Price Break on Amazon Prime The Amazon hits just keep on coming. As a fan and member of Amazon Prime, which mainly offers you free shipping for many products in their online store, but which is also getting beefier thanks to Amazon’s keen desire to […]
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There’s a little firestorm brewing in the Apple mobile universe and suffice to say, THEY started it. Although web browser plugins like Adblock Plus have been available to computer users for some time, Apple’s new iOS 9 allows for developers to create ad-blocking apps for
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Wikipedia calls Science Fiction: “a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life.” Today, I am thrilled at the full swing technology’s tentacles have swung and
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What the what?? Just a few days ago I downloaded the app Cut the Rope – Time Travel for free from Amazon’s Free App of the Day. Now it looks like they’ve turned that concept upside down only to appear suddenly online with a strange
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If you’ve watched the phone wars from the sidelines over the last several years, then you probably remember a time when Blackberry was a force to be reckoned with. It permeated the business market with its security, mobile productivity, email push, text messaging and that
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I’m a word nerd. I’ve been playing word games forever. My dad and I used to pound out 5 or 6 New York Times crossword puzzles in a Saturday evening after dinner. While I still enjoy putting pen to paper, it isn’t quite the same
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Face it. For many of us, email is a necessary evil. If you’re getting crammed with spam, nuked by newsletters or just plain inundated by work or personal email – join the club. We all want to fix it, clean it, and make it easier
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I sometimes want to print documentation off the web and I was looking for a way to clean up the images and advertising that cluttered up the pages in print preview. Print Friendly does just that and it does so quickly. It also lets you save
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Dropbox offers a cloud repository for your files. Its basic subscription is free. I use it sparingly, but I always recommend it to people who need this kind of service. Still, I like to make folks aware of my pros and cons with it. Pros: It’s
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Sometimes, in this wango fango world of technology and viruses, and fails and computer snafus – things just work and work well. TypeMail is one of those things. I have more than one email account, as I think you should too – for personal, business,
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Hey there. Am I going to give you the 5 best games of all time? Hell no. I’m just giving you the ones I play most often as of this writing. That could change next month! Let’s share experiences – I tell you mine, you
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The Format Painter is a very handy tool that I use every day, mostly in Word, but it is available in Publisher, Excel, and PowerPoint. Remember: it is used to copy formatting. This works great with text headers and paragraphs, but it doesn’t work for
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Why would you want a smaller URL? I wanted smaller URLs for use in emails, anywhere I post on the web and almost explicitly for Twitter, where characters count. Occasionally, I want a shorter URL because I don’t like the text in the URL, due
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While working on a spreadsheet the other day I had difficulty getting zeros to show in a column of zip codes even though the numbers were formatted as zip codes. I’d never had this problem before, but it was somebody else’s worksheet. There are several
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