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Social Media Memory App Timehop Adds “Pinterest for Your Past”

Lauren Goode in Social on April 2 at 3:14 pm PT

Timehop, which sends daily reminders of where you checked in and what you tweeted a year ago, will now allow you to pin your favorite past posts to its site. Surprise! It looks a lot like Pinterest.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Now Fits Into an App

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on September 28, 2011 at 6:02 pm PT

The Encyclopaedia Britannica is set to launch a slick iPad app containing its entire contents at a greatly reduced price: $2 a month.

Microsoft Ups Ante With New Browser

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 18, 2009 at 6:02 pm PT

Internet Explorer 8 is more stable than its predecessor and packed with valuable new features, but it still can’t match its browser rivals in speed and performance.

Birds of a Feather Twitter Together

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on December 2, 2008 at 5:20 pm PT

If you’ve heard of Twitter but don’t exactly know what it is or how it works, you’re in good company. In the past two months a bunch of my friends, ranging in age from early 20s to late 30s, have asked me about Twitter–or Tweeter, as one person accidentally called it. To clear things up, I’ve put together a basic Twitter guide that explains how to use it, Twitter lingo, privacy options, mobile applications that can be used with the service and problems that it has.

Navigating Microsoft Office

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on October 1, 2008 at 6:45 pm PT

Here are a few questions I’ve received recently from people like you, and my answers. I have edited and restated the questions a bit, for readability. In the new version of Microsoft Office, I cannot find a “favorites” capability in the Open dialog box. In my older version, when I began to open a document, [...]