National Geographic, now weirding out your smartphone
Have a kid who loves odd little factoids about everything and anything? National Geographic has been putting out “Weird But True” compilations in book form for years, but now they’re bringing the wackiness to the iPhone, and it’s more fun than...
Time for a new phone or camera? Well, maybe…or maybe not.
It’s become something of a joke around my house that–as kind of the anti-early-adopter–when I finally cave and buy myself a new tech toy, that’s the sign to the industry that it’s time to come out with something better. I am forever...
Check out great shows, save money shopping. No, seriously.
So have you checked out GetGlue yet? Think FourSquare for entertainment. In other words, it allows you to check in on what you’re watching/reading/playing. So yeah, now you know where find a bunch of link-minded McDreamy worshippers to watch the Grey’s...
Peace of mind, even for parents of bolters
For five terrifying minutes when he was a toddler, I lost my son. More precisely: he ran away from me in a crowded mall, thinking he was playing a marvelous game. Obviously we found him and all was well, but those were a very long five minutes. If you have a child...
Tech support for luddites (Read: your parents)
Are you spending every visit home showing your dad how to turn the computer on… again? Fielding frantic phone calls from your mother about how her monitor is “broken,” when it turns out it’s just sleeping? Then you’re going to love...
Trade in your old tech at Amazon (so you can buy new tech!)
Listen, you’ve been able to trade in your unwanted video games at Amazon for, I don’t know, forever, but they’ve just changed the game: now you can use Amazon Trade-In to swap your books, media, cell phones, and other assorted tech with relatively...
A custom iPhone case with your uncommon photography
Remember when we flipped for the stunning array of available gallery images for the various iPhone cases available at This Is Uncommon? We were particularly impressed with the interchangeable plates for the Gallery model. But you knew we couldn’t rest until we...
Dance, Monkey, dance!
My daughter was about 11 when suddenly, earbuds sprouted from her head as a permanent fixture. And while it’s true that sometimes I’d rather not have to listen to “Firework” on repeat for an hour (ahem), there are also times when I’d like...
Using technology to get kids outside to play
Understand that I am happily in the “throw the kids outside periodically and let them figure it out” camp of kids and exercise; I think that for many kids, that’s all it takes to make sure they’re moving around enough. But for some kids, you...Creating Secure Passwords: The Easy, Step-by-Step Guide
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