Posted on March 22nd, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Biz Report for the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry brings in a thousand business articles a day from organizations such as The Associated Press and other sources, though most are from Business Wire. (Let’s see: You’ll want to devote no more than 30 seconds to each article or you’ll never get through them in one working day. No fair eating lunch or going to the bathroom.)
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Posted on March 21st, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Smithsonian Channel, free for the iPad, has hundreds of videos on science, nature, space, etc. We watched a three-minute video on a snow leopard who plays well with dogs, another on the ruby slippers in “The Wizard of Oz,” and one on the Oasis cruise ship, which has 21 swimming pools. (No diving.)
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Posted on March 20th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
PatientsLikeMe.com introduces you to a world where people who share your conditions are ready to discuss them with you. This leads to some interesting stuff, like how people have experienced different reactions, good and bad, to medicines taken at different times or different seasons. It kind of opens up a growing database of details that are seldom researched. You can also read what others have posted about various diseases and bodily ailments.
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Posted on March 19th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
The new “PhotoDirector 3” from Cyberlink aims for the middle ground between simple photo editing and the thousand dollar software used for full-color magazines.
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Posted on March 18th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
We’ve seen loads of books on Twitter, the social networking site, but a new book called “#tweetsmart,” by J.S. McDougall, ($20 from oreilly.com), is the first one we couldn’t put down. Lots of useful stuff here.
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Posted on March 17th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Smartphone users now represent a majority of all cellphone users, according to a survey by Pew Research. Among well-off college graduates under 35, smartphone usage is more than 60 percent. That’s an increase of 11 percent in the last nine months. In the over-65 group, only 13 percent have smartphones.
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Posted on March 16th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
ReallyLateBooking is a free Android and iPhone/iPad app for reserving a last minute hotel reservation in major European cities and lots of cities in Spain.
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Posted on March 16th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
“The Social Radio for Twitter” lets you listen to Twitter posts from your iPhone or Android phone rather than reading them. If people start using it, maybe they can finally look up from their devices while walking or driving.
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Posted on March 15th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
MyMagicSongs for iPhone, iPad and Android tablets lets you download a song that has your child’s name in it. The app is free but songs are 99 cents or $8 for an album.
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Posted on March 13th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
PlayTales is an interactive children’s bookshelf for the iPad and Android tablets. The app is free but each book is $3. Some books include mini games. The artwork is charming and over a million people have downloaded it.
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