On Computers

GetHired.com offers free job postings for employers. The GetHired link can then be posted on CraigsList or other popular sites. The site encourages video resumes and virtual interviews through video chatting.

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Just as everyone is feeling comfortable with WiFi, WiGig is coming in 2013. If you go to YouTube and type “Panasonic WiGig” in the search box, you can see Panasonic’s demonstration.

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The first time Joy took an iPad on a trip, she was floored by how much she missed a regular keyboard. But most iPad keyboards are bulky: You might as well bring a laptop. An alternative is the new folding keyboard from Logitech.

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According to iYogi, a tech support service, 63 percent of American households spend more on technology than utilities, like heating and electricity. It’s estimated that six to 12 percent of household income is spent on those utilities.

— Eighty-nine percent of medium-sized businesses report they expect to buy a tablet computer in the next 12 months, according to the NPD Group. And by “tablet,” most mean “iPad.” That’s a lot of iPad sales. “Medium-sized” businesses are defined as those with 500 to 1000 employees.

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The Car Chip is easy to install. You plug it into the car’s On Board Diagnostic Port, which is in every car sold after 1996. Don’t know where that port is? Neither did we, but we found it’s just under the dash to the right of the steering wheel and easy to reach. The OBDP, as the mechanics call it, is the very place to plug in the chip that will track a person’s driving habits — as well as diagnose the car’s engine efficiency.

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YouTube has channels, just like the channels on the old Tube. Up until now, we searched for videos on YouTube by subject rather than choosing a “channel.” But channels can bring in lots of stuff we’d never see otherwise.

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“Talk About It” is an app that lets kids send an anonymous text or email message to a teacher or counselor when they’ve been bullied.

The app lets students mark a concern as “urgent” or “normal,” and choose a category like “bullying,” “alcohol” or “violence.” Before the app was implemented at a middle school inAustin,Texas, 75 percent of students said bullying was a problem. After they started using the app, only 25 percent of students said it was.

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TouchTV is a new free app that brings TV to the iPad. The initial channels are: E News, ABC News, Lifetime Networks, ESPN, PBS News Hour and the History Channel. Tap a picture and the channel starts playing.

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As soon as we mentioned elance.com and some of the other sites that list jobs for freelancers, we heard from two more of course; they’re Freelancer.com and vWorker.com.

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We recently wrote about some website creation tools but didn’t talk about blogs, which are what many people really want and are easy to create and maintain.

What’s the difference? A web site contains recurring information and links that are appropriate to businesses and organizations. A blog is a series of posts. These posts can be personal comments, stories, political opinions, anything you like. Each time you post, the item goes to the top of the site’s home page.

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