THE SHARING ECONOMY
Posted on March 10th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
CELL PHONE BATTERY WOES
Posted on March 9th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
The battery in the Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone is supposed to last for 18 hours on standby, 10 hours if you’re talking, 8 hours if you’re playing a video. We’ve been lucky if ours lasted half that. A free app called “Greenify,” along with some basic adjustments, has made a big difference. Greenify for Android phones hibernates any apps you don’t need to have running. Our phone stays on for at least 18 hours now, with light use. Some apps, such as the Amazon Kindle app, take a little longer to load with Greenify running in the background, but that’s better than a phone that dies when you don’t expect it. Before Greenify, we tried several other battery life extenders: […]
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TROUBLE WITH SO-CALLED SUPPORT
Posted on March 8th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Joy was helping a disabled friend once because McAfee was going to charge a couple hundred dollars to fix something that took Joy about two seconds. Now we’ve heard from a reader who claims he was scammed by McAfee.
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FIVE GREAT WEBSITES
Posted on March 6th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Here are five enjoyable websites. — “The Average American Mall Experience in Six Charts” has fascinating facts about America’s malls. The most over-represented food category in New England is donuts. In the Southwest, it’s gelato. The most common mall store is Sunglass Hut. –“19 Awesome Things You May Not Have Seen Yet” includes a tiny tugboat pulling a giant ship through the Corinth Canal in Greece, a water bridge suspended over a river in Germany, and the second-hand phone market in China, with huge piles of phones. –“Japanese Hotel Staffed by Robots” brings you an article about the Hen-na Hotel, which translates to “strange hotel.” Its robots check you in, carry your bags and speak to you in Japanese, Chinese, […]
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WASHING YOUR PHONE
Posted on March 3rd, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
In a recent survey, the manufacturer of a sanitizer called PhoneSoap, asked people which they thought was dirtier: the soles of their shoes, a toilet seat or a cellphone: Most chose the toilet seat, but it’s actually the phone. Most cellphones have 18 times more bacteria than the toilet in a public restroom, they say.
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LUMOID LETS YOU TRY LOTS OF FITNESS TRACKERS AT ONCE
Posted on March 2nd, 2015 by Joy Schwabach