Posted on June 29th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Yahoo mail recently started forcing users to upgrade to a new version, or stop using Yahoo. This came off as pushy and a little scary for some of our readers. The supposed benefits are faster email, less spam, and an easier-to-use design. But not everybody is on board. The biggest complaint concerns Yahoo’s new policy of scanning your email messages so they can target ads. Google’s Gmail has done this since its beginning, and it doesn’t bother us. It’s just robots selecting the ads, and we’d rather see relevant than irrelevant ones. Savvy folks point out that if you don’t like your email being scanned, you should stop using your grocery savings card, which also tracks usage. And be wary […]
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Filed under: Apple, email, Internet, security | Comments Off on YAHOO IS LOOKING AT YOU
Posted on June 28th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
We thought the point of a mobile device is to move around with it, but according to a Nielsen study, when people watch TV and videos on their phones, they’re usually at home. Netflix and Hulu are the most watched services.
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Posted on June 27th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
“Closed Capp” lets you communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing using your smart phone. Instead of writing down the words, this 99 cent app takes spoken words and displays them on your phone screen. There are versions for Android and iPhone.
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Posted on June 26th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
AmazonStudios.com wants to hire you to write a movie. If they choose your script for development, you get $10,000. If it becomes a movie, you get $200,000. If it grosses $60 million at the U.S. box office, you get $400,000.
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Filed under: art, graphics, video | Comments Off on YOU OUGHTA BE IN PICTURES
Posted on June 25th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
If you use Gmail on your Android phone, you may be annoyed by the latest version. It deleted the “delete” icon. Here’s how to get it back.
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Filed under: apps, email | Comments Off on TIPS AND TRICKS -UNDELETING DELETE
Posted on June 24th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Joy’s club was looking for someone to take over their online newsletter. And the person had to be expert in QuarkXpress or Adobe’s InDesign, they said. Why? Because that’s what the last newsletter editor used! This is a classic case of overkill. A newsletter is a simple thing to create and edit; there’s even a template for it in Microsoft Word. So what the last editor did – or perhaps the editor before her — was use an $800 program (QuarkXpress) or $700 for the other one, to kill a fly.
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Filed under: art, business, graphics | Comments Off on A SMALLER HAMMER
Posted on June 23rd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Bioshock Infinite is a much acclaimed first-person shooter game that came out in March. A fantasy set in 1912, it’s the story of a former Pinkerton detective on a mission to rescue Elizabeth, imprisoned since childhood in a tower in an airborne city. Together they fight through the streets of the Utopian city Columbia, and aboard giant Zeppelins in the clouds. The game can be played on the computer, on Xbox 360, and other platforms. Previous versions have won multiple awards. More info at Bioshockgame.com.
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Filed under: games | Comments Off on FUN AND GAMES
Posted on June 23rd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
“Magic Paint with Math Lite,” for kids 4 to 6, is a free mathematical coloring book for Android and iPhones. In “training mode,” a child learns basic arithmetic.
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Posted on June 23rd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
“Panna” for iPhone and iPad is a video cooking magazine with 13 recipes per issue along with videos and celebrity chefs like Rick Bayliss, showing how he makes chili. You get one free issue with main courses, starters and dessert. Subscription costs $15 a year.
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Filed under: apps, health | Comments Off on RECIPE APP
Posted on June 22nd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Buycott is an Android and iPhone app for finding out the company behind a product you’re buying. We scanned the barcode on a bottle of Pom Wonderful pomegranate juice and saw that the parent company, Roll International also owns Paramount Farms, which owns a lot of nut companies. Pom Wonderful owns Fiji Water, and many other companies.
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