David Nield, Author at Gizmodo

Add Extra Stars For Better Gmail Sorting

Stars are a time-honored way of flagging and highlighting emails, but you can supercharge their functionality in Gmail by adding up to 11 alternatives on top of the original. From searches to quick links, these extra stars can give you more control over your inbox and how it’s organized. Here’s how to get them added…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 23

Use Ratings Preview For Smarter YouTube Browsing

There’s an awful lot of content out there on YouTube and sorting the wheat from the chaff can be a serious undertaking. One way of making your video browsing smarter is to install the unofficial Ratings Preview extension for Google Chrome; it rather handily shows the rating for a clip right alongside every thumbnail, making…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 22

Use Android’s Priority Mode So Notifications Don’t Wake You Up at Night

Among the features rolled out by Google in Android 5.0 Lollipop was a new Priority Mode that lets you set ‘do not disturb’ times, times when only the most important apps and people can get in touch with you. It can come in useful in meetings, on dates, and when you’re asleep. We’ll show you…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 22

How to Make Sure Amazon’s Recommendations Actually Work

Amazon has a lot of information about you, which it uses to try and suggest other stuff you might like (to buy). If you notice that your recommendations are frequently unhelpful, then there are some tweaks you can make inside your user account to try and improve them. Here are the screens and the settings…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 21

Find Out What Google Thinks You Want to See in Ads (And Change It)

No one really likes online advertisements. But they do help to pay for your Gmail hosting and the occasional brilliantly written article on the web. If you’re going to be served up ads by Google then you may as well make sure that they’re about topics you’re interested in. Here’s how you can find out…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 20

10 Tricks to Make Youself a Firefox Master

Firefox 35 is out with improvements large and small. If you’ve never tried out Mozilla’s alternative web browser, or you’re tempted to come back to it after a break, here are 10 software tips that will make your experience with Firefox all the more productive and rewarding. You can download the latest version of the…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 20

Get Back Notifications You Accidentally Dismissed on Android

There you are, absent-mindedly dismissing notifications from your lock screen, when all of a sudden you think you might have swiped away something that was hugely important. Or was it? Here’s how you can access your notification history in the most recent versions of Android. In Lollipop, press and hold on a blank part of…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 19

Switch On Guest Mode and Have a Chromecast Party

In the last major update Google rolled out for its Chromecast device, guest mode was the key new feature: It means anyone in the room can cast a video or tune to the streaming dongle. Here’s how to get the mode set up and why you don’t have to worry about unauthorized access. To start…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 16

Read the Web Hands-Free with These Automatic Scrolling Tools

You’ve got a coffee in one hand, a mobile phone in the other—who’s got the fingers free to actually scroll down a web page manually? Not us, so we’ve rounded up the best browser extensions and plug-ins that can help provide a solution. Sit back, relax, and let your favorite sites flow before your eyes…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 15

Use Evernote’s Scannable App to Go Paperless in a Snap

Evernote has a new app called Scannable. It’s takes a feature Evernote already had—digitizing paper documents—and makes it faster and more intuitive than ever before. Here’s how to get it up and running on an iOS device, and the features that make it worth a look whether or not you already use Evernote. The app…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 14

6 Reasons to Switch to Nokia’s HERE Maps

Whatever flavor of smartphone you’re using, chances are you haven’t strayed far from the mapping app that came installed as the default. If you’re on Android or Windows Phone (iOS coming soon), there’s a genuine alternative to consider: HERE maps, developed by Nokia and bringing more features to the table than you might imagine. Here…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 13

Use Dropbox’s Carousel to Keep Old Photos From Cluttering Up Your Phone

Carousel is Dropbox’s dedicated photo and video managing app, and it recently rolled out an update that lets you automatically remove old content that’s cluttering up your phone once it’s been backed up to the cloud. Switch on the feature—as we’ll show you here—and you can avoid running out of room on your phone or…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 12

Use #Homescreen to Discover New iOS Apps

We’ve written before about the ways in which you can find the best apps for your mobile devices, and there’s a new tool we’d like to add to the list: #Homescreen takes a look at the apps you already have installed and recommends new ones, based on other users like you. Here’s how to use…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 9

How To Take Care of Your Headphones the Right Way

Headphones or earphones or whatever listening apparatus you have access to are crucial to having music and staying sane, so it’s important that you treat them with the care and respect that they deserve. Keeping them in top condition is good for both your hygiene and the audio fidelity, so we’ve put together a variety…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 9

See Which Bands Are Taking Up Most Room on Your iPhone

iOS 8 brought with it an avalanche of new features and options, but one that you might not have noticed yet is the ability to break down how much storage space each album and artist is using up. If you need to trim down a bloated music library then this feature can help you spot…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 2

7 Apps and Sites to Track Your Time in 2015

How are you going to be spending your 2015? More work and less play? More time outdoors and less time on the couch? With such a broad range of time-tracking apps and services now on the market, you can monitor where all of your hours, minutes and seconds go like never before. Here’s our pick…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 2

10 Tricks to Make Yourself an Evernote Master

Evernote is well established as the go-to app for organizing just about everything in your life. Whether it’s notes for a novel or bookmarks from the Web, Evernote can take pretty much anything you want to throw at it. But are you using the platform to its full potential? Here are 10 quick tips for…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 1

Use Google Inbox To Snooze Emails From Your Friends or Family

Relatives are great, aren’t they? But do you really need to see their emails popping into your inbox every hour? Wouldn’t it be better if you only heard from them once a day? Or even once a week? Google’s new Inbox platform makes this simple to achieve, and you can apply the same approach to…

Gadgets David Nield Dec 30

Keep Common Phrases On Hand With Snipboard for iOS

Snipboard is a really handy app for iOS that gives you quick access to the words and phrases you rely on the most. It’s a third-party keyboard for devices running iOS 8.0 and above and it’s free to use. Here’s how it can make a difference to the typing experience on your iDevice. As with…

Gadgets David Nield Dec 29

Start Putting Together a New Year Mixtape With Tape.ly

There’s something a little bit magical about putting together a mixtape, a carefully curated list of songs designed to impress your musical taste on others, to showcase some of the hidden gems you’ve uncovered, or perhaps just impress a girl you like. You don’t get the same kind of magic with a Spotify playlist, but…

Gadgets David Nield Dec 26

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Add Extra Stars For Better Gmail Sorting

Use Ratings Preview For Smarter YouTube Browsing

Use Android’s Priority Mode So Notifications Don’t Wake You Up at Night

How to Make Sure Amazon’s Recommendations Actually Work

Find Out What Google Thinks You Want to See in Ads (And Change It)

10 Tricks to Make Youself a Firefox Master

Get Back Notifications You Accidentally Dismissed on Android

Switch On Guest Mode and Have a Chromecast Party

Read the Web Hands-Free with These Automatic Scrolling Tools

Use Evernote’s Scannable App to Go Paperless in a Snap

6 Reasons to Switch to Nokia’s HERE Maps

Use Dropbox’s Carousel to Keep Old Photos From Cluttering Up Your Phone

Use #Homescreen to Discover New iOS Apps

How To Take Care of Your Headphones the Right Way

See Which Bands Are Taking Up Most Room on Your iPhone

7 Apps and Sites to Track Your Time in 2015

10 Tricks to Make Yourself an Evernote Master

Use Google Inbox To Snooze Emails From Your Friends or Family

Keep Common Phrases On Hand With Snipboard for iOS

Start Putting Together a New Year Mixtape With Tape.ly

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