Our Amazon Prime membership costs us $79 a year and the price will be going up soon. This gives us free shipping and two-day delivery on almost anything we buy there. We can also get hundreds of free movies (but not the newest ones) streamed to our computers, phones or TVs.
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— iReal Pro MusicBook Play-Along ($11 for iPhone or Android) gives musicians a back-up band. It’s a favorite of the founder of online radio app, Pandora. You get 50 practice songs, in categories like jazz, classical, bluegrass and film. Thousands of other songs can be downloaded for free. You can change the instruments, their volume, and the key and tempo of the piece. Create your own songs by changing chords, or copying and pasting measures.
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We often hear from readers with slow Windows computers. But what about Mac owners? Their machines can get slow too. Let’s hear it for slow Macs!
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We’ve sometimes wondered what time is best to post to Facebook or Twitter. We know you’re all anxious about that. “BufferApp” will take you there.
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And now for a brief whacko journey to whacko-land. It has to be brief, because it’s on the “Vine,” and only lasts six seconds.
Vine is the video arm of Twitter. You can send a video of just about anything but it can only be six seconds long. (It loops.) Can you p
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The Mophie “Space Pack” is an unusual case for the iPhone 5 and 5s. It charges the phone and provides 32 gigabytes of extra storage space for 16,000 more photos, 9000 more songs or14 hours of movies. A free app lets you organize all that stuff on the phone and your computer. It’s coming in March, but you can pre-order it at www.Mophie.com for $150.
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For photos of our selves, it would be nice to put the phone on a shelf, back up, and snap the picture. But when we’re more than an arm’s length away, we can’t reach the shutter button. (And we’re always forgetting how to use the self-timer.)
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— “A Novel Idea” (free for iPad) helps you write a book by breaking it down into scenes, creating characters, and finding a premise. Writing the actual book is up to you. — A similarly titled app — “Novel Idea” (free for iPhone/Android) — lets you write a story with another person, one sentence at a time. Sometimes the first sentence is provided, other times a theme is provided, and sometimes you have to use key words.
