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☆ How to Cut Down Your Screen Time but Still Get Stuff Done
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( J. D. Biersdorfer | More About J. D. Biersdorfer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Next, add steps (in the order they should occur) from the menu of actions and apps. Tap the Add Action button, select All Actions from the menu and choose FaceTime from the list. After you add the first name, tap the + button and repeat the steps until you have added everyone else. You can save the shortcut to your home screen by tapping the Share menu icon and choosing Add to Home Screen. Tap it to call everyone in the group — or tell Siri to run that shortcut by name.

Persons: Siri Organizations: Google

☆ Visit the Library From the Comfort of Your Own Phone
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( J. D. Biersdorfer | More About J. D. Biersdorfer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library and the Queens Public Library systems allow people who live, work, pay property taxes or attend school in the state of New York to get a card. Statewide libraries exist beyond New York, like the Free Library of Philadelphia, which is open to Pennsylvania residents, and the Houston Public Library, which serves most Texans. Image In some cases, once you find the information on your library’s website, you can sign up for a library card right on your phone. Once you have the app installed, log in your library user name and password and start browsing for things to borrow. If you already have a library card, use your card number to sign into the app.

Persons: Libby, SimplyE Organizations: Brooklyn Public Library, New York Public Library, Queens Public, Free Library of Philadelphia, Houston Public Library, Texans, . New York Public Locations: New York, Pennsylvania, .

☆ Use Your Phone as a Pocket Tutor for Study on the Go
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( J. D. Biersdorfer | More About J. D. Biersdorfer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Autumn is edging closer, and the return to a more regular office schedule looms for many people — and with it, the waiting time for transportation, meetings and appointments. Here’s a guide to finding Android and iOS apps that turn your smartphone into a traveling pocket tutor. Learn a LanguageWeb-based academic courses and music lessons have boomed in the past few years, especially as remote learning became a part of pandemic life. Although Apple and Google have their own free translation apps, some people also found online language lessons useful. No one wants to hear you practice your French pronunciation on a commuter train, but several language-instruction apps offer free or inexpensive tutorials in vocabulary and grammar that you can do quietly or while wearing headphones.

Organizations: Apple, Google

☆ A Time Capsule of Human Creativity, Stored in the Sky
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( J. D. Biersdorfer | More About J. D. Biersdorfer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Later this year, the Lunar Codex — a vast multimedia archive telling a story of the world’s people through creative arts — will start heading for permanent installation on the moon aboard a series of unmanned rockets. The Lunar Codex is a digitized (or miniaturized) collection of contemporary art, poetry, magazines, music, film, podcasts and books by 30,000 artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers in 157 countries. It’s the brainchild of Samuel Peralta, a semiretired physicist and author in Canada with a love of the arts and sciences. Some works were commissioned for the project, including “The Polaris Trilogy: Poems for the Moon,” a collection of poetry from every continent, including Antarctica. He has also accepted works submitted by individual artists.

Persons: “, ”, Wes Anderson’s, Samuel Peralta, Ayana Ross, Pauline Aubey, Alex Colville, Peralta Locations: Asteroid, Canada, Ukraine, Antarctica, Toronto

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