Reflections
Major Malware Attacks on Android: Fact or Fiction?
The conventional wisdom concerning Android phones and devices has been that as long as third party apps are blocked, all would be well. Google has maintained that third party applications from unknown developers could damage your Android device and the company has been fairly specific about what should not be installed on your phone or [...]
UP iPhone App Available to Monitor Our Behavior and Improve Our Health
Unfortunately, we Americans suffer from a variety of health related issues, including such maladies as high blood pressure and diabetes. Apparently, these conditions are complicated by our choice of lifestyle and have been confirmed by recent statistics drummed out to us on several nightly news programs. It seems that more and more of us are [...]
Goodwill Industries Now Offering Online Auctions
Goodwill Industries, a mission driven community, now offers items for sale on the Goodwill auction website. One will notice that, while the Goodwill Industries website operates in a similar manner to eBay and offers similar items, there are some slight differences. One of these differences is that the auctions at Goodwill Industries are offered for [...]
Speech Recognition Software: Does It Work?
While all eyes were focused on the introduction of Apple iPhone’s Siri voice recognition software, Amazon quietly bought a voice recognition company called Yap. Yap is the brainchild of a small Charlotte based startup that had been beta testing its product when, in September 2011, Amazon entered the picture and bought the company. What is [...]
Sprint AIRAVE: Access Point That Works
If you live outside the range of a Sprint cell tower, there may be an easy answer to help improve your reception and provide you with a more powerful signal. This device, called the AIRAVE, is provided by Sprint and uses what is called a femtocell. A femtocell works as a miniature cell tower to [...]
Can You Update Your Older HDTV?
In our house we have two older HDTVs — one four years old and the other five years old. In TV technology, like in dog years, these TVs, built with only 720P technology, are ancient since they do not support either wireless or wired access to the Internet. In addition, both sets are manufactured with [...]
Is There Any Safe Way to Date Online?
On Tuesday evenings, my wife and I facilitate a divorce group that helps those who are going through a divorce or have been divorced. One of the most common topics of interest revolves around where one should look for a potential mate. This seems to be of interest not only to the recently divorced but [...]
Five Reasons Why We Are Not Ready for a World Without Cash or Credit Cards
Does anyone remember the paperless office and why that didn’t work? How about the predictions back in the 1960s that one day our cars would be driving themselves down our roadways while we sat reading a book? These and other predictions never came to pass because we as a society were not ready for them. [...]
Your Choice: HP TouchPad for $599.99 or $149.99?
In what can only be described as an unusual decision from Best Buy, which allegedly returned a huge number of unsold HP TouchPad units due to sluggish sales, has recently resurrected it from the electronic graveyard. So while it may have been an advertising gimmick to draw attention to the new HP 32 GB TouchPad [...]
Rebates: Are They Worth the Effort?
Several months ago I went to our family physician for a routine checkup where blood was routinely drawn. Before I even left, however, my doctor informed me that I had developed type 2 diabetes, which didn’t completely shock me since diabetes runs in my family and I suspected that one day I would receive such [...]
