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Laura Tucker

Laura has spent more than 20 years writing news, reviews, and op-eds, with the majority of those years as an editor as well. She has exclusively used Apple products for the past 35 years. In addition to writing and editing at MTE, she also runs the site’s sponsored review program.

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How Do You Optimize Your Phone for the Best Performance?

We need to keep our phones performing their best, as we don’t want them to let us down. How do you optimize your phone for the best performance?

Mobile – Feb 4, 2016

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What Do You Look for When Getting a New Smartphone?

When it comes to buying a new smartphone, everyone’s needs are different. We asked our writers what they look for when getting a new smartphone. Here’s what they had to say.

Opinions – Dec 10, 2015

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What Is Your Must-Bring Gadget When Traveling?

We asked our writers which one must-bring gadget they needed when traveling. Many either excluded their smartphones or bring that along with another gadget.

PC Guides – Nov 5, 2015

Inside the New Apple Music

Inside the New Apple Music

The much-anticipated Apple Music has finally made its debut, with an interesting mix of the old iTunes and the new Beats music. Let’s check it out.

iOS – Jul 13, 2015

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Comparing Ideas with Audio on iPhone with Live Sketchpad

If you’re looking for an app to help you simply compare notes, Live Sketchpad isn’t the one, but it is if you would like to actually hear what your coworker or friend thinks.

iOS – Jul 2, 2015

What’s New in iPhone 6 and Are You Going to Get One?

Apple has announced release of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus and here is the list of new feature. Will you be buying the iPhone 6?

Mobile – Sep 15, 2014

WWDC Announces iOS 8 in the Fall

Apple is making some changes to both OS X and iOS this fall. The following is a listing of the changes they will be making under iOS 8.

News – Jun 8, 2014

What’s New in OS X Yosemite

Every year Apple introduces exciting new changes at the WWDC. This year is no different. The following are the exciting new changes to OS X Yosemite.

Mac – Jun 5, 2014

Everything You Want to Know About Vines

The following is everything you need to know about Vines, including where to dowload the app, how to record a vine, and how to share your vines.

Productivity – Apr 10, 2014

Turn Photos and Videos into GIFs with PicGIF for Mac

Have you seen the small GIF videos on social networking sites and want to make your own with your photos and videos? You can with PicGIF.

Mac – Apr 4, 2014

Using the Google Drive Form Feature as an Organizational Tool

Google Drive has a hidden function with Forms, and while it creates great surveys and quizzes, it can also be used as a useful organizational tool.

Internet – Mar 17, 2014

5 Tools to Find the Best Time to Tweet in Twitter

If you aren’t reaching enough people on Twitter, try one of the following 5 apps which will help you find the best time to tweet for the best exposure.

Social Media – Mar 12, 2014

6 Interesting Ways to Make Good Use of Pinterest

The following are six ideas to get you started using Pinterest, ideas that go beyond pinning pictures of food and home decorating issues.

Social Media – Mar 5, 2014

Apple’s Touch ID Ironically Leads to More Possibilities of Theft

With Touch ID and iOS 7, thieves can gain access to a phone with a fingerprint, then also gain access to an Apple ID, email account, and social networking

News – Oct 7, 2013

Using Your Brainwaves to Trigger the “Do-Not-Disturb” Feature: Helpful or Intruding?

Apple’s iOS rolled out a feature last year called Do Not Disturb that allows you to set it up to prevent calls during certain times of the day. It might not stop there. Neuroscientist Ruggero Scorcioni debuted a new automatic do-not-disturb technology via a smartphone app at an AT&T event this week. Is this going to be helpful or intruding?

News – Apr 5, 2013

Apple iPhone: Why Is It the Most Hacked Mobile Device?

While Apple has been trying all their means to prevent people from jailbreaking and hacking of their device, it is not surprising to know that the iPhone is the most hacked mobile device around. They question is… why?

Opinions – Mar 29, 2013

Microsoft and Backberry Offering Cash Incentives to App Developers

In what seems like a move to try and beat Apple and Android, both Microsoft and Blackberry are offering cash incentives to app developers. But, is that enough?

News – Mar 20, 2013

MTE Explains: The Difference Between HTTP and HTTPS

You probably have seen both HTTP and HTTPS appearing in the url and are wondering what they are. In this article, we explain the differences between HTTP and HTTPS and what you should look out for in a supposedly secure site.

Tech Explained – Dec 24, 2012

Werdsmith For iOS Takes Writing Projects From Start to Finish

I’m a fan of productivity apps and am always downloading note-taking and writing apps. Yet, when it comes to push and shove, I always end up resorting to my tried and true apps of Pages and AwesomeNote for writing on the iPad. Werdsmith is a writing app for iOS that promises to both track your ideas and help you write as you follow your project from start to finish. Does it deliver? Yes, of course.

iOS – Nov 19, 2012

MTE Explains: The Evolution Of Cellular Network, From 1G to 3G and 4G

If you live in a large metropolitan area, most likely everywhere you go, you will stay within the 3G bandwidth. Once you travel outside your area, you can lose that bandwidth to either the EDGE network or even even no network at all. The following gives a quick reference to the evolution of bandwidths and how they’re used, as well as the difference between the currently available bandwidths.

Mobile – Aug 20, 2012

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A person in a redwood forest admires the majestic, towering trees in black and white.

In August 2006, naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor waded into a remote grove in Redwood National Park and pointed a laser rangefinder at a tree that turned out to be 380 feet tall, and the National Park Service has refused to disclose its location ever since, fearing the foot traffic alone would kill it.

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Inside a six-walled wedge-foam chamber on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, the background sound is so far below human hearing that visitors start to perceive the grinding of their own joints, the rush of blood in their ears, and eventually a faint ringing that turns out to be the firing of their own nerves.

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Psychology suggests people who browse social media but never post or comment aren’t passive — they’ve simply opted out of the performance while retaining access to the information, which is a sign of quiet self-awareness

Jun 2, 2026

In 1964, IBM risked its entire corporate empire on the System/360, a chaotic gamble to make all of its future machines compatible with the same software — and the architecture proved so robust that modern enterprise mainframes today are still running sections of binary code written more than sixty years ago

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In 1982, a Soviet pipeline suddenly exploded with the force of a tactical nuclear weapon, and the disaster was traced back to a stolen piece of Canadian pipeline software — and years later, it was revealed the CIA had intentionally allowed the KGB to steal the code, after subtly altering the software’s logic to trigger a catastrophic pressure surge months down the line.

Jun 2, 2026

In the early 1980s, a Dutch radio broadcaster figured out how to transmit video games over standard commercial radio broadcasts — and teenagers across Europe would sit with blank cassette tapes waiting for the local station to broadcast a series of high-pitched squeaks and buzzes that they could record and load into their home computers

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