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…
Ah, the elusive Mystery Shopper career. You hear of folks who have this job who get paid to shop at retailers then report back about their experience. Some of those jobs sound very glamorous and can pay exceptionally well with the perks of keeping what they purchase at the expense of the retailer. Those jobs are hard to find though,…
How much is your personal information worth? If your Facebook username and login was hacked the credentials you used may be for sale on the dark web. Your Netflix login information is worth around $10 on the internet’s black market. Stolen credentials are for sale in dark web marketplaces. The same places where people sell heroin, cocaine, weapons, and child…
If we’re being honest, most of us have taken our phones in the bathroom for a little toilet texting. A new survey from Bank My Cell shows 90% of millenials use their phones in the bathroom. Generation X is not much better, at 82% and a majority of baby boomers admit using their phones in the bathroom. If that isn’t…
What celebrity do you most look like? It’s an intriguing question and I suppose most people are at least curious if you favor a Hollywood actor or professional athlete. A smartphone app is doing quite well playing into our curiosity. “Gradient” is a smartphone app for both iPhones and Android devices that claims it can find a celebrity you look…
Facebook will undergo a facelift over the next several months, drastically changing the simple look it adopted when it began accepting users worldwide. The new design, which is currently undergoing beta testing, includes a ‘dark mode’ and uses much more of the screen real estate as it does now. I was invited to participate in the beta program and thought…
There’s a time in most every child’s life where Halloween goes from being a cute night walking through the neighborhood with mom and dad, to a night racing through the streets with their friends. If you’re a parent of a child that age, Halloween might be scarier than a Stephen King novel. There are many apps in both app stores…
My daughter’s phone is almost always low on battery. When I asked her why recently she said she didn’t know and that it had been connected to a charger for 2 hours in the car. I asked which charger and she pointed to the USB port in the glove box. I pointed out the problem of this and my wife…
According to the robocall blocking app YouMail, October and November are typically the busiest times of the year for people to receive robocalls. According to YouMail’s robocall index history, In October 2018, more than 5.1 million robocalls were placed which was a million more than in July 2018. If you have an iPhone Apple has introduced a new feature that…
