BABIES ON CELL PHONES
Posted on July 9th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
THEIR LIFE IN COMICS
Posted on July 8th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
The Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson is a great read at over 500 pages, but you might prefer the comic book version, which we saw on Amazon for $1.07. Now there’s a Bill Gates comic. You can get the print version at your local comic book store or the Kindle edition on Amazon. The Gates bio goes back to his earliest days writing machine code in zeroes and ones. Coming soon are the comic bios of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. You can pre-order the Brin/Page comic book at Amazon for $8.
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LOCAL PICKS
Posted on July 6th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
APP FOR COUPLES
Posted on July 5th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Avocado, for iPhone and Android, helps couples create to-do lists, share pictures, send quick notes and private pictures. It’s named “Avocado” because avocado trees only bear fruit when they’re near each other. Isn’t that cute?
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BUY ME A PIE
Posted on July 4th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Buy Me A Pie is a grocery list app that’s free for iPads and iPhones through today, July 4. The Web-only version is always free at BuyMeAPie.com. The list can be emailed or texted; if you have an iPad and iPhone, it’s automatically synced to both devices.
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READING RAINBOW APP FOR KIDS
Posted on July 4th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Reading Rainbow is a new iPad app modeled after the former hit TV show for kids. It offers hundreds of children’s books, each of which comes with games, puzzles and special visual effects. The app and the first book are free; after that it’s $10 a month. Children choose categories for their book choices — such as “wizards and fairies,” “pirates,” “princes and princesses” or just “things that go,” such as cars, trains and planes Age groups run at “4 and under” up to “9 and over.” This app may be enough to finally get our youngest relative away from “Plants vs. Zombies.”
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ORGANIZING ON IPAD
Posted on July 3rd, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
WINDOWS XP REMAINS POPULAR
Posted on July 2nd, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
USERS SPENDING LESS TIME ON FACEBOOK
Posted on July 1st, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
According to a Reuters poll, one-third of Facebook users spend less time on the site than they did six months ago. On the flip side, 20 percent spend more time. (And we know who you are.)
Sixty-five percent of smartphone owners use their phones to find local restaurants, but 95 percent of independent restaurants don’t have a mobile phone website. Half don’t even have a regular website. Smartphone usage is growing. According to eMarketer, there were 73.3 million smartphone owners in the U.S. as of last year.
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