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Santa’s NICE List…Personalized Video Message from Santa

December 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Santa’s NICE List…Personalized Video Message from Santa

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Audiobooks for convenience and pain-free enjoyment

November 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Audio books not only make long car drives so much more enjoyable, but even sitting out on a lawn chair or in the hammock “listening” to a book is a real pleasure.

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Tablet, Netbook, Notebook, Laptop, Smartphone, AAGGHHH!

November 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
netbook_notebook

How in the WORLD are we Boomers supposed to understand what differentiates a notebook from a netbook, and a smartphone from a cellphone?

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Cord Labels/Identifiers

October 27, 2010 By 1 Comment
Cord Identifiers

How many times have you crawled around on the floor attempting  to identify the buh-ZILLION cords you have?

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Cell Phone Apps for Teens and Grandpas

September 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
icurfew

The iPhone app called ICURFEW is a GPS style software program that updates parents on a teens location, and kids can check in easily and often.

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R.U. a Boomer who loses their keys?

August 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
wireless key finder

Awesome gift for the key loser in your life. (could it be you?) Now we just need to have someone invent a wireless car finder….. Wireless Key Finder by Brookstone. The site states it’s like a homing device for missing keys.

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Cell Phones, a danger to children?

July 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment

We need to be especially aware of the possible brain cancer danger for babies and children whose heads are often close to cell phones.

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Boomers: Virtually wash your old vinyl records

July 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment

This program can help you to get the sound back to the 1st time you played it.

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