Monday, June 16, 2014

Thing 4 post apocalypse

I am enjoying Zite very much and looking forward to doing more reading and tracking to build and hone my topics. I use the old reader to follow blogs and it's easy to read on my phone but Zite exposes me web stuff I would otherwise never bump into. I'm using Zite to track library news and books so far and appreciate how once I 'like' a topic I get several more topics or subheadings to select. Interested to see how much my scope widens or narrows and pleased that it's a quick way to fill downtime and more productive than the Facebook. 

Thing 3 post deadline

Enjoying the google and red laser apps. Right now the google app has a World Cup home page. I can touch the google graphic and go straight to World Cup scores and highlights. I'm not actually following the World Cup but I appreciate the quick update opportunity anyway. I also appreciate that when I pull up to display the days weather, the search bar jumps to the top of the page with a new background.  I've also played with the RedLaser app a bit. I like the deal of the day feature and will use it when I need to do price comparisons as well. 

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Thing 2

Motivated by deadlines I am. Today I watched the hidden features of iOS7. I found I had learned some of the things (like time-stamped text messages) just through using my phone. But I found out some nifty stuff as well. I turned on bold text for my old eyes and reduced movement to help with battery life. I also learned about searching images with Siri and the @ feature built into safari for quickly browsing twitter.