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I’m no fashion guru, but I’ll admit that I try hard to keep my daughter looking her best. Probably one of the more frustrating parts of this job is knowing that the cute outfits I find for her will only fit her for about a minute (or so it seems to our budget). So I [...]

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 [...]

Our little one loves buttons. Cameras, camcorders, remote controls…if it has buttons, she’ll make a beeline for it. But keyboards seem to really attract her attention. It seems like she’s figured out that banging on the keyboard makes things happen on the screen. Well, I say “banging,” but there’s some skill there. She’s not so [...]

Several months ago I wrote about Boon’s Frog Pod and other bathroom products. Since then we purchased a Frog Pod of our very own from Target. It really is a very well-designed product. The wall bracket mounted firmly to our shower wall using the supplied 3M strips and the frog slid right onto that. The [...]

File this one under “now why didn’t I think of that??” Although our daughter travels well, it can be a challenge to manage the her stuff in addition to ours. Watching other families, one answer seems to be giving kids their own backpack or roller bag to manage as soon as they’re old enough. Of [...]

I’ve always been a fan of good, functional design. This can be anything from an iPod to a bath toy storage bin. It was the latter that I saw in Target a few months ago. The Frog Pod (pictured) stood out from the other products not only because it was shaped like a large, green [...]