The Ring is a Wi-Fi enabled Doorbell button with a built-in security camera and two-way speaker that connects to a smartphone or tablet. It’s solidly built, easy to install, and functions brilliantly like what many describe as, “Caller ID for the Front Door”. Continue reading
Nowadays, virtually all our devices have some form of geolocation service built in. Thanks to GPS, when you lose something or even someone, they don’t remain lost for very long. However, there are still some things such as my Wallet and Keys that stay lost when I misplace them.
TrackR is a tiny coin-sized Bluetooth device that uses your smartphone’s GPS to convert your losable items into findable objects that can even “call out” to you before you leave them behind. Continue reading
If you’re a busy parent and/or professional like me, you embrace every moment of downtime you are fortunate to get. For me lately, my personal quiet time has been occupied with immersing myself in a book or two. With today’s technology, book reading has never been more accessible or convenient.
Not more than a decade ago, most of my precious downtime would be spent getting the content to enjoy – driving to the bookstore, waiting in line, or even waiting for a Book or Book-On-Tape/CD to be restocked. Now I get both Books and Audiobooks instantly delivered to me digitally, they typically cost far less than the paper or CD counterparts, fewer trees die and less plastic enters the world.
Tablets, Smartphones, and Wireless Networking combined have set the foundation for a Book Lovers Paradise – but in between Books and Audiobooks, I’ve observed this to be a Paradise divided… Until recently.
Pictures are worth a thousand words. So, it’s no wonder that photo sharing applications like Instagram have become the preferred medium for sharing thoughts, ideas, and inspiration.
With the advancements in smartphone camera quality, and the versatility of having an internet connection through that device virtually everywhere, applications such as these have made sharing those photos an effortless and almost instantaneous exercise. There is however, an older app that can do just about everything Instagram can do and more.
If you’ve been looking for an alternative streaming service to Netflix, there’s one service that many, including myself, have probably overlooked until now – Amazon Prime Instant Video.
If you own an iPhone, you’ve discovered it does a lot. If you’ve visited the App Store lately, you’ve discovered with apps, it can do even more. While the iPhone comes bundled with already useful software features, imaginative developers are continually finding new and clever ways to augment your iPhone experience through Apps.
Weather apps are among the most downloaded because they offer more useful information than the built-in app. I’ve found however, many of these apps are typically harder to use than they need to be.
For people like myself who have a horrible sense of direction, or simply hate to ask for directions, driving to a desired location has never been easier. GPS navigation has, for the most part, taken the planning and guess work out of finding a route to where I need to go. However, one area of turn-by-turn direction that In-Dash and Mountable GPS systems continue to fumble with, is building routes around the unpredictability of traffic and conditions on the road.
If you’re buying a car or just shopping for a Mountable GPS Device, consider the following before you plunk down that small fortune to add that fancy navigational system to your dashboard: There are far better and less expensive solutions available. One in particular I’ve found to be fantastic…