Whatever you love, you are

1. GET A SMARTPHONE Why: Because having immediate access to your e-mail, photos, calendars and address books, not to mention vast swaths of the Internet, makes life a little easier.

2. STOP USING INTERNET EXPLORER Why: Because, while the latest version has some real improvements, Internet Explorer is large, bloated with features and an example of old-style Microsoft excess.

How: Switch to either Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. Both are first-rate, speedy browsers, and both are free. It remains a tight race between the two, but Chrome has had the lead lately in features and performance. Both browsers include useful things like bookmark syncing. That means that your bookmarks folder will be the same on every computer using Chrome or Firefox, and will update if you change anything.

3. UPLOAD YOUR PHOTOS TO THE CLOUD

4. GET MUSIC OFF YOUR COMPUTER

5. BACK UP YOUR DATA

6. SET UP A FREE FILE-SHARING SERVICE

How: Go to dropbox.com and set up a free account. You will then get an icon that sits on your desktop. Drag and drop files onto that icon, and they are immediately copied to the cloud. The free account gives you up to two gigabytes of disk space; 50- and 100-gigabyte are also available, but they cost $10 or $20 a month.

7. GET FREE ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE

8. GET A BETTER DEAL FROM YOUR CABLE, PHONE AND INTERNET PROVIDER

9. BUY A LOT OF CHARGING CABLES Why: Because you should never have a gadget’s battery die on you, and they are cheap. Smartphone user? Have a charging cable at the office, one in the car, and a couple at home.

10. CALIBRATE YOUR HDTV

물론 10가지 모두가 꼭 필수 팁이라고 할 순 없지만, iPad user로서 신기술을 조금 더 포용하기로 결심한 나는 적어도 (1), 2, 3, 6 번을 시도해 보려 한다.

(Source: nytimes)