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8 ways iPhones and iPads affect family discipline

September 15, 2011

There’s nothing like the beginning of a school year to illuminate gaps in your family’s, um….discipline. After a couple of rocky weeks inspired us to take a closer look at our family’s rhythms and regimes, I found myself noting the central role that iPhones and iPads have played in all aspects of our disciplinary approach, [...]

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10 essential iPad and iPhone apps for your next road trip

August 16, 2011

When you’re about to hit the road, you need to look at your iPad or iPhone as a Swiss Army Knife: a device to load up with the essential tools that allow you to rise to any challenge. Here are 10 apps I won’t leave him without: TripAdvisor: To check out reviews of any hotel [...]

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Packing list: 11 tech accessories for your web-enabled road trip

August 11, 2011

If only Apple would introduce an Apple Store passport! We’re well on our way to the goal of getting stamped at every Apple Store in North America. Not (only) because we make a point of seeking out each retail location in hope of finding some as-yet-unseen doodad, but because we rarely hit the road without [...]

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Klexi is the cheap and easy way to transfer video to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch

May 27, 2011

If you’re heading out of town or to the gym with your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch, and you want to load it with videos for the road, you’ve got a couple of options for filling it up with those yummy, legitimately downloaded .avi and .mkv files (which I’m absolutely, positively certain you didn’t get via Bittorrent, because [...]

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Why we need to remember life before the Internet

May 1, 2011

“What did kids do before there were iPads?” our kids asked us last week. This question was astonishing not just as an indicator of how central the iPad has become to our family life, but of how incredibly short our kids’ memories are. “What do you mean, ‘kids’?” I replied. “What did you guys do [...]

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Tied to technology

February 23, 2011

My latest toy is an iPod nano watch. It’s just a plain old iPod nano, but it slides onto a watch strap specially designed to watch-ify it. I loved it for being red and iSomething and tiny but even so I wasn’t particularly sure that it was a wise (read: financially prudent) purchase. Until the [...]

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Review: ThinkGeek TK-421 Bluetooth Keyboard for iPhone

December 23, 2010
iPhone case with integrated Bluetooth keyboard

In my gift roundup for Harvard Business Review last week, I wrote that the secret to buying gadget gifts for early adopters is “to surprise us with something so new that it hasn’t yet arrived at Best Buy”. The item I suggested was a keyboard case for iPhone or iPad, but true to early adopter [...]

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Introducing App Girl

October 31, 2010
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This is a cautionary tale about the dangers of introducing children to technology. Four weeks ago, it was time for the annual ritual of Hallowe’en costume selection. Most years, I have the energy to make one costume, which means that one kid get storebought and one kid gets homemade. Last year, Little Peanut got a [...]

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Locative technologies help us redefine what presence means

October 5, 2010
Guy on phone in cafeuy on phone in cafe

Simon King has a provocative blog post about the relationship between using technologies on-location, and actually being present in the location where you’re checking. He begins by comparing e-readers and smartphones to books or magazines: In my experience, there is a huge social difference between using an iPhone and physical media such as a book [...]

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10 ways your smartphone will help you travel with kids

August 19, 2010

It was 9:15 a.m., and the Eiffel Tower had barely opened for the day. Nonetheless, we faced a 90-minute line-up before our two young kids — ages 4 and 6, respectively — would get to take the trip up the tower that they had been begging for since the moment we landed in Paris. But [...]

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Spice up your dates with technology

April 15, 2010

The new Italian restaurant in our neighborhood was the perfect place to celebrate our eighth wedding anniversary. We settled into a cozy table for two and turned our attention to the menu. It wouldn’t be easy to decide on our courses: The menu included almost too many enticing options with ingredients like black olives, Jerusalem [...]

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