Pinterest Tips & Tricks For Halloween
Pinterest is the perfect place to look for inspiration for all your Halloween party planning needs. Here are a few "tips and tricks" that will help you plan a spooktacular event, or at least get your home ready for the holiday: 1) Make everything spooky using cheesecloth or gauze and googly eyes (even a school lunch or a [Read More]
How IFTTT Makes Your Life Easier
If This Then That (IFTTT) is a fabulous free service for automating all aspects of your life. IFTTT, as I’ll refer to it for the remainder of this article, lets you set up chain reactions between different accounts or programs you use. For example, you could: Upload to Dropbox every time you’re tagged in a Facebook [Read More]
How The Sharing Economy Is Changing My Life
There are a few reasons why I am super interested in the emerging collaborative economy and I’d like to share how my life and sense of community have greatly improved through it over the past 12 months. We are in the nascent era of collaborative economy and it’s developing in a time where many people [Read More]
Tips And Tricks For Digital Readers
As an IT consultant and tech writer, I can’t believe how long it took me to try out my local library’s online catalog. Talk about making life easier! (More on that later.) I’ve also been getting the hang of e-books and reading apps for my iPad. I’m sure many of you are ahead of the [Read More]
Dinner, Sent To Your Doorstep: Blue Apron
If you’ve been following trends, you’ve probably noticed that subscription boxes are all the rage. These services take convenience to a whole new level, bringing things you need right to your doorstep. I’ve reviewed Stitch Fix on this site, and have tried or want to try many others, like Nature Box and BirchBox. But Blue [Read More]
Dot Complicated Is Now A Book!
To the Dot Complicated community: First, I want to share how gratifying it has been for me to watch the DotComplicated community growing and generating so much great thought and provocative conversation. I truly feel we’re all pioneers in the digital domain, with the common goal of making it a safe, interesting, and desirable place to inhabit. Together we’re shaping [Read More]
Want To Make Or Break A Habit? Try Lift
Goals: We make them, we break them. It’s easy to make the decision to change your behavior, only to regress once some actual work is involved. Everyone has something they’re trying to change about themselves, whether it’s exercising more, flossing daily, journaling continuously or giving up certain guilty pleasures. My vice was cherry Diet Coke. There [Read More]
Cooking Apps That Help You Fake It Til You Make It
The kitchen has been my arch nemesis for as long as I can remember. Well, I take that back. Three of my most beloved items have always lived in the kitchen: refrigerator, microwave and toaster oven (definitely in that order). I’ve always loved the art of eating but have been too paralyzed with fear to [Read More]