On Computers

Ebates 2.0 is a new version of the Ebates app for Android, iPhone, and iPad (iOS 7 and up). It lets you get cash back on purchases, sometimes free shipping, and coupons.

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Opera Coast is a new web browser for iPhone and iPad. Swipe your hand to the left to go back to sites you recently visited. Tap the home button to get your list of favorites. The “Stuff We Like” feature helps you find popular content quickly.

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A new website, MagnifyMoney.com, has tools for comparing credit card deals, savings, and loans. CitiBank has the worst savings rate: It pays only $30 interest on $100,000 invested for three years. We found that Fidelity has the best cash-back credit card and immediately wondered if the Fidelity card would be better than our American Airlines rewards travel card. If you spend $2000 a month, the Fidelity card returns $480 a year in cash back. If you had used an American Airlines card instead, $2000 a month would get 24,000 airline miles. We’d rather have the miles. If we had to buy them, they’d cost $98 more than we’d get in cash back from Fidelity. But if we start traveling on […]

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BBC.com/HorizonsBusiness has videos on technology and business. We learned about “GravityLight.” It works like an old grandfather clock: A smallbox is connected to a weight. As the weight drops, it runs a series of gears which spins an electric generator. It never needs sunshine or batteries and can light a 100-watt bulb. Every 15-30 minutes you have to lift the weight up again to keep it going. It goes on sale later this year. Cost is expected to be around $7.

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Viralnova.com/new-school-facts  has fascinating video: how an ant walks, how a cheetah throws its tail from side to side for balance as it runs, how boiling water thrown into the air turns to snow instantly when it’s minus 40 degrees out there.

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A reader wrote in to say he’s frustrated with Windows Live Mail, which is part of Windows 7, and would like to have Windows Mail back, which was part of Vista.

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One of the first and most popular programming languages, “BASIC,” turned 50 this month. The acronym stands for “Beginner’s All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code,” it started as a student math project at Dartmouth College and from this small town in New Hampshire it conquered the world. Even Bill Gates used it.

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You know those science fiction movies where the Earth crew lands on a planet populated by green furry creatures? They start talking to each other.

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“YouCam Perfect,” is a free app for iPhone/Android, has been downloaded over 600,000 times. It improves “selfies,” those photos you take of yourself to post on Facebook and elsewhere, by removing wrinkles. We didn’t see much difference between the before and after, but heck, it’s free.

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10 Lego projects that will blow your mind : Google that phrase to find PC Magazine’s Lego slideshow. There’s a full-sized house, a working car and the Taj Mahal. If you want to emulate any of these, it’s best to start with about a million Lego blocks.

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