Shelly Palmer Digital Living - Daily Radio Report

You’ve had almost three weeks to play with your iPhone 5 and try out all the new features of iOS 6. Everyone knows the new Apple Maps stink – just ask Apple CEO Tim Cook, who issued an apology on the subject. An apology doesn’t help you get where you need to go, though. You [...]

Imagine if you could tell a friend, “Yeah, just give me a ring at **Shelly.” Pretty cool, right? That’s what Sprint is letting its customers do with a new program called StarStarMe. After you sign up, you get to choose your **MyName number. For three bucks a month, you no longer have a messy phone [...]

YouTube has been on a bit of a roll lately. In addition to streaming the Presidential debates this month and improving their YouTube TV feature, the online video site just announced they have broken the 1,000 educational channels mark, just in time for last week’s World Teachers’ Day. But that’s not all. Google also created [...]

Facebook hit a significant milestone on Thursday: CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social network now has over one billion – that’s billion with a B – daily users, with 600 million of those users active on Facebook’s mobile platform. Twitter, meanwhile, set a record of its own this week: Wednesday night’s Presidential debate was [...]

We all know that social networking has many features, from keeping in touch with friends to finding out about our favorite celebrity personalities. Now, we can firmly add crime-fighting to that list. The NYPD is increasing its online investigative department after arresting 49 gang members from two rival gangs that used Facebook statuses and wall [...]

As we move toward a more connected world, we can do everything we want on every device we own and everywhere we are. Doing things on the go is fine, but what if you just want to sit on your couch and veg out? YouTube just introduced a slick new TV mode to its YouTube [...]

2012 will go down as the year that social media and technology fully took a hold of society. We recently saw the most connected Olympics ever – the Games dominated Twitter and mobile devices across the country for two weeks this summer – and now we’ll see the same craze in the upcoming Presidential Election. [...]

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook did something seemingly out of character for the company – he apologized for an ineffective product. With the release of iOS 6 alongside the launch of the iPhone 5, Apple eliminated the Google Maps app – reportedly due to a disagreement about voice controlled turn by turn navigation – and replaced [...]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally has something to be happy about. In August, for the first time ever, the Facebook-owned Instagram had more active mobile users than Twitter. In fact, Instagram’s daily user count has increased by about 6.5 million in six months. That’s good news for Facebook; it’s been following the industry trend of [...]

A team of scientists in the UK has teamed up with a group of fashion designers to come up with the ultimate green fashion product.  They’ve created the CatCo laundry additive, a substance that when added to your laundry, creates clothing that pulls pollutants out of the atmosphere.  Here’s how it works: when you wash [...]

Want to make better use of the error pages on your website? You’re in luck. The NotFound Project is working with Missing Children Europe and Child Focus to display photos of missing and exploited children on 404 error pages. The pages also show other details like the date the child went missing, how old the [...]

Think today’s youth don’t contribute enough to society? Don’t tell that to 11-year old Victoria Walker. Walker was recently awarded 20,000 dollars after winning a hackathon sponsored by AT&T. The sixth grader collaborated with David Garu, creative director of the interactive agency WLDG, to create an app that discourages people from texting while driving. The [...]

I was thinking about a juice cleanse … everyone is doing them … they are all the rage. Of course, my doctor talked me out of it. But it got me thinking about other kinds of healthy cleanses and that’s when I decided to do a Facebook cleanse. What’s a Facebook cleanse you say? Well, [...]

Are you on line somewhere waiting to buy an iPhone 5?  If so, I hope they have a few left when you get inside the store.  According to Apple, the iPhone 5 is the fastest selling iDevice in history and they are officially out of stock for online purchases.  You can order one at AT&T [...]

What do a child’s exoskeleton, a replacement eagle beak and custom designed pasta have in common? They’ve all been in the news recently because they were created using 3D printers. That’s right – doctors printed an exoskeleton to help a little girl walk and animal specialists printed a beak to help an injured bird.  And [...]