Ever wish you could get a text message every time someone tagged you in a Facebook photo? Or that you could record notes to yourself that are transcribed and sent to your e-mail account? A nifty new Web service called ifttt (pronounced “lift” but minus the l) offers a way to automate tasks involving a bevy of services like Instagram, Craiglist, Dropbox and Instapaper, among others... Read more

Each morning, bleary-eyed, I retrieve the newspaper, glance at the headlines and toss it on the coffee table to read later.I know I shouldn’t admit to that — in a newspaper — but I’m an avid newshound. I want to know what’s happening right now, so I reach for the iPad instead and dive into the news of the day.At first, that meant visiting a handful of Web sites on Safari, Apple’s Web browser that comes installed on the iPad. It hit the usual suspects — my local paper, the Weather Channel, ESPN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and CNN — before checking ... Read more