Over the last few weeks I’ve been looking for tools to really take advantage of our iMac and try to get our life more organized. It’s so easy to get in a “digital rut” of using the same programs each day and miss out on all the new innovation. So when I heard Evernote mentioned [...]
I just upgraded our site to the latest maintenance release of WordPress. Please let us know if anything gets squirrely. FYI – When I first tried upgrading I received the following error: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class pclzip in \wp-admin\includes\class-pclzip.php on line 171 The cause of the error was a conflict with the WordPress Automatic [...]
I just discovered a fun program called Comic Life. You can edit your photos to make them look like comic books by adding speech bubbles, putting your photos in a comic grid, and applying styles to your photos to make them look like drawings. Comic Life is available for both Mac and PC for $24.95 [...]
Patrick Norton tweeted this photo a couple weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to share. A photographer captured the best photo of an event I have ever seen. The final result is actually a combination of photos stitched together to make a 1,474 megapixel photo. I made a panoramic image showing the nearly two million [...]
Lately I’ve been thinking more and more about the importance of backing up the data on our computer. So much of our lives are stored on that computer and a hard drive failure could make it all disappear. A year and a half ago we had a hard drive die on us. Fortunately, I had [...]
I’ve been really slacking off the blogging, partly because I’ve been spending a lot of time replying to ice rink comments, but also I’m just out of practice. Blogging is such a strange experience. When you start it is exciting and you are full of ideas. After awhile it can get a little tiresome and [...]
This week the Parent Bloggers Network and FamilyAware.org are talking about ways that parents deal with the holiday craziness. We always seem to fall behind and have a late Christmas eve, but this year I made an effort to at least get my Christmas shopping done in a timely manner so I can avoid any [...]
Yesterday my iPod died. There was no response when I pushed the buttons, nothing when I plugged it into the charger. The screen was dark and I was left wondering what I would listen to during my drive home? Panic was starting to set in, but luckily I found salvation on Google. I searched for [...]
I’ve had good success posting my Netflix referral links on the site whenever they offer the 1 month free trial. People get the extra 2 weeks of free service and I get 5 bonus rentals. Lately we’ve been getting so many people using my links that I max out my bonus rentals the first day. [...]
At the start of the school year I became increasingly involved with Facebook. Going to Ethan’s open house before the start of kindergarten brought back a flood of memories from elementary school and I hit facebook where I found many of my former classmates. For the past 2 weeks we’ve been retelling stories from our [...]
