Posted on January 31st, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Lenovo and Hewlett Packard are neck and neck for the title of world’s largest PC maker. But if it weren’t for H-P’s substantial sales into the professional markets – finance, engineering, etc., Lenovo would easily top the rankings. By way of background: Lenovo bought IBM’s personal computer business several years ago.
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Posted on January 30th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
We lose keys and TV remotes constantly. With SticknFind, you could put a Bluetooth sticker on something and then page it.
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Posted on January 29th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
You could use text to tell a story but according to an old Chinese proverb, a picture is worth a thousand words. (Actually, that proverb is constantly misquoted. The character in the original Chinese does not mean a thousand or even ten thousand words, but simply very many.) Studies show that people learn and retain information six times faster if they have pictures.
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Posted on January 28th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Joy lost her Samsung “Galaxy Relay” smart phone. She chose it initially because it has a tiny slide-out keyboard. But that proved awkward to use, so last night we faced the loss of the old phone and went out and bought a new Samsung Galaxy S3. Very nice.
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Posted on January 25th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
The “Vonage Mobile” app lets us make calls locally and internationally without spending any of the minutes in our cell-phone’s T-Mobile plan. The key is the other person must also have downloaded the app, unless they’re already a Vonage customer. Since it’s free, why not? Go to VonageMobile.com and have a link sent to your phone via text message. The app works for both text and voice.
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Posted on January 24th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
A Forrester Research Report estimates that Apple will sell $39 billion dollars worth of iPads and Macs over the next two years. This year alone, they are expected to sell $11 billion dollars worth of iPads and $7 billion dollars worth of Macs. That sounds like a lot, but their market share has been dropping and that may accelerate. Apple’s share of the smart phone market has dropped from 23 percent to around 15 percent over the past year. Samsung’s market share, on the other hand, has tripled over the past two years, from nine to 31percent. Apple is hoping a cheaper iPhone with brightly colored cases can recover lost share.
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Posted on January 23rd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
The other day Joy recommended Lenovo computers to a friend. “Lenovo,” she questioned, “that’s an obscure one.” Not really. Lenovo bought IBM’s personal computer business some years back and has been getting good reviews ever since. It’s coming out with a “convertible laptop” this quarter.
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Posted on January 22nd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
A reader contacted us after we wrote about fabulous freebies and asked: “What about a safe, free cookie cleaner?” Well, we have one of those.
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Posted on January 21st, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
We found a bug in our Android Ice Cream Sandwich. All we wanted to do was transfer photos from our camera to the web. But since we didn’t have Jelly Bean, the latest Android system, things didn’t go sweetly.
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Posted on January 20th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
If you make YouTube videos, podcasts, radio or TV programs, you’ve probably looked for music to go with the action. We ran into this problem when we did a podcast on BlogTalkRadio a couple years ago. It’s illegal to use copyrighted music without paying for it.
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