I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year since we last talked. I wanted to say, "Thanks!" to all of you readers who support the "Double Click" column by reading and writing over the past 12 years. It is very much appreciated. Please keep it up. I always enjoy hearing from you.
It is the time of year when I review all of the sites mentioned during the previous year. As always, have fun remembering, discovering, or rediscovering all the info!
If the site addresses are too long to type I have shortened them using "bit.ly" for print, so the links may not look quite right. Without further ado…here they are in their order of appearance with short descriptions of each.
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Online music streaming sites; "Slacker Radio" (slacker.com), "Spotify" (spotify.com), "Maestro" (maestro.fm), Last.fm and the one I like best…Pandora (pandora.com). These are accounts for listening to most any type of music imaginable.
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Google Music – music.google.com. Google’s music site is similar to above; however, you can also upload up to 20,000 of your own songs and listen to them online from any device.
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Daily News-Record – DNROnline.com. My flagship newspaper, read it often!
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Double Clicks – doubleclicks.info. This column’s site, read it often, too!
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Portable Apps – portableapps.com. A site where you can get apps that are… well, that’s obvious.
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Microsoft Office – bit.ly/1kJ3oK4. You know this one, "The" most popular office suite of programs.
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Libre Office – libreoffice.org. One of the two most popular free office suites.
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Soluto – soluto.com. One of many ways to speed up your computer and keep all of your applications up to date, not just the Microsoft ones.
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Lynda.com. A paid online training site for many different applications used today.
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Microsoft Office Training – bit.ly/1cBOoM9. Good free office training.
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YouTube.com – among millions of other videos you can find excellent Office training videos created by people like you and me.
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Google.com – the most popular search engine.
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Gmail – gmail.com. Google’s branded email.
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A Toy Train in Space – bit.ly/1bHdbc3. A dad uses a Raspberry Pi computer to take his son’s toy train into space and return with some great video of the ride.
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Newsblur.com, Feedly.com, TheOldReader.com, Pulse.me and Flipboard.com. Several of the many popular RSS feed readers to replace the dead and gone Google Reader. They vary for mobile platforms and web viewing.
Well that takes us through the middle of 2013. Check out part two of the year in review next week.
