Working from home is hard. Inevitably whenever you sit down to work on a big project you remember that you really need to do a load of laundry, or clean the bathroom, or really do anything but what you actually need to be working on.
I have a bit of reputation with my family and friends for knowing how to fix people’s computer problems. When that person is in front of me, then explaining how to do that thing on Facebook or change that computer setting is pretty simple, but when I’m talking to a friend or family member across the country things get…
I typically start every work day by creating a list of the things I need to accomplish that day. Once something I did in the Notes app, I eventually moved to just using a page in a notebook. As new things pop up I add to that list, ultimately ending in a jumbled mess of a list with things crossed off and others…
I’m spending this week in Scotland, a journey that started for me at 5am Tuesday and thanks to weather on the east coast ended in me not arriving in Edinburgh until 9am on Thursday. The issue came when my flight from San Francisco to JFK wasn’t allowed to land because of approaching weather, a problem that forced the…
We’re all probably a little more addicted to our phones than we’d like to be. I know that I instinctively pull mine out whenever there’s a break in the action of the day be that when I’m on the train, between meetings, or even waiting on food at a restaurant. It’s easy to take your phone out and get absorbed in what’s…
A day before my last trip to Ireland I made a last-minute discovery: I had absolutely no idea where my travel power adapter was. We had recently moved and I didn’t have the slightest idea (and oddly still don’t months later) where my travel adapters ended up in our new place. For all I know they actually might still…
A few weeks ago Google announced a host of updates and tweaks to Gmail, including the ability to read and respond to messages while you’re offline. A number of the changes were made live then, but that offline mode wasn’t quite ready—until last week. Last week during Google I/O the company’s annual developer…
Building your credit up from scratch or trying to recover from a few screwups that made your score drop takes time. Making on-time payments on your loans and credit cards are a good way to do that, but your credit score doesn’t take into account one big bill you probably pay every month: your rent.
Last week Google announced that it will be adding six new voices for Google Assistant, as well as one that sounds like John Legend.
I travel a good bit, so I’ve started to reach a point where not too many travel “hacks” surprise me. However, this week a friend of mine made a suggestion I was surprised I hadn’t thought of before: splitting your checked items across two suitcases with a friend.
About a year ago, we started binge watching a single show at a time at my house. We typically pick something with at least four or five seasons, and then whenever we’re looking to “watch something” the answer is always the next episode of that show. Yes, we stray from it to catch new episodes of other programs, but…
Last year my boyfriend and I began our search for a new place in San Francisco. In addition to having an exceptionally competitive and expensive rental market, the city like most others our size also has a huge issue with listing fraud, especially on Craigslist which is still “the place” to find an apartment.…
Heads up: Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 13th. Right now, it’s still not too late to order your mom something awesome from Amazon Prime, or even go out and shop for the perfect gift. If you’re tight on time (or you’re coming across this article on Saturday night), you can also always fall back on the one gift that…
iOS/Android: There’s one part of being a reporter that I absolutely despise: transcribing. Whenever I interview folks, I always audio record the interview so I can go back and listen to it later. It’s a great idea in that I can talk to people like they’re actual humans without a laptop in my face, but a bad idea in…
Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, officially kicks off Tuesday in Mountain View California. The festivities officially kick off with a keynote from Google CEO, Sundar Pichai Tuesday at 1pm ET/10am PT.
During a typical work day I usually come across at least a handful of things I want to look at, but don’t really have the time to at that moment.
Your Netflix viewing history can be both a blessing and a curse. The app keeping track of what you’ve watched in the past helps it make some more educated suggestions about what you should watch in the future when you’re bored and need some help deciding, and it can also help you remember what the name of the awesome…
For the past five years, a woman (read: angel) named Germaine has been cutting my hair. I booked an appointment with her after my former hair stylist moved away, and we talked for a least 30 minutes about how she was going to cut my hair before she picked up a pair of scissors back in 2013.
For a while, I had a bit of an obsession with buying vinyl. My mom had let me have the large cabinet record player that lived in our living room during my childhood, and once I got the 500lb thing into my house I was determined to listen to it as much as possible.
Dubbed “the greatest two minutes in sports” today’s Kentucky Derby won’t last long. The purse for this year’s race is $2 million, and a time of 1:59 2/5 which was set by Secretariat in 1973.
