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Learn something new today On-Line!
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Nothing puts off the onset of dementia so well as learning something new. Each time you try something new, you lay new connections between neurons and fend off neurological decline.
Now, you can pick up a skill, refresh your knowledge of any academic topic (my kids are entering high school and I'm refreshing my Algebra, Geometry and Trig), or just tackle something you meant to, but never did way back when. The learning is interactive and graphical and not at all dry. Khan Academy has something for every age group and all the learning is free.
Also Noted: If you're interested in programming or creating your own website try one of these site. All three are free and offer beginners and the middling a learning experience: 1. Team Tree House 2. Code Academy 3. Udacity.
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QR Codes, Huh?
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Got a smart phone? If you're not familiar with these funny little squares and you have a phone with a camera and a data plan, then you're good to go. Download one of the free apps for reading these codes. Start the app on the phone, point the camera at the code and snap with the app. You will receive information from the advertiser about the particular product or service, usually via a web page. Here are links for your device and the app available. You will still need to steer your phone to the appropriate market place and download it to your phone, except for your Blackberry people who can download directly from the link.
APPLE & DROID Just DROID BLACKBERRY
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More Cell Stuff
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Stop Thief! Followed the news lately? Then you know there's been an increase in cell phone muggings. In fact, right here at Metro North stations people are being mugged for their IPhones with some regularity. Well, good news for the cell phone world.
Four major U.S. wireless providers-AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon have agreed this week, to create a national database of stolen phones, and to DENY data and voice service to the lost devices.
Spyware on an Android anybody? Be careful what you download as the number of shady apps trying to separate you from your money are increasing rapidly. Here's a perfect example, an attempt to sell you a new battery that you don't need.
Finally, Another On-line data usage calculator for those of you with limited data plans. The link not only helps you calculate your data usage in terms of music, text and video download, it also identifies overcharges by carrier an plan. Try it here.
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| Good Companies Being Bad to Us |
- Google admitted to collecting data transmitted over not secured routers as it passed by that house of yours taking pictures for Google Maps. Encrypt that router transmission now!
- Symantec (Norton), through its product, PC Tool Registry Mechanic, is accused of misrepresenting the actual danger on your computer and over exaggerating it dramatically. Giving ominous warnings "of harmful errors, privacy risks and other problems", when in fact there was nothing wrong.
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| Get your used car here: |
 Are you in the habit of browsing the local Pennysaver? Well then you know that it's shrunk to a fraction of what it was. Some of that shrink is in concordance with the economy. Additionally though, that huge used car section has moved to the net. If you're in the market for a used car here's the new place to look: AutoTrader
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| Apple MAC spyware/Virus Redux. |
Yes Virginia there are new MAC viruses each day: Apple has released a fresh Java update that it says removes the Flashback Trojan on infected Macintosh computers. 600,000 MACs are infected. Here's the cure. |
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| Obama/Romney and everybody else on the Net |
- VoteSmart identifies local, state and national reps by zip code.
- OpenSecrets will let you know where their funding comes from.
- LegiStorm keys you in on who's funding their entertainment and trying to buy their (oops your!) votes. So, there you go! Good luck..
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- More FREE E-Books. Got an E-Reader? Libraries across the county have supplies of borrowable material to fit most if not all readers. Look Here:
- There's a new Firefox, actually it's not new, it's newly problem free and worth upgrading to Here:
- If you are, as I am often, waiting for some not plot significant time to leave the movie theater for the bathroom, then you must try RunPee.com. This site lists, in addition to movie reviews, the best time to run and pee in the movies presently playing.
- "One-in-10 second-hand hard drives still contain the original user's personal information", suggests an investigation by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office. Dispose of that old computer properly. If you intend to recycle it make sure that you are comfortable that the recipient is trustworthy and will not try to un-erase your data. If you intend to throw it out, take a sledge hammer to that internal hard drive. Better yet, take the drive out and keep it, you just might need to recover something from it in the future.
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