Carsabi is an excellent site for used car shopping. It has 1.8 million listings per month, compared to 1.6 million for AutoTrader.com.
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Batch
is a free app for the iPhone that uploads photos to Facebook as a quick batch.
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Legaladvice.com offers free legal advice. Ask a question, get an answer from a lawyer. You can see a profile of the lawyer who’s giving the advice.
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WarbyParker.com sells glasses for $95 — about $300 less than we pay elsewhere. They’ll send you five pairs to try out if they have your favorite designs in stock. The site is basic — no bifocals and only a few dozen styles.
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A Japanese firm claims its new facial recognition technology can scan 36 million faces a second. (At that rate it could scan every adult in Japan in three seconds.) It then presents a couple of dozen likely matching thumbnails to a surveillance camera operator, who clicks on one to see the video footage.
It works by starting the facial recognition process while surveillance footage is still being recorded. Faces must be seen by the camera within an angle of 30 degrees horizontally or vertically and be at least 40 pixels in height and width. Those are not serious restrictions. The system will be launched next year from Hitachi Kokusai Electric.
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The new “Aftershokz” headphones sit in front of your ears, not on them. They transmit sound through the bones of the skull rather than through the ears directly.
The technology was developed for the military, which naturally enough wanted their soldiers to be able to hear what’s happening around them as well as whatever messages are coming through the headphones. The difference can save a soldier’s life.
In civilian life they can possibly save anyone’s life by being able to hear cars and emergency vehicles coming while still listening to the chatter of friends or the noise of rock and rap. (So many people walk around with buds or headphones stuck in their ears, we’ve noticed the police and fire department vehicles have upped the volume on their sirens to get through to them.)
Joy, who is tech hardened and battle ready, tried out the new skull transmission headphones while Bob listened for sound leakage from close by. You know how when you’re in an elevator or otherwise close to someone listening to their iPod or whatever with their ear buds – and you can still hear what they Read more »
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SpeedyFox 2 for Windows or Mac is a free program from CrystalIdea.com and it’s a barn burner. It speeds up your web surfing, whether you use Firefox, Chrome or Safari. (It does not work with Internet Explorer yet.)
This freebie works especially well with Firefox, which is third most popular web browser. (As of January, this year: Internet Explorer has a 39 percent share, Google Chrome 27 percent, and Firefox 25 percent.) Before running the program, Firefox took a full 30 seconds to boot up after Bob clicked the Firefox icon on his desktop. After installing SpeedyFox, Firefox came up in four seconds. Joy’s Chrome boot-up is much faster too now. And websites now come in real quick.
The CrystalIdea folks say that Firefox is the most feature-rich of the browsers, but after a while, it slows down, due to the “fragmentation of databases.” There’s no need to figure out what that means and it wouldn’t help anyway. The good news is the thing works.
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“Citizen Cosponsor” is a new Facebook app that lets you “cosponsor” one of six Congressional bills. It’s in the testing phase, so expect more bills later. Republican House Leader Eric Cantor designed it, and is the sponsor for five of the bills. Find it at MajorityLeader.gov/citizens
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Tingo.com lets you book a hotel reservation and automatically get money back if the rate drops. They say the average savings are $46.
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