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How to upgrade to Google’s new Gmail right now
If you are a person on the internet, you may have heard of the newly redesigned Gmail.
Today, Google unveiled one of the biggest Gmail updates in the service’s history. There’s a new Confidential Mode, the ability to set expiration dates and pa…
How I cleaned up my embarrassing Twitter history
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This may be hard to imagine, but I, a now hilarious 24-year-old with impressive self-control and impeccable taste in movies, music, and celebrity crushes, have not always crafted the best tweets.
Sure, my Twitter fingers are professionally trained at this point. But when I first made my debut in 2011, I was an angsty 18-year-old, obsessed with One Tree Hill, listening to Dashboard Confessional on a loop, and tragically venting about freshman year of college.
I’ve grown a lot since then. And the sophisticated professional I am today decided it was time to venture back into my Twitter history and clean up my online image. Read more…
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Here’s everything you can do with a Bitmoji
You’ve probably seen a Bitmoji floating around on Snapchat, Facebook, or Instagram. You might even have the Bitmoji app. But what are these adorable full-sized avatars for, anyway?
As it turns out, a bunch of things. The Bitmoji app opens up a world …
Here’s everything you can do with a Bitmoji
You’ve probably seen a Bitmoji floating around on Snapchat, Facebook, or Instagram. You might even have the Bitmoji app. But what are these adorable full-sized avatars for, anyway?
As it turns out, a bunch of things. The Bitmoji app opens up a world …
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Apple launches a new YouTube channel offering device tutorials
Apple is expanding its social media outreach. The company has just launched a new YouTube channel to teach people how to use their Apple devices, like the iPhone and iPad, via video tutorials. The first set of videos focus on common and fairly si…
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1.3 billion people use Facebook Messenger each month. But are they really making the most of it?
Since Messenger became an app of its own, Facebook has been quietly adding functionality to make it stand out. The app has a ton of neat hidden features, from GIFs to addicting games and ever-innovative ways to write and present text.
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Here’s some of the coolest stuff you didn’t know you could do with Facebook Messenger.
1. Use Messenger on the computer
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If you want to message your friends on your computer without the distraction of your News Feed, try pulling up Messenger directly onto your computer. Just go to Messenger.com and sign in with your Facebook account. You can also access a conversation directly by going to Messenger.com/ and adding your friend’s Facebook username at the end. Read more…
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Apps are essential to getting the most out of our smartphones, but the subscriptions that some of those apps rope us into are far from necessary once they fall out of regular rotation.
Even the best of us probably have an app sub or two we’ve forgotten about after signing up once and never using the program again, which can be super annoying when seemingly phantom charges show up when it comes time to pay the bill.
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iPhone upgrade season is here, and that gives everyone using iOS a good excuse to double-check just how many useless subscriptions we have on our dockets. Here’s how to find all of the app subscriptions you currently have tied to your Apple ID — and how to cancel them when you decide you’ve had enough. Read more…
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