Tech Advice

Coming to a Smartphone Near You

Today, f you don't have an app, you're committing the sin of ignoring customers who have embraced apps like a previous generation embraced the Hula-Hoop.

Microsoft’s New Touch OS Windows 8 Is Slightly Touched

What Windows 8 gets unquestionably right is its concept: a single OS for both traditional and tablet computers that smoothly simplifies interaction and sharing across devices.

Follow Awards Season With the Oscars Mobile App

Looking at this year’s official iOS Academy Award app, titled Oscar Experience, you might wish you’d stayed at home with Netflix or even gone to the theater instead.

Social Media for Actors: Foursquare

How is this specifically helpful for actors? Well, on the most surface level, it can make networking easier.

Windows 8 Phone Makes Microsoft Mobile-Cool

Apple and Android have been duking it out for a while now on the smartphone front, with the fierce partisans on neither side willing to cede much ground. But they may have to now that Windows Phone 8 is on the scene.

New BlackBerry Devices Are Slightly Behind

The big problem is apps. Whereas all the other platforms have had years to build up their libraries and develop intense followings, BlackBerry is starting from scratch in more ways than one.

Oh, What a Tangled Web

There seem to be a never-ending number of websites claiming that theirs is the best place for actors to post their pictures and résumés for casting folk to take a gander at.

When Computers Crash

All is not lost, however, even if you haven't backed up. When your computer crashes, some data, if not all, may be recoverable without going to an expensive data-recovery company.

Actors Phone Home

By using a product like LogMeIn or GoToMyPC, your home computer appears virtually on the desktop of your work computer. Then you can do anything remotely that you might do if you were really there.