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Review: Kindle Fire

by Juliette Megumi Sumida on November 16th, 2011

The Kindle Fire Review

I’ve had the Kindle Fire for a few hours now and been able to play around with most of the features it has to offer. You can go on the web, download apps, games, books, documents, movies, videos, music.

My initial reaction upon receiving it was the weight. It’s not heavy, but it was much more than I anticipated. It weighed about a size of a medium paperback book to me. I wasn’t expecting that since the previous versions of the kindle have been extremely light and thin. It’s about 19cm x 12cm x 1cm; slightly smaller than a playbook.

Once I turned it on it was like heaven! The color, the features, is absolutely amazing. The screen is shiny like the iPad so there is some glare; unlike the commercials for kindle, you cannot bring this one to the beach and read it under the sun.

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A new App favorite for the iPad: Chuggington: Terrific Trainee!

by Wendy Wick on November 11th, 2011

Chuggington: Terrific Trainee! Is a fun and easy-to-use iPad app for our little pre-school Choo-Choo aficionados. Elijah, my nearly four-year old all-things-trains expert was thrilled from the launch icon onwards. “Trains!” he exclaimed and tapped the app before we were even seated with the iPad safely balanced on our legs.

The app launches with a catchy tune and the choice between ‘easy’ or ‘hard’ and again, I didn’t even get the chance to guide his choice. He went with ‘easy’ because it was blue.

Now the big choices…do we ride the rails with Wilson, Brewster, Koko or Action Chugger? Eventually we ride them all on challenging missions! Elijah keeps sneaking in ‘one more round’ because he wants to ride all the trains. Each train takes you along the rails at a brisk pace and you have to have to tap traffic cones so the engines can jump them or drag your finger between rails lines so they can change rails and avoid obstacles. Each engine has it own unique animation and responds humorously to bumping and jumping the cones which amuses Elijah immensely. Continue Reading…

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WD Live TV

by Radiris Diaz on October 25th, 2011

Two weeks ago Michael Reyes from HardwareGeeks.com let me hold his brand spanking new WD TV Live streaming media player, and I have yet to give it back. He probably won’t get it back either because it’s an awesome device.

The WD TV Live allows me to stream content from my computer, or network storage device and see it on my television. I can now easily show my friends and family pictures with out them hovering around my laptop’s monitor, or I can watch Netflix, Hulu (Oh man I used to love this show called Outlaw), rent movies from Blockbuster and CinemaNow, and even listen to music from Pandora or Spotify. You will have to update your Spotify account but it is well worth it. I can even check my Facebook without opening my laptop.

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Favorite Website of the Week: ZocDoc.com

by Radiris Diaz on August 29th, 2011

Ever needed a specific doctor/dentist and couldn’t find them?

Limited availability? Traveling for work? Living in a new city?

I’m sure you’ve said yes to at least one of those questions and have been frustrated by the runaround that some insurance companies give you, even if you’re searching online. There is never enough information – either the phone number is missing, or you can’t see their availability.

The answer is ZocDoc.com – a good friend just told me about it this week and I’ve already used it. It’s FREE, easy and reliable.

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How Dropcam Has Made Me a Better Mom

by Nikki on August 11th, 2011

Any parent has been there. You need your child to do something, but that heart-aching cry from they protest with makes you cave in. Ok, so maybe some of you aren’t putty in your child’s hands… but I am.

My son, Landon, was not one for taking a scheduled nap. His father and I were on HIS time, and we had come to accept it. Why? Because we cave into tears and pouty lips. Then, Dropcam arrived at my doorstep.

Dropcam gives a good pitch- “Watch what you love while you’re away” And they allow everyone to do it in the most tech savvy of ways- your very own wi-fi internet video cameras. I immediately followed the quick step by step installation directions on the box (connected a cable to my router just for the initial set up, plugged the power cable in, went to www.Dropcam.com to enter my activation code, and added my wireless network) and BAM, we were live! At first, I used our Dropcam Echo for a few days in all the usual ways. Continue Reading…

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Feeling Good about Feeding the Fashionista in Your Girl with Fashion Playtes

by Wendy Wick on August 3rd, 2011

You know that look on the face of a little girl offering up her latest artistic creation full of pride and anticipation of your response… “I made it for you,” she whispers as she drops that finger painting or play doh sculpture into your lap and plants a wet kiss on your cheek. “Do you like it?” she asks basking in your praise…then she is gone and back again, this time dressed-up with your sequin shawls and stiletto heels, asking “How do I look?”… waiting for you to respond “Devine, darling!” Lesson here: Little girls want to create, they want to express themselves and they want to share their uniqueness with the world… and Fashion Playtes is a marvelous way to do just that and spend some quality time together at the same time.

Fashion Playtes a is new website, a new cyber-creative experience for girls that is all about letting her uniqueness shine through…and it is oh so much fun! Imagine the sense of pride and accomplishment as a girl discovers that she can design her own clothes, in her own size, in styles that you would actually let her wear out of the house and even to school. Imagine her glee as she realizes that her designs, those creative wonders of femme fashionista glam and glitz that she just created on-line, can actually be made into real clothes which she can wear, exactly as she designed them. She can even have her own designer label for the clothing she designs… Continue Reading…

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Bring Home the Fizz with a SodaStream Fizz Home Soda Maker

by Wendy Wick on August 2nd, 2011

I love drinking sparkling drinks (agua con gas) like perrier and pelligrino but it gets to be an expensive habit. A friend recommended awhile back that I look into getting a home soda maker but I just never jumped on the idea…until this week. I just got a SodaStream Fizz Home Soda Maker!

The Starter kit comes with everything you need to make you own soda at homes: the Fizz soda maker, reusable carbonator that makes up to 60L and a reusable BPA-free 1L carbonating bottle. You can start with tap or filtered water based on your preference. The Fizz is available in four colors: black, red, blue and green…and naturally, I went with the candy apple red! Continue Reading…

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Celestron Shows You Your World in a Whole New Way with the LCD Handheld Digital Microscope

by Wendy Wick on July 29th, 2011

You have not seen just how much fun science can be until you put a compact digital microscope in the hands a curious child and tell them to go explore! The Celestron LCD Handheld Digital Microscope is an all-enclosed, totally-portable and utterly cool piece of tech that opens up your home, your world and your child’s mind to exploration in a whole new way. The microscope has a 2.4″ LCD Screen Panel for viewing magnified objects and includes a digital camera/video camera with 4x digital zoom so you can capture some of your discoveries, still or in-motion, and upload and share them with via USB connection to your PC. It also has 128MB Internal Flash memory and an SD Card Slot that can support up to 8GB for storing your discoveries.

Within minutes of unpackaging the microscope, my kids were studying the skin on each other’s feet and making lists of samples they wanted to collect…some of which I really had to pull the ‘mommy card’ and say ‘maybe not’ to…

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HappyLight Makes a Happier Me? We will See….

by Wendy Wick on July 27th, 2011

I just received a Verilux HappyLight and I can not wait to try it out. In my quest to create a home-office ‘experience’ the HappyLight should fit right in. The Verilux HappyLight is a compact energy lamp that improves your mood and energy naturally by providing natural spectrum daylight to combat the effects of seasonal change, malaise, jet lag, shift work..etc. You use it for one to two hours a day and start to feel the affects after only 4 or so days.

Watch my unboxing to learn more and watch for my follow-up to see how effective I find it.

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Cobra PhoneLynx….Did You Know Your Cell Phone Could Do This?

by Wendy Wick on July 26th, 2011

I just got the Cobra PhoneLynx, Cell Phone to Home Adapter with Bluetooth Wireless Technology that allows you to use standard land line telephones with your cellular service plan.

Cobra PhoneLynx pairs your cell phone to your home phone so that when your cell phone rings, all the home phones ring, and you can choose whether to answer with one of the home handsets or with the cell phone itself. When you make an outgoing call on your home phone, the call goes through using your cellular service (and minutes if applicable). In short, you can make and answer calls on a normal home phone, even wireless handset leveraging the cell minutes you are already paying for as well as the free nights and weekends.