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Barbara J. Feldman is a syndicated columnist and online publisher at Feldman Publishing. She has a computer science degree from University of California, Irvine, and has been a nerd for more than forty years.

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Send Money with a Gmail Email Message

by Barbara J. Feldman May 20, 2013
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Google is rolling out a new Google Wallet feature that allows Gmail users to send money to other Google Wallet users with an email message. Both parties must have Google Wallet accounts, and although the sender must have a Gmail account, the recipient does not have to use a Gmail address. Transfers from a Wallet [...]

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8 Apps to Stop Your Teen from Texting while Driving

by Barbara J. Feldman May 16, 2013
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We know it’s dangerous. They probably even know it’s dangerous. But hearing the little ding-ding-ding of a text message or Facebook status update is an irresistible attraction to a teen, even one’s that driving. According to a recent article in Mashable, the “National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) added distracted driving to its 2013 ‘most-wanted list’ [...]

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What Facebook Knows About You

by Barbara J. Feldman May 13, 2013
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Researchers at Cambridge University recently published a study that shows that by aggregating all your Likes on Facebook, an automated algorithm can describe you fairly accurately. Personal traits that can be determined include “race, age, IQ, sexuality, personality, substance use and political views.” And this is just from data that is publicly available. The study [...]

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What is Goodreads?

by Barbara J. Feldman April 1, 2013
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Goodreads is a social network that revolves around book reviews and recommendations. Founded in 2007, Goodreads has 16 million members, 30,000 book clubs and over 23 million book reviews. And Goodreads recently announced that they are being acquired by Amazon. For me, the best part of Goodreads is their recommendation engine. Rate just twenty books, [...]

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What is Qi Wireless Charging?

by Barbara J. Feldman March 13, 2013
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Qi (pronounced “chee”) wireless (or inductive) charging is a new standard in charging mobile devices without plugging them in (hence, it’s wireless.) Instead, the phone or tablet device is laid on a mat, and is charged via induction. Not being an electrical engineer, I’m not sure exactly what induction is, but it does have something [...]

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This Photo will Self Destruct in 10-9-8…

by Barbara J. Feldman February 25, 2013
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In a world where everything you post online is archived somewhere and saved for eternity, a photo sharing app that destroys your photos/videos within seconds of being received has some appeal. Snapchat is the leader in this field (it was recently the third most popular free photo app in iTunes) and Facebook has a competitive, [...]

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