According to Oxford Dictionaries a digital detox is a “period of time during which a person refrains from using electronic devices such as smartphones or computers, regarded as an opportunity to reduce stress or focus on social interaction in the …[Continue]
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How to Backup Your Phone’s Photos to Amazon Cloud Drive
Although many consumers think of Amazon as an online book store, it is also a leader is cloud storage for businesses. And recently Amazon announced free unlimited photo storage for their Prime members. Yup. Unlimted Storage. Free. By the way, …[Continue]
Is Wikipedia Objective?
Can a crowd edited resource like Wikipedia be as objective as a professionally edited resource such as the Encyclopedia Britannica? Two professors recently set out to do just that, and found that the answer is: it depends. Feng Zhu of …[Continue]
What is the Deep Web?
The Deep Web is that part of the Internet that is hidden from search engines such as Google and Yahoo! It’s the part of the web you can’t find unless you know about it. Researchers say that the Web we …[Continue]
Are USB Chargers All the Same?
It took me many years to discover that not all USB chargers are the same. So exactly what is it that differentiates USB chargers? Charge rates. The chargers themselves have charge rates that vary from 1A to 2.1A, and even …[Continue]
Is Kindle Unlimited Worth It?
Last week Amazon announced a Kindle book membership program that includes unlimited books from their Kindle Unlimited library of 600,000 titles for $9.99 a month. Is it worth it? First of all, it’s certainly worth taking advantage of their Kindle …[Continue]
10 Reasons Why Uber is Better than a Taxi
Those of you’ve who’ve never used Uber might be wondering why I am reviewing a taxi service on my Tech Tips blog. But once you try Uber , you’ll understand. Uber is a phone app that summons a driver. When …[Continue]
4 Free Online Coding Classes
I’ve written before about sites that introduce school kids to programming, but these four sites offer college-level programming for free. All of these resources are Massive Open Online Courses (called MOOCs) that serve thousands of students at a time, and …[Continue]
