Posted on October 25th, 2021 by Joy Schwabach
You could pay $700 for a “Meural” art frame that shows off digital art. Or for $40, you could have 500 paintings on your TV. The “Billion Dollar Art Gallery” puts the world’s greatest art on a flash drive you stick into the back of your television. For me, watching the paintings go by in a spectacular video is better than seeing them in a museum or trying to put something together myself. The painting lingers for a moment before the title and artist info appears. Delightful music plays. I was enchanted. Not only did I see my favorite Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and Winslow Homer paintings, I saw lots of fantastic art I’d never seen before. If you pause the […]
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Posted on October 18th, 2021 by Joy Schwabach
My friend Nancy just bought her first smartphone. But when I tried to help her transfer her number to Consumer Cellular, AT&T gave us the complete runaround. The trouble started because an AT&T guy had pasted a yellow sticker on her router with the wrong network name and password. It got worse from there. When Nancy told AT&T she wanted to transfer her service, they asked for her account number. But after she logged onto their website, she got a different one than the one they wanted. That was just the beginning. Over the next 90 minutes, AT&T asked for a four-digit passcode, a four-digit PIN and a six-digit number. We had difficulty finding all of those. AT&T also asked […]
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Posted on October 11th, 2021 by Joy Schwabach
I hate to see my friends throw their clean, dry plastic bags in the trash. But even if they sort them, 95% will not be recycled. So I decided to do something about it. On Indiegogo.com, I pre-ordered the “Obaggo,” a 10.5-inch-tall trash compactor that will sit on my kitchen counter. With a little heat and a lot of pressure, it turns 20 to 25 grocery bags into dense hockey pucks about six inches in diameter. Recycling centers can shred the disks and turn them into pellets, the kind industry uses to make new products. If you use thicker bags, like those blue and white ones from Amazon, it will take fewer. You can also use vegetable bags, cereal box […]
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Posted on October 4th, 2021 by Joy Schwabach
I lost my phone on a bike path the other day when it fell out of my bike basket. I emailed a friend and he knew right where it was. Thanks to Location Sharing in Google Maps, he told me it had been turned in at my condo’s front desk. To test just how good Location Sharing is, I took long walks with my phone. Most of the time, it was two blocks off, because I kept moving. When I sat on a bench, I could be pinpointed most of the time. If I kept the Google Maps app open, it got even better. But it only became 100% accurate if I asked for directions somewhere, then tapped “start” to […]
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