In some parts of the world, summer is ready to kick off, and folks are looking for something fun and free to do with their free time. If you need an exciting new hobby that allows you to combine your love of technology with nature and exploration, geocaching is for you. Basically, geocaching is a [...]

We all love sharing pictures with friends and family. And with online solutions like Flickr, getting your photos out into the world is a snap. Here’s something that will make it even more fun! Flickery is a Mac application that allows you to search, download, and share pictures directly from your desktop. Sharing on Flickr [...]

Open Office 3 is an incredible and diverse productivity tool set. It is an open source program that offers free tools for work processing, presentations, databases, and spreadsheets. The program can be freely downloaded on PC, Mac, and Linux machines.  The best part?  It can open files from any other program!  Read more about Open [...]

Are we all destined to have the same look to our iPhones, iTouches, and iPads? No! iPhones, iTouches, and iPads have four “areas” that can be customized: wallpaper/background, icons, status bar, and dock. While this article discusses just the iPhone, the principles can be applied to the other devices as well. Creating a new iPhone [...]

Are you jealous of iPad’s awesome document reading capabilities? Well, never fear, Aji Reader is one iPhone app that will get you reading PDFs in no time! iPDF is another free one, as well. If those two aren’t the bees knees, you can use DropBox as a Reader or you can create your very own free [...]

Our family loves hunting for treasures.  We mostly meet our needs through geocaching, but we also like to visit and photograph abandoned places and trains.  There is something sweet about remembering things that have been forgotten. One of our favorite local finds was an old jail “holding house” in the middle of the woods here. [...]

Need a cool project for school? Have oodles of free time? Try your skills at creating a video with claymation or stopmotion! Claymation is an animation technique used with clay figures.  Basically, each movement is a new “shot” and the “shots” are connected together at the end to make a movie. Famous claymation cartoons like [...]

DaisyDisk is a sensational visual application for those of us that like to keep track of what we are storing, how much we are storing, and where we are storing files on our machines. This week, we are giving away 20 free copies of DaisyDisk worth $400 to some very lucky winners. In addition to [...]

Recently, the world was in shock after reading an article about a convicted Facebook killer.  Is Facebook responsible? Should Facebook be responsible? Is Facebook safer than MySpace?  While lots of folks have opinions one way or another, this article is intended to give you all the resources necessary to make a decision for yourself.

In this article, I’m going to describe a unique approach how to publish a children’s book. I come from a long line of fantastic storytellers. My brother, Paul, and I are known for a rousing good tale and spinning drab tales into all night events. My children, for good or bad, are the beneficiaries of [...]

I am always on the hunt for tools that allow me to collect and share information with students, colleagues, and friends. LiveBinders is an awesome tool that works like web folders in a digital 3-ring binder.  You can create as many as you would like, you can share them with the world or keep them [...]

The process to develop an iPhone app is not as hard or as simple as one might think.  I am not a programmer, but wanted to see if I could teach myself how to develop an iPhone app.  The news features all sorts of articles about kids as young as 9 that can make them.  If [...]

Life has certainly changed over the last 50 years, and among the greatest changes is the ability to travel to far away places with a click of a mouse. I really love traveling, but don’t have nearly enough time or money to visit all of the world’s greatest places. Virtual world tours are an awesome [...]

Before I became the Dominatrix of Grammar, I was a simple school girl fascinated with the look, feel, and smell of all things paper. I still love paper (Crane’s Paper is my absolute favorite). But, the simple truth is that most of us can’t afford to buy fancy paper and pay someone to design our [...]

I have a confession to make.  I thought it would be totally simple to select the best 5 free Apple products – and then I realized I was in way over my head! Truth be told, I love my Mac, and all the free applications that go with it (well OK, I am not all [...]