I’ve had my Amazon Echo for not quite two months. If you read my earlier post, you know that I’m a fan. But, apparently, it got even better. Amazon sent me an email last week (January 30th) to let me know that their Echo has […]
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Apple announced that their Apple Watch is coming in April. I started thinking about what I would want a smartwatch to do and came up with my six “F”s for Smartwatches. Fashion – If a smartwatch is ugly or looks too ‘techy’, forget it. Apple
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Apple revealed some mind-boggling numbers at its quarterly earning call last week (January 27th). Apple posted record quarterly revenue of $74.6 billion, an increase of 30% when compared to the same quarter a year ago. QUARTERLY. Wow! It’s hard for me to imagine that much
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Apple released an update to its mobile operating system, iOS, this week. The latest update, iOS 8.1.3, includes bug fixes, increased stability and performance improvements. Foremost in the update is a reduction in the storage required to perform a software update. This has been an
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I love tech. Gadgets, in particular. When I saw on November 6th that Amazon was going to release Amazon Echo, a kind of Siri-meets-Sonos device, I had to have one. As an Amazon Prime member, the cost “for a limited time” would be $99;
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Updates to Apple’s Mac operating system has always required user intervention to install the update through the Mac App Store or intentionally allow updates to occur automatically (Apple Menu –> System Preferences –> App Store). Apple has had the ability to perform automatic OS updates
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Due to a pretty hectic schedule lately, I haven’t been keeping up with the iOS updates. As a result, I updated from iOS 8.0.2 to 8.1.1 this week. All was fine until I tried to enter my blood glucose readings in the Health app.
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Well, Apple has released iTunes 12. Many will say that it has a sleeker, cleaner look to it. But some of us like how the ‘old’ iTunes (version 10 and earlier) looked. While you can’t get exactly the classic look and feel, you can
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For the first time ever, iOS will support third-party keyboards. There are several conventional and emoji keyboards out there but my favorite third-party keyboard is ‘GIF Keyboard’ by Riffsy. Here is how to install ‘GIF Keyboard’ or any other third-party keyboard on your iOS
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iPhones are not necessarily known for their great battery life. While Apple has improved battery life with each generation of iPhones, it has never provided a way to find out what apps were killing your battery. Until now. It’s one of the new features
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After having a blockbuster launch weekend by selling over 10 million iPhones, Apple is having a rough week. Apple released an iOS update (iOS 8.0.1) that proved to be pretty deadly to their newest models, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. After numerous reports of these
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A friend of mine asked me to find a Windows 7 laptop for her. I have had success finding laptops at Best Buy in the past. I navigated to their laptop page. Once there, I planned on narrowing my search down to Windows 7 laptops.
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I am a big user of text messaging. Maybe not when compared to the younger generation but, still, I send and receive more than my fair share of messages. So, after updating my iPhone 5 to iOS 8, the Messages app is probably the one
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iOS 8 was released on September 17th. It is compatible with all iPhones since iPhone 4s (4s, 5, 5c, 5s, 6 and 6 Plus) as well as all iPads since iPad 2 (including both iPad minis and iPad Air) and the 5th generation iPod touch.
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