Morning – Features

Tech Tip Today: Outcast Podcast Player

Keep up with your podcasts without schlepping your phone along.

If you’re anything like us and our busy schedules on the Morning Show, you probably find it all but impossible to keep up with all the podcasts you follow. Now there’s a way you can download and play them even when you’re away from your phone. Here’s Francie Black in this week’s Tech Tip Today. Categories: Morning – Features

App of the Week: Steady

Keep a steady stream of cash to your wallet with festival and fun season headed our way.

It may be difficult to believe, as an April snowstorm bears down upon us, butĀ festival season is underway all through the rest of the U.S. And if you want to indulge and your bank account isn’t as flush as you’d like for all those plane and concert tickets, you could have a problem. Fortunately, there’s an app for that. Let…

Thinking Green: Reusing Plastic Bottles

Give new life to old objects instead of burying them in the landfill.

We’re all trying to cut down on the plastics in our life to help the planet out, but it seems like plastic bottles are everywhere you turn. If you can’t cut them out of your life completely, you might be able to find a new use for them. Danny Lipford gives us some creative new ideas to bring new life…

App of the Week: Visor Tax Prep

Tick tick tick tick.

Have you done your taxes yet? The clock is ticking down to the deadline — only 11 days left to go. Now there’s a way to streamline the process and it’s all on your smartphone. Here’s Francie Black with the App of the Week. Categories: Morning – Features

Tech Tip Today: Canva

Shake things up on social media.

We told you Thursday on the Morning Show in business news that Facebook is getting some grief this morning from its users again over privacy concerns. But in spite of all the scrutiny social media gets these days, it seems like it’s almost impossible to get any work done without it. So why not make the experience more fun for…

Morning Buzz: Peanut Butter Preferences Predict Personality

What You Can Tell By Someone's Choice In PB

  Do you prefer chunky or smooth peanut butter? The answer could give an insight into your personality. According to a survey by OnePoll, you can tell a lot about a person just by knowing how they like their peanut butter. If a person chooses the classic smooth PB they’re more likely to be introverted, early for work, hesitant, and…

Thinking Green: Make Your Own Rain Barrel

We're barreling fast toward gardening season.

We’re looking at a couple days’ worth of precipitation this week, according to Marshall. But don’t let that get you down. Instead, why not build yourself a new rain barrel to help out your yard and the environment? Here’s Danny Lipford with this week’s Thinking Green. Categories: Morning – Features

Ask Danny: Painting Vinyl Siding

We're on your side in the struggle to make your siding look good.

We’re finally starting to see some grass emerging under the melting snow and that means it’s time to start thinking about outdoor chores again. Home improvement expert DannyLlipford shows us how a coat of paint can spruce up your vinyl siding in this week’s Ask Danny. Categories: Morning – Features

Tech Tip Today: Rocketbook

Save a tree, go high-tech.

We’re all about anything that lets us go paperless on the Morning Show. Heck, we’d better be. In a two-hour show, the number of pages we go through every morning just to print our scripts weighs in at least a couple of pounds. Francie Black shows us the latest in paperless technology for a notebook that’ll help you save a…

App of the Week: Voice Access

Just in time, you can text without using your hands.

Minnesota lawmakers are pursuing a new law that would create a new hands-free phones only requirement for drivers in the state. So today’s App of the Week couldn’t have come at a better time. Find out from Francie Black why this app could come in quite handy. Categories: Morning – Features