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This year, Fellowes brings to us their newy introduced, game-changing Fellowes 73Ci – the leader in shredders. This machine automatically senses and responds to consumer behavior for optimized performance and safety. Read more
If you haven’t noticed, I switched to an iPhone recently, after a couple of years with an Android device. (I recently promised a post explaining my reasons for switching, but just realized that I’ve already written it). The posts here tend to be about my experiences, which is why you’ve seen some iPhone-related posts lately.
Siri is one feature of iOS that has received some knocks, but that I’m finding to be quite useful. I love being able to say, “remind me when I get to work to return John Doe’s call,” and have that reminder pop up as I arrive at the office. That set me off in search of other Siri commands.
If you follow tech news, it’s been hard to miss mention of Mailbox. Mailbox, as described in some glowing reviews, looks to be a new way to handle email, with a focus on Gmail. The general concept behind Mailbox is to help you get to inbox zero by letting you perform full and half swipes to the left and right to archive, delete, and defer messages. The current problem with Mailbox? There’s a long line to get it. Read more
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Consumer electronics is one of the fastest growing sectors in the United States at an over $4 billion dollar increase in growth from last year. This past year in 2012, Americans purchased over $206 billion dollars worth of electronics devices, most of which have a 1.5 to 3 year life span.
While this new wave of technology consumption is both exciting and fast paced , the quick turnover of newly purchased electronics to make way for new and improved models creates a vast quantity of used electronics that are destined for a junk drawer or even worse a landfill. In fact, for cell phones alone, over 150 million were discarded in the U.S last year and now reside in your local landfill. There are also tens of millions of computers, laptops, tablets, mp3 players, televisions and many other devices that follow this same path. Read more
Katie Floyd is the host of one of my favorite podcasts, the Mac Power Users, and over on her blog she highlights an app that could help you out if you ever lose your iPhone or iPad. Contact Lockscreen Info is an app that makes it easy to add your contact info to the lock screen of your iOS device.
