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Question from Angela: The photos and videos you post on social media are so crisp and clear, and the colors are amazing.
If you don’t mind saying, what type of phone do you use to take them? I’d love to have one like it if it isn’t too expensive. [Read more…]
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It’s no secret that smart phones have literally changed the way most of us live our lives.
They allow us to make phone calls and use the Internet from most anywhere, and the list of devices they can replace by simply installing an app boggles the mind.
Truth be told, smartphones are actually just really small computers that can run programs (apps) to perform countless types of tasks.
Unfortunately, like other computers a smartphone can get bloated and inefficient over time as you add more and more apps (some of which can conflict with one another) and its internal storage gets clogged up with digital clutter.
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Have you ever stopped to consider just how much of your digital life is stored on your smartphone?
First, there are the names and phone numbers of all your contacts (and possibly their email addresses and other sensitive info as well).
Then there are apps for accessing your bank account, your social media accounts and the accounts for all the other online services you use (and possibly the usernames and passwords to those accounts as well). [Read more…]
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Question from Andy: My girlfriend and I have a bet that’s riding on your answer to this question:
Is a six digit PIN really all that more secure than a four digit PIN?
It don’t seem like just two digits could make that much of a difference. She says it makes a big difference if someone ever tries to break into my phone.
So who’s right? [Read more…]
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Throughout human history there has been a long string of new inventions that literally changed the ways in which we live, work and play.
For example, the inventions of both the electric light bulb and the refrigerator made life on Earth so much safer and a lot more convenient than it had ever been before.
The blazing speed at which technology is now evolving ensures that there will be plenty more great inventions (or innovations) to come in the future, but if I had to choose one device that changed how we live our daily lives more than any other to date it would have to be the smartphone. [Read more…]