APRIL 2013: Bluetooth wireless technology has leapt so far beyond just eliminating wires, it’s like you’re living in a science fiction ecosystem! Now you can listen to music from your water bottle … map your golf swings … record every physical movement you make during the day … open your garage door from your smartphone …
MARCH 2013: If you’ve been waiting for the latest and greatest Office product from Microsoft, wait no more. Office 2013 is here! And, more importantly, it’s up there — in the cloud! Microsoft has hopped up to the cloud permanently by offering its full Office suite as an online, cloud-based service. Other updates include a …
MARCH 2013: You may have heard about celebrities getting their accounts hacked lately but don’t let that fool you into thinking only famous people get targeted! Cyber criminals are super motivated to try to get into EVERYONE’S accounts because the risk is low and the rewards can be enormous. And they steal a lot more …
MARCH 2013: Even the most content frog hops away from the pond once in a while and hangs out in a coffee shop. If you also want to connect to WiFi while you enjoy your joe, follow these seven tips. You’ll protect your passwords and all that awesome information on your hard drive. Turn off …
FEBRUARY 2013: Do you know how delicious your Facebook profile is to cyber crooks hungry for personal information? It’s like an all-you-can-eat data buffet — that’s free! You tell your Facebook friends where you live and work, which school you went to, who your friends are, where you sunbathed on your last vacation, your pets’ …
FEBRUARY 2013: How can you tell if a shortened URL link will send you someplace scary? Expand before you leap! Shortened URLs are redirects from original web pages. If a web page has a long or confusing address, you can assign it a shorted URL using a shortening service like Bitly.com or goo.gl (Google’s URL …
FEBRUARY 2013: Nobody likes working with computers and devices more than us frogs, but if you want to keep leaping along at an awesome pace, you need to take a break from technology sometimes. Your brain will thank you, your sense of accomplishment will thank you and, yes, your boss will thank you, too. Productivity …
JANUARY 2013: From ads to business cards to billboards, QR Codes — short for Quick Response Codes — are those little black-and-white designs you’ve seen popping up all over our communal pond. They’re 2D barcodes and, once decoded by a smartphone app called a QR Reader, they lead you someplace like a webpage or a …
JANUARY 2013: Did you know you can search Google without typing in what you’re looking for? Just speak your search queries, whichever device you happen to be using — smartphone, tablet, desktop or laptop. It’s frogtastically fast and convenient … and it could be the most useful tool for bad spellers since spell check. Either download the app for your smartphone or follow these …
JANUARY 2013: Of all the convenient and innovative apps out there, some can really, truly save the day — they put the smart in smartphone! Check out these super-useful apps and get ready to hop up to a level of productivity you may have never thought possible. Your smartphone can: 1) Tell you where you …