Posted on June 21st, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
HealthTap is a free Android/iPhone app for getting a doctor’s opinion or medical information. They’ve added a feature called “AppRX,” which has links to downloads of other health and fitness apps, along with ratings and descriptions. It’s great to have recommendations on health apps. Otherwise, navigating through all 40,000 could cause a health problem on its own.
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Posted on June 20th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Over 1.55 billion people have smartphones, up 30 percent over last year, according to analyst Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers. And they check those phones 150 times a day.
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Posted on June 19th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Chrome is still our favorite web browser, and according to a recent Accuvant study, commissioned by the security firm ZoneAlarm, it is also the safest and the fastest –even though it’s only around five percent faster than others.
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Posted on June 18th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Happiness is a new keyboard that lets your fingers fly. Joy is a speed typist and has complained endlessly about her Hewlett Packard keyboard. Bob is a slow typist, but complains endlessly about his keyboard anyway.
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Posted on June 17th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
The top three sites for freelance jobs are oDesk, Elance and Freelancer.com. Elance and oDesk both claim to be the biggest. (Who knows?) Freelancer boasts seven million registered workers.
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Posted on June 10th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Words, words, words, as Annie Hathaway used to say when Bill Shakespeare was having one of those days. What’s a body to do?
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Posted on June 7th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Hard to believe but true: Ninety-five percent of all Android smartphone profits go to Samsung. Second place goes to LG, which is way down there.
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Posted on June 6th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Education.com has a lot of crafts and that could ease the summer doldrums activities for children. We liked the paper horse project.
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Posted on June 5th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Whoa! Another reason to buy a $250 Chromebook laptop instead of something similar for twice the price: We just found out we get free Wi-Fi on airlines and 100 gigabytes of storage online.
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Posted on June 4th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
The same reader who warned us about app permissions has some good app suggestions. He had a lot to say. Our favorite: The Amazon App Store’s “Free App of the Day.” It’s a great way to get some $15 apps for free, though don’t be surprised if many are duds.
It took us more than a minute to find the Amazon App Store on our Android phone. (On the Kindle Fire, just tap “Apps.”) We had to go to “Settings” on our Galaxy S3 and tap “allow downloads from unknown sources.” What’s more, one of our security apps, the free “Advance Mobile Care” app, stopped the installation until we gave it the go-ahead.
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