Posted on October 31st, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
BarryBradford.com/10-things-i-learned-while-looking-up-something-else has some fascinating tidbits. Only one person has ever been hit by a meteorite. Bermuda was uninhabited until 1609 when it got the first permanent residents after a British ship was wrecked there. Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Dickens met when the latter visited the U.S.
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Posted on October 31st, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
FunnyorDie.com has “6 Sleepy GIFs Losing The Battle Against The Zzzs.” We especially like the baby who snaps to attention with a great big smile right after nearly nodding off.
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Posted on October 30th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
CallerSmart is a free iPhone app, will tell you who texted or called you.
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Posted on October 30th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Flight Tracker is a free app for Android and Apple, lets you track flights minute by minute. When we greeted our friend at the airport, she assumed we’d been using it. Had we been that alert, we would have known that the plane taxied for more than 15 minutes after it landed.
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Posted on October 29th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“Music Tutor Sight Read” is a free app for Android phones and it’s getting Joy playing the piano again. The app offers quizzes so you get better at recognizing notes in sheet music. It helps if you’ve already had some music lessons and need a refresher. “Music Tutor Free” for iPhone/iPad is similar.
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Posted on October 28th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Google has catalogued 900 ailments and pulled together pictures, information and some advice. Search for “pink eye,” and off to the right, you’ll get an information box with a picture, basic facts, symptoms and treatment options.
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Posted on October 27th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Watching your photos in a slideshow on your TV is fun. When we have guests from out of town, we can hardly wait to bore them. (This leads to earlier departures.) If you’ve bought a TV within the last five years or so, watching your photos is as easy pressing the Internet button on your TV remote control, finding the Flickr app and clicking “slideshow.” If you don’t have an account on Flickr.com, you can sign up for free. The free Flickr upload tool automatically loads any photos it finds on your computer, phone or tablet. High-end Android phones purchased within the last two years have the ability to plug in directly into the TV’s HDMI port. The $47 Roku […]
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Posted on October 26th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
We use the free Google Picasa photo editor to touch up photos taken with our phone’s camera. It’s nice that it’s free, but sometimes a free program isn’t enough. With that in mind, we tried the new Photo Commander 14, $60 from ashampoo.com. It has a 30-day free trial. (Ashampoo? Odd name. Explanation later.)
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Posted on October 24th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
The $40 “ThingCharger” interested us: There more than a dozen kinds of chargers in stores and on the web but this one was different. It lets you plug in a regular devices, like a blender, a toaster or a vacuum cleaner, at the same time as you’re charging your cell phone.
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Posted on October 23rd, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
In the early days of computing, we had two colors: you could look at green on a black screen or white on a blue or black screen. Those were the days — exciting! And now we can have those days back using the Windows feature “high contrast settings.”
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