On Computers

DocLock lets you load an image which contains your password, so you don’t have to remember it. It also encrypts your files.

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Every month, Gmail clears the spam messages from Joy’s computer. There were 12,544 of them, That’s an average of 400 a day. It was an ordinary month. As usual, we were very fortunate: Our email address won several lotteries and we only had to pay the requisite taxes in advance to collect the winnings. In addition, several remarkably wealthy relatives we had never heard of had died and left us enough money to pay off the national debt of Bhutan. We didn’t even have to attend a reading of the will, but could simply show our acknowledgement by depositing some “good faith” money in a bank account that the writer could access. It certainly was a heart-warming month – except […]

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Mundu Radio is a streaming radio app for smartphones. It’s free for most phones, but 99 cents for iPhones and Blackberries.

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Chile is trying to become the next Silicon Valley. The government is offering $40,000 to each potential entrepreneur plus a visa, free office space, assistance with networking, mentoring, and fundraising. The program, called Start-Up Chile, is still in the pilot stage. It will officially launch in mid-January.  You can read about some of the teams here. Some of them are tackling water problems, others have tracking systems for solar panels, another is a travel planner. Vivek Wadhwa, who helped conceive the program, says this will work where government-run technology centers tend not to.

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Chalk.37signals.com is a web address you can only visit from an iPad. But if you do, you get a fun blackboard. Your finger is the chalk.  Tap the reload arrow to erase everything quickly.

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How to search for items just from the past two weeks or past two hours, etc.

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“Facebook Messages” is being touted as a Gmail killer. It’s a new way to get email, text messages, and chat all in one place. Everyone who signs up will also get a new address ending in “@facebook.com.” The idea is that you have people in your life, like teenagers, who only use text messaging. And there are others who only use email. You want to send them all notes without worrying about who uses what format, and you want to send those notes only to your friends or colleagues. Excluding people can cause problems of course, so the new Facebook Messages will have a way to elevate someone like Grandma, who isn’t on Facebook, to a person whose messages you […]

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We teased our brother because he still had an AOL account. AOL – the acronym for America Online – was the Internet search engine used by the ancients. Those who are hip, fast-moving and aware use Gmail and thinking about the new Facebook messaging system to come.  But the new word is AOL is about to get hipper. The new AOL is still in the trial phase, code-named “Phoenix.” (You know: the bird that keeps getting reborn in the fire.) To get on the invitation list, go to Phoenix.AOL.com. The new AOL will have a “quick bar” that lets you send email, instant messages, go to Facebook and send Twitter updates without leaving your inbox. You can bring in mail […]

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Evernote is a free program for note taking.

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Thirty totally blind people are wearing the Argus II new retinal implant costing $100,000.  With it, they can see around obstacles, observe changes in light and look at someone who is talking to them. Without the device, their diseased retinas made it impossible to see anything. The Economist notes that this technology is where cochlear implants for the hearing impaired were 26  years ago. They’ve come a long way since then and are now routine. The new artificial retinas will also be common some day among people who have lost theirs to disease or injury.

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