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A Wired Family App Update: Tumblr
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I’ve been using Tumblr to distribute my articles for about two years. However, I’ve spent very little time reading other people’s content… until recently… and that’s…

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A Wired Family App Update: Hot Or Not
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Growing up can be difficult. Teens are almost by design concerned with how they look, sound and whether they fit in. Many of today’s apps don’t…

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The New Pokémon Go App: Remote Trap, Dead Body and Other Family Fun
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Just when you thought there was a lull in the onslaught of apps for your child’s device – out pops Pokémon Go. On the surface, this…

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A Wired Family App Update: SnapChat’s Speed Filter
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Recently an 18 year-old woman in Georgia, was allegedly using an app while driving three of her friends home in her dad’s Mercedes. The young woman…

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Angry, Unfiltered Words: The Digital Tattoo
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Unless you’ve been living  in  a cave or a Tibetan Monastery, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the  young boy that had walked away from his mother –…

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OPERA: PARENTING, VPNs & PROXY SERVERS
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Recently, Opera, the web browser developed by Opera Software announced that it would add a free VPN service to its latest version. This press release created a flood…

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Managing Your Home’s Router & Network: Beam Me Up Grandma!
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Recently I was speaking to a group of parents that were frustrated with the hoops they must jump through to manage their family’s wireless networks. So…

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How To Secure Your Privacy Settings On Facebook, Instagram, Twitter & Vine
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The question I get the most from parents and students generally relates to, “How do I adjust my privacy settings on social media”?  Since there are…

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Jailbreaking & Rooting: All The Cool Kids Are Doing It!
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Over the past few months I’ve seen more and more interest by teens to jailbreak or Root their phones. For most parents those are foreign terms.…

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What’s In A name: Apple, Microsoft & the New Peach App
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I started my career in the technology business at the intersection of stuffed white shirts and T-shirts and jeans. That was in the spring of 1981…

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