Joy’s brother told us about a tea-ceremony scam he encountered in China. Just before agreeing to have tea with a couple of friendly people he met in Shanghai, he remembered his boss warning him about the “tea scam.” Heeding the warning saved him $400 and perhaps more, because they took credit cards.
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“Crayola Paint and Create” costs $3 and is a child play app for the iPad, with more than 40 activities. Kids’ fingers become colored pencils, paint brushes, crayons or markers that play games as they move them across the tablet screen to fill in coloring books. All artwork can be saved to the gallery, emailed, printed or uploaded to Facebook.
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For iPhones, iPods and iPads: “Say What You See” is free to download, but you pay 99 cents for each new collection of puzzles. The latest, called “Blockbusters,” features 50 of the highest grossing movies of the last 50 years, transformed into puzzles.
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Over two billion Android apps are downloaded each month according to research firm “Chomp.” Over Halloween weekend, the most popular apps were Pumpkins vs. Monsters, Angry Bird Seasons, Bubble Blast Halloween, Coin Dozer Halloween, Halloween! and Halloween Live Wallpaper.
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Getting clear video with your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad2 is easier with a new Skype app.
The neatest feature of the new app is image stabilization. This comes close to duplicating the “steady cam” software used professionally with handheld cameras. We looked at two videos, one using the image stabilization and one without, and the app made a big difference.
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Amazon is rumored to be coming out with their own tablet computer in the next several months, and naturally it’s expected to be hot stuff. How hot can it be? If you don’t feel like waiting, here are a couple of newbies out now.
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Just when the whole world is going iPad nuts, Vizio, the TV set maker, has come out with an Android tablet that’s much cheaper. We bought one at Costco, the warehouse shopping chain, and love it.
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