Posted on November 30th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
We did ourselves a favor last week and bought an external keyboard for our smartphone. Wow, what a pleasure to type on an actual keyboard instead of thumbing our way through the tiny keys on a phone screen answering email or anything. We bought a Logitech K380 on sale for $40 at our local Office Depot. This is a standard brand, been around since the last ice age, and it was wireless; we did not have to connect it to our phone with a cable. Typing on a screen was for the birds. Just because they hunt and peck, why should we? Typing on a roomy keyboard is fun. So what else does it work with? Besides a phone, we […]
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Posted on November 28th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
BBC radio has free audio books on occasion. The website was too long, so we shortened it to Tinyurl.com/fredinspring. There you’ll find “Uncle Fred in Springtime,” by P.G. Wodehouse, read by a whole group of actors. Part one is available until Dec. 6, at which point they’ll put up part two.
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Posted on November 28th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
GlobalSchoolNet.org links children worldwide for science projects and cultural experiences. A current project looks at the problem of plastic in the oceans.
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Posted on November 28th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Click here for as modern a Charleston dance number as we’ve ever seen. Fun. It was posted on Facebook by Gael Cornillon.
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Posted on November 28th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“27 Science Fiction ideas that Became Science Facts in 2012. Click to find descriptions of an invisibility cloak, a computer controlled by thought, a photo of DNA, genetically-modified silk stronger than steel, spray-on skin and genetically modified mice that lived three times longer than normal — the equivalent of a 200 year-old human being.
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Posted on November 28th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Genius (for iPhone and Android) gives you lyrics for any of 1.7 million songs. Besides lyrics, you get annotations and in some cases, can hear the song. We looked up Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes,” and tapped the line “When Missus Ned McLean (God bless her) can get Reds to ‘yes’ her, then I suppose, anything goes.” Mrs. McLean back then was the wife of the owner of The Washington Post, and had recently embarked on a highly-publicized trip to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, precursor to the USSR. The “Reds” were Communists, of course. We love the song but never understood the Mrs. McLean part.
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Posted on November 27th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Read.WorldReader.org offers free digital books through its free app for Android or iPhone. It has almost six million readers in 69 countries and offers 28,500 free books. We’re reading a book about Winston Churchill.
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Posted on November 26th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Nothing has ever equaled Stupid.com for, well, really stupid gifts. This is where we got the talking stuffed bass, suitable for mounting on the wall, and the two mechanical love birds that sang to each other. We got them for our Aunt Dee; she loved them. We hesitated over the “grumpy cat” coffee mug and the “exploding wasabi” candy, but we were tempted.
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Posted on November 25th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
AsSeenOnTV.com has all that stuff that ran in commercials endlessly on TV for several weeks until the buyers collapsed of exhaustion. Last chance for the those wonderful Ginsu steak knives or the collapsible pocket fishing rod, and on into the night. And you thought they were lost forever when you couldn’t find the piece of paper you wrote the number on. Remember: operators are standing by.
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Posted on November 24th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
We’re thinking of buying one of Audio Technica’s latest turntables as a gift for our young relatives. LPs are so popular again that a rare version of Bob Dylan’s “Freewheelin'” has a starting bid of $100,000 on eBay.
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