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Amazon to Compete with Paypal

Paypal (owned by eBay) is the standard for online payment systems. Who could compete head-to-head with Paypal? Apparently, Amazon thinks they can with their hundreds of millions of users that regularly use Amazon to buy just about everything possible. According ...

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Google Adds Inactive Account Manager

Google has added a new feature called “Inactive Account Manager” to their website which is available to anyone with a Gmail account. It sounds kinda fancy and all but what it’s really for is to alert and allow your loved ...

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Ooma Hub Discontinued

Ooma sent me an email today notifying me that my wonderful Ooma Hub has been officially discontinued (see picture above). Ooma had previously created a new product called the Ooma Telo, but up until now, although you couldn’t buy a ...

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Nomorobo.com Automatically Blocks Robocalls

Are you getting annoyed with robocallers calling your landline, or worse, your mobile phone? It’s like spam email except it uses up your mobile minutes. These robocallers don’t seem to care that you are on the Do-Not-Call list. God help ...

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FreedomPop Beta Tests Free Mobile Phone Service

As promised back in June, FreedomPop has released their 100% free mobile phone service. It’s still in beta but it’s open to anybody that wants to try it out, as long as you have coverage in your area. If you ...

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Paypal For Business UI Updated

Paypal has released a beta version of their Paypal for Business website. Basically, the site is the same as before except the UI has been “updated” to look a little more modern. Click on the images below to see a ...

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Google’s Android Device Manager Setup & Use

Since Apple has their “Find My iPhone” app, Google didn’t want to be left behind so they came up with the Android Device Manager for Android phones. Unlike the iPhone app, you do not need to download an app to ...

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Pressy Adds Button to your Android Smartphone

One silly feature I miss on my Samsung Galaxy S4 is the camera button that was on my old Samsung Epic 4G. This side button allowed by to simply press the button to take pictures, instead of having to unlock ...

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SmartThings Connects Everything to Smartphone

In my non-ending quest to connect my life to my WiFi, I found SmartThings, which does just that. Basically, you can mix and match different sensors and controllers that all connect to a main SmartThings Hub, which connects to your ...

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Blue Screen of Death Follows Me to 7-11

Lately, I’ve been having problems with my laptop not working properly with WiFi. For some reason, sometimes, I can only access Google and Youtube but not any other websites, but only with WiFi. I’m still trying to figure this one ...

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