A blog for parents by a parent
>I love gadgets. My wife hates them. Well, let me correct that. She hates them for the short period of time between the moment I buy them until the moment she begins using them and eventually claims ownership over them.
Case in point: My DVR.
I remember how much I was looking forward having my DVR installed, [...]
A new version of Google maps will allow parents to track the whereabouts of their kids if they are carrying a cell phone. If the phone has GPS, Google will use the GPS signal to provide a very precise location of where the child is located. If the phone does not have GPS, it will [...]
Sometimes I used Google Webmaster Tools to help me find out what type of keywords people are using to find my blog on the web when they do a search on Google. Today I found that someone had typed the following query in Google search:
“help me invent a machine that can help me with the [...]
There has been several reports regarding teenagers taking nude pictures of themselves via their cell phone cameras and sending them to their significant others. Even worse, many of those pictures are ending up on the internet where they would stay forever.
There is even a new word for this activity “sexting”
The original Associated Press story [...]
A great list of where you can legally and safely download free music, movies, tv shows, ebooks and audiobooks
Although this is not a blog dedicated to technology, I am forced to write about an attempt from a Russian hacker to trick readers visiting this blog into installing a virus in their computer. I am sure many other bloggers will face the same problem, so I’ll try to explain how this happens, so other [...]
Many parents closely watch what their kids do online. And they should! But most monitoring activities rarely go beyond checking regularly on the kids while they are using the computer, or checking the “History” feature on their internet browser.
Most parents consider downloading music or movies, as a safe online activity, but nothing is farther from [...]
