I love barbeques! Favorite type of food in the summer. But there’s nothing worse than settling in for a good old cookout and finding that your tank only has enough gas for a single burger. So the Refuel Smart Propane Gauge is my summer hero.
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If you own an Android device and often copy or send links from one device to another, then this app’s for you.It is also particularly useful if you often find yourself wanting to save or send long URLs, such as Amazon or eBay products or auctions to other people with your phone or tablet. ShortPaste is a free and useful app that shortens a URL right after you copy it on your device. It’s powered by the popular bit.ly format, so…
Read More![ShortPaste – banish huge long URLs from your life automatically on your phone or tablet [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/shortpaste6.jpg)
When I was a kid, I cried uncontrollably when animals died in movies. It got so bad my dad stopped taking me to the theater. I’m sure he wishes that he had Does the Dog Die when I was growing up (or the internet for that matter).
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Air conditioning bills are no joke and this summer is already shaping up to be insanely hot. I thought it just seemed that way compared to the recent endless winter, but then I looked at the weather forecast and realized that the heat wasn’t in my head, it was reality. ThinkEco’s smartAC Starter Kit can’t cool the world down but it shoudl help lower what are likely to be insane electric bills this season.
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Changing your phone’s background is one of the things that helps keep your cell personal. Pictures of family, friends, and pets are common of course, but now there’s an app for people who get tired of looking at the same thing day in and day out.
Read More![Muzei: Turn Your Phone Into An Art Gallery Full of Old Masters [Freeware]](https://www.redferret.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Muzei.png)
Laundry is a high stakes game. One red sock in the wrong load will have you saying “pink is the new white” in no time. Sure, the instructions are on the tags but they’re not always in English. Sometimes they’re in that strange hieroglyphic language that only your mother understands. Laundry Instructions is the Android app that takes the mystery out of the wash.
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Yoga is one of the most relaxing physical activities in existence. They have a pose that is literally just lying down. You can’t get much more relaxed than that. But it can be a very active practice too, which Lunar Europe has keyed into with their concept Tera, the exercise mat that is a rug by day and a tech fueled health tool whenever you’re ready to get your workout on.
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3D printing is hands down one of the coolest recent innovations we’ve yet seen, but one of the hurdles of printing in 3D is that you have to be able to design in 3D, and if you’re the kind of person who can’t draw a straight line, working in the 3rd dimension might be a little troubling. To say the least.
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If you’ve got a passion for shooting hoops then you probably want to make it to the professional level. However, you can’t just aim for the top without proper training. You need a coach to teach you the ‘Ins and Outs’ of the game. But having a dedicated coach is really expensive, so why not use technology to your advantage?
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Oh sweet Blackberry, where did it all go wrong? RIM (parent company of Blackberry) announced recently that it is selling the company for the bargain basement price of $4.7 billion (the company once had revenues of over $19 billion in a single year). The company will be taken over by a group of Canadian private equity firms, but what happens next is anybody’s guess. The future of the Blackberry brand is now uncertain, astonishing when you remember it was once…
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For those of you from foreign climates (i.e. anywhere outside the M25 motorway in the UK) who may be considering heading to London for the Olympics 2012 this month, we have a little tool we feel you may want to consider downloading for your Android smartphone. It’s (possibly) guaranteed to help you save the day if you’re in a social situation near the Olympic Village and find yourself grasping for a conversational gambit or two.
Read MoreThe smartphone is starting to push traditional computing aside, simply because a handset is generally more convenient to use than a cumbersome laptop (and let’s not even mention desktop PCs, where are they now?). Of course you can’t do everything with a phone, but you can definitely handle most of the communication tasks, like email and instant messaging (WhatsApp = total awesome!), as well as things like location searching and simple information browsing. But there are times when it would be really useful…
Read MoreIt’s easy to forget that despite all the hassles we seem to face in the Western world, life is generally very good for us. We don’t suffer from famine, pestilence or war, and there’s probably a Mickey D’s within walking distance. So why do we complain so much?
Read MoreThe smartphone camera has come a long long way since the launch of the Nokia 7650 in 2002, which is generally thought to be the first mass market camera phone in the world. Back in those days everyone was astonished at the quality of the photos the phone took, even if actually they were really rather awful. It was a PHONE for goodness sake! [Nokia 7650 image – Wikimedia]
Read MoreHere’s the problem. Money. It’s become far too abstract. Not only is it usually dispensed via bits of colored plastic, or transferred from place to place in digital bits and byte, but we have lost sight of the true value of the things we buy. Rather like our governments, we’re divorced from the reality of our spendthrift ways. Well no more.
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