Author: Emily Welker

Tech Tip Today: Google Drive

All hands on deck.

Google Drive can help everyone on your team pitch in, whether it’s making changes to a paper, a picture or a presentation. It’s a way to allow everyone access to a project while it’s in process, instead of passing it back and forth among individual team members. Francie Black walks you through the best ways to access Google Drive in…

App of the Week: Monument Valley II

It's highly recommended by our expert Francie Black.

This week’s App of the Week is a long-awaited new version of one of our tech expert’s favorite apps. Francie Black shows us how Monument Valley II gives us a new perspective on a myriad of stunning and impossible landscapes.

Thinking Green: Carbon Footprint

Adam's a size 15.

We hear a lot about what kind of carbon footprint we leave, but do you really know what it is? Or how to calculate how big yours is? (It isn’t your shoe size, in case you were wondering.) In this week’s Thinking Green, Danny Lipford explains the concept of the carbon footprint for all us carbon-based life forms. Categories: Morning…

New Grads and Money: Getting Educated

This advice makes cents.

We spend a lot of time, effort and money making our way through school to the big graduation day. But while schools teach us about reading, writing and arithmetic, they often leave out money management lessons. Many new grads, both from high school and from college, say they don’t graduate having learned much financial literacy to prepare them for real…

Monarch Monitoring Program

A little insect goes on a great big journey. Here's how you can help.

  It’s a tiny little insect that plays a big role in our ecosystem here in the Red River Valley… but to do it, it has to take an even bigger journey, all the way to Mexico and back. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources naturalist Andrea Wakely stopped by the KVRR Morning Show to sit down with Emily Welker live…

Ask Danny: Squeaking Wood Floors

Is it a ghost? A noisy mouse? Probably there's an easier fix than for either of those.

Are your noisy wood floors keeping you up at night? Sure, the creaking and groaning could be a supernatural haunting of some kind. Or, it could be haunted by a rodent infestation squeaking away under the floorboards. But as Danny Lipford shows us in this week’s installment of Ask Danny, the fix is probably much easier. Categories: Morning – Features

Melinda’s Garden: Layering

Think layering your hair looks good? Try layering in the garden.

This time of year is the time you want to fill up all the spare corners of your yard with as many beautiful new plants as possible. But buying a bunch of new plants at the nursery or garden center can get expensive. Melinda Myers has a cost-effective and nifty technique you can use in your own garden, in this…

Pet Connection: Meet Romeo

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou so cuddly?

Romeo is one handsome charmer, but unlike his Shakespearean namesake, he’s only looking for platonic companionship. That’s because the roughly two-year-old pit bull terrier was neutered recently. 4 Luv of Dog rescue worker and founder Kish Hilmert says neutering and spaying your dog is the way to go, unless that animal is going to be bred. Left intact, the hormones…

App of the Week:

Make sure you get credit for your photos wherever they're posted.

When you post your hard work online, the last thing you want is someone ripping it off. Especially when it comes to photos and other items people can pass of as their own. Francie Black puts her stamp on an app that helps you mark your photos and other original creations as your own, in this week’s App of the…

Thinking Green: Insulating Your Home

Thinking pink helps you in thinking green.

When it comes to keeping your home insulated the green way, try spinning the color wheel and thinking pink, instead — as in insulation. Danny Lipford shows us how to check to make sure your home is snug against the ravages of weather and its temperature extremes, saving your wallet and the planet in terms of heating and cooling costs,…