Happy St. Paddy’s Day! (You gotta’ know that, with a surname of “O’Keeffe”, I’d begin this blog post on March 17th with an Irish Greeting. You’re welcome!)
Have you listened to any of my podcasts yet? They’re geared for us baby boomers and topics focus upon technology. Specifically, the technology that can (and does) affect our daily lives. Critics rave: “interesting”, “informative”, “creative”, “succinct” (that means brief – episodes range from six to 15 minutes in duration). I’m posting new episodes weekly and soon, I’ll be publishing transcripts here (with links to the tech I discussed during the podcast – as requested by listeners!).
Let me think … what is “newsy” for March … hmm … California (where my wife and I live, is officially out of drought status. That’s to say it’s been raining for the past month and a half and we love it!! Weather folks refer to the systems we’ve experienced as “Pineapple Express” and ‘Atmospheric Rivers”. I simply refer to the as wet. Great news insofar as we’ve been dry for several years. Rain: good!
Oh, did I tell you bout my podcasts? (yeah, I’m pretty proud of getting them started). The link here is one method to find them, Also, I’m in Apple’s podcasts and on Google’s, too. Just look-up “Boomerlife.live”.
My most recent podcast was about apps and apps and apps … Did you know that we (‘boomers and seniors), ONLY utilize (roughly) 10% of the capability of our smart devices (smartphones and tablets). ONLY 10%!!! That’s wasting all of “horsepower”. During the podcast, I list numerous app categories and sub-categories in hopes of motivating listeners to add to their apps and increase that usage percentage to 11% or 12% or more! I’ve added some links to the end of this blog (the top 100 Apple apps and a the top 100 Google (Android) apps. Hope they help you find more useful, enjoyable, empowering, fun apps.
Lastly, I listed some “speed test” apps or websites so you can test the speed of your device.
Apps Categories and links to sources for apps:
The 6 Main Types of Mobile Apps
1. Lifestyle Mobile Apps
- Fitness
- Dating
- Food
- Music
- Travel
- Spotify
- Tripadvisor
- Uber
2. Social Media Mobile Apps
- Snapchat
3. Utility Mobile Apps
- Reminders
- Calculator
- Flashlight
- Weather
4. Games/Entertainment Mobile Apps
- Angry Birds
- Clash of Clans
- Subway Surfer
Fortnite
5. Productivity Mobile Apps
- Docs
- Sheets
- Wallet/Pay
- Evernote
- Wunderlist
6. News/Information Outlets Mobile Apps
- Buzzfeed
- Smartnews
- Google News & Weather
- Feedly
- Yahoo News Digest
- Linkedin Pulse
100 Top Apps (iOS)
Popular SmartWatch apps:
100 Top (Android) Apps
WiFi speed tests: a list of test services: goo.gl/i292em