Posted on June 13th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
A reader asked us to find her a blood pressure app for the iPhone. There are several of these for both iPhone and Android. Unlike the kind you see at the doctor’s office, the apps do not use a compression band that temporarily cuts off your circulation. They measure the slight pulsing from placing your finger on the phone. We tried “Finger Blood Pressure! Free” on our Android phone, and compared it with the reading we got on the $35 Omron 3 Series Blood Pressure monitor with a pressure cuff. The Omron is battery operated, so you’re not tethered to the wall plug. Omron said Joy’s systolic pressure was 118, her diastolic reading was 74 and her pulse was 46. […]
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Posted on May 9th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
Both Windows and Mac come with free tools for capturing whatever you see on your screen and attaching it to an email or using it elsewhere. But if you need high resolution screenshots, or want to capture video, add voice over or turn it into a brief animation, the new Ashampoo Snap 9 is a handy Windows program for doing that. Basically anything you see on your computer screen can be captured in up to 4K resolution, which is quite sharp. Add special effects, or time the video capture for a precise start and stop, or even pause it. The program can also do “OCR” (optical character recognition). So if you want to capture a news article off the screen, […]
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Posted on March 20th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
PainterArtist.com/masters has links to a marvelous group of artists who use the “Corel Painter” program to create their art. Some of them have tutorials.
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Posted on December 10th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Epson.com/community/wrapping-generator Choose your message, a holiday or birthday theme, and a background in whatever colors you wish. Presto! Out comes one sheet of wrapping paper suitable for a small gift. Be sure to click “settings” or “setup” and check the box for background graphics or images. We used it and printed the person’s name onto the wrapping paper.
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Posted on October 13th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
The website PeanutizeMe.com lets you look like a character in the “Peanuts” comic strip. Choose a boy or girl and then select what he or she is wearing, and select a background. With brown hair and glasses, Joy’s Peanuts character looked something like her. This is a very clever use of an old programming routine and is being used to promote a new movie titled “The Peanuts Movie.” Likely we’ll see it used frequently now to create your own super hero, android, cowboy or whatever new show or movie is coming out.
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Posted on April 26th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
“Lovelace & Babbage” is a free iPad app for a comic book about the lives of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. Ada, born in 1815, was the daughter of the “mad, bad and dangerous to know” poet, Lord Byron. After being steered toward math to tame her wild blood, she invented the first computer language for the first computer. (The computer was never finished but was fully conceived by Babbage.) A print version just came out, for $21, re-titled “The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage.”
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Posted on April 6th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
After extensive research – we talked to several people – we found that most people don’t know how to capture what they see on the computer. This is shocking but true. Why would you want to do that in the first place? Well, if you can capture the screen image or any part of it, you can print that out, email it, use it yourself, or post it to Facebook. Somewhere in all that there may be a copyright involved; so it you think there is, don’t do it without permission. You can capture anything you see on your computer screen. No exceptions. And there are lots of different tools for doing it. What’s more, you can add comments, include […]
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Posted on March 17th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
We just had a photo “aluminyzed.” It looks great.
Aluminyze.com will turn your photo into anything from wall art to a license plate. Joy took a photo at a woman’s club event and had it aluminyzed for the chair of her committee, who typically receives a gift certificate at year’s end. This was different.
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Posted on March 12th, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Below our email signatures we often use a cartoon portrait of ourselves. We’ve gotten lots of compliments on that over the years, and requests for information about it.
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Posted on February 21st, 2015 by Joy Schwabach
Joy is mad for greeting cards, usually making her own with programs like Nova Development’s “Greeting Card Factory.” But CleverCards.com was too clever to pass up, for digital as well as printed cards.
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