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Mail Preview

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Eliot waits for the mail each day with great anticipation. This has been going on for years. It comes from having your own business. You pray that the mail will bring checks so you know you will be in business another 30 days.

Life is going to be very different from this day forward. Eliot will no longer have to wait for the mail to be delivered to know his fate. He can now sign up on the USPS website to see his mail before it arrives. It called USPS’s New Informed Delivery Service. .

Informed Delivery is a free service. The post office actually emails you pictures of the mail you received, or soon to be received. How wild is that? All the photos of your mail will be available for seven days through an online dashboard.

One of the major reasons why the post office is taking photos of your mail is because too many letters are getting lost. This will be one great tracking system. We hope this will put an end to other people snatching your mail. 

The digital world is really taking away the daily element of surprise. All good things must come to an end,

Watch the video for further explanations 

Apple Wants To Monitor Diabetes 

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Just in case you didn’t catch the news, Apple 🍎 wants to turn the iPhone into a sensor that will “noninvasively and continuously monitor blood sugar levels to better treat diabetes.” 

I heard this report tonight on NBC TV News with Lester Holt. I  couldn’t believe my ears, so I googled it. Sure enough, there were a number of stories from different news outlets that said Apple was secretly working on a feature that can track glucose levels accurately without piercing the skin. It’s reportedly an optical sensor that shines a light through the skin to measure indications of glucose. 

This is great news for the 29 million Americans who have diabetes. Apple is not sure when the monitor will be available. It has been in development for five years and still needs more work. 


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200 Magazines A Month For $14.95

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I am pretty sure I wrote about the Texture app before because I love it so much. For $14.95 a month, I get 200 magazines electronically delivered to me.

I cringe when I hear people our age say they don’t want to read their magazines on a digital device like as if they are being cheated. Do you know how wonderful it is to pay so little for all those magazines?  

Unless you have Texture, you don’t know how beautiful the magazines appear on your smartphone or tablet. Yes, there are times I actually read magazines on my iPhone. Anything for convenience.

Whoever thought I would be able to carry around 200 magazines in my pocket. At any given time, I can read the publication of my choice. Yesteryear, I would have had to carry around 50 pounds of paper in order to accomplish the same thing.

For those who tell me they would never digitally read magazines or newspapers because they like the feel of paper, I say you are reading old news. Every digital publication is constantly being updated with new content. In this world, things change so fast that after a few hours, it’s dated information. 

There are many advantages to Texture, but the one you will love the best is the summary that tells you which magazines have the best monthly stories. You won’t miss a thing.

Watch the Texture’s tv commercial above, it’s fascinating.  

Happy Birthday Steve

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Today (April 12th) is my brother’s birthday.  Many ask if he’s older or younger than me. I’ll let you figure it out. There’s a four and a half year spread. In any case, there he is below (standing) with his beautiful family. Picture perfect. Happy birthday Steve.  Love, Lois and Eliot 

DigiDame readers loved the dinette set blog post. Here are some of the comments. 






Dedicated to DigiDame readers.

Concerts aimed at old guys are big business. Click here for the story. 

Social Media 60 Years Ago 

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If these dining room sets could talk, we would all hear stories about our lives growing up. It all took place around these tables. In my family, the dining room set was the core meeting place. Everyone came together to share our daily experiences. It was our social platform. 

No Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Just a lot of out loud, chatter. The conversations covered the same topics as we post about today: family events, jobs, friends, holidays, health and politics. One person said something, the others commented. 

Nothing has really changed. We just used a different delivery system. Here’s to the good old days. 

Miami Beach Gay Pride 

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Miami Beach was in full celebration this weekend and Eliot captured it. 

Miami Beach Gay Pride was a three-day event that features a beach party, a festival and a parade area.

The mission of Miami Beach Gay Pride is to bring together members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, their friends, allies, and supporters in celebration of the unique spirit and culture of the LGBTQ community. 

Photos by: Eliot Hess

Grand Marshall Ross Mathews is an American television personality widely known as an intern and a correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where he was known as “Ross the Intern.”

South Florida NBC Six in the Mix” host Roxanne Vargas

Jawan Strader and Sheli Muniz, co-anchors NBC 6 News

Fake News

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The following was cut and pasted from Facebook. You can use the same guidelines if you can’t tell a real story from a fake one in any magazine, newspaper and Internet site.

After a while, trust your intuition. You know if a story is something silly or dramatic, it usually means it’s fake. The best recommendation is to Google key words of the story. If no other publication wrote about it, more than likely it’s lies, lies, lies.

Good luck trusting your judgement! 

Meet #31 Out Of 42,000

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Darren, Kati, and Larry

Kati, Larry, and Darren

Once again, LA 40 host Katerina Cozias has delved into a topic that many DigiDame readers are interested in: Los Angeles real estate. Is it too late to start investing in real estate when you are 40 or 50 years old? What are the best towns for financial returns? Where should folks 65-plus buy homes and what styles are best? 

Kati couldn’t find a team better than Larry Young & Associates to shed light on the latest news. Larry Young was just named the 31st ranking real estate agent out of 42,000 working for Berkshire Hathaway. 

This is quite an honor. Darren Thomas, Marketing Director, Larry Young & Associates, Berkshire Hathaway, will be the first to tell you that the reason Larry reached this high level of success, is because of his dedication and passion for real estate. Larry will tell you that it’s Darren’s marketing prowess that pushed him to such great heights.

Regardless, Larry and Darren are filled with opinions and important information about the real estate market. Here’s an opportunity to hear it all.

Full disclosure: Larry is my first cousin. Larry and his partner Darren are devoted family members and a good friend to all, despite their big lives in real estate. They share their success with everyone. Congratulations cousins. 

Watch the broadcast here.
 

You Give Me A Title

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I found these on the Internet. There was no title or explanation. They were set to music. I have been carrying them in my camera roll for a while. Obviously, they are pieces of art. But why?