 Speaking of something for $2.99, Lee has a story and a cool stuff found to share since my wife was getting hammered with an endless series of spam calls from the 213 area code. Our home in Baton Rouge isn't exactly a hub for LA-based calls, which made these calls as suspicious as a duck-in-a-business suit. Verizon's blocking service was no match for this onslaught. With heroic intentions, I armed her phone with my favorite spam killer app, Robo Killer, feeling like a digital knight. However, the dragons of spam calls laughed at my pathetic sword. Every number she blocked, another rose from the ashes, all sporting the 213 badge. Despairingly, I wondered, how does one block an entire area code? It seemed like none of my trusty spam-busting apps could crack this one. Enter Number Shield. A $2.99 shining knight from the app store, it blocks calls by pattern. I had it block the pattern, 213-number-dumber-dumber-number-dumber, number being a wild card. And voila, we effectively blocked just under a million phone numbers from 213 and all zeros to 213 and all nines, they're all gone. Spam killers, spam callers from area code 213, not gonna get caught by you, no, sir.