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Use Beeper to Put All of Your Chats in One Place
Through the years there have been plenty of apps promising a one-stop shop for all your messages, and the latest of these is Beeper: It collects all of your conversations from WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Slack, Google Chat, Twitter (or X), and, yes, even iMessage. The idea is that you shouldn’t have to waste time…
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Slack Drops a Big Redesign to Change How You Chat
Your work chats are going to look very different very soon. On Wednesday, Slack said it would update its interface for the first time in three years, adding new ways to quickly gauge who’s screaming for your attention across multiple channels and chats and mark conversations for followup. One of the most immediately obvious changes…
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Your iPhone Is Still Vulnerable When It Is Locked
In many ways, it’s great that we can do just about anything we need to on our smartphones. However, that convenience creates a single point of failure that could lead to big losses if something were to go wrong. Case in point: Reddit user Whippity, whose iPhone and credit card were recently stolen. The thieves…
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7 Hidden iPhone Gestures You Probably Never Knew Existed
Remember when our minds were all blown when we discovered we could move the cursor on our iPhones by holding the space bar? Well, there are more hidden shortcuts like that — some of which are, admittedly, more useful than others, but all of which are worth a test drive to see if they, too,…