We just had our first experience with the “Aerius quadcopter,” which the maker claims is the world’s tiniest drone — at least so far this month. It sells for $35, is about an inch across and weighs a tenth of an ounce. It even has red and blue running lights. We’re airborne, more or less.
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A reader told us he was glad he installed the free Windows 10. Then his digital world crashed. He couldn’t find Picasa, the program he uses for editing his family photos. He asked us to organize a search party. Here’s what the posse found:
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The Wall Street Journal did a big story on the $3000 Stir Kinetic M1 stand-up desk, which promises to eliminate the dangers of too much sitting, a habit some say is as bad as smoking. Joy found a free alternative.
Using her desktop computer, Joy made…
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Fiverr.com has dozens of cartoonists who will turn your selfie into a cartoon version for a “fiver” (five dollars). Their examples look great. Several years ago we used MyFaceIcons.com for this. Their service costs around $40, and they did a great job. We use our cartoon portraits in some of our email signatures.
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TheDanPlan.com: Dan McLaughlin had never played golf when he decided to see if 10,000 hours of practice would turn him into a pro. That’s the theory of Anders Ericsson, popularized in the book “Outliers,” by Malcolm Gladwell. That theory maintains it’s the number of hours that makes you a musician, an artist, or even a golfer. Dan quit his job, hired a golf coach, and worked on this full time. His handicap went down to 3.1 last November after around 4,200 hours, but it’s back up to 5.5 in April, his most recent tally.
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“Timeline for Chinese Inventions” has lists of time-lines put together by Columbia University for many nations and cultures. The Chinese wove silk in 1300 B.C., for example. They invented the folding umbrella in 300 B.C., though it wasn’t received in the West until the 1600s. Gunpowder came along around 750 AD in China and 1330 in the West. The Chinese had moveable type in the year 1040, the West 400 years later.
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According to a survey of over 2000 people, compulsive Facebook users are prone to update their posts even in the shower, while driving, at funerals and in the ocean. Many others admit to having lied so they could leave a social engagement to check Facebook. There are now 1.49 billion Facebook users. More info on this can be found at StopProcrastinatingApp.com/how-to-block-facebook.
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