Posted on October 12th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
iStory Time is a free Apple app with children’s books. The first four books: Madagascar, Robin Hood, the Smurfs and Ice Age, are free:. After that it’s $3 a book. You can have the books read to you or read them yourself. The Robin Hood book comes with a history of the time.
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Posted on October 12th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
“MacroDroid” automates familiar tasks. You choose the trigger. For instance, set it up so that shaking the phone uploads the last photo to Facebook. When you’re in a meeting, have an automated reply send out a map link to your location.
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Posted on October 12th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Viddy, for Android or iOS, lets you add music to your videos and use Instagram-type effects.
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Posted on October 12th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Memorability is a free app for making photo books on your iPad. These aren’t the kind you print out, they’re meant to be seen on other iPads and include voiceovers. Send one to friends and they can add comments to the album.
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Posted on October 12th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Doctape is for organizing documents on your phone or tablet. They’re converted from a possible 80 different formats so you can view them in any web browser. This means you don’t have to have the right app to open them.
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Posted on October 12th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
WordsOn is a free Apple app for adding comments to photos and sharing them on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or by email. You can also add shadows, colors and special effects. For Android users, “Phonto ” is similar.
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Posted on October 9th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
We heard from a reader who is donating his computer to the Salvation Army but wants to remove his personal stuff first. He didn’t mean deleting in the usual way, because that can be recovered. Skilled recovery experts can even resurrect data from a computer that’s been reformatted.
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Posted on October 8th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
Everyone’s buzzing about the new iPhone 5S fingerprint technology. Two days after it hit the stores, however, the “Chaos Computing Club,” a German hacker group, unlocked it with a fake fingerprint.
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Posted on October 7th, 2013 by Joy Schwabach
A pretty girl, very sweet looking, knocked on our door and said to Joy:”I have to get on the Internet. Can I use your password?” We didn’t know her and she wasn’t a neighbor, but she stood poised and ready with notebook and pen to take down our password.
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