Mobile phones have mostly overtaken the market on telephone communications. Everyone has one, not having one makes you weird and unusual. Despite being mobile though, mobile phones don’t really go everywhere and using them outside of your country can leave you with some heavy fees. FreedomPop is the free cell phone service that lets you go anywhere.
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More and more, we’re communicating with the written word whether it be through email, text, or on newsfeeds, being able to write things is important. We aren’t all great wordsmiths though and although casual conversation doesn’t require hard core grammar, it might be a good idea to make sure all your punctuation is in the right spot for a professional chat. Ginger Grammar Checker is software to help you communicate better.
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It’s 2016 now (yay!) and it’s pretty clear that we’ve still got a long way to go when it comes making things equal, especially in the tech world. One of the things that can help is being more cognizant of the words we use. Translated Gender is an app that helps you remove gendered speech from your vocabulary.
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How would you like to get the news, before it’s news? If you’re the type of person that wants to be REALLY abreast of what emergency services are doing in your neighborhood, the 500 Channel Police Scanner will let you know what’s happening straight from the dispatch.
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Roughing it in the great outdoors can be a beautiful and transformative experience. Getting lost out there however, could be deadly. The inREach Explorer Satellite Messenger will let you stay in contact even when you’re going off grid.
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Keeping in touch these days is as easy as the push of a button in most cases but for older family members, keeping up with the latest sharing technology may be a bit more difficult. Bloom is an easy to use system to share moments designed with grandparents in mind.
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Remember when you were in grade school and you learned how to write invisible notes with lemon juice? Step up your secrecy game with the Spy Pen, an invisible ink pen and black light combo.
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The thing about text messages is, if you don’t have the number saved to your phone, you have no idea who the person is. This can be awkward. Also there’s the spam problem that some people experience. If only our SMS worked more like email. With the Truemessenger app, you have a more organized text experience that mimcs your email inbox.
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Emoji exist to help us communicate without words. Although they’re great at sharing basic emotions and if you string a bunch together they can form complex sentences, they’re not perfect at communicating everything. Introji are emoji made just for introverts because sometimes, you just want to stay in your bubble.
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You can email most anyone these days. Just scan it in and push send. Some offices however haven’t quite caught up with the technology yet and still require a fax which can be a problem if you ditched your fax machine ages ago. Fax Zero is a website that lets you send a fax for free, right over the internet.
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When you’re a spy, you send notes that have to be destroyed after reading. Most of us are not spies but that doesn’t mean we don’t have communications that we wouldn’t like to see destroyed so they don’t fall into the wrong hands. Privnote is a site that lets you share things electronically without worrying they’ll be passed on.
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Everyone has a phone and there’s much talk about being too connected to it. It’s so easy these days to be distracted by the magic box in our pockets though. The Light Phone is a simple answer to the problem of spending too much time on your phone.
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As if you would ever leave the house without your phone but there could be an emergency causing you to rush out in a panic. Don’t worry though, the Hotel My Phone app can turn your friend’s phone into your phone.
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Are you afraid that your text messages are being read by outside entities? Worried that the government is watching you? Well give TextSecure a shot, the encryption app for all your text messaging needs.
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Phone calls are great for commmunicating with one person at a time, but if you want to chat to groups of people you’re actually mostly limited to using apps like Skype or Hangouts. But now there’s a new gadget which gives you the group chat power of a walkie-talkie, with the convenience of a Star Trek Communicator.
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