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Who Will Check Your Email When You're Gone?
May 2, 2013
As frustrating as it is when Google closes down powerful products — I wrote recently about the demise of the excellent Google Reader program — the company is nonetheless ahead of the curve when it comes to necessary ideas. Its Google Maps app is a ... Read more »
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Keeping an Eye on Google Keep
April 1, 2013
Need a quick note-taking program while you’re out and about? Google Keep is an app available for devices running Android or through the Google Drive site and it’s a sleek, useful offering. But before using it you might want to recall Google Notebook, which was ... Read more »
Life in the Cloud: The Latest Move in Technology
February 1, 2013
How much of the functionality built into your software do you actually use? Most of us tap just a fraction of what’s locked up inside programs like Microsoft Office. Built as all-in-one solutions to the spectrum of business challenges, programs like this don’t play well ... Read more »
A Great Writer Rises from Your Computer
January 4, 2013
The Canadian scholar and critic Hugh Kenner, who wrote masterful studies of James Joyce and Ezra Pound among so many other literary works, was a man widely versed in things technical. In fact, Kenner once wrote a column for the now-defunct Byte Magazine, still beloved ... Read more »
The Limitations of Unlimited
December 13, 2012
Electricity, cars, cigarettes and computers quickly come to my mind as bringing huge changes to society over time. With the exception of cigarettes, each carried with it massive advantages. Unforeseen problems followed that our society is still coping with.Although I was told by my ... Read more »
The Empire of Electronics is Expanding
November 1, 2012
Any guess as to the identity of the fastest selling consumer electronic product in history? You might suspect the iPhone, or perhaps the iPad. But the correct answer is Microsoft’s Kinect, which is nothing more than a controller-free peripheral for the company’s Xbox 360 gaming ... Read more »
Can Kickstarter Keep Customers Happy?
October 9, 2012
A rocket scientist with an outline for a new book needs to travel extensively to check on research with colleagues. With grant money scarce, he turns to Kickstarter, an online funding source that uses small contributions from people who read about the project and choose ... Read more »
Cable Versus Online Streaming
September 26, 2012
I find wired.com to be a great source for up-to-date (if not up-to-the-minute) discussions of all things digital, and this morning did not disappoint.And the topic is something I’ve run into head-on in the past.The conclusion I draw from today’s wired.com article is ... Read more »
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Apps Raise the iPad's Aptitude for Real Work
May 14, 2013
Happy Mothers Day 2013 from BoomerGrandparents.com
May 12, 2013
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