Author: BriAlys
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2015 Proposed Budget for Dummies

If you have some free time, you can read President Obama’s Proposed 2015 Budget, pdf, all 218 pages of it. Luckily, a few days ago I read an article in CNN Money that offered a few tips. The author clearly has experience with this process, I don’t, so what the heck! “The first trick: Skip the rhetoric.…
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iPhones Drive Car Sales

Move over safety, MPG and resale value! (Consumer Affairs) Apple wants your car-buying criteria to include iPhone integration, which will give you “The Best iPhone experience on four wheels.” According to Mashable, “CarPlay will let iPhone users make calls, access messages, listen to music or use Maps in their cars using Siri-based voice control, touch controls,…
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Texts & Pay Phones

I found a pretty cool video series that shows how kids react to a myriad of things. One such video places a rotary phone in front of a few kids. The first few minutes of the video shows our little friends how to actually dial a number and explains the concept of a dial tone,…
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Speed Read

We all want to read more, right? Wouldn’t it help if you could read faster? If you’re wondering why it feels like it takes you so long to read a single page in a book, it’s because 80% of the Time You Spend Reading, You’re Just Moving Your Eyes. A new app called Spritz is…
