This may be the coolest iPod app I've ever seen. GoPostal is a service app for iPhones that allows you to snap a photo, compose your own custom message, and send a postcard from your phone or computer. It's dirt cheap and more fun than summer craft camp. Made by a company called Print Your Life the app can be accessed at their website (click on Design a postcard from your computer). You can create an account or be a guest. The process takes seconds and the resulting postcard is not an e-card, it's mailed through the post office. Cost of...

This may be the most important blog post you ever read. It is becoming clear that using a cell phone while you drive is at least as dangerous as drinking a number of cocktails and then hitting the road. Texting while driving? More dangerous than driving drunk. Texting is the most dangerous distraction on the road and an epidemic - especially among teens whose heads are firmly in their back pockets. If you know some teen drivers - ride herd on them until they get it. You may save lives. Two consumer groups FOIA-ed (Freedom of Information Act) documentation that indicates...

The term "Smartphone" refers to most cell phones in use today. Early cell phones simply made radio-telephone voice conversations possible, but today we find that phones give us lots of extra features like internet, e-mail, text messaging and even computer applications. "Smart" gadgets in anyone's book. The Washington Post called Nokia's entry the most popular, that surprised me. The Post says in a recent article that iPhone will swamp Nokia in 2013. I would have put Apple ahead already, but the typically inflated price point on the iPhone is likely a stumbling block. You can expect a smart phone to: ...

Ezines. Digital newspapers. The moguls have predicted it for years and now it's coming and they can't stop it. The demise of print media as we know it is not far off -- to be replaced by digital readers, iPod publications, Amazon Kindle, cell phones and other tablets. Electronic reading is the way. Here's a terrific piece by Computer World writer Mike Elgan Here Comes The E-book Revolution, Six trends are conspiring to drive electronic books into the mainstream. Take time to read the whole article. I love his comment that today's young people read more than prior generations did. Think about that. I...

I'm seeing more and more about a world wide con game scam directed at grandparents. It was originally a phone trick, and has been around for years, but is resurfacing and has moved to email and instant messaging. Here's how the grandparent scam goes: You receive a frantic email, instant message, text message or phone call allegedly from your grandson or granddaughter. The message says they are using a friend's computer, hence the unfamiliar ID or email address. They're stuck in a distant city where they went to see a concert without parent permission. Their car broke down and they need a large...