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Would you like to play a game?
Recently, as I waited for my lunch order and fiddled with my iPhone, I was asked what I was doing. A bit embarrassed, I responded "playing Zombie Farm."The look on the store owner's face was...
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Make Sure No One is Stealing Your Wifi
In the October issue, our Solutions editors answered a reader question about how to ward off a Wifi thief. But you might not even know that you're facing one. So we enlisted the help of Best Buy Geek...
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Can I get rid of our car chargers?
Stuck in the car for 5+ hours, I started to count the car chargers required to keep our technology fully juiced when we are on the road. The final tally was seven chargers - 2 phones, 1 Nintendo DS, 1...
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Do you buy DVDs?
This weekend, in a fit of home cleaning, I discovered a cache of what felt like hundreds of DVD cases. Half of the cases were empty, while the rest housed an assortment of special editions;...
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Can I avoid laptop lap burn?
Anyone who has worked/played with their notebook computer on their lap could not be surprised by reports yesterday and today that the devices can get hot. But who knew that they could actually cause...
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Need help remembering names? There's an app for that.
It is no secret that I am terrible with names. In fact, I often joke that everyone should wear a name badge, not just at conferences or fast food establishments, but also at school, work, and soccer...
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Can Pokémon be a parenting tool?
Three years ago I wrote about how I became obsessed with playing Pokémon Diamond and Pearl for the Nintendo DS, under the pretence of creating a posse of creatures for my then five year old to play...
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Do I really need to turn off my electronic devices?
For as long as there have been airplanes and electronic gadgets, there has raged a debate about whether or not passengers REALLY have to turn off their devices. Many of us will probably remember the...
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Looking for a deal? Try foursquare.
After writing about location-based social networking tools such as Gowalla, foursquare and Yelp, I promptly stopped using them. The fact was I didn't really see the point of using these new tools. I...
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Tech gift ideas for guys (from my guy)
With Black Friday looming, our thoughts turn to holiday shopping. Based on my conversations with friends and relations, I know I'm not alone when I say the toughest person on my gift list is my...
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Can I disinfect my tech?
For over a week I have been trying, largely unsuccessfully, to recover from a killer cold. Pulling my iPhone and a wad of used tissues out of my coat pocket, it occured to me that I probably need to...
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Where is that music coming from?
Visitors to our home are often surprised to realize that music is coming from speakers in our ceiling (pictured at right).I'll admit that when my husband first suggested installing speakers, which I...
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You asked – Kindle, nook or iPad?
As a tech blogger and mom-geek, there are two questions that I'm asked most often – Wii or Xbox, and Kindle, nook or iPad?As I've written in the past, I have had a Kindle since last January, and this...
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Can I find a cute bag for my 17" laptop?
As the owner of a 17" Apple Macbook Pro, I suffer from cute laptop bag envy. One doesn't have to look further than Cool Mom Tech, one of my new favorite tech sites, to find several laptop bags – such...
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Found ring around the Xbox game?
During a recent marathon Rock Band 3 game with friends, we broke the disc without removing it from the Xbox. How, you may ask, did we accomplish this feat of magic? While I'd like to tell you it was...
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Has technology ruined snow days?
For the third time in less than two weeks, a major snow storm is bearing down on New England (my husband, a Syracuse-native, confirms that major is, in fact, the correct term and we New Englanders...
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Get Visual Food Recommendations with Foodspotting
This weekend, as you're deciding where to go out to eat, try using the Foodspotting app or website. Foodspotting is crowd-sourced app that shows you photos and reviews of specific dishes near you...
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How "smart" is a smart phone?
A friend of mine recently confessed that she was embarrassed by her cellphone, a Motorola Razr she got in 2006, because it doesn't do much more than make calls and send text messages. She can't use it...
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Go Back in Time with the Top 100s by Year App
Remember how much better the music was when you were growing up? Regardless of when you grew up, the music was just better then, wasn't it? Well, you can easily take a trip back to your favorite year...
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Do my appliances need to be high tech?
Upstairs, in a hall closet on the second floor of our home, sit my washer and dryer. While we rely on them heavily, they aren't very exciting to look at it and certainly aren't what I would consider...
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