Even though Thanksgiving is still three weeks away, Black Friday sales have already launched in some stores. If you haven’t checked the app stores yet you’ll find dozens of “Black Friday” shopping apps aiming to save you money with sales papers and coupons. One app that’s a bit different claims it will help you save money provided you do your…
Did you get a strange text message in the early morning hours of November 7th? If you did, don’t panic. Lots of people report getting them too. Apparently, across the country people woke up to find seemingly random or at least weird text messages on their phones. Most, if not all were from friends or family or others in their…
Over 40 million people are using the app Venmo to pay for things with their smartphones. Already this year, Venmo payments have totaled close to $50 billion. With so much money changing hands so to speak with Venmo, we expect hackers to be spending a lot of time there and there have been lots of stories of people losing money…
It’s the latest way app makers are trying to make money. Free trials! 7 or 3 days free so you can see if you like them or not. Trouble is, it’s often a trick. Free trials convert to paid subscriptions when they run out. Charged to the credit card you have stored with Apple or Google. Most people who get…
One of the most frustrating things we have to deal with today is the password. We have them for our social media accounts, Apple ID, Amazon, credit cards, mortgage. It isn’t unusual for one person to have more than 40 passwords for all of their online accounts. So what do people do? They often use the same password for every…
There are many apps that claim to help save you money while you’re shopping. Honey is a web app that searches for coupons, Shopkick rewards shoppers when they walk into a store and CamelCamelCamel is a website that compares Amazon prices today with the lowest price in its history. I highly recommend each of those apps and websites. Rakuten is…
If you’re still hanging on to an old iPhone 5, it won’t work after Saturday unless you install a new update to iOS 13. iOS 13.2 was released this week by Apple with new features for the latest iPhones but it also includes a critical update for the iPhone 5. According to Apple, those iPhones will no longer be able…
How well do you know the people who live in the neighborhood where your kids will be trick-or-treating? Maybe not as well as you think you do. Convicted sex offenders live in peaceful neighborhoods in every city and while some states forbid them from participating in Halloween activities such as trick-or-treating, there isn’t anything to stop someone from knocking on…
You’d think to keep Google from tracking your every move, you could just turn off location history in your phone’s settings. You might even go a step further and turn it off in your Google settings. But you’d be wrong…and be followed. I learned that last year. Even after turning off location history in my phone’s settings and in Google,…
Folks using Apple’s credit card, The Apple Card are facing a due date this week and two months after its release you might be wondering if it’s everything it’s supposed to be. I’ve been using it almost exclusively for the past two months to see if it’s a good option for holiday shopping. The verdict? Yes, it is. The Apple…
