Moms Guide to Technology

I stumbled on a great idea today online!

It’s called a Mingle Stick and the idea is so simple it’s ingenious.

It’s a usb flash drive, one of those pocket-size media storage devices you can plug into the USB port on your computer.  It can store pictures, music and information.  The price of jump drives is so low [and I only buy them on sale] and the storage space so high, I store individual projects each on their own jump drive.    Jump drives are common place.  The kids have to have one for school to portable their computer work!  Nothing so innnovative about a jump drive.

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Everyone is trying to get on my cell phone.  Today, it was a cell phone app I read about online: Foursquare.

You can find it at www.foursquare.com

The idea is a good one for a social networking app.  Here’s how it works:  you sign up and connect with your phone.  Your status is the answer to the question: “where are you?”

They’re targeting young, singles and want them to type in where they’re spending social time.

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Thanks for visiting the Moms Guide to Technology blog.

I’m guessing you are a mom, too.  So, I don’t have to tell you that when you’re a mom, there’ s nothing more important than the kids.   Keeping up with their schedules and my work and my husband has more than eaten up 18+ hours a day.  So, I am never surprised when parents confess they can’t  find time to step across the threshold of life to the online, multimedia world.  Even if “too busy” is just a mask for fearful, I understand.  We are a new generation of parents.  Tecnology is emerging at a rate exponentially faster than my parents could have imagined.  My parents never learned to program the VCR.  They just waited until the kids moved out to watch whatever they wanted.  Our generation will not skate by avoiding the interface with technology.

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