According to a June 2010 survey by the Pew Research Center, only 29% of Americans know some of their neighbors and 28% know none of their neighbors by name! So this week through this weekend, Mario Armstrong is appearing on HLN to talk about what YOU can do to meet and get to know your neighbors and use that knowledge to better connect with people, reduce crime in your neighborhood, and just keep tabs on what’s going on!
Category: Videos
HLN: Upcoming mobile games to watch out for
Video games can already be addictive, but some mobile games are really taking it to the next level. On HLN, I explain how even though games like Candy Crush may be simple to learn and to play but that doesn’t mean they can’t also suck you in for hours. With the explosion in mobile over the past few years, mobile game development has never been hotter and now tons of games are vying to be the next Candy Crush. Keep reading for links to all the apps I mentioned on-air.
Inside New York City’s Legendary Chung King Studios (Fuse News)
Dubbed the “Abbey Road of Hip Hop”, Chung King Studios in New York City, founded by John King, earned an incredible reputation in the recording industry in the early days of hip hop. Not only the site where the earliest hits from the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, and Run-D.M.C. were are laid down on tape, it was also a breeding ground for the genre’s breakout producers, including Steve Ett, Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin. Building on those relationships, Chung King Studios became the de-facto home of Def Jam Recordings for its first four years. On this special segment of Fuse News Mario Armstrong The Digital Lifestyle Expert™ takes us on a walk down memory lane with John King himself.
CUBED: Work smarter on your smartphone with “Documents to Go” app
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: entrepreneur Jodie Yule is constantly traveling and working from her smartphone, but needs a way to get even more done while on the go. Right now, she’s juggling an endless stream of office documents coming in, but she has to wait until she’s back at the office to work on anything. Since she has a smartphone on her all the time, wouldn’t it make more sense if she was able to squeeze some work in during all those little moments in-between deliveries of her product, a weekly newsletter delivered to restaurants and coffee shops called “Coffee News”?
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Katie Couric Show: Accidentally Outed as Gay on Facebook
Today on Katie, Mario Armstrong talked to two young people, Bobbi Duncan and Taylor McCormick from Austin, Texas, who were accidentally outed as gay to their families and friends on Facebook. Despite both of them having been very careful with their Facebook privacy settings, due to a flaw in how pages work on Facebook, when they were added to their university’s Queer Chorus group’s Facebook group. The president of the chorus had added them to the group, which then notified their friends and families they’d joined, revealing their sexuality to many people from whom they’d been keeping it secret, including their parents.
Katie Couric Asks Me: What Can Be Done About Revenge Porn?
If you’re on a mobile device and can’t see the video above, click here to watch it on Katie’s site. To learn even more about how revenge porn is affecting women, and to see more clip’s from Katie’s show today, head on over to her site and check out the other videos. My notes about how to best stay safe and avoid embarrassing nude photos of yourself from turning up online, as well as what to do if it happens, are below.
Why is it so hard to get revenge porn sites taken down?
1. Once the image is out there and it goes viral, it’s hard to know where it is and who has it. It is especially difficult if they have changed the file name.
2. People don’t know that they can request content to be removed.
· You can contact reputation management companies to basically scare the perpetrators into stopping.
· You’re allowed to contact individual webmasters and ask them to remove any content.
· Google Inside Search is an Online tool to help you remove information about you online. Read More
HLN: Online Courses to keep skills sharp during the summer!
Whether you’ ve got kids going on summer break and you’re worried about whether or not they can keep their skills sharp over the next few months, or you’re an adult who wants to learn more, tackle a new field, or just dip your toes into a subject matter, online educational tools and courses are an amazing asset. There are a ton of cool things about these sites & getting an Education Online. For one, you’ve got a flexible schedule. There are no fixed classes or deadlines, so you can work at your own pace. Another advantage is being able to work from anywhere—home, the library, a coffee shop, whatever! Even for sites that charge, it still costs a fraction to learn online compared to what you’d have to spend to take even a continuing ed course at the local community college, and you further save on gas and time by not having to commute to drive your kid to their classes. Finally, online courses can be updated frequently so there’s no need to worry that you’re getting an expired education.
New Apple Video Shows How Apps Are Changing the World
Apple’s latest video is a ten minute epic that showcases the role apps are playing in a rapidly changing information-driven world. Through the video you travel to Kenya to see the changing face of mobile-driven health care, witness what it takes to be an amazing Paralympic rowing champion in America, experience an app that is revitalizing language in tribal community in the Northwest Territories of Canada, and find out how smartphone and tablets apps are changing the way individuals afflicted with Autism communicate.
Less an add for any of Apple’s iPhone or iPad, this is about how the apps that run on those devices can actually change the world. For any aspiring app developers out there, this is a must-watch.
Mario’s Top 3: Cutting the Cord on Your Internet, Waterproof Tablets, And A New Photo App
(On a mobile device and can’t see the video embedded above? Click this link to watch directly on the TODAY show website)
First, cutting the cord meant cutting off your expensive cable bill and relying on streaming sites like YouTube, Netflix and Hulu to replace traditional TV viewing with the latest online tech. Now, folks are cutting the cord on their Internet connections. Some people are turning to the abundance of free WiFi hotspots at coffee shops, restaurants, hotels, libraries, and the millions of other places that offer WiFi to get their fix. Others are finding that the Internet connections on their smartphones or tablets are more than enough for them to cut the cord at home.
I also discuss the absolute latest in tablet technology and spill a cup of coffee all over a brand new Sony Xperia Tablet Z with no problems. Finally, I take a look at an app called kicksend that makes it dead simple to get prints of your photos by sending them to a local photo lab straight from your smartphone. How cool is that?