
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 »
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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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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