HANG ON TO OLD STUFF
Posted on December 31st, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
YOUTUBE FOR SCHOOLS
Posted on December 30th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Youtube.com/schools is a new site aimed at helping teachers use educational videos. Students can log into the site and see videos their teachers have selected from a list of thousands. A similar site is YouTube.com/teachers. Videos here are categorized by grade level and topic, such as fifth-grade math, science, social studies, language arts, etc.
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HAPPY APPS FOR NEWS
Posted on December 29th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Google “Currents” is a free magazine app for Android devices, iPads and iPhones. It starts you out with six covers showing on the screen, and you get 180 more by tapping a button. There’s a “share” button for emailing or posting to Facebook. W
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ANSWER DESK
Posted on December 29th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Microsoft has launched a new tech support service called “Answer Desk.” Fifteen minutes of help is available free round the clock, seven days a week.
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BEAUCOUP AT ROKU
Posted on December 28th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
When our AT&T digital video recorder failed again to give us a list of recorded shows, we turned to the Internet. This doesn’t always work, since the Internet doesn’t have everything, but it did have recordings from the Book TV channel and that’s what Joy was looking for.
Which shows to go ya, as some people say, there’s more than one way
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TING A LING
Posted on December 27th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
“Ting” is a new cell phone service that won’t make you pay for minutes you don’t use. It will launch early next year on the Sprint network.
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DO THE MATH
Posted on December 23rd, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
LAST MINUTE SHOPPING
Posted on December 21st, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Walmart has a Facebook app called “Shopycat” to help you find gifts for your friends. From this we learned that our niece Judi likes Fats Waller and the novelist Ayn Rand. We could have learned that by reading her Facebook profile too, but we never thought of it. We w
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WHAT’S THIS?
Posted on December 20th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Of the 50 USB drives recently sold in a “Lost and Found Auction” in Sydney, Australia, a check showed two-thirds were infected with viruses, according to Sophos, a security firm. The drives contained personal information, tax records and photo albums and resumes. Most were drives for Windows computers.
FREE WIFI IN THE AIRPORT
Posted on December 19th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Here’s how to call your friends from the airport without using any cellphone minutes or searching for a payphone. Skype is offering an hour of free WiFi connectivity from December 21 through the 27th.
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