May 4, 2009
Want to learn how you can become a hero some day? Try using the new mobile Amber Alerts that are available for mobile phones across the world. When I was a kid, I remember dreaming about being a superhero. Then, as I got older, I was content with become a police officer – I mean, [...]
April 29, 2009
My oldest son likes games and Web surfing, but we don’t want to give him full access to our PC, or to the entire Internet. We’ve experimented with various ways to block him off, with varying success. It wasn’t long ago that I found just the program for which I was looking, a customizable application [...]
April 26, 2009
There’s something about the phrase “top educational websites for children” that makes my stomach feel ill. It may be because I imagine parents plopping their children in front of a PC and only allowing them to play games that involve solving math problems or answering science questions. The torture! However, I was from a generation [...]
March 12, 2009
One of the more difficult aspects of running a household (especially one with kids) is keeping track of where all of the money goes. It always feels like the day you receive your paycheck, the money is already spent, and you have no idea where it all went. The solution most financial experts suggest is [...]
February 25, 2009
After you have been established in a home, apartment, condo, or workplace for an extended period of time, loads of purchases and other assets begin to build-up. Home inventory tracking can become very difficult as receipts get lost and remembering what something cost is almost an impossibility. So, when something gets stolen or damaged and [...]
February 5, 2009
Protecting your children from all of the explicit content that’s floating around the Internet these days can be a hard task, especially if you don’t have a pop-up blocker. Even though your children or younger relatives are swimming in a pool of adult content every time they surf the net, it isn’t impossible to set [...]
January 13, 2009
With the Christmas season and New Year behind us you’ve no doubt collected a bevy of photographs and like most people you’ve either crammed them into a folder on your computer or done the generic Flickr upload. But if you’re like me, you’ll be looking for something different to do with the megapixels of memories [...]
January 13, 2009
How much good news is there on the news these days? Few. Bad news clearly receives a lot more attention than the good stuff. But good things do happen all the time and they must be encouraged. So when something positive has happened to you, when someone has been exceptionally helpful or when something has [...]
January 10, 2009
As most of you know I had a baby (well actually my wife physically had the baby) about a year ago. I have previously covered an interesting program called babySmash that lets your little one mash your keyboard and get some sounds and characters. My little Kayla loved it and now I have come across [...]
July 5, 2008
When we’re kids, we learn stories of the past from our grandparents, often involving their parents and grandparents. How many of you remember those stories? What about the names of the people involved? Those of you with your hands up, are you into genealogy? I’ve been working on it for a couple of years now, [...]
