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Keeping your Cellphone Number Private

As we all become more and more dependent on our cellphones, it is important to know how to protect your phone number from strangers and spammers who might have come across your number and use it fo

Tell Your Phone to Take That Picture

How many times have you attempted to use your smartphone to take a group shot but could not quite reach the button to snap the photo? Now you can just tell your phone to snap away.

Myth or Truth? Talking About Kids and Internet Safety

Common Sense Media posted a blog focusing on the five most popular myths about internet

The Existence of the Online Literacy Gap

Being able to text, tweet, post and even take video are digital literacy skills most kids have these days, but there is one skill that seems to be lacking.  According to a new study conducted by UC

Managing Your Facebook Account After You Die

Facebook recently announced that it would grant users cont

Is the Death of Privacy a Good Thing?

In an interesting blog entry, fu

Use Your Phone as a Magnifying Glass

Getting older or not, we all can use a little help sometimes reading tiny print or microscopic part numbers on various devices. Of course there is an app for that!

What Apps Have Access to Your Personal Information?

There are a large number of digital apps that allow the developer access to the phone or tablet's photos, GPS location, microphone, contacts and more.

Turn Your Instagram Pictures into Temporary Tattoos

A new service called Picattoo allows Instagram users to “share” their photos in a real-world way.

Critics Question the Quality of Virtual Schools

More and more K-12 school districts are moving towards an online component of schooling for students, including programs for accelerated students, for those at-risk, or for those who need to make u

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