Parenthood changes a person and it starts with the body and extends to the disposition. Remember, back in the day, when we used to walk to get somewhere? Add marriage, a few kids, and a career and walking becomes what … Continue »
Where Did You Walk? How Far Did You Walk? How Many Calories Burned? This App Knows!
Thursday, March 14, 2013 | Posted In iOS Apps
The Cheap And Easy Way To Use Your iPhone To Shop At The Grocery Store
Friday, March 8, 2013 | Posted In iOS Apps
Based on the number of apps being sold in Apple’s App Store, and based upon the number apps on my iPhone, I don’t think it’s possible to have a favorite app. If there’s such a thing as a Top 10 … Continue »
Forget All Those Apps That Sync This Or That From Mac To iPhone: You Need AirStickies!
Thursday, February 21, 2013 | Posted In Tips and Tricks
If the Apple Store had a weekly 12-step AA-like meeting for Stickies users, I’d be there. I have task manager apps. Todo list apps. A daily planner app, too. My favorite little reminder app is Stickies. It’s free. It’s easy. … Continue »
Why You Need To Have A Home Inventory And How Your Mac Can Help You Avoid The Pain Of Disaster
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 | Posted In iOS Apps
What’s the advantage of keeping a list of your stuff? We’re constantly buying stuff, bringing stuff home, we’d just have to update the list again and again. Consider this. What happens if you come home and all your stuff is … Continue »
Why You’ll Love The Free iPhone App That Follows Your Every Move (and why that’s a good thing)
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 | Posted In iOS Apps
Who follows your every move all day long? Google? Apple? Your neighbor? Your mom? Your dog? Answer? None of the above. It’s your iPhone. It goes where you goes, right? What better device to track wherever you go and whenever … Continue »
How To Create And Send Your Autograph Or Official Signature Right From Your Mac
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 | Posted In Cheap Mac Apps
Everytime I sign for a credit card purchase I have to laugh at the situation. Seldom does the checkout clerk or waiter check the signature. I could sign it ‘Bugs Bunny‘ with a cursive flair and no one would know. … Continue »
If You Have More Apps On Your Mac Than Fit Into The Dock Then You Need This Clever App
Friday, February 1, 2013 | Posted In Cheap Mac Apps
My Mac is filled with nearly as many apps as my iPhone so I have a love hate affair with app launchers. The iPhone uses a pages approach because it must. The screen is small. The Mac’s screens are growing … Continue »
Here’s A Strange Mac Calculator You Will Love To Use, Don’t Know About, But Need Now
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 | Posted In Cheap Mac Apps
Got Mac? Got apps! It’s not as if Apple doesn’t give Mac users enough apps to use. From Mail to Safari, from Address Book to iCal, from iTunes to iMovie, and from iPhoto to Garageband, our Macs have all the … Continue »
How To Use A Mac Weather App That Lives In The Dock And Is As Predictable As Weather
Friday, January 25, 2013 | Posted In Cheap Mac Apps
Allow me to date myself. No, not like eHarmony or Match.com. That’s the wrong kind of dating. I’m thinking more along the lines of radiocarbon dating, the process that determines how old something is if it’s really old. I’m old … Continue »
Lost? Can’t Find Your Way Back Home? Don’t Use A Compass. Use The Homepass App
Thursday, January 24, 2013 | Posted In iOS Apps
As a card-carrying, child-toting, 21st century, law-abiding adult, the stigma that comes from getting lost can last for years. How can an adult with an iPhone get lost? How can that possibly happen? Because every Target store and Walmart store … Continue »
How Would You Look With A Different Eye Color? Try The App That Changes Eye Colors
Friday, January 18, 2013 | Posted In Cheap Mac Apps
This is an idea and a Mac app whose time has come. What color are your eyes? What color would you like them to be? With colored contacts you can have almost any eye color, right? But what would you … Continue »
How And What To Clean On All Those Disk Drive Storage Units Connected To Your Mac
Thursday, January 17, 2013 | Posted In Cheap Mac Apps
This is a judgement call, but based on the number of external disk drive storage units at Best Buy, the Apple Store, Amazon and elsewhere, it appears Mac and PC users love to backup files. Not that there’s anything wrong … Continue »
When Is A Free Mac App Launcher Not Really As Free As You Think Free Is?
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 | Posted In Cheap Mac Apps
We live in a mostly capitalist society, so am I a traitor if I complain about something that’s free? I don’t mean to grouse, but I’m a die hard gadget-loving fan girl so I don’t mind paying a price for … Continue »
Forget Quicken Or Cheap Substitutes. Use Your iPad To Manage Your Money
Friday, December 21, 2012 | Posted In iOS Apps
What’s the latest trend in computing? It’s everything, everywhere. Todo lists sync from Mac to iPhone to iPad. Photos are flying all over the cloud between our iDevices. What about managing your money? I’m not so sure that my money … Continue »
Free Toolbox Brings Templates To Apple’s Pages App (except for the ‘free’ part)
Thursday, December 20, 2012 | Posted In Cheap Mac Apps
There’s a new way to shop online these days and it bothers me. It’s not bait and switch. That’s a time honored way to separate us from our money when we least expect it. Here in the 21st century we … Continue »
It Seems Only Appropriate That The MacPaint Of 2012 Is Named JobsPainter
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 | Posted In Cheap Mac Apps
What’s in a name? Some names describe exactly what the app does. Word is a word processor. Mail is email. Contacts is a list of contacts. Going back a few decades, Apple popularized Mac apps with MacPaint and MacWrite. There … Continue »
How Mac Sheeple Backup Up Files To The Cloud With The DollyDrive App
Friday, December 14, 2012 | Posted In Mac App Reviews
If there’s one thing I enjoy doing in my spare time, it’s backing up my Mac. Well, no. Not really. For backups, I like set it and forget it. Apple’s Time Machine is mostly set it and forget it. It … Continue »
Honk To Find Your Car In A Crowded Parking Lot (Honk when the meter expires)
Thursday, December 13, 2012 | Posted In iOS Apps
There’s not much that’s worse than coming out of the shopping mall to a parking garage full of cars and not one of them is yours. It’s not that I don’t have a car. That’s how I got to the … Continue »
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