The top requested present this year for kids ages 10-15 was an iTouch. Those ages 15+, it was an iPhone, or iPad. I LOVE the iTouch. I got it for one of my anniversary gifts two years ago and I posted on my blog how I like gadgets better than jewelry. Fast forward two years and I have an iPad and iPhone as well. Ok, we get it. Everyone loves apple products, so what are the implications of these AMAZING devices.

An iTouch, iPhone, iPad are very similar to a COMPUTER. Let me repeat.  THEY ARE JUST LIKE A COMPUTER!!! The blogs about Internet Safety have been telling us for years to keep our computers in a ‘public’ location. The kitchen, family room, somewhere where you are likely to be seen. Also, the sites you are browsing can be seen. Any … Read More »

So, I’ve had this on my ‘to do’ list for over 6 months.  I have been avoiding using our MAC home computer.  It is now 4 years old.   I have done much to ‘maintain’ my MAC.  Just install the software and security updates.  I found a good website that had some pretty good ideas.  Here is another article that I found that had similar information.

I don’t know if you need all of the tools that the article mentioned.  It seems like there are 2 things you need to do.

1) MAKE ROOM on your hard drive

The article mentions that you should have 10% free space on your hard drive.  My computer has 232 GB of space and I only had 6 GB of space.

Think of your computer like it’s your kitchen.  Think of the CPU as the cook.  What does the … Read More »