We saw a trailer for the Yoshi's New Island game at the movie theatre recently and my son put it on his "wishlist" immediately!! Yoshi was introduced by Nintendo the early 1990s as a support character in the Mario series but it was only a matter of time before he had top billing with his own series … [Read more...]
Your Life in One Minute
Have you made your Facebook movie yet? (If you haven't, what rock have you been hiding under?) To help celebrate its tenth birthday, Facebook has given all its users a gift: a neat little movie of your life AF (after Facebook - seriously: did any of us have a life before Facebook?), all wrapped … [Read more...]
Closed: AVG Family Safety Software Giveaway (and a Tablet to use it on!)
Technology surrounds us everywhere we turn! Even if we could escape it, who would want to! Especially our kids, their world revolves around high technology, laptops, smart phones and so much more. As parents it is hard to keep up and make sure they are making smart, safe choices. That is what … [Read more...]
Minecraft Detente
Not that long ago, I wrote about my children's obsession with the online sandbox game, Minecraft. At the time, I was concerned abut two things mainly: their addiction to playing it ALL. THE. TIME. and the behaviour of the other people on the multi-player servers.In the months that have ensued, we … [Read more...]