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Monday, May 19, 2014

Business Day Personal Tech

State of the Art

Organizing Your Photos, Cloud-Free

Stuart Goldenberg

LyveHome has created a nifty way to arrange your photographs without using the cloud, but the system still needs a little smoothing out.

Q&A;

Connecting a Camera to a Tablet

Plus, how to uninstall Chrome apps and extensions.

Q&A;

Saving Your Favorite Videos on YouTube

Plus how to back up an iPod Nano.

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Machine Learning

How Young Is Too Young for a Digital Presence?

Some parents savvy in matters of social media are establishing web and email accounts, not to mention usernames, for their newborns.

Several apps will help you turn your pictures into comics by supplying the templates, background colors and speech bubbles.

Sport Wireless+from Jabra include an FM radio.

Sport Wireless+from Jabra include an FM radio.

Gadgetwise

Out for a Run, and Seeking Some Music

Sets that use the wireless technology cost more than wired ones, but Jabra, Denon, BlueAnt and Yurbuds offer some options if you want to upgrade.

More Gadgetwise
Gadgetwise

Cellphone Cases to Prepare You for Anything, Even a Flat Tire

These cases can add speakers, encryption, a hard drive and even a bike repair kit.

Gadgetwise

Cut the Clutter in Your Social Media Accounts

There are simple ways to make platforms like Twitter and Facebook more useful, like making lists and trimming back groups.

More State of the Art
State of the Art

Alibaba I.P.O. May Unleash Global Fight Over Users

While the Silicon Valley elite may not seem to care about the coming stock offering, it could signal the start of a global fight for users.

State of the Art

Conjuring Images of a Bionic Future

As they work more closely with our mobile computers, devices that once simply fixed whatever ailed us will begin to do much more.

More Machine Learning
Machine Learning

With HD Voice, Better Call Quality Is Coming. Text Your Friends.

Phone carriers say HD voice is the solution to a longstanding problem, but will it arrive before we all switch to Skype or just give up calling completely?

Machine Learning

Windows Phone 8.1 Finally Catches Up to Its Rivals

With the addition of Cortana, Microsoft’s answer to Siri and Google Now, the mobile operating system can be considered an equal in most areas.

More App Smart
App Smart

You Are Now Here. Find How to Go There.

Apps can simplify travel planning and reservations, and perhaps inspire a last-minute getaway.

App Smart

While on a Run, Apps to Match the Playlist to Your Pace

Apps for walking, running or cycling can offer motivation, or just deliver some interesting information.

More Q&A;
Q&A;

What It Means When Google ‘Verifies’ an App

Plus deleting old Passbook cards on your iPhone.

Q&A;

How to Move the Windows Address Book to a New Computer

Plus managing multiple iPad mail accounts.

The App Index

A Guide to Mobile Apps

Browse all the mobile app coverage that has appeared in The New York Times by category, and see what Times writers have on their phones and tablets.

Wired Well

A series from The Well blog explores how technology can help us better understand our personal health.

Interactive Feature

The Well Guide to Activity Trackers

The Times tested some of the latest and most popular trackers to compare how they work and the various features they offer.

Interactive Feature

What Your Activity Tracker Sees and Doesn’t See

High-tech fitness and activity trackers all share one thing: an accelerometer. Here’s how they work — and don’t.

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Toolkit Teardowns
TOOL KIT
A Sensor Guided by Voice or Gestures

Microsoft wants the Xbox One to be the center of a home’s entertainment universe, providing Skype video calls and playing television shows, music and more.

Toolkit
Inside the Winbot 730, a Robotic Window Cleaner

The cleaning device figures out the size of your window mirror and then cleans the surface on its own.

Tool Kit
Inside the Nest Learning Thermostat

Nest, the company founded by the former Apple designer Tony Fadell, released a new version of its self-learning thermostat on Tuesday.

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