Posted on June 21st, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
The Groupon competition has gotten so bad that competitors are springing up like weeds. If you just tuned in, Groupon is a website that offers daily discounts on just about anything. It’s been very popular with shoppers looking for deals. So popular, in fact, that web giant, Amazon, has decided to get into the act. Their new service is called “Amazon Local” and you can find it at Local.Amazon.com.
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Posted on June 20th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
When it comes to high-speed Internet service, is cable faster than DSL?
That’s like asking which is faster, a Honda or a Toyota. Either DSL or cable might be faster, depending on what you’re service you’re paying for and how the company happens to be running its network in your area.
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Posted on June 15th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
If you have an Android phone, consider the Motorola Roadster. Besides the usual hands-free talking, it has a cool extra feature: If someone sends a document to your phone, you can have it read aloud.
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Posted on June 14th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
We envy our friend Louise for the built-in hands-free speakerphone that came with her Toyota Prius. We’ve been in her car when a call came through and the sound quality was perfect. So we tried doing something similar in our car, using a Bluetooth device called the Jabra “Freeway.”
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Posted on June 13th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Privacy watchdogs went on the alert recently when a new version of Yahoo! mail included targeted ads. How can they target you if they don’t read your email?
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Posted on June 10th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Karaoke-version.com has songs without the words, typically for $2 each. This is great fun if you like making up new lyrics to go with old songs. Allan Sherman was a master of it. Take a look at “The Painless Dentist” on YouTube.com or simply look up “Allan Sherman.
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Posted on June 9th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Scrible.com has a nifty browser extension lets you highlight stuff you see on the web, add notes, and then save and share them. The tool is free and works with any web browser.
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Posted on June 8th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Just two weeks before Joy was scheduled to give a PowerPoint presentation at a statewide convention for P.E.O. women’s clubs, she was sent a copy of the book, “Beyond Bullet Points” to review. Death by PowerPoint was narrowly averted! Most PowerPoint presentations are deadly. We have been the recipients of more than our fair share as public relations people stop by to present formal pitches. They take so long to get to the point that we’ve nodded off before they get there. Joy says this new book has changed her life. “It is terrific” she says. “It gets you to stop putting in the usual baloney that most people do when they create PowerPoint presentations, which are usually a series […]
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Posted on June 6th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
A couple guys from Crucial stopped by and we talked over memories. This wasn’t memories about us — we never saw them before — but the memories in computers.
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Posted on June 2nd, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
In the year 2000, 3 percent of Americans had high-speed Internet connections. Ten years later it was 63 percent.
Today, more than 85 percent of adults own a cell phone. Among the 18 to 26 year-old set, 96 percent do.
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