INSTANT PREVIEWS ON YOUR CELL PHONE
Posted on March 11th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
SENIOR PHONE
Posted on January 28th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
Starting February 2011, Jitterbug will offer an emergency service called “5Star,” for an extra $15 a month.
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A LEAF INTO THE FUTURE
Posted on January 7th, 2011 by Joy Schwabach
An impressive app is now available on the Nissan Leaf electric car and soon to be available on Ford’s Focus Electric, announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Here’s how it works: You’re at home and it’s 15 degrees outside. You don’t want to get into a cold car, so you whip out your smart phone and warm your car to 68 degrees. Since the car is still plugged in, you’re not draining the battery. In summer, on a 100 degree day, you tell the car to be cool when you step in. It’s all done by way of an app provided by Airbiquity, the same company responsible for the OnStar system and Ford Sync, a service […]
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THINGS TO DO
Posted on November 17th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
Task List Guru and SavetheMilk are our two favorite to-do list programs. Both are free.
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HIGH TECH JACKET AND GLOVES
Posted on November 14th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
The North Face’s new “Smythe Jacket” and “ETip” gloves make it easier to work your gadgets on a cold day.
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GEE WHIZ DEPARTMENT
Posted on October 5th, 2010 by Joy Schwabach
We’re not big on all-in-one office machines – which are a combination of printer, fax machine and scanner in one unit. But there’s a new one coming out later this year from HP that beats anything we’ve seen so far. It adds a fourth component, a detachable seven-inch tablet computer that’s sort of like an iPad. Take it with you and surf the Internet, listen to music , read ebooks or answer your email. Critics note that the tablet is confined to using Yahoo! mail, photos and other Yahoo-branded stuff, so it’s very much a closed system, not a full-featured tablet computer. It runs on the Android operating system, however, so it shouldn’t be long after it appears that some […]
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TOO MANY CELL PHONES
Posted on August 9th, 2007 by Joy Schwabach