BLOCK THOSE CALLS

“Mr. Number” is a free app for Android phones that lets you block calls and text messages from certain numbers or area codes. “Truecaller,” free for Android, adds caller ID info on incoming calls and texts. It automatically blocks known spammers. (Dang! There go all my old friends from Nigeria.)

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FREE APPS FOR THE KINDLE FIRE

“Amazon’s Best Sellers of the Underground” has free apps that can be used on the Amazon Kindle Fire. We got a free set of “Office Suite Professional,” normally $15, and saw many other freebies, including “Star Wars” games, exercise routines and something called “Monster Crafter Pro.” You create the monster, train it, and go on adventures through harrowing dungeons. (Always handy to have a monster along.) All free.

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