Ideas from Mark Stout

What's All the Fuss About Evernote? Should I Be Using It?

Buying a tablet as a gift?   This week's Family Tech can help.

Using your tablet to interact with other TV viewers.   The Second Screen , this week's Family Tech column.

Spend a little time with your phone now, so when you need it badly in a stressful situation  you'll know how to operate it. This week's Family Tech column.

Microsoft has a new Windows 8, has its own tablets and has a phone OS too.  Lots of great things coming from a rebooted Microsoft.  Will it work out for them? This week's Family Tech column.

I'm bookmarking Electoral College predictions from various media outlets.  Always fun to compare after the election. By the way, this is not a political posting, but rather one discussing math, more than politics. One interesting site is the New York Times 512 Paths to the White House .  It looks at the various swing states, and what remaining paths there are for a candidate when certain ones go into their column, or their opponents.  I'm not going to be able to stay up tomorrow night, but if I could, this would be a fascinating site to use. Given that each candidate has states that almost 100% will win, with only nine states that are toss ups, the numbers say there are 512 combinations of winning or losing those nine states. Obama has 431 paths to victory, while Romney has 76.  There are five paths leading to a tie. A lot of people have demonized Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com for his polling aggregation and statistical analysis, it is interesting to...

You phone is becoming your wallet. This week's Family Tech is about how some phones can replace your credit card.