Posted on October 22nd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
The most outdoor fun Joy had this summer was riding a Segway on a Chicago architectural tour, gliding around the museums on a path bordering Lake Michigan. Segways are electric scooters that respond to your body movements, You stand upright and hold a handlebar; lean forward and you go. At $7,000 we’re not about to buy one but an alternative will be out soon for half that.
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Posted on October 22nd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Refrl.org (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) has an interesting graph on Middle Eastern relationships between nine countries as well as the Hamas organization. Example: Click on a dot to connecting Russia to Hamas and get a pop-up explaining Russia’s support of what the U.S. calls a terrorist organization. The chart is hard to find on the site but comes right up if you Google “Middle East Relationships”
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Posted on October 22nd, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Science.Time.com has science articles from Time Magazine. We read about the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, an oxygen-deprived area of water. It was predicted that this year’s dead zone would be the size of New Jersey. Now it’s only the size of Connecticut.
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Posted on October 19th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
DancersAmongUs.com/photos has photos of dancers striking poses and doing things in odd settings. Some float horizontally above the street. A painter executes a ballet move on a fire escape. A waitress serves dinner on one toe, the other leg balancing impossibly high above her.
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Posted on October 19th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
FunnyOrDie.com has fifteen hilarious videos of animals who don’t quite have a handle on their situation. These are like Funniest Home Videos, with animals playing the starring role. Search on “Animals Who Don’t Know What Happened” or click here.
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Posted on October 18th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
There are several free alternatives to Microsoft Word, but the simplest of all is already included in your Windows computer, no matter what version you have.
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Posted on October 17th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
When we wrote about not being able to get our Nikon camera repaired, a reader told us she found out she could hold the preview button to get it to turn on. Worked for us too!
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Posted on October 16th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
“Good Math,” by Mark Chu-Carroll; $34, from Pragmatic Bookshelf, tells the story of math from imaginary numbers to Egyptian fractions and Roman Numerals.
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Posted on October 15th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
If you’re an artist, or like the game “Draw Something,” chances are you’re using a stylus, a special pen that makes it easier to draw on the iPad (though you could draw with a finger). Frankly, most of these styluses seem the same to us. But the “Pogo Connect Paint Brush” is something different. It looks and acts like a brush, only it’s digital.
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Posted on October 14th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
For a good free anti-virus, we’ve long recommended Avast. But PC Magazine recently gave their highest marks to another free program: BitDefender. Now along comes Ashampoo Anti-Virus 2014, which bundles BitDefender with a lot of other useful programs. It’s $40, and there’s a free trial download from the web site: Ashampoo.com.
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