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5 solutions that clean up your address book

Apr 19, 2010 |

Don't limit your spring cleaning to tidying your linen cupboard and sweeping the dust bunnies out from under your bed. You computer needs cleaning too! Why clean, you ask? With hard drive space getting cheaper every day, the time it takes you to clean will be worth...

Spice up your dates with technology

Apr 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...

How to use your iPad for family multitasking

Apr 13, 2010 |

Yesterday's blog post about the merits of buying an iPad provoked some questions about overconsumption, as well as a shout-out from a fellow sofa commuter. In the tug-of-war between buying a device that is sofa optimized, versus buying one less thing because we...

Should you buy an iPad?

Apr 12, 2010 | , ,

Last weekend we made the great pilgrimage across the border so that we could get iPads on the day of their release. The iPad won't be available in Canada until the end of the month, and it seemed unfathomable to wait 20 days for a product that actually describes...

Even in a virtual world, where you live still matters

Apr 9, 2010 |

One of the fantasies that comes from living online is that it doesn't matter where you are based if you're hooked into the net. But in the process of disentangling my online address book -- arguably essential to living life online -- I came across a great interview...