lollipop but just because you have an Android smartphone doesn’t mean you’ll get to download it. When you get the update has a lot to do with which brand of smartphone you have and which cellular network you’re using. One of the more useful features of […]

One of the things I keep hearing about because of the Sony hack is encryption, but how exactly do I get it setup for my business?

If you’re a regular user of Uber, you should be aware that when you schedule a ride near a large event, you could get hit with their surge pricing. During peak times around large events, rates have been known to go up as high as 10 times the normal rate. If you’re using Uber around […]

As you may have figured out by now, I’m a huge music fanatic and I’m constantly searching for great songs, old and new. I like revisiting older bands by searching for their greatest hits for both discovery and rediscovery. While doing this last week, I ran across a website that I had never used called […]

Whenever I go shopping online, whatever I look at seems to follow me around the Internet. How do I keep that from happening?

Smartphones are pretty smart, but today’s tip will make your smartphone even smarter! If your contact list has become an overwhelming mess, checkout an app called Humin. It will completely change the way you interact with your iPhone. Humin is designed to remember people by how you come to know them. When you meet someone […]

If you’ve owned an iPhone for a while, you probably have a plethora of pictures in your camera roll. I’m willing to bet that a large number of the images are bad or useless pictures that you have no use for, but you just haven’t gotten around to deleting them. As awesome as the iPhone […]

Weather apps are a dime a dozen and they all pretty much do the same thing…give you their best guess about the weather. Most of them are free, so featuring yet another weather app that actually costs money wouldn’t make much sense unless it did something really useful. Well, the Weather or Not app does […]

Social media is a great way to chronicle our lives, which becomes more evident if you take the time to look back at posts from the past. But for most of us, it’s kind of like all those photo albums you have sitting on your shelf that haven’t been looked at for years. An app […]

When the battery on your phone dies and your significant other is trying to reach you, it can appear as if you are ignoring them. Without a response, the anxiety and frustration can grow quickly. This very scenario is what caused an app developer to create a more useful way to provide status updates to […]

If you’re like most consumers of beer or wine, you tend to stick to the products you know, especially if you aren’t that adventurous. Even if you are adventurous, trying to pick a new wine or beer from a wall of options can be intimidating. That’s where an app called NextGlass comes in handy. NextGlass […]

This is the time of year that you can count on the best deals for just about any kind of electronic gadget you have on your shopping list. But a word of warning: the lowest price is rarely the best deal. Shopping for electronics solely based on the price plays right into the hands of […]

If you love hiking as much as I do, finding new trails to explore wherever you go becomes a bit of an obsession. Just because it’s getting colder all around us doesn’t mean you have to give up this great form of exercise. There are lots of great resources on the Internet for discovering new […]

The ongoing battle to protect yourself on the Internet just got a nice boost from Google. Since we all have a Google account of some sort, knowing how and when your account has been accessed is a quick way to check for suspicious activity. Google’s Device and Activity Dashboard makes it easy to see a […]

It’s not your imagination that large data breaches are being reported by major corporations and retailers on a more frequent basis.