PonoPlayer could hit right note for audiophiles
While the audio quality of services such as Spotify, Google Play Music and Beats Music is obviously good enough for the masses, a significant number of listeners (judging from comments I received) can hear the difference between music streamed in MP3 format and the same music played on a CD or vinyl record.
Streaming requires music files to be compressed — which results in a loss of sound quality.
[...] compression isn't necessary to download music, and we're beginning to see online services for downloading high-resolution music (lossless playback at up to 192 kHz/24-bit), as well as mobile devices that can play it.
[...] some smartphones, including the LG G3 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, already are high-res capable.
Last month, I discovered that my thumb drive had been completely encrypted and all of my mostly Word and Excel files converted to gobbledygook.
[...] since I don’t have a computer, I use my thumb drive on a PC at the main branch of the Oakland Public Library.
If this had happened while you were using your own PC (and storing files on its hard drive), you might have been able to use Windows System Restore to retrieve previous versions of the files.
A cheaper alternative is aCalendar, an app that isn’t really a stand-alone calendar, but rather an overlay for the Google Calendar.