Summer is rapidly approaching and with it, a lot of folks are heading out for camping trips. Whether you’re in a luxury motor home or roughing it in a tent, we found some great apps to take along to help plan and navigate your outdoor adventures. For Droid and iPhone users, try the We Camp [...] Read more...
Apps for busy Moms
We keep our computers and calendars in sync, wouldn’t it be nice to keep our family and home lives synchronized, too? That’s the idea behind a trip of apps thatmake some pretty good downloads for busy Moms with smartphones. The name of the Life 360 app says it all. It’s free and works on the [...] Read more...
Premium Weather Apps
As the weather warms, so does our time outside. And our need to know just what the weather will be like, where we are…and when. There are scores of weather apps available for smartphones and tablets. This week, we look at three of the most powerful premium weather apps that you may want to consider. [...] Read more...
Facial recognition apps are scary cool
If you think there’s too much information out there about you on the Internet, the capabilities of some new iPhone apps sure can reinforce that. On the other hand, if you’re into leveraging your iPhone as a tool to meet new people, you’ll be excited by the latest apps that let you take social networking [...] Read more...
Gardening apps for tablets and smartphones
As the weather begins to warm up, surveys show an estimated three out of every four Americans will be planting their own flowers, fruits, and vegetables. With that much interest, it’s no wonder more people are turning to smartphones or tablet apps to help them grow their gardens just right. The Gardinate app for Android [...] Read more...
iPad apps to make your own news magazine or newspaper
We’ve all gotten used to the term “On Demand” But these days, if you have an iPad, that phrase takes on a whole new meaning when you talk about news and information. Now, with some very polished apps, you can instantly create your own newspaper or magazine that only contains information on the topics that [...] Read more...
New iPad has its problems
The new iPad may be setting new sales records for Apple, but it’s not without a couple of problems. On is apparently no big deal. The other, though, could prove frustrating for lots of hardcore iPad users. You may have seen the consumer reviews that report the new iPad is 10 degrees or so hotter [...] Read more...
Creating and Using MS Office files on your smartphone or tablet
With smartphones and tablets all the rage in portable computing these days comes a big need: Compatibility to Microsoft’s Office programs like Word and Excel. While Microsoft doesn’t make Office for such devices, a slew of other companies have apps that that will let you create and read Office files on your tablet or smartphone [...] Read more...
What to do with your old iPad
Apple has just announced the latest iPad model and a lot of people are interested in trading up… but first they must somehow get rid of the old model. Just like we have trade-in programs for old cars, there’s similar programs for iPads and our high tech gear. Our PC Mike Wendland explains just what [...] Read more...
Identifying those annoying cellphone telemarketers
It’s been nearly a decade since the government set up a do-not-call telephone registry but even though 209 million cell and land line phone numbers are on the list, growing numbers of unscrupulous solicitors and scam artists are simply ignoring the law. You may not be able to prevent the callers but you can identify [...] Read more...