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What Happens to Your Facebook When You Die? Here’s How to Choose Its Fate

As technology becomes more and more entrenched in our daily lives, the need for us to consider what will become of our online presence after we pass away becomes a bigger and bigger priority. A few years ago, Google paved the way by allowing Gmail users to, as they put it, “plan for [their] digital afterlife” by designating a friend or family member to be their Inactive Account Manager when they die. Now Facebook has joined their ranks, announcing last week that they are introducing a similar feature, calling it a Legacy Contact. Though this may seem bizarre and somewhat […]

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New Year’s Resolution Slipping Already? 5 Apps for Getting Back in Shape

Oh, the gym. You elusive devil, you. All relationships are tough to maintain in life, but the on-again-off-again relationship we all have with staying in shape and going to the gym is perhaps the most enduring. Whether you’ve got fluctuating weight or a fluctuating work schedule, no matter the excuse – fortunately (or unfortunately) for us, our smartphones make it hard to give a good reason to not stay in shape. With an app market that is littered with ways to monitor or motivate good health, we as smartphone users now have the ability to get creative in the way

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Insomniac Much? These 7 Apps Can Help You Sleep

We all toss and turn at night nowadays, don’t we? While half the time the guilty culprit for keeping you awake is your device itself – constantly keeping you plugged in to the rest of the world and its goings-on’s – we can still look to our phones or tablets for help getting us to bed. The app marketplace is flooded with options to aide your sleepless nights. So, put on your favorite set of jammies, tuck yourself in, and check out this list of the best apps to help you sleep. I. Relax Melodies This stacked app not only

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Home Automation: It’s Finally Time to Try It

Technology, automation, and efficiency. Three things nerds like us get way more excited about than your average person. (Who doesn’t love a good spreadsheet once in a while? Ah, that’s the stuff.) Thankfully for us, we’re living in an age where technology is evolving faster than it ever has before, and our phones, tablets, computers, cars, and other tech are all trying to anticipate what we want them to do before we even know we need them to do. Sometimes they’re suggestions are more useful than others. I didn’t know I needed to go to the casino during breakfast, thanks,

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Give Your Eyes a Break: Have Your News Read to You Using This App

Ok, I’ll admit it. I use Audible.com for the majority of the books I “read”. (Is it still called reading if I’m listening to it? Deep thoughts…) Maybe it’s the fact I can multitask while doing it (“…raised by technology, and majors in efficiency.”), the fact that it’s more convenient than carrying a book (since it’s on my phone already), or maybe it stems from a deep-seeded psychological need to be read to since I wasn’t as a child, who really knows. The fact of the matter remains though, that, while not the case for all my books, I enjoy

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