Ojolie.com: We did a search on “artistic greetings” and found some neat animated greeting cards. It’s $12 a year to join but the selection is fantastic. Very tasteful, not the in-your-face kind of virtual card. We also like the free cards you can send from MOMA.com, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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MrTop10.com has some interesting lists. We don’t know how accurate they are, but they’re fun. We looked at “Top 10 Most Developed Countries,” the 10 strangest cosmetic surgeries, and the top 10 weirdest first names. “Batman Bin Suparman” (sic) of Singapore tops that one.
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If you’ve ever paid for something at an Apple store, you’ve noticed that you don’t have to go up to a cash register. You can hand a credit card to an employee and he’ll complete the transaction with his iPhone. The same thing is available to small business owners through an add-on called “Square,” which has become popular with New York cab drivers. Now PayPal is coming out with something similar.
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OpenStates is an iPhone app that gives you the inside scoop on what your state government is up to. Who’s supporting what bill and how far along it is in the legislative process.
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Khan Academy’s 3,000 educational videos are now viewable in an iPad app. Khan Academy is a favorite of Bill Gates and was recently the subject of a feature on “60 Minutes.” It’s all free and has millions of viewers at YouTube.com.
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You may already know that keeping your computer free of spyware and viruses, having at least three gigabytes of RAM, and avoiding programs that hog your computer’s memory are a good way to keep your computer from slowing down. A new trick is to have a solid state drive instead of the traditional hard drive. Solid state drives (no moving parts — no spinning disk) respond almost instantly in sending and receiving data.
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A new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit and IBM indicates that 90 percent of corporate America expects to adopt the Cloud in their organization within the next three years. While it’s clear that the Cloud is changing the skyscape for business, will there be a silver lining for the rest of us? If your heading that way, keep your feet on the ground.
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