Author: Emily Welker

App of the Week: Seffct

Step up your social media game.

If you want to bring your A-game to posting images on social media, it helps to have a few special tricks up your sleeve. Special-effects tricks, that is. Francie Black is the master of all things social media in today’s App of the Week — check it out. Categories: Morning – Features

Thinking Green: Packing Peanuts

Pack your environmental worries away.

It’s Valentine’s Day soon, and you may have found yourself packing up some goodies to send to loved ones who live out of town. But if you love the environment, should you really be using packing peanuts? Danny Lipford explains whether they’re something worth driving yourself nuts over, in this week’s Thinking Green. Categories: Morning – Features

LIVE: Money Talks: A Mardi Gras to Celebrate

The market's back up just in time for Fat Tuesday.

After a rough run last week on Wall Street, the markets have recovered to where a lot of investors are breathing a sigh of relief. But are we celebrating a recovery too early this Mardi Gras Tuesday? Legacy Wealth Management’s Brady Brunsvold earns his beads by sitting down with the Morning Show’s Emily Welker for a live in studio interview…

Going Green

Can you choose greener technologies without it costing all the green in your wallet?

Everywhere you look, it seems like someone’s telling you to go green — buy organic products, reduce your carbon footprint by shopping locally, replacing your old gas guzzler with a hybrid or electric car. But buying green can often cost more than traditional technologies. Local cities and companies are making green work: the city of Fargo harvests landfill gas and…

Ask Danny: Range Hood

It's still six more weeks of comfort food weather. Make sure your kitchen can handle it.

It’s going to be at least another six weeks of casseroles and sauces before the comfort food cooking of winter gives way to the fresh salads of springtime. And to keep your family fed, you’re going to need to make sure you have a range hood that can handle the heat you generate in the kitchen. Find out how to…

Tech Tip Today: Safari

The browser of choice for iOS just got a little less tricky.

Your smartphone is sure handy for browsing the internet, but if you’ve never used an iOS device before, you might not be familiar with all the handy little tricks it can do. For tips, tricks and hidden features, check in with Francie Black in this week’s Tech Tip Today. Categories: Morning – Features

Pet Connection: Meet Piper

She likes to do her own talking.

Piper likes to do her own talking, but on the Morning Show, she was nice enough to let Emily Welker and Diamond In the Ruff’s Ryan Keel give her an introduction. The two joined Emily live in studio for both Pet Connection Thursday and for Giving Hearts Day this week. Piper’s only a year old, but she’s already got enough…

App of the Week: Winnie

Parenting's a full-time job. Here's an app that's never off the clock.

There’s a world of advice out there for parents. Now if you only had enough free time to sift through it all. Fortunately, there’s an app out there that collects it at your fingertips, and lets you connect with other parents who can help you figure out the useful from the not-so-great. Check it out in today’s App of the…

LIVE: Money Talks: Bad Day On Wall Street

A precipitous plunge for the markets has a lot of folks worried.

Don’t call it a disaster, says Paul Meyer of Legacy Wealth Management, and whatever you do, don’t panic. That’s in spite of Monday being the biggest one-day free fall on Wall Street we’ve seen in months — in fact, it was the biggest point drop in market history. But as Meyer explains, this selloff was precipitated by too much good…

Thinking Green: Organic Food

Eating clean, eating green.

You’ve probably noticed the organic section at your local supermarket expanding over the last few years. You may even be one of those folks who makes a special trip to an organic market to buy all organic produce and other groceries. How do you know what you’re buying is really clean for the planet and for your family? Let Danny…