Sunday, 22 December 2013

Younity Accesses Files on Your PC or Mac from iPhone


iPhone/Windows/Mac: When you need to access a file that's on your PC's hard drive without being anywhere near it, you better hope you have Younity installed on it and on your iPhone. This nifty app scans folders on your computer and lets you access them on your iPhone, without needing cloud storage space.

Memory Clean Frees Up Your Mac's Unused, System-Reserved RAM


OS X: Your Mac likes to cache things in your "free" RAM so if you need them later you can load them quickly. This might be nice sometimes, but if you need to free up a lot of memory for a particular task you might not want it filled with cache files. Memory Clean wipes them out with a couple of clicks.

App Ops is Now Available via a Root-Only App on Android 4.4.2


Android (root): Google's App Ops on Android has had a rough history. It was never a consumer-facing feature and it keeps getting hidden. Now (and for the foreseeable future, most likely), you can access App Ops if you have root via a third-party app.

Dolphin Zero is an Entire Browser Devoted to Privacy


Android: We're all familiar with incognito mode on most modern browsers. It's the same browsing experience, but with tracking disabled. Dolphin Zero, from the company behind our favorite Android browser, has made an app specifically for this purpose.

Fleksy Brings Its Flexible, Invisible Keyboard to Android


Android (4.1+): Previously mentioned Fleksy has been in private beta for a while now, but now it's available at Google Play. Whether you just want to customize the keyboard, or turn it invisible so you can see behind it as you type, Fleksy works well.

Stick a Fork in a Lemon to Squeeze Out More Juice


The next time you need to squeeze a lemon, you don't need fancy juicers or squeezers to get the most out of it. Just stab it with a fork and move it while you squeeze the lemon. It'll get all the juice out, and much more easily than usual. Madea Allen of Organic Soul Chef swears by the method and demonstrates it in the video above. She says: In this way, you ensure that all the membranes from the lemon are getting juiced. And it gives you much more control than using a reamer or a juicer. This is just so easy, so quick, no electricity required. It would also be wise to cut the lemon lengthwise rather than on the side as this gives you more juice. And if it's not a lemon, we've got you covered on how to get the most juice out of any citrus fruit.

Unstuff Gifts Picks Experiences, Not Stuff, for Holiday Presents


Web: To beat the pressure of gift-buying, we recommend you give experiences instead of objects. So how do you find these experience-based gifts, and which one is right for whom? Unstuff Gifts makes it easy by aggregating, sorting and recommending the best "non-stuff" gifts for the holidays. The site has suggestions like Spotify subscriptions, guitar lessons, National Parks pass, cooking classes and lots more, spread across categories like athletes, critics, daredevils, explorers, foodies, geeks, hipsters, kids, ladies, mansome, rockstars, snobs and students. You can sort by category, but the cool part is when you hook it up to your Facebook. Unstuff Gifts can read through your friends' profiles and figure out which category they fit in. Search for a friend and the portal will recommend the gifts that fit them based on their category. It worked well for a few friends, but not for all—it depends on how active your friends are on FB.