Welcome toTNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. When Apple rolled out the iOS 15 developer beta for iPhones back in June, I thoroughly enjoyedSafari’s redesigned layoutwith a tab bar on the bottom. However, many folks thought that the choice was hideous. Now that iOS 15 has been rollout to all eligible iPhones, you can switch to the old-styled layout with an address bar on the top....

Google+ doesn’t have an inbuilt way to transfer your Facebook friends over to the new social app, but since Facebook is clearly dead and everyone is on Google+ nowadays it’s best to get your contacts moved over before Facebook’s servers are switched off for good. That might be far from the truth — though in the five minutes that were between myself getting invited through the backdoor and Google opening invites up to all existing users, the place went from ghost town to 90s rave — but it’d still be handy to have the option....

Yes, I admit, this is a rather random topic for The Next Web but this isTNW Lifehacksand this is a lifehack so listen carefully. :) I made my first visit to the dentist in far too long last week during which I went through the rather embarrassing process of being taught how to brush my teeth. What’s more embarrassing is that I was bluntly told that I’ve ‘doing it wrong’ for thelast 29 years....

For startup founders, passion for the product comes naturally. You’re probably your first customer, and so it’s easy to build something that you think customers will want. But when it comes to growing your business, designing great products requires more than your own intuition. It requires establishing a customer-obsessed mindset. In my first startup, we were building a platform to buy and sell solar renewable energy credits. It was a nascent market driven by new laws requiring the adoption of solar energy....

Disclaimer: this is not an ad for Obsidian. Onboarding to a new company is hard work. Keeping all the information straight is its own work stream that deserves thought and attention. Countless names, faces*, teams, initiatives, and acronyms fly by before noon. Believe me. I’m in the process right now. This week I landed on a system I’m pretty happy with. You’re a knowledge worker. Build a knowledge base You need a place to put all the information you’re receiving....