Posted on May 22nd, 2023 by Joy Schwabach
I left my phone in a Lyft on the way to the airport. But Google Voice, the free phone service, saved me. Using the airport’s free WiFi on my laptop, I went to Voice.Google.com and typed in my friend’s phone number, to say that I’d arrived. Alternatively, I could have used the Google Voice app, though on a Windows machine you need to go to the website instead. Either way, the call quality is excellent. The great thing is, Google Voice lets you call anyone. With apps like Facebook Messenger, your recipients must use the same service. For the next six days, I was happily phoneless. But I still wanted to find the darn thing. So I Googled “Find My […]
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Posted on March 27th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Lynda.com offers 5,700 courses online, mainly in tech topics such as video editing and photography. It costs $25 a month though they have free courses to try out.
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Posted on February 7th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
We previously wrote about “Lumosity” for brain training on your computer for around $5 a month. Now there’s also “Fit Brains Trainer” from FitBrains.com, which is free. There’s also an app for tablets and phones.
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Posted on July 27th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
InPics.net teaches with pictures. They have tutorials for Microsoft Office, web coding (PHP, MySQL, and so on), and OpenOffice.org.
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Posted on July 26th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Companies have started paying people to write favorable product reviews on Amazon, so it’s hard to trust them. Looking for the “Real Name” icon next to a review is one solution. If someone is using their real name, it’s a little more likely to be accurate, but it’s no guarantee. Some regular reviewers have turned this kind of writing into a business.
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Posted on July 21st, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
DuoLingo (for iPhone/iPad/Android) offers free language lessons in German, French, Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese. “Como se dice?”
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Posted on December 31st, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
So Joy decided to upgrade her Windows 7 computer to Windows 8 — figuring how can we serve the readers if we don’t have the latest Microsoft operating system? Just so. Well, let no good deed go unpunished. From the beginning, there were warnings that should have told us we were on dangerous ground. The built-in Windows 8 “Upgrade Assistant” said we’d have to buy extra software if we wanted to continue to play DVDs. (Wait a minute: we had no trouble playing DVDs before.) Then it informed us the Windows Media Center also would no longer be available. But we could buy extra software that would perform those functions, which we had before. Furthermore, one of the Bluetooth utilities […]
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Posted on October 31st, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Our favorite web browser is still Google Chrome, though Firefox is a close second and coming up fast on the outside. Here are some handy keyboard shortcuts:
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Posted on October 3rd, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
YouTube is a great source for free online training, but sometimes it’s not enough.
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Posted on July 1st, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Mindflash.com is a web-based service that makes it easy to create online courses. It’s free if you have ten trainees or less.
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