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Ion iPics to Go Review
Reading Time: 2 minutes(Left): Originally a regular 4×6 image. (Right): Originally a 35mm Negative / Images: Dakster Sullivan Ion’s iPics 2 Go gives iPhone users (3GS to 4S) the ability to take their...
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The Hobbit “Roll to Win Giveaway” Announced
Reading Time: 1 minuteThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Image: Lego To celebrate the arrival of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, in theaters December 14th, Lego is releasing the first installment of...
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Facebook’s New Privacy Settings Actually Make It Easier
Reading Time: 4 minutes Facebook changes? Commence panic! No, wait! Hold your panic. This week’s changes actually make getting control of what people see about you a little bit easier. Finding...
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Wolfram Alpha Rolls Out Facebook Reports
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you don’t remember having heard of it, Wolfram Alpha isn’t something you forgot from the fifth season of Angel. It’s a “computational knowledge engine,” as opposed to a...
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Looking at Life Through Facebook
Reading Time: 3 minutesI love TMNT. Can you tell? Image: Dakster Sullivan Many parents start baby books for their children. Looking at my son’s book, I realized he won’t learn as much about his early...
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Waze: Exciting News for This Exciting App
Reading Time: 4 minutesScreen capture: Patricia Vollmer. Thanks to a tip from a friend from the Washington, D.C. area, I decided to try out the Waze community-based navigation app on my most recent...
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PAX Prime: The Next Generation of Geeks Speak Out on Bullying
Reading Time: 2 minutes© Facebook At PAX Prime 2013, parents and kids of all ages and stripes filled the theater to talk with GeekMoms and GeekDads about raising the next generation of geeks. Also...
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NaNoWriMo 2013 – Are You In?
Reading Time: 1 minuteNano: Write Fast, Edit Later © Sophie Brown Two weeks from today Nanowrimo 2013 gets underway and those of us participating in this year’s event are starting to feel the pressure...
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First Look and Giveaway–Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives by Randi...
Reading Time: 3 minutesRandi Zuckerberg signing her book. Image: Zuckerberg Media, Dotcomplicated.co Image: HarperCollins This post is sponsored by HarperCollins. Randi Zuckerberg is known to most...
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Is Facebook My Happy Place?
Reading Time: 4 minutesLook at those smiles on my Facebook page. Do you keep your Facebook timeline happy? Or do you keep it real? I’ve been exploring my Facebook persona recently and I think I do...
View ArticleSocial Planes: Soar Into New Communication Heights
Reading Time: 1 minute Too often I find myself reaching out to people via the internet. It’s easy, convenient, and when you want to talk about something uncomfortable, it makes it more comfortable. The...
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Share Pictures With Donate a Photo, Help Worthy Causes
Reading Time: 1 minuteImage: Donate A Photo Sharing photos online has become the norm for most of us, and now when you share those photos you can also help a worthy cause with the Donate A Photo app....
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Keeping Geeky Contact In College
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Miss Us?!” was the caption for this photo postcard sent to my daughter in college. Her brother and I worked hard to get the perfect shot. (Image By Rebecca Angel) ME: Did you...
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Pulp Fiction in Pearl’s Peril
Reading Time: 4 minutesImage: Wooga media I’ll admit that I’m a casual gamer. Kingdom Rush and Plants vs. Zombies on my phone have gotten considerably more play than any game on my PC, and at the...
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How to Keep Social Media from Eating Your Life
Reading Time: 3 minutesImage: Fran Wilde Let me be the first to say it: This is kind of a horse-has-left-the-barn post for me. My day looks like I ran smack into the opening credits for The Matrix....
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Join GeekMom for the Oscars Sunday Night
Reading Time: 1 minuteJoin Rachel and Patricia as they chat on the GeekMom Facebook page about the Oscars. Image credit: Oscars.org. Did you get your invite to the Academy Awards? “No, despite some of...
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The 5 Reasons I’m Sticking Up For Facebook
Reading Time: 6 minutesPhoto: Judy Berna Facebook has been accessible to the masses for less than ten years. Some love it, some hate it. I’ve had friends log off for good, saying it was taking too much...
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In Defense of Time Spent on Facebook
Reading Time: 2 minutesBescot Railway Station circa 1962: Photograph used with permission of Ben Brooksbank, under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. Every so often I like to...
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Reactions to Facebook’s New ‘Reactions’
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was greeted this morning with a pretty significant change on my Facebook desktop. When I hovered my mouse over a post to “Like” it, I was given icons for numerous reactions. As...
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My Journey Through the Fine Art of Overextending Oneself
Reading Time: 7 minutesSomehow, my accumulation of Social Media pages is more cluttered than my actual life. How did this happen? Image: Lisa Kay Tate Part two in my two-part series on Social Media in...
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