Posted on July 10th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“Rarely Seen Enchanted Moments of World History” starts with a photo of a woman born in 1746 who was photographed in 1840. There’s a photo of Carl Akeley posing with the body of the leopard that attacked him. He killed it with his bare hands. Akeley was director of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. (Museum directors were tougher back then.) Another photo shows Audrey Hepburn shopping with her pet deer in 1958.
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Posted on July 9th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
If you’re in a big company, how do you communicate with thousands of employees? Some, such as the ride-sharing service Flywheel, an Uber competitor, are using “TeamChat.” In Mumbai, the police force uses it to communicate with officers. It’s a messaging service for an unlimited number of participants. The party of India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi, used it to rally the vote and he won in a landslide. TeamChat is from the same people who made Elance, a website for freelance workers. It’s a chat service for an unlimited number of people and works by organizing and summarizing messages to make them easier to read. The service is free, but premium extras have fees. More info at TeamChat.com.
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Posted on July 8th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
— “Auto-Advance” is helping Joy to get through her Gmail a wee bit faster. What it does is automatically advance you to the next email in your list, so you don’t have to waste time leaving an email and going back to check another. To enable it, click the picture of a tiny gear, then “settings,” then choose “Labs.” Click “enable” next to “Auto-Advance.” — “Boomerang for Gmail” is a plug-in for scheduling emails to go out when you want them to go out. You may be writing at 3 am, but you’d rather they went out the next morning at 9. It’s free unless you’re a heavy user, and works with Chrome, Firefox and Safari web browsers. — To […]
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Posted on July 7th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
We know personal trackers are quite the rage right now, but this is wild. Of course it does offer something different: tracking a woman’s ovulation period. But there’s nothing high tech about that, it just tracks the number of days.
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Posted on July 6th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
There are books and articles that offer advice on how to become a millionaire, but this one could be called How to Become A Billionaire. Instead, it’s called “Alibaba’s World,” written by Porter Erisman, a man who was there at the beginning of a company that went public in America last year at a valuation that exceeded Amazon and eBay combined. It was the largest initial stock offering ever.
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Posted on July 5th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“Popcorn Buzz, ” a free Android app, lets you talk to 200 friends at once using either your phone’s Wi-Fi or cellular connection. To set it up, you send your friends a link. Or if you’re already using “Line,” an app owned by the same company, you can access your existing friend list.
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Posted on July 5th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“Kijini,” expected out in July, is a free app for Android and iPhone that analyzes your personality by listening to your voice. The company is also working on an app that can tell if you have cancer by listening to your voice. They claim their desktop version has been used successfully in clinical trials with 45,000 people over the last 25 years. More info at Kijini.com.
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Posted on July 5th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“Noom Walk Pedometer” is a step-counting app, free for Android and iPhone, that won’t drain your battery as much as others we’ve tried, such as “Pacer” and “Map My Walk.”
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Posted on July 4th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
The latest Android operating system, “M,” isn’t out yet, but here are the features getting the most buzz. — “Permissions.” One of the scariest things about downloading an app today is having to tap “Accept” to give the app permission over a dozen different areas. That won’t happen with M. The app will only ask permission for something when it needs it. — “Doze” notices when your phone is at rest and shuts down unnecessary programs running in the background. According to Google, this makes the battery last 50 percent longer before a recharge. — “Android Pay” is now more like “Apple Pay.” It’s easier to use. After signing up with a credit card, you can buy things by holding […]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
A friend of ours lost all her favorite pages on the web even though she bookmarked them. It happened when her husband restored her computer back to its factory defaults. Sure the computer is fast, but what about all that stuff that took many hours to find?
First off, this should never happen to users of the Google Chrome or Firefox
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