On Computers

PairShare for the iPhone, iPad and iPod lets you listen to your friend’s music or share yours with them up to 300 feet away, and it will do an “auto-scan” to find friends nearby. It’s 99 cents in the App store.

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When the iPhone’s voice-activated personal assistant “Siri” came out, the reaction from reviewers was ecstatic delight. Wow, you could ask questions and the phone would answer; sometimes making wise-cracks.

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Sidecar for iPhone and Android phone lets you stay with a phone call while sharing videos and photos. As the person you called turns to look at their phone to see what you’re sharing with them, their phone automatically goes into speaker phone mode so they can still talk with you.

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Kidfolio is a social network scrapbook for parents. Track your child’s growth and look back over a timeline of memories. And of course don’t forget to send photo cards. Find it here for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad.

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“MagicPlan” for the iPhone measures your rooms and draws floor plans from the pictures you take of your place. (Attention screen writers: Possible plot gimmick for high-tech caper movies.)

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We watched a pretty nice video of a sea turtle (or tortoise—we can’t tell which) swimming underwater and it was taken by an ordinary iPhone. Of course it was in a waterproof case, but you can get these from a number of sources. This video used MarineCase, which is $40 from Amazon and claims t

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Khan Academy’s 3,000 educational videos are now viewable in an iPad app. Khan Academy is a favorite of Bill Gates and was recently the subject of a feature on “60 Minutes.” It’s all free and has millions of viewers at YouTube.com.

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Biz Report for the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry brings in a thousand business articles a day from organizations such as The Associated Press and other sources, though most are from Business Wire. (Let’s see: You’ll want to devote no more than 30 seconds to each article or you’ll never get through them in one working day. No fair eating lunch or going to the bathroom.)

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This is a cellphone app so silly we couldn’t resist it. It’s called the “Pocket Doorbell,” and is meant to work with an iPhone or iPad.

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Viber is a competitor to Skype and one we’d never heard of till last week. But we woke up and found that 50 million people are already using it and it’s only a year old.

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