Article • January 28, 2010

Tagging Up

Keep Track Of Your Gadgets With A Global Lost And Found Exchange

Every year more than 10 million mobile phones are lost in the U.S. Another million or so laptops go missing.

To help reunite people with their expensive, addictive gadgets a new service called TigerTag has created what it calls a “global lost and found exchange.”

Basically Tiger Tag offers consumers the chance to affix a small anonymous label onto their phones, cameras, laptops, MP3 players, and countless other gadgets.

Each tag has a unique ID number that is connected to the object and the owner’s profile. The service is free; all you pay is the $1.99 shipping charge for the tags.

When somebody finds your item the label directs them to the website. When they enter the ID number you are immediately sent a notification email.

To help get lost items back TigerTag operates a 24/7 service center. They also have a partnership with FedEx to ensure that found items are returned promptly. (The owner of the lost item pays the shipping cost).

In addition, TigerTag collaborates with law enforcement and integrates with national registries of stolen goods to ensure protection of your valuables.

While the system relies on the kindness of strangers to work properly, the company claims that over 75% of TigerTag users recover their lost items, often within a day.

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Article • August 13, 2020

Declutter Your Life, Online

Clear your inbox, remove unwanted permissions, and negotiate subscriptions with these tools and tips

There are plenty of resources that help you declutter our homes. These days, tending to our online garden is just as, or even more, important than IRL. To help you sift through the junk, we’ve aggregated a few tools below to help you declutter your online life—across your inbox, subscriptions, and permissions: 

Want to bulk unsubscribe from pesky spam? Try Mailstrom.The positive: the service doesn’t collect and sell your data, like competitor apps. The catch: It will cost you $7 per month (we recommend using a trial to see if you like it. The long term payoff is a service that does a massive overhaul and delete of unwanted emails in your inbox.  

For those who find themselves stuck in subscription services or receive overpriced bills, try Truebill. The service takes a snapshot of your bill, and will help you negotiate a better rate. Truebill never removes your service, but that is always a manual option. 

An important component to a decluttered online life is knowing who you’ve given permissions to. Check out these useful guides to revoke access permissions to your Gmail account, and remove apps’ access to your Facebook account. 

Tidy things up online, by using these tools!

Declutter Your Life


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Article • January 2, 2019

Surf the Internet Safer in 2019 with Keepsafe Browser

Keepsafe Browser lets you surf the Internet without being tracked

Most New Year’s resolutions focus on building better habits for fitness, career success, and even love. But what about better Internet practices?

Resolve to browse safely on mobile in 2019 with Keepsafe Browser.

It helps you surf the Internet, without keeping record of your activity—something we all need from time to time. Keepsafe’s private browser uses military-grade encryption to protect your web searches. To start, set a PIN or Face ID; the app cannot be accessed without that code.

Browse in private mode, or switch into incognito mode’s secret browsers, which erase all of your browsing history after use. Not sold yet? Turn on Keepsafe’s tracker blockers to stop advertisers and social networks from collecting your data or browsing activity.

Browse safe, breathe easy.

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Guide • October 23, 2018

4 Tools to Verify Your Internet

These 4 services help restore your trust in the Internet

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    2018 seems to be the year of #fakenews but what about fake reviews? Download the Fakespot app and chrome extension to paste any link for an Amazon product or Yelp business, so you can find out which reviews are real and which are incentivized.

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    NewsGuard

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    Discover which news websites are both credible and transparent, and which are just fake with NewsGuard, the free plugin that uses a team of trained journalists—not bots—to verify thousands of news websites.

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    Bot Sentinel

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    Never get trapped by a propaganda bot with Bot Sentinel, a browser extension and search tool that tracks “fake news” accounts spreading disinformation, and flags bots so you can tell the real from the fake.

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    AllSides

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    Tired of seeing one-sided views online? Get the full scoop on a story with AllSides, a news service that provides multiple angles on the same story, so you have the whole picture.

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