The Time-Saving Apps That Want To Free Up Your Day

Rob Leane checks out apps that save time, not steal it...

Technology is meant to make our lives easier, but it doesn't always feel like it. Replying to messages across a zillion different platforms, searching endlessly for something you can only half remember, and getting lost in the procrastination-friendly wasteland of the web are all ways that having a phone in your pocket or a computer on your desk can actually make your life more complicated and crowded.

Our technology regularly becomes a sinkhole for time, making the modern age a difficult place to be productive and stay on schedule with work, personal projects, and anything else that you should be doing instead of faffing around online. A few brave apps are standing up to this status quo, however, by actually attempting to save you some time rather than stealing it away from you. With these guys on your side, you may be able to rescue some of the spare minutes that have seemed so elusive lately...

Search deeper THAN THE WEB

Typing search queries into Google only gets you so far. Robert Irvine explains how to find information, people and content that doesn’t appear in web search results

Use multiple accounts on the same device

Using the same service on more than one account is easy on a computer, but much trickier on a phone or tablet. Edward Munn reveals a few simple ways to double up

Why Your PC Keeps Crashing

Tired of your computer freezing, rebooting or giving you the dreaded Blue Screen of Death? David Ludlow explains how to make your PC more dependable

We’ve all experienced the frustration of merrily typing away when suddenly - bang! - your trusty computer locks up and won’t respond no matter what you do. You sit there waiting, hoping and eventually praying for Windows to right itself, but deep down you know it’s only a matter of time before you have to press the power button and risk losing anything you haven’t recently saved.

While a frozen PC is annoying, a computer that crashes often is enough to reduce the best of us to tears. To make matters worse, it can be incredibly difficult to pinpoint the cause of these seemingly random crashes. The usual fixes are to update your drivers, install software updates and download the latest versions of your programs. But if you’ve tried all those and you’re still pulling your hair out, what do you do next?

Can The Internet’s Abuse Problem Be Solved?

Sarah Dobbs looks into the ways various platforms are trying to combat trolls

At this point, there's no point trying to deny it: there is a massive problem with abuse on the internet. It's not a new phenomenon, of course. For almost as long as the web has existed, people have been using it to be horrible to one another just as often as they've been using it to share knowledge or make friends. Can you remember the first time you heard the phrase "don't read the comments"? It was probably years ago. More than a decade, even.