Ron Schenone
Smartphone and Text Messages Being Used in Divorce Court
My wife and I are facilitators for a program, known as DivorceCare. The intent of the group is to assist those experiencing the ravages that the divorce process can subject them to, including but not limited to, the emotional toll and financial changes that they are forced to contend with. Unfortunately, both my wife and [...]
Telemedicine and Telepsychiatry: Will e-Health Take Off?
Last week I was scheduled for a lab test to ascertain if my blood glucose readings were stabilized by diet and medication, however, I wasn’t sure if this test required a fasting protocol or a non-fasting one. Until recently, to determine which of these was required for an accurate test I would have had to call the [...]
Should Maglev Trains Replace the Airplane?
No one knows for sure, but maglev (magnetic levitation) trains could be the newest and greatest thing to happen to the transportation sector in generations. In fact, with the cost of plane travel and the time demanded to traverse our crowded freeways, it could, in the future, easily become the option chosen by the mobile [...]
Cellphones or Smartphones: Are Your Kids Too Young?
My wife and I are in a position where we are helping our daughter, a single mom, care for our 12-year-old grandson. One of our responsibilities is to make sure, when he gets to our house after school, that he does his homework. During dinner last evening he mentioned that he had an after-school function [...]
Free Home Design Software
If you haven’t heard, we are excited over a new group that Chris has formed, called Gnomies. Gnomies is a group of informed, electronics-minded folks who desired a venue in which to share valuable information. One of the members of the group posed an inquiry as to what software others in the group might recommend [...]
Five Easy Ways to Eliminate Cable Clutter
On my desk I have five cables matched up with the miscellaneous smartphones and tablets that we own in our household; each of these cables is essential in order to charge each of these various devices. That means that, when one of these devices is being used, there is no weight to hold the charging [...]
Free Phone Calls On Your iPad, iPod, iPhone, or Android Phone
Applications for making free calls using an Internet connection have gained in popularity over even just the last few years. I have been using such an application on my Android smartphone called GrooVe IP, and for the most part, it works fairly well. The only issue I have with the program is that sometimes there [...]
How Elected Officials Should Be Using Social Media
A recent news item propagated by the opponent of one of our current US senators chastised her about being technologically challenged because she didn’t have a Twitter account. When I first read this I wondered why, in this day and age, any political candidate would fail to take advantage of this free media to get [...]
Five Web Apps to Engage Your Mind and Spirit
Most of us download applications to our computers, tablets, or to our smartphones in the hope that they will provide a means to perform some type of task or another that we deem necessary. Thanks to these apps, we get the benefit of Internet alerts, weather information, bus schedules, happy hours, GPS data at our [...]
How Not to Screw Up Your PC with Windows Optimization Tools
Those of us here at LockerGnome have all heard this story before. One of our relatives, friends, neighbors, associates, co-workers, or acquaintances tells us they saw an advertisement on TV — or maybe an advertisement on the Internet — claiming that [fill in the name of shyster company here] software will make their PC run [...]
