“Heard” is a free iPhone/iPod/iPad app that continuously records anything you can hear. But instead of one long file, it fills the buffer and then clears it for more recording. Only when you hit “save” does the recording move into storage.
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Only 35 percent of parents will shop for back-to-school supplies, including clothes, at a physical store, according to a survey by SOASTA, an organization of Internet retailers. Sixty-five percent shop by computer, tablet or phone. (Notice any closed stores in your neighborhood?)
Three fourths of those surveyed say it’s less stressful to shop online. They don’t have to fight traffic, find a place to park, wait in line, or deal with other shoppers. It’s true you pay for shipping, but you don’t have to buy gas.
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Every so often, a project at Kickstarter.com gets our attention. Kickstarter projects invite the public to chip in with money to help a product get launched. In return they get one of the first units. The “EVO ONE” is a basketball with a digital sensor inside that tells you how to adjust your shot. The micro-sensor weighs less than half an ounce and sits inside the ball. It emits a sound that can be used to judge how good your shot was. You’ll hear something only when your shot has the ideal backspin of plus or minus two revolutions per second. (Or you could look up at the basket and see if your shot went in.) A wobbly, slow or […]
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Every day for two weeks we’ve gotten at least one call purporting to be from Citibank regarding our credit card. It’s one of those robot calls, with no one on the other end of the line, but providing a toll-free number to call about our account. Immediately, if not sooner…
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“Windows 8 Five Minutes at a Time,” $30 from Wiley.com, by Lance Whitney, has some great tips. Each tip will take only five minutes to implement, and you get colorful screenshots to show you exactly what to do.
For instance, you might want to use pictures instead of text for your passwords, customize the start screen so you see your favorite stocks updated regularly, keep everything backed up or print information from inside an app, such as the Travel app.
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Just.Me, free for Android phones, makes it easy to add photos, videos and voice messages to private text messages, though playing the videos back can be slow going. It remembers the groups you send messages to, making it easy to text them again. Everything you share is saved on a private, encrypted online storage space.
