Posted on December 21st, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
“Advanced Mobile Care” from iObit is a free app to prevent problems on your Android smartphone. It blocks malware, helps games run smoothly, locks private photos and videos, kills memory-hogging apps and extends battery life. It also helps you uninstall apps and sort them by name, size or frequency of use.
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Posted on December 20th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
— If you’re stuck for a last-minute holiday present, a photo may be the way to go. Joy gave her sister a canvas print of her sons in a frame, from SnapBoxPrints.com. It cost her $17 for an 8×10 in a frame. Other sizes start at $9.79. Shipping is free if you take delivery at a CVS pharmacy. Bob didn’t think the print was museum quality, but Joy liked it.
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Posted on December 19th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
According to a survey by TeamViewer, sixty-seven percent of working Americans say they’d wear a t-shirt and jeans if they worked from home. One percent said they’d wear a suit and tie. (Those must be the “one percent” we’re always reading about.)
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Posted on December 18th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Dropbox is a free program from dropbox.com, and probably the most popular way to store and/or share large files; they let you store up to two gigabytes for free. But Gmail now lets you insert an attachment up to 10 gigabytes. That’s 400 times larger than Gmail’s previous limit for attachments. It will prompt you to store it in Google Drive. To see all you’ve stored, from the Gmail window, click “Drive.”
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Posted on December 17th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
“QR” codes are doorways to other places. As you go through a newspaper or store, you will likely see some of these codes, square in shape and filled with dots and squiggly lines. Take a snapshot of them using your smartphone or tablet app for reading QR codes and they open to something else.
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Posted on December 16th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
We remember when Apple gave free computers to teachers. Now Google offering laptops, called “Chromebooks.” The laptops aren’t free, but at $99 they’re a steal. Unfortunately, every single laptop available has already been requested. But you can go to this page on donorschoose.org to be notified of the next round.
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Posted on December 14th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
“WordPress, the Missing Manual,” by Matthew MacDonald; $30 from oreilly.com.
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Posted on December 13th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
By the way … When you take your smart phone to another country, you may be in for a shocking charge. Our brother in Boston was dinged for $50 in data charges in the first few minutes he stepped off the plane in China.
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Posted on December 12th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
When choosing our first smartphone recently, we didn’t go for the new Windows phone, Nokia’s Lumia, or the Nexus 4, which sold out at T-Mobile within minutes of its introduction. Now that’s hot!
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Posted on December 11th, 2012 by Joy Schwabach
Among the true believers, everything from Apple — Macbooks, iPhones or iPads– is treated like a sacred object. So when the new Macbook Air came out this summer, our natural skepticism raised its wary head. After a suitable hiding period, we went out and bought one. Okay, it’s great.
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