This is an unprecedented holiday shopping season. With many retailers either closed or significantly cut back on Black Friday sales, shoppers are swarming the virtual stores looking for great deals on their computers or smartphones. There are lots of deals to be had this year and most Black Friday sales started a week or more ago. A recent survey by…
Needless to say this will be a Thanksgiving like never before. Travel restrictions are in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus and many people just don’t want to risk being close to family members who are out of town or who they see only a few times a year. Thanksgiving though is perhaps the most family-centered holiday of…
In a normal year, college students home for the holidays could find work in local restaurants, shops and stores. 2020 is no normal year of course, and many of those students will have a great deal of trouble finding any seasonal job opportunities. Only that’s not necessarily true. Seasonal jobs have gone online this year and the working remotely or…
What’s the difference between a Roku, a Fire Stick, and the Google Chromecast? The answer is both not much and a lot. How is that possible? It depends on what you subscribe to and want to watch. Roku devices have long been a favorite among cord-cutters because it was the first of these three companies to release a device that…
Bad news for cord-cutters who left cable or satellite to save money: costs for some of the more popular streaming services are going up. Netflix increased prices about two weeks ago. Hulu Plus Live TV jacked up the price by $10 a month a few days ago. And Google hiked the price of YouTube TV to $65 a month. Fubo…
If you’re shopping for yourself or someone else this holiday season, you’re going to find some great deals on electronics. Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and Target are all selling smart home gadgets at their lowest prices ever. There’s a reason some of those gadgets are so cheap: they’re collecting data on users and selling it to other companies for marketing…
I’m the type of person that doesn’t like spending money on apps if there’s a free version that works just fine. I’ve made an exception with the calendar app “Timepage”. Even though I have Apple’s stock calendar app on my phone along with Google calendar I’ve fallen for Timepage which is from the folks at Moleskin who makes planners, notebooks,…
There’s a big debate going on now about censorship on social media. Conservative voters are leaving Facebook for an app called MeWe, while conservative Twitter users switch to Parler. Now there’s a YouTube alternative called Rumble that’s attracting conservatives and content creators. Rumble.com doesn’t look much like YouTube but there are lots of video clips of dogs and clips of…
Online shopping is expected to set records again this holiday season. With COVID cases going up again many people who rarely shop online will do most of their Black Friday holiday shopping from their computers and smartphones. With so much online shopping and deliveries it will be open season for porch pirates. You can catch them red-handed on camera but…
Have you gotten an invitation from a Facebook friend to join “MeWe”? If you haven’t yet, just wait a couple of days. The new social media network is attracting millions of people who are tired of the noise on Facebook and looking to stay connected while unplugging from the other 4 billion Facebook users. MeWe says there’ are no ads,…
