For those of you that like to shop on Craigslist, ParentHacks pointed me at a great new website called Listpic. On one page, it will show you a picture of all the items for sale. For example, if you look up boats for sale in Denver, you can see at a glance what type of […]
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There’s a really interesting post on the LibraryThing blog about tags and Amazon. (Actually the post is about why there are so many more tags on LibraryThing than Amazon.) I really think it boils down to the reason that resonated with me: you spend the time tagging things you own. Amazon won’t let me see
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I ran across something interesting yesterday. If you search for "Joe Vitale" (the author of The Attractor Factor) in Google, the top two sponsored ads are extremely negative: Joe Vitale Sucks www.RichJerkWebsites.com Don’t buy anything from Joe Vitale until you read this. I was scammed 37 times Dannys-Scam-Review.com These websites are absolute scams I
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Share pictures and emails with your loved ones that don’t have a computer with a Presto. As many of you know, I’m a big of sharing digital photos and emails with family members that don’t use computers. For my grandma, we use a Ceiva, a digital picture frame that all your friends and family can
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This article talks about how to keep your kids safe online: Cool Cat Teacher Blog: 11 Steps to Online Parental Supervision of your Children. It’s main point is that you should be actively involved, read your kids blog or web page, comment on it (so they know you read it) and in general watch and
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I love my iPod. Maybe I should buy these iPod speakers for Caleb. 🙂 Too bad my old iPod quit working. Picture is linked from Gizmodo.
See what the world looks like right now based on current sattelite data: World Sunlight Map.
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There’s a lot of interesting dilemnas around kids and mobile phones. When do you get one for them? Is it ok to track them with a GPS? (It’s definitely tempting!) But the one raised by this article, the fact that kids might feel dependent on phones, didn’t ring true with me. Mobile phones for children:
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Since AOL shared all of its users search data, there’s been a lot of discussion about privacy and what we can do at the legal level to protect it. Laws to protect are privacy are very important. However, of more immediate concern are the decisions we make everyday that affect our privacy. I use Google
You can use this online flight simulator to actually fly over satellite images of the world. Goggles :: The Google Maps flight sim. (You can also just scroll over them in Google Maps or Google Earth, but for some reason, this is cooler.)
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