THIS TO THAT
Posted on October 9th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
FREE SPEED READING TOOL ON THE WEB
Posted on October 8th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
Spreeder.com is a free speed reading tool. Paste the text you want to read in the window on the page and the words will flash by at any speed you choose. (This reminds Bob of an old Woody Allen joke: He learned speed reading and went through Tolstoy’s massive “War and Peace” novel in six minutes. He said it seemed to be about Russia.) Because you don’t have to keep a finger on your place, you’ll find your reading speed increasing by 50 percent the first time you try it. We did. The site gives you sample text to practice with, but we went beyond that: We pasted in a bunch of text from “Tarzan of the Apes,” free at […]
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FITNESS TRACKING
Posted on October 7th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
UPGRADING AN IPAD OR IPHONE
Posted on October 6th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
THE WARREN BUFFET WATCH
Posted on October 6th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
PHOTOGRAPHY SCHOOL ONLINE
Posted on October 5th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
Digital-photography-school.com has some wonderful tips and tutorials. The article on “couples photography” reminds us that stiff photos of grandma and grandpa aren’t nearly as nice as photos showing them holding hands and looking at each other.
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SHARING SCREENS
Posted on October 4th, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
TeamViewer for Android is a mobile version of this popular screen-sharing program. Use it to get tech support from a remote friend, or to offer it. When you sign in, you get a code to share and so it’s just the two of you seeing the same screen. Joy used it recently and was able to see a friend’s distant computer screen so she could show her how to add a profile picture to Facebook. The program is free for personal use.
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STORY BUG
Posted on October 3rd, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
Story Bug lets you share an ebook with a child from afar, while video chatting together on an iPad or iPhone. It’s free for the first two books, then $5 a month. Of course you could do this in Skype for free, but it’s kind of neat to be able to look down at a story page and in a corner of the screen there’s a small video chat window. The books are aimed at babies and on up to age 6. Nice illustrations.
SHUTTERBUGGED
Posted on October 2nd, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
People are taking — and posting! – around 1.8 billion photos a day. Back in the primitive time of 2008, they took 20 million a day. We now post twice as many — 44 million, every hour. By the way: only one percent are still taken on film. Bye, bye, Kodak; sic semper transit and all that.
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WATCHING PEOPLE PLAY
Posted on October 1st, 2014 by Joy Schwabach
In our favorite non-violent action game is Peggle, a kind of cartoon pinball game. We once made a move so cool we would have liked to share it with others. Now the instant replay feature of the free game service “Raptr” lets you save video clips of your game play in any length up to 20 minutes. You could use your clips to start your own video channel online. There is a surprising large number of people who like to see video game replays.
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