Amazon’s free Facebook game, Living Classics, uses an Alice in Wonderland theme to challenge you to find moving objects. On higher levels, the game uses Wizard of Oz and King Arthur characters and sets. We liked it; nice music.
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Microsoft Streets and Trips is a $40 program that has been around for many years but is still popular with many, especially the recreational vehicle crowd, despite the existence of free Google maps, cheap GPS devices, and recommendation sites like Yelp. There’s a major difference here: You have to be able to get online with the Internet to use Google Maps, but Street and Trips works from information on a DVD or one-time download of the program. We did a comparison between the online Google Maps and the offline Streets and Trips on our Windows laptop. We chose Newport Beach, California (Joy’s hometown and the site of our most recent trip) as our base. Streets and Trips found 236 restaurants […]
Microsoft is giving away over 80 e-books on tech topics like Windows 8, SharePoint and Office 365. To make them easier to find, we shortened the web address to tinyurl.com/FreeFromMS.
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“Pocket,” (formerly “ReaditLater”) lets you save videos, websites and articles to look at later. The ads are gone when you look at something later. This works on computers, Android phones and the iPhone too. Get the Pocket at GetPocket.com.
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When the iPhone’s voice-activated personal assistant “Siri” came out, the reaction from reviewers was ecstatic delight. Wow, you could ask questions and the phone would answer; sometimes making wise-cracks.
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