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Parent Hacks

Parenting Blog & PC.com Contributor

At the collaborative Parent Hacks, parents swap scrappy tricks and practical product recommendations-stuff that never makes it into airbrushed magazines or "expert" books. It's a modern take on what parents have always done: sharing tweaks that make the crazy adventure of childrearing go a little easier. Featured in Parents, Real Simple and PC Magazine, and winner of the Best Family and Parenting Blog in the 2007 Performance Awards.

Kid-Safe Email

Parent Hacks June 19, 2008

Your kid wants to send her cousin an email. She doesn't have an email address. You do, but you don't want her messing with your account.

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Use Your Digital Photos as Your Screen Saver

Parent Hacks May 09, 2008

Taking snapshots with my digital camera is no problem. Snap-snap, all the time. Getting the photos from my camera to my computer-I can do that, too. Problem is, there they often stay, languishing in my Pictures folder.

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When Your Kids Know More About Your Computer Than You Do

Parent Hacks April 21, 2008

Whereas many of us are still playing catch-up with computers-how to use them, how to tend to them, how to integrate them into our lives-for our kids, technology is practically second nature.

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Toshiba Satellite X205

  • Intel Core 2 Duo
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 320 GB hard drive
  • 17 " Screen

The Satellite X205 is action at your fingertips for hard-core gaming

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