Posted on September 21st, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
PerfectlyTimedPics.com has many cute photos, such as a giraffe peeking through someone’s French doors, a bear on a JetSki, or a little girl feeding a squirrel. We liked the toddler curled up with a puppy for a nap and the gecko giving a high five to a man’s finger. NOTE: Always be careful of the ads in sites like this. We advise not clicking on any of them; beautiful Russian girls looking for boyfriends may not be may not be what you expect. The ads are questionable but the site is otherwise fun.
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Posted on September 21st, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
IFLscience.com has fascinating bits, including “21 GIFs that explain mathematical concepts.” For instance, did you know that the number Pi (3.14159 etc.), is equal to the distance traveled by rolling a wheel exactly one revolution? That distance turns (ha, ha) out to be 3.14 times the diameter. This is true no matter what size the wheel.
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Posted on September 19th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
If you’re one of the 271 million Twitter users, you may want to know how many people are potentially viewing your tweets. Go to Analytics.Twitter.com to find out. We found that our tweets were received daily by around 1800 people. Of course, just because someone is getting your tweets doesn’t mean they’re actually reading them. Stop us before we tweet again!
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Posted on September 18th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
It sounds so easy. Shutterfly.com automatically assembles a photo book for you. No more placing photos in albums, or even buying an album.
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Posted on September 17th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
We recently used ScanMyPhotos.com to have a big box of our favorite old photos scanned and placed on a DVD. They charged $159 but it was worth it. We then used Kooboodle.com to store them online, and this was free.
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Posted on September 16th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
You’d have to be living on Mars to be unaware of all the smart watches coming out this year. But did you know you could also get a smart ring?
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Posted on September 15th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
You don’t have to buy a new tablet or computer to get a good one, any more than you have to buy a brand new car. “Refurbished” machines are items returned to the store or the manufacturer, but they’re not lemons.
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Posted on September 14th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
There’s a new version of “PawTrack,” for monitoring your kitty. It’s a GPS collar that keeps tabs on tabby. The collar is $125 and the service is $10 a month. It lets you know when your furry purry returns home, when it sleeps and where it goes when it roams the neighborhood. The new version is due in November.
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Posted on September 12th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
Die.net/earth has a “World Sunlight Map.” It shows where the sun is shining at the moment you are looking at the map, also which areas are in darkness.
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Posted on September 10th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
Livemocha.com is a language learning community that covers more tongues that you ever thought you might want to know. Say it in Farsi (Iranian), or Zulu (South African tribal language).
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