Today’s smartphones are great for a number of reasons. The least not being that they have a large capacity for holding your media. Of course, some of us have music and video libraries that can’t be contained by the flash storage on our portable devices. Thankfully wireless connections make it possible to keep your media on a computer, and stream it to your phone. All you need is the right software.

Keeping backups of your most important data is one of the single most important things to do on your computer. After all, what’s the point in spending all of that time editing photos and composing documents if they just get lost after a hard drive failure? There are lots of programs out there that offer a boatload of features, many of which you won’t use. If you simply want the contents of a folder to be mirrored on another drive,…

When you need to search for a file on your computer, you generally know where to look. However, if have a lot of files scattered across various folders, you’re probably going to turn the search feature in Windows. For the most part, this works well enough. It’s far from perfect though, lacking features such as searching for duplicate files of the same size. That’s why you can turn to software like Search My Files.

When you want to listen to a specific song that you don’t own, what do you generally do? Pirating the song isn’t the best answer here. Generally the best legal thing you can do is head over to YouTube and punch in the song’s title. Maybe you have a bunch of songs on YouTube that you want to listen to. For that, you can create a playlist, but managing that inside of a browser can be a bit annoying sometimes….

If you, or someone in your house has a pill regimen that they have to take on a daily basis, it can be hard to keep track of them. Some are to be taken every few hours, while others are at specific times of day, and there are some that you can’t take at the same time as another. That’s why there are pill boxes out there with alarms to remind you at the appropriate time. However, what if you’re…

When you need to copy text from one place and paste it to another, how do you go about it? Do you highlight the words, then right-click, then click �copy,� then right-click again in in your text field and hit �paste�? Or perhaps you go up to the Edit menu and select �copy� from there. I’m going to bet that most of the time you do neither of these things. Instead, you probably press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, because it takes…

If you have a smartphone, there’s a very high probability that it has GPS built into it. This can be used for a lot of different functions, though one of the most basic is getting directions from point A to B. Unfortunately a lot of turn-by-turn navigation apps cost a good bit of money. But why pay for something, when there’s a free alternative out there?

Keeping track of your finances isn’t always an easy task. After all, there’s an entire field dedicated to accounting. If you want to get a grip on your money and figure out where it’s all going, your phone might be able to help out. You can use it to keep track of each and every purchase that you make during your day with Lemon.

If you repeat a lot of the same tasks on your computer day in and day out, you might start to wonder if there is a way to automate some of them. Doing so could save you minutes, even hours in the long run. Of course, you have to weigh that against the amount of time it will take to find an implement this automation. Thankfully free programs like Watch 4 Folder can make it quite easy to do.

Have you ever taken an outdoor shot, only to find out that your lines aren’t perfectly straight? This tends to happen because of your particular vantage point, and unless you have a very fancy camera, it can’t be helped. Of course, there are ways to fix it after the fact. One such way is to use ShiftN.

There are times when you want to save a website, as it is. Maybe you’re going to be disconnected for a while, and want to browse through the content on a really long flight. Whatever the reason, it’s not as simple as just hitting �Save As� in your browser. That might get you a single page, but not the rest of them. For that you’ll need a special piece of software.