Five ways to lower your smartphone data consumption - CNET

Five ways to lower your smartphone data consumption - CNET: "In the early days of cell phones, it was all about the minutes -- voice minutes, that is, because people used their phones to call each other. (Weird, right?) You had to limit your conversations or suffer the horrors of overage charges."



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12 Hidden Facebook Features Only Power Users Know - Slideshow from PCMag.com

12 Hidden Facebook Features Only Power Users Know - Slideshow from PCMag.com: "Facebook is the principal digital public square of today. Well, it's the principal digital public square for those of a certain age (i.e. post-college, the young'ns aren't into it!) But Zuck & Co's site is still an extremely integral virtual venue and will continue to be for some time."



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10 cheap or free ways to make an old PC run faster

10 cheap or free ways to make an old PC run faster: "Teach an old dog new tricks
There’s a reason that unboxing videos and the phrase “new car smell” are firmly ensconced in the public groupmind. New stuff is exciting! New stuff is (theoretically) better! New stuff is just plain cool."



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How to Add a Longer-Lasting Battery to Your Smartphone

How to Add a Longer-Lasting Battery to Your Smartphone: "Well, it’s noon and your phone’s battery is already at 37 percent. There are ways to avert this disaster, adding more battery capacity to your favorite smartphone.

Phones are becoming thinner every year — if only they stayed the same thickness and had a larger battery instead! Be sure to follow the battery-saving tips for your Android phone or iPhone, too."



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The Best Free Google Chrome Extensions | PCMag.com

The Best Free Google Chrome Extensions | PCMag.com: "It's been an up and down year for Google's Chrome Web browser. It's gaining market share; Chrome had 22.65 percent of the market in December 2014 compared to 16.22 percent a year earlier, according to Net Applications. Nice growth, but still behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), which stood at 59.1 percent last month. If you go by other measures, Chrome has an even higher number of users, but they're trending down."



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5 details Facebook asks for that you shouldn't give | Komando.com

5 details Facebook asks for that you shouldn't give | Komando.com: "To Facebook, your personal information is everything. The more the site has on you, the more money it can make from advertisers who want to target you. Unfortunately, there are some things you shouldn't share online."



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What You Can Do With Your iPhone’s Health App

What You Can Do With Your iPhone’s Health App: "Apple’s Health app arrived in iOS 8, and it’s now on every up-to-date iPhone. This app appears simple at first glance, but it hides a lot of data and advanced functionality.

The Health app is in actually the user-visible face of HealthKit, Apple’s attempt at putting all your health data in one place."



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Zombie cookie: The tracking cookie that you can’t kill | Ars Technica

Zombie cookie: The tracking cookie that you can’t kill | Ars Technica: "An online advertising clearinghouse relied on by Google, Yahoo, and Facebook is using controversial cookies that come back from the dead to track the Web surfing of Verizon customers.

The company, called Turn, is taking advantage of a hidden undeletable number that Verizon uses to monitor customers' habits on their smartphones and tablets. Turn uses the Verizon number to respawn tracking cookies that users have deleted."



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Five ways to delete yourself from the Internet - CNET

Five ways to delete yourself from the Internet - CNET: "Finally ready to get off the grid? It's not quite as simple as it should be, but here are a few easy-to-follow steps that should at the very least point you in the right direction."



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The ultimate iPhone 6 drop test... from space - CNET

The ultimate iPhone 6 drop test... from space - CNET: "I'm sure I'll eat these words one day, but it seems that we've finally witnessed an iPhone drop test that can't conceivably be topped.

We've seen iDevices dropped from planes and stuck in molten lava, but the below video of an iPhone 6 descending from the edge of space seems to be about as far as gravity's effects can be pushed, short of tossing an iPad into a black hole."



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