How to Become Indistractable – ReadWrite

Baseball coach Tony La Russa once said, “There are always distractions if you allow them.” While certainly not wrong, we all get distracted. In fact, 99% of employees said they were distracted from their work tasks at some point during the day, according to a Poly study. Further, respondents were asked how these distractions affected their work, and […]

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8 Reasons Why Business Needs to Invest in SEO

As a business owner, you likely wear many hats. You are responsible for increasing the exposure of your business, building leads, making sales, and creating a product or service that people want to buy. In order to be successful, it is important to invest in a variety of marketing channels – including SEO. Here are […]

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The 13 best tech gifts of 2022: Holiday edition

Price: $70 Tech specs or features: Multiple light colors | 11 white noise sounds | Alexa compatible It may not be a toy, but parents swear by this sleep machine and wake-up light. The smart clock plays 11 soothing white noise machine sounds to help little ones sleep through the night, including rain, ocean, and lullabies. Control the customizable […]

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iPadOS 16.2 brings new features to Stage Manager, including external monitor support — here’s how it all works

When Apple previewed iPadOS 16 in June at WWDC, the company’s annual developer conference, there was a lot of hope that the iPad would soon gain a powerful new multitasking feature in the form of Stage Manager, which makes it possible to use four different apps, with windows of different sizes, on the same screen […]

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Flying soon? Flighty is a must-have iOS app for air travel this holiday season

The information available in Flighty’s expanded Dynamic Island implementation.  Jason Cipriani/ZDNET I recently started traveling for work again. I missed it. I missed seeing people I only interact with online. I missed experiencing different parts of the country. I missed New York City (yes, I mean that). But one thing I didn’t miss is flying.  Also: These […]

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GM Cruise automated cars are under federal investigation for hard braking, stranding passengers

Getty Images Earlier this week, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into General Motors’ self-driving robotaxis, Cruise. The investigation is a result of incidents of the vehicles’ tendency to “engage in inappropriately hard braking or become immobilized while operating,” according to the NHTSA.  The NHTSA’s filing says they received three reports of […]

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This is the best use of your Apple Watch Ultra’s Action button

I’m already on the record saying the Apple Watch Ultra is one of my favorite Apple products in years. The long battery life, large display, and overall experience are unlike those of any other smartwatch I’ve used, let alone one from Apple.  But, I’ll admit, I’d been underutilizing all of the Ultra’s features.  On the […]

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TikTok now supports horizontal, YouTube style, full-screen videos on the app

Getty Images/Anadolu Agency If you were scrolling through TikTok and noticed a new screen tilt-button, you are part of the limited test group TikTok is rolling out the feature to. The new tilt-button allows users to shift the screen and watch horizontal videos full-screen on TikTok.  Before the update, if a user uploaded a horizontal […]

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With ‘Ragnarök,’ ‘God of War’ Keeps Growing Up

Before the long-running God of War series was reestablished with a 2018 entry that moved the story from a mythological ancient Greece to a mythological ancient Scandinavia, its protagonist, Kratos, was an unparalleled jerk. Mouth fixed in a permanent sneer, hell-bent on revenge against the pantheon of gods who tricked him into murdering his family, the earlier Kratos roared, […]

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