Posted on July 25th, 2022 by Joy Schwabach
With the world’s first solar headset on my head, and a solar watch on my wrist, I marveled at how solar the world is becoming. I can hardly wait to try the new “Solare” solar headset on the plane. It boasts 97 percent noise cancelation. I can finally hear a movie through the background noise. But there are two kinds of noise cancelation: one in the headphone and one in the microphone. To test the one in the headphone, I went to YouTube on my computer, chose “white noise” and turned it on full blast. Despite the horrendous sounds, I could hear a podcast on my phone perfectly. By contrast, my cheap headset didn’t let any of the words through. […]
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Posted on July 18th, 2022 by Joy Schwabach
Would it bug you if there were ads right there on your phone’s lock screen? Get ready. They’re coming. When your iPhone updates to version 16 in September, you’ll get ads, along with links to apps and news every time you look down, without tapping anything, according to TheVerge. Some Android phones will get ads as soon as next month, delivered by a lock screen company called Glance. You’ll see news, videos, games, photos, quizzes and commercials, all without tapping. The average person glances at their phone 65 times a day. There’s gold in them there hills. Fire Tablet Is Best For Watching Movies on a Plane “I recently flew for the first time in 20 years, and I must […]
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Posted on July 11th, 2022 by Joy Schwabach
A Google Chromebook is far more powerful than you’d think. Let’s start with GIFs. GIFS are five second animations you can add to text messages, email, Facebook or wherever you like to post. To start, click the launcher in the bottom left corner of your screen. Type “camera.” Click the “GIF” button. That’s it! A friend just sent me a fun GIF in an email. Unfortunately, I had to read his lips because GIFs don’t have sound unless you turn them into video files first, but it was still fun. It’s best for something visual, like dancing or puppetry. If you don’t have a Chromebook, try the free “Giphy” app, which offers a library of free GIFs. At giphy.com, you can […]
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Posted on July 4th, 2022 by Joy Schwabach
If you want to let your cat in and out without inviting in the whole animal world, consider the “Cat Flap,” $83 on Amazon. It’s as if each cat had his or her own door key. A reader told me about it. Thanks to the Flap, he said, the raccoons immediately stopped menacing his pet. The cat is now “the neighborhood rock star.” Here’s the high tech part: It works with a microchip implanted in your cat or in its collar, recognizing up to 40 cats. Hopefully you don’t have that many. The Cat Flap’s opening is 5.9” (height) by 5.5” (width). I wonder if fat cats can squeeze in. The Cat Flap is a little hard to find because […]
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