Technology

AboutOne Review & Giveaway!

by JJ on July 18, 2011

I was recently given a fantastic opportunity to “test drive” AboutOne — a secure online family management system started in December 2008 by Joanne Lang. This was immediately the kind of place for me to settle into–I am an extremely organized person and I like all of my information filed, sorted and itemized in a [...]

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Later this month JJ will be sharing her review with online management system AboutOne, but in the meantime we heard that there is a neighborhood block party going on with a giveaway. We like free things and we thought you might too! The contest is open from July 15-July 31. Go check out the six [...]

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In light of my request for book suggestions yesterday (have you put in yours yet?), today we will explore the world of e-readers. There are so many out there, especially once you include tablets, so how do you pick which one is right for you? Size Does Matter First off, you need to decide how [...]

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Simple Can Be Better

by Dresden on May 3, 2011

Minimal Movie Posters is a new site that takes our favorite movies and reimagines the movie one-sheet as minimalistic art. It is reader submitted and some of the pieces are quite stunning. A few years ago Sound of Design took famous album covers and reworked them in a similar fashion. We wonder if you can [...]

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1. Cracked has created a list of the 10 creepiest plants that exist. We REALLY wish we hadn’t clicked. Will you? 2. What’s this? A collection of watches worn by Mulder on The X-Files. I mean you OBVIOUSLY have more important things to do today…but…maybe you might click. Just to see… 3. You might never [...]

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At one point in our lives most of us have looked up into the night sky and marveled at the magic of the splendid twinkling stars above us. Some of us try to find constellations or planets, some try to predict weather patterns, and some just take in as much of the beauty as they [...]

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Did you ever stop to think of what the back of a website looks like? Wonder no longer, as Back of a Website shows you the guts of some of your favorite destinations on the web. (Click image for more)

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It was just a few months ago that I first heard about instagr.am’s app for the iphone. I was out with friends and we were being silly and taking photographs of our evening with our cell phones and then logging into our twitter accounts or facebook accounts to share the images with others. One of [...]

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Sometimes when the weather shifts from cool to warm we become filled with creative energy. The sky is blue! The grass is green! The flowers are blooming and you have a spring in your step. But sometimes we need nudges to be inspired. Here are five links that will get you back into your creative [...]

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I’m not entirely sure I understand Higgs boson (referred to as the God particle) but according to this 2002 article from Wired magazine it is essentially “the heart of matter”. And that’s the sort of stuff that makes me go woah. (Even if it’s in a bit of a Bill & Ted kind of way.) [...]

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