Joy loves to memorize credit cards, phone numbers, and any long number that comes along. It’s a quirk. But Zoove’s “Star Star Me” service is great for non-memorizers. It lets you use your name or any favorite word as your phone number. It can also automatically reply to phone calls with a text message when you’re driving or in a meeting.
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When we admitted to losing a smart phone with all our passwords stored on board, a reader wrote to suggest” “Why not use the Vault?”
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Many smart phones these days have what’s called “Near Field Communications” (NFC), meaning you can bump with another phone that is so enabled to exchange files: words, music or pictures. NFC also lets you pay at some cashier counters simply by passing your phone over a receiver.
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A new book in the “Dummies” series is “iPad Apps for Kids,” by Jinny Gudmundsen, $20 from Wiley.com. Here are a few of its recommendations for kids. All are free. “Toontastic” is the best app we tried. It walks you through the creation of an animated cartoon, adding movable characters to the scene you create. In the process, it teaches kids how to compose a story: the set-up, conflict, a challenge, a climax and finally a resolution to the drama. Monster Hunt – This is a good memory game for adults and kids.. Four great-looking monsters flash for an instant on a grid and disappear. You tap the squares where you think they were. Then it’s on to five monsters, […]
We like to listen to Nature sounds from a box as we go to sleep. A “sleep phone” from SleepPhones.com, is a kind of headset for people who want to listen to something without disturbing their partner and without uncomfortable ear buds.
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Most people who get audio books from Audible.com only listen to one or two, yet pay $25 a month for unlimited access to over 100,000 titles. AudioBooks.com has a much smaller library: just 25,000. But they’ve come out with $15 a month plan for one audio book at a time. If you only want a three month trial membership, Audible, at $7.49 a month, is still the better deal. After that, AudioBooks is cheaper.
Yidio is free at Yidio.com and sends you a reminder when something you want to watch is on TV and gives you a description of the episode. If you forget to record it, Yidio provides a link to where you can watch it online.
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Several years ago, Bob was browsing Amazon’s online music store and ended up putting two dozen classical CDs in the shopping cart. He planned to look the list over again before going to check-out. But Joy surprised him and just bought the whole batch. Yesterday, all of those CDs popped up online, ready to play from any computer, tablet or phone. Amazon’s new “AutoRip,” is a free service that automatically uploads any CD you bought from them, going all the way back to 1998. It puts the contents into your personal “Cloud Player” ready to stream online. We are more than slightly awed by this; just consider the amount of storage they must have. A playlist online is much easier […]
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