Seacoastonline.com has reported that New Hampshire ranks eighth in the nation for Internet access speed. Our median download speed is 2.7 mbps, compared to the US median of 1.9 mbps.
That sounds pretty good, but compare that to the other countries mentioned in the article:
Japan: 61 mbps
South Korea: 45 mbps
France: 17 mbps
Canada: 7 mbps
Pretty sad, huh? [...]
I saw this photo on Gizmodo and offer it up as something to ponder over the long weekend. I know how stable Segways are supposed to be, but this just doesn’t look safe! What’s next, biking with the stroller alongside you? Somebody should contact Segway about creating a trailer (sidecar?) for kids.
Can we expect [...]
This weekend we got to play with SanDisk’s new Sansa Shaker MP3 player. The Sansa Shaker is aimed at kids eight and older and features kid-friendly features like a built-in speaker, two headphone jacks and an innovative “shake” mechanism to switch songs. Although it doesn’t have any built-in memory, the $40 player comes with a [...]
I’m a big fan of using RSS feeds to reduce the amount of time I spend reading websites for both work and home. Because RSS feeds only contain new information, I can focus on the sites that have been updated and avoid wasting time visiting those that haven’t changed. But what are RSS feeds and [...]
I take a look at Carbonite and Mozy, two programs that promise an easy-to-use way to protect your files by backing them up over the Internet. Do they work? Are they really easy to use? I put them through their paces to find out whether or not they’re worth your money.
Read the article at SNHParents.
In an attempt to get more organized, I’m trying to follow David Allen’s Getting Things Done process. This means I have a lot of lists, and because I’m a geek, these lists live on my computer and PDA. unfortunately, it’s not always easy to add something to these lists when I’m driving or away [...]
As a member of Generation X, I’m no stranger to generational labels. But I can’t help being surprised that my daughter’s generation has already been labeled. And unlike her parents, who were saddled with the stereotypes associated with slackers and grunge music, she and her peers will be part of a generation labeled for “the [...]
I’ve been recommending that friends and family use Firefox for web browsing for a while now, mainly because it doesn’t seem to suffer from the security problems that appear to plague Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE). But while I’ve been aware of IE’s security issues enough to make the recommendation, I hadn’t seen a clear indication [...]
Created by the Polis-Schutz family, the people behind the Bluemountain.com e-card website, Starfall.com is a great resource for educators and parents looking to help kids learn to read. The online site is completely free, a gift from the Polis-Schutz family, a family “passionate about making the world a better place.” The site has sections titled [...]
Several years ago I taught basic Internet skills as a volunteer at a local library. In almost every class, there was a parent who wanted to know how to keep her child from accessing inappropriate materials. My answer was always that the best way to protect children is to put the computer in a public [...]