Posted on August 18th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
A reader wanted to divide long audio tracks into segments for public talks. We suggested he try Audacity, a free program. It’s been downloaded over a million times. But that doesn’t mean it’s safe.
The reader got a virus, possibly from downloading it at a non-official site, but it’s hard to be sure. When he told us that, we tried downloading it ourselves, and, whaddaya know, our computer started acting up too. This was a new thing: we had downloaded Audacity twice before, both times on a computer using Windows 7, and never had any problems with it. This time we downloaded it to Windows 8, and had lots of problems. Things change.
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Posted on August 17th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
Bob just loves flashlights, so we got a “Champ 2-in-1 Nightlight Flashlight, ” which is a combination flashlight and motion sensor. Plug it in and it lights up when someone walks by. Unplug it and it’s a flashlight. It has three LEDs, so it’s bright but lasts long. We saw it at discounters like Amazon for $20. What can we say – we like gadgets.
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Posted on August 17th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
Runpee.com recommends the best time to run to the bathroom during any movie.
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Posted on August 17th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
MoxieJean.com lets you sell “like new” kids clothes or buy them at a big discount. They have over 40,000 items. Items that can’t be accepted for sale are donated to charity.
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Posted on August 16th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
Shorpy.com has interesting historical photos, like a 1927 beach scene on New York’s Long Island. You can zoom them.
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Posted on August 16th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
LiteratureMap.com –type in an author and they’ll show you others of a similar style, scattered over the screen with your author’s name in the center. It is definitely idiosyncratic: Authors shown closer to the center – your key author — are supposedly similar, though we doubt that Robert Benchley is much like Anton Chekov.
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Posted on August 16th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
GoodSearch.com contributes a penny to your favorite charity every time you search. The searches are powered by Yahoo.
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Posted on August 15th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
Govdeals.com lists stuff the federal government is getting rid of for cheap. Bob likes the concrete culverts currently going for $6. He saw a house built from them and says they’re great for bomb shelters.
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Posted on August 14th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
American homes gained a billion more electronic gadgets between 2010 and 2013, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, but national electricity consumption declined by 12 percent. New electronic devices, including TVs and computers, use less energy then older models. So buying new equipment is “green,” as they say. Meanwhile … all those devices are clogging up something else: Smart phone apps account for 25 percent of all Internet traffic, according to a recent report by Kleiner Perkins. An increasing amount of that traffic is for shopping: buying things from your cell phone will reach $100 billion this year, according to Forrester Research.
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Posted on August 13th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
Instead of buying your own 3D printer, you can have Amazon print 3D objects for you for around $30 for most items.
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