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hear, hear: tech tuesday
Filed Under tech tuesday | June 21, 2011
Father’s Day had me reflecting on one of the best Mother’s Day gifts I ever got. Admittedly I initially thought it was the lamest gift ever, a headset for my home phone. It seemed akin to getting a new iron or something equally domestic for Mother’s Day. Until I realized the freedom it gave me. [...]
how cool are you: tech tuesday
Filed Under tech tuesday | June 14, 2011
If you’re like me you’re unable to resist the occasional Google of yourself and with the rise of social media now there are all sorts of new ways to measure your impact online and who’s talking about you, retweeting you or commenting on your Facebook posts. Here are a few we use, though we take [...]
hear the music: tech tuesday
Filed Under tech tuesday | June 7, 2011
We are music junkies in my house. The amount of assorted listening devices from MP3 players to iPod speakers to assorted sizes of iPods from shuffle to nano to classic is staggering. Staggering I tell you. We have CDs up the ying yang, and I’m pretty sure if we had the space, we’d have a [...]
#yvrkids: tech tuesday
Filed Under biz tips, tech tuesday | May 31, 2011
Hashtags on Twitter are wonderful things. They allow me to “watch” #canucks games while I’m working at my computer. Follow events I’m not at, check who’s tweeting about us as “yoyomama” and not “yoyomamadotca” and lots more. A hashtag unites global tweets around a particular topic or community and all they are is literally the [...]
it’s like magic: tech tuesday
Filed Under tech tuesday | May 24, 2011
If you ever wrestled unsuccessfully with a Rubik’s Cube back in the day you may quail in the face of Lola’s Magic Cute, but have no fear, this app designed for kids from three to seven, while visually somewhat similar is much more easily solved, all while developing your child’s visual, mental and concentration skills, [...]
just drop it: tech tuesday
Filed Under biz tips, tech tuesday | May 17, 2011
Have you discovered the joys of Dropbox yet? I was introduced to this ingenious product by the lovely Penny of Milk Factory fame a few years ago and have been evangelising about it ever since. Why? Because it’s so awesome. Dropbox makes your files available to you anywhere – on any of your computers, online [...]
an apple a day: tech tuesday
Filed Under tech tuesday | May 10, 2011
I’m a bit of a shutter bug. I take pictures constantly…primarily of my son. I’m not saying they’re good pictures…they’re just my little way of capturing the memories that my mommy brain instantly forgets. The thing is I take them, upload them onto the computer, and then I don’t look at them again. It’s not [...]
duck, duck, rhino: tech tuesday
Filed Under tech tuesday | May 3, 2011
There seems to be an ironic theme to our tech tuesdays posts. A case of technology hearkening back to classicism. The Kate Spade iPhone case I covet is just once example. In another instance I just downloaded the Moleskine App. And my children’s love (and my!) of Paper Town Friends is yet another. This dress-the-paper-dolls [...]
tech tuesday: the wants
Filed Under tech tuesday | April 26, 2011
The unrelenting miserable weather we’ve been having of late – interspersed with the odd gorgeous day to remind us of what we’re missing – has me filled with the wants. The common theme around what I’m wanting has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with colour (and apparently the colour red) and [...]
tech tuesday: don’t flip out
Filed Under tech tuesday | April 19, 2011
So it was only a few years ago that we, and many others, were extolling the virtues of the Flip camera. I loved, and still love, our handy little Flip but it’s likely that my smart-phone-phobic husband loves it most – when the kids start doing something cute (which is incessantly of course!) I pull [...]
