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Where’s Johnny?

Cell phone apps can help keep track of your family

By SYLVIA ANDERSON

L St. Joseph News-Press

ike any good parent, you bought your child a cell phone for safety reasons. The phone was only to be used for emergencies or keeping in touch with you.

That was the plan, anyway. Alas, the phone has become part of her anatomy, and she gets frantic when it’s not at arm’s reach.

No need to stress out. Instead of lecturing about the evils of texting and friending over cyberspace, rejoice! Cell phones are not your nemesis. In fact, the problem can be part of the solution for a multitude of family situations. Check out these new apps we found. Most are free or low-cost, and they may be just what you need:

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Your phone can run, but it can’t hide, so says the Lookout website.

That’s because with this free app you can locate your missing phone on a map from your PC or another smart phone. Know what that means? If you download this app to your child’s phone, you can know where their phone is, too. Since teenagers are even better at losing their phones than adults, you also can sound an alarm, even if the phone is on silent, to fi nd it nearby. Check it out at lookout.com.

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“So, $329 was a bit of a sticker shock,” Mr. Bradley says.

That extra $30 makes a huge psychological difference, he argues. That price tag places the iPad

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The next big thing just got a little smaller.

After months of speculation and anticipation, Apple finally unveiled the hotly rumored iPad Mini.

The leaks and rumors were so accurate, however, that Apple had little new to add.

It will have the same display-resolution specs as last year’s iPad 2, but not the high-definition “retina display” of the iPad 3 which was released earlier this year. The iPad Mini’s display will be nearly an inch bigger than those of competitors like Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Google’s Nexus 7. The device’s screen has the same proportions as the larger iPads, meaning that apps designed for the tablet should also look good on the iPad Mini.

Apple promises 10 hours of battery life, and the iPad Mini will have frontand rear-facing cameras like its bigger cousins. It also will have the “lightning” connector that came new on the iPhone 5 and new iPods.

So, for the most part, the Mini is essentially a smaller version of the iPad 2 that will be available for purchase on Nov. 2.

What didn’t get a whole lot smaller was the price.

Mini prices start at $329 for a 16 GB Wi-Fi only model. The 4G option still costs an additional $130, so the 16GB 4G iPad Mini is $459.

Many experts, including PC World business technology specialist Tony Bradley, thought the Wi-Fi only model would cost anywhere from $199 to $249. At that price, Apple could have cornered the market and dwarfed all of its Androidbased competitors.

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Users create a safe, secure account to build a comprehensive emergency plan/ data kit. It can include everything from allergies, medical history, insurance and doctor info to documents like a living will and a copy of a passport. Once created, the user selects all the people who should have access to the information and be notified in case of an emergency. Every user then gets account ID tags and cards to put in a wallet, on a keychain, in running shoes, in luggage, in a kid’s backpack, etc. If an emergency happens, people looking for info will find the card or tags and call the 24–hour hotline.

This free service provides emergency responders with important contact and medical information, and notifies the user’s designated emergency contacts. One of the powerful features, according to app literature, is the ability to create a missing person’s report with one click of a button and electronically send it to the police. For more information, visit www.emergencylink.com.

location boundaries to define where their children should be and receive an instant e-mail alert in the event the child strays from that location. Parents also can set Geo-fence time parameters to receive an alert if their child does not arrive within a specified location within a certain time period. For example, parents could establish a Geo-fence around their neighborhood block to alert them when a child arrives home from school. Or, in the case of a child who is dropped off at the movies or an after-school function, Geo-fence can alert parents if the child leaves the area — either of their own volition or of someone else’s. Parents can set and edit Geo-fence boundaries through the Snap Secure Web portal, and a secure passcode on the child’s device prevents them from disabling the tracking system. Parents even can configure an alert to notify them if the child’s device is switched off. And it can be used to keep tabs on elderly parents, especially those who are prone to wandering due to Alzheimer’s DRIVESCRIBE disease. For more informaCell phones and teens tion, visit www.mysnapse- are stressful enough, but cure.com. add cars to the equation and you’ve got trouble.

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By SYLVIA ANDERSON St. Joseph News-Press

Coconuts have been around way longer than grocery stores, but suddenly coconut water is being sold like it’s a newly discovered product. It’s being marketed to athletes as a natural sports drink that’s low in calories, with more potassium than a banana and more hydrating than

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The iPad Mini is used in a showroom in San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 23.

Mini in a sort of class of its own — a cheaper alternative to the iPad, that’s still being held to a higher premium than the rest of the 7-inch tablet market.

“It’s like Apple’s way of subtly letting customers know that this isn’t ‘another 7-inch tablet’ — it’s an iPad,” Mr. Bradley says.

According to CNN, the biggest demand for nonApple tablets has been for less expensive 7-inch devices such as the Kindle Fire, the Nexus 7, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and Barnes and Noble’s Nook.

According to a recent Pew report, as of this summer, 52 percent of all tablets in use in the United States are iPads, markedly down 8 percent from a year earlier. Also, nearly as many people (48 percent) own Android-based tablets, and nearly half of those (21 percent) are Kindle Fires.

Despite the $329 price tag, a smaller iPad would challenge these competitors head on, combining their popular size with Apple’s killer features: the iOS operating system,

Apple’s app and media ecosystem and quality design.

That’s exactly why the iPad Mini is likely to steal more sales away from not only the tablet market, but also the weakening PC market, according to J.P. Morgan technology analyst Mark Moskowitz. In difficult economic times, consumers opt for “feel good” purchases, Mr. Moskowitz says, giving the edge to the iPad Mini over PCs and other tablets.

Furthermore, consumers are expected to refresh their smart phones and tablets two or three times before they buy a new computer.

This means the life of the average PC could drag out from four or five years to six or seven years, Moskowitz notes.

What could give the iPad Mini a big push is how it performs in the corporate world. A business considering purchasing 10 iPads at $499 each can now acquire 15 iPad Minis for the same money.

However, businesses willing to consider the smaller display might then also

Rampolla, its website states, who fell in love with coconut water as a Peace Corps volunteer in Central America.

I was pleasantly surprised by the taste. It’s a lot like a skim chocolate milk without all the weird aftertastes that some of these kinds of drinks have. Zico may be marketed toward adult athletes, but I think it would be a great alternative for children who play sports.

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traditional sports drinks.

Although I’ve been curious about the taste, I’ve never bought any since I’m not the marathon-runner type they are targeting. If I feel thirsty from walking, I drink some water.

However, the other day I saw chocolate-flavored Zico coconut water on sale for 69 cents at CVS (reduced from $2.29), so I tried it. Zico is the brainchild of Mark

consider a Galaxy Tab or a Lenovo IdeaPad, Mr. Bradley says. The Nexus 7 has been a huge success, and according to reports from The Verge, it seems that a 32GB Google Nexus model will soon be available at a mere $249.

A business that already is invested in Apple’s iOS — set up to manage Apple’s iOS devices like iPhones and iPads — still will have reason to choose an iPad Mini over other small tablet options. But a business or consumer that simply wants a smaller tablet without regard for platform might find one of the Android options a better fit.

The success of the iPad Mini remains to be seen, but its arrival will certainly cause a ripple effect as Apple’s competitors draw up their own schemes.

“I think it’s safe to assume (the iPad Mini) will have a seismic impact on the 7-inch tablet market,” Mr. Bradley says.

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