May 20th, 2012
The recent Mobile Internet Censorship Report from the Open Rights Group (ORG), which revealed some of the legitimate websites that often get incorrectly blocked by adult content filters (over-blocking) on UK mobile networks, has triggered a rush of 19 new reports including a major technology news site (GigaOM), a style and fashion magazine, the BNP website (political party) and more.
The issue is currently a hot topic because of a recent Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection, which called for all fixed line broadband ISPs to enable automatic blocks of pornographic sites (i.e. adult content) by default, although these often make mistakes and block legitimate sites too.
On top of that network operators frequently fail to provide a clear path for appealing unfair blocks, which risks damaging legitimate business and freedom of speech.
Jim Killock, Open Rights Group, said:
“These new reports highlight the breadth of over-blocking happening on mobile networks. The debate often focuses on adult sexual content. But mobile networks are making much bigger judgements about what people under 18 should be able to see, including decisions about political websites. They are making decisions that are best made by parents.
Claire Perry’s suggestion of default adult blocks for broadband ISPs would inevitably lead to a similar range of sites being blocked for adults in the UK. If children are to be protected by default, then why would the protection exclude chat sites, extremist sites, gambling, or alcohol?
Whatever you think about the BNP’s politics, political speech is at the core of the activities protected by freedom of expression rights. So long as they remain within the law, political parties’ websites should never be blocked by ISPs. Schools and families are of course able to install their own blocking software if they want to make this choice.”
Readers wishing to report unfair blocks should visit the Blocked.org.uk site (assuming mobile operators don’t block that too), which allows people to submit reports of any blocks they consider to be inappropriate.
List of Latest 19 Blocking Sites
http://www.glam.co.uk – A magazine of style, fashion and celebrity. Content appears at first glance no racier than many daily newspaper websites. Orange
http://www.thewinesociety.com/ – The wine societies aim is ‘to introduce members to the best of the world’s vineyards at a fair price.’ Vodafone / Orange
http://sexonomics-uk.blogspot.co.uk – This is blocked as pornography on O2
http://forums.selectbutton.net – Video games discussion forum. Blocked on T-Mobile / Vodafone / Orange
http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk – A forum for locals of East Dulwich. Blocked on Orange
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk – Discussion forum for people interested in the ‘exploring of abandoned buildings’ Orange / T-Mobile
http://www.bikermatch.co.uk – A site for bikers to arrange meet-ups and dates. Blocked on Orange / T-Mobile
http://www.bnp.org.uk – Blocked on O2 (as a hate site) / T-Mobile / Vodafone / Orange
http://www.manwomanmyth.com – Blocked on Three / Orange
http://www.antimisandry.com – Blocked on O2 (as a ‘hate site’) / Vodafone
http://www.exposingfeminism.wordpress.com – blocked on O2 (as a ‘hate site’) / Vodafone
http://www.angryharry.com – Blocked on Vodafone / O2 (as a hate site)
http://gigaom.com/ – Technology news site. Blocked on Orange
http://www.coadec.com – An advocacy group for technology start-ups. Blocked on Orange
http://lrug.org – A community of ruby developers based in and around London. Blocked on Orange and Vodafone
http://www.yourdailymac.net – An odd block as it’s classified as pornography by O2 yet currently is simply a holding page noting that the domain has been registered. Blocked on O2.
http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/ – A blog about network security. Blocked on Orange
http://www.exploit-db.com/ – A forum for discussion of security vulnerabilities. Blocked on Vodafone / O2 / Orange
http://www.ethicalhacker.net/ – Vodafone / O2 / Orange
Judging by this list, the content of certain newspapers, such as those calling for such blocking to be imposed upon all ISPs by default, could also end up being censored. In reality that wouldn’t happen because it would generate too much negative publicity, although smaller sites are unlikely to have the same level of PR protection.
The Open Rights Group (ORG) are calling on all mobile companies to disclose the numbers of their customers who have taken up an opt-out from blocking, including their estimates of how many adults are stuck behind related censorship systems. The group believes that this is necessary to understand the impact of the “default blocking” policy being considered by the government.
Meanwhile mobile operators contend that mistaken blocks, especially those that can be disabled by the user, do not amount of censorship. It’s a fair point and as an experiment we attempted to disable the block on a Vodafone connection, which proved to be very tricky (the links seemed to go around in circles). In the end we needed a Credit Card number for verification. Needless to say, nobody was too comfortable with the idea of handing their CC details over; clearly room for improvement.
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May 20th, 2012
JOSEPH Calata with his signature waistcoat and rockabilly pompadour. PHOTO BY NELSON MATAWARAN
On a sweltering summer day, and belying a mean schedule, Joseph Calata looked fresh and relaxed as he strode into the lounge at Mandarin Oriental Manila.
He wore a dark three-piece Zara suit, his no-nonsense look offset by his trademark quiff and Rayban Wayfarers.
When the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) rings the bell on May 23, the 31-year-old self-made billionaire will become the country’s youngest businessman ever to list his company through an initial public offering. He will also become the youngest chairman of a PSE-listed entry.
Calata has transformed a modest family business into the country’s largest distributor of agriculture products and veterinary medicine. The net proceeds from Calata Corp.’s P270-million IPO are earmarked for the expansion of retail outlets nationwide.
“It’s also effective in getting international deals,” Joseph said. “If there are other countries looking for an agricultural company to invest in, it’s easier if the company is listed.”
The launch of Calata Corp. in the stock exchange is the highest point in his career so far. The company scored P2.7 billion worth of revenues last year.
It took some organization, calculated risks and luck for him to amass such a fortune. Instinctively, he adopted the principles embraced by billionaires: Save money, live frugally, keep the nose on the grindstone, create long-term plans, and make the best use of your resources.
“Outside of Manila, such as Bulacan and Nueva Ecija, everybody thrives on agriculture,” Calata explained. “We see only the roads and the stores but behind those are rice fields, piggeries and poultry farms. What I sell is the input for what people eat. For them to eat rice, fertilizer for the soil is needed; while the rice is growing, it needs agrochemicals. I also supply the seeds. In all, the life of rice is supplied by Calata. We also provide what pigs and chickens eat.”
Minding The Store
Born and raised in Bulacan, Joseph speaks eloquent Tagalog and makes broad animated gestures with his hands, his face intermittently lighting up.
He has always been driven by high aspirations. He went to a Catholic boy’s school in Bulacan. At De La Salle University (DLSU), he took up B.S. Math but shifted to Management of Financial Institutions.
Enterprising by nature, he joined a networking operation that sold multivitamins and other food supplements. He recruited people and put them through a seminar to help him sell the supplements.
CALATA Corp. earned the respect of the industry for its high standards and professionalism. PHOTO BY NELSON MATAWARAN
In five months, he made P400,000 from commissions.
“I taught them everything about the products and threw in service opportunity strategies, and actively encouraged them,” he recalled.
After graduating from DLSU, Joseph joined the family business, J. Melvin’s, a poultry feed store in Plaridel, Bulacan. It had been incorporated under the name Planters Choice Agro Products established by his parents Eusebio and Isabel in 1978. The store was named after Joseph and his older brother Melvin. His father was an agricultural trader; his mother, a working student before she married.
Joseph said he’s moved by his mother’s sacrifice. She worked hard six days a week to provide her four children the best education possible. Before jumping in, Joseph observed that the business was run like a sari-sari store. The core product, animal feeds, would be weighed on the spot and handed to customers, and the money was kept in a money pot or in a drawer.
“I saw that the assistant could easily pilfer money if he or she wanted, whenever my mother went to the restroom,” he said.
“There was no audit, no POS (point of sale/transaction) checkout. At the end of any given day, the assistant could say, ‘Ma’am, we have P20,000 worth of sales.’ What if it was really P30,000? My mother would have no way of knowing because there was no inventory head. The store was probably making money because she was able to send all of us to school.”
Although J. Melvin’s had branches in Malolos, its main market were the farmers in Plaridel.
“The business was run Binondo-style. Mom was cashier and purchaser. She would deposit the money in the bank. Ultimately, you couldn’t expand with that system,” said Joseph.
Taking the reins
He envisioned the backyard business as a professional corporation. He bought an accounting software that took him a year to master and tailor-fit to the store.
“It was definitely trial-and-error but I wanted to prove that it could be done with patience and determination,” he said. “I asked myself, ‘Will I end up working in this store, merely giving change for animal feed?’ I decided to professionalize it. I worked 24/7. I could not make a new transaction if the previous day’s sales had not been encoded…because I saw how things would pile up. I wanted to perfect the system. I had to know how much we made every day. Was there profit? How much?”
Joseph was single-minded in proving that putting a system (and a paper trail) in place was the way to go. Although recording the inventory was tedious, it guaranteed accuracy. Joseph and a staffer would do separate inventories; he often spotted discrepancies.
POULTRY is raised in climate-controlled conditions. PHOTO BY NELSON MATAWARAN
Like anyone introducing innovation in a traditional setup, Joseph met opposition.
The customers now had to pass through him as the cashier so he could encode transactions. They found this method too slow. They grew impatient in the long queues and left in a huff. His mother and relatives asked him to dump his system because it messed up the business.
Eusebio thought his son was building castles in the sky. “I told him I would be like a Gokongwei one day,” Joseph chuckled.
His mother resisted additional expense, such as added manpower and a P2,000 printer.
Joseph was not about to stop. Out of his P8,000 monthly salary, he allotted P2,000 for his salesman who went around with a list of products. He also used his own money to buy the printer. “All I wanted was to increase sales,” he recalled.
His effort at computerization was rewarded when, one day, the records reflected a grave error. “It showed that P100,000 was paid twice to a supplier,” he related. Isabel was won over.
In 2004, Joseph took over the reins and expanded the business across Luzon. He was right to sense that the potential was huge. “There was a big demand for our products—feeds, agrochemicals, fertilizers. We just had to tap it.”
As the revenue sheets ballooned, Joseph earned the respect of suppliers and, soon enough, the banks. “I have kept a clean record with banks. As for the suppliers, I always honor my word. When they set a direction, I follow.”
Positive outlook
By 2009, the company had earned P1.8 billion. It was renamed Calata Corp. It has since established a partnership with San Miguel Corp. (SMC) for the latter’s farm operations in Isabela and Davao, and chicken-raising for the Magnolia brand.
“We have 80,000 chickens every month in a climate-controlled system,” he said. “We plan to expand. In Davao, we plan to raise 500,000. Our breeder farm partnership with Monterey (San Miguel’s meat product brand) is in Isabela, the nucleus farm in the whole of Luzon. Meaning, we have the great-grandparent stock that SMC gives the breeders.”
He has earned the confidence of such companies as San Miguel Corp.-B-Meg, Syngenta and Bayer Crop Science. They appreciate his professionalism and sound corporate organization.
“I aligned myself with their vision,” he explained. He added he’s very straightforward in his dealings and put premium on integrity.
Calata has been sharing his good fortune with Gawad Kalinga, Child Protection Network, Cinemalaya, Spouses of Heads of Missions Charities, US Ambassador’s fundraising for Smokey Mountain, Empowering Brilliant Minds Foundation, Red Cross and Fashion Watch.
Ultimately, his accomplishments are founded on a compelling inner strength. “When there are problems, I’m focused—I don’t panic. I don’t give up easily. When there’s a problem, I see it as an opportunity.”
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May 20th, 2012
Retired Arizona State University teacher Chuck Riden has joined forces with MystroWARE Technologies, SuperKids.org, and JingleSPOT, officially launching KiddoID, a MystroRCI project being worked on at http://KiddoID.com.
KiddoID is an identification system, for protecting children across America, and around the world.
“The concept is simple, it provides protection for our most important asset – our children,” said the software creator, Chuck Riden.
According to Mr. Riden, the KiddoID software is part of a process, that produces a specially designed identity card, featuring a built-in forensic tracing system for protecting children from danger. Additionally, he pointed out that the software is a database that’s suitable for all identification it produces.
So, whether children are abducted from a Day Care facility, lost on a school field trip, concert performance, or mistakenly dropped at the wrong bus stop, etc. or families need to be ever watchful of child safety, Chuck said, KiddoID is a free child identification software program.
“It was designed to ensure that every daycare, school, bus services, teacher, parent, after school program, sports program and any other agency or facility that cares for the nation’s children will have a high-tech protection system at their disposal,” he said.
The bottom line is that, KiddoID allows for positive identification of the child and authorized guardians,” said Chuck, who added that KiddoID is simply an advanced multi-technology identification system.
The KiddoID project, which had been on the side burner for years and have so far attracted a great deal time and investment, will now be “Crowd Funded”, see http://KiddoID.com/FUNDING, to raise the funding required to complete the project.
According to Chuck, the project is currently being managed in Tempe, Arizona by MystroRCI, and he is personally responsible for most of the software framework, the initial idea, and any required debug. MystroWARE, is responsible for user interface, how to posts, and help videos. Team Gorpus and JingleSPOT are responsible for wiring the Internet, smartphone and tablet interfaces. JingleSPOT is also being responsible for advertising and marketing, as well as all website and hosting needs for the project.
“The project is going to put a ‘Software-as-a-Service’ (SaaS) online via the JingleSPOT Nexus (see; JingleSPOT.com/networks). This will be a FREE service to any school, day care, school related bus services, and even parents across America,” said Chuck. Learn more about IndieGoGo.com
Contact Information
Chuck Riden, Developer
Riden Consulting, Inc. / MystroRCI
621 Geneva Drive
Tempe, AZ 85282-3734
480-968-0407
Email: Riden@Riden.com
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May 20th, 2012
I am 15 years of age and was wondering if anybody could help me find a cheap flight from Bristol to Barcelona and unaccompanied flying alone. I am looking for a price range around 100200 british pounds with return included in that. The days i need to leave and return on are 13th 14th of July to 19th of July. I know this is alot to ask but ive looking 247 and still cant find anything. Many thanks Dillon.
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Hi go to Ryainair and book it from Bristol to Girona. Thats the cheapest you will find. You get to the airport of girona and at the airport just ask a person at any desk they will speak englishfor the bus from girona to barcelona and you will get to the city centre Arc de triomf in about an hour. It is about12931 GBP but probably 160 with baggage and extra costs. Or you can go with easyjet but again it is more expensive.
Travel can be expensive and lastminute travel is even worse If youve ever had to do this you know it can be a major pain in the pocketbook.
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I am on a extended stay in Canada and wish for my son to come over for the summer holidays he is in the UK and a minor as he is 14. Does this make a difference as i am also from the UK and not a Canadian residentIf there is no problem with this how do i go about doing a booking for a minor As i will be booking his ticket here and it will be getting picked up in the airport in the UK. Would appreciate any input thanks.
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I need to get tickets for my daughter who is going to Switzerland alone. She is 12 years old and she is staying there for the summer vacation. I was wondering if a flight attendant will lead her because she is underaged or what. Can you also help me find cheap tickets. From Chicago to Zurich.
From ORD you would take Swiss unless you want a cheaper flight with a connection. Unaccompanied Minor UM is the term used for children aged between 5 and 12 who are not in the care of an adult. A ground agent accompanies these children from the checkin desk through customs and up to the aircraft. They are then cared for on board by one of the flight attendants up to their destination airport where a ground agent collects the children at the aircraft and escorts them through customs bringing them to the designated person waiting for them.
All administrative charges are also included in this fee. Your children are always in very good hands with SWISS especially when they travel alone. For all children between the ages of 5 and 12 who are travelling without an adult we offer reliable care from checkin until they are met by a specially designated person upon arrival at their destination. This service is also available to young travellers up to the age of 18 if desired. At the airport Children travelling alone with SWISS are cared for from checkin until they are met by someone you have delegated at their arrival airport.
Airport gate personnel will accompany children travelling without an adult from the checkin counter through the security checks to their departure gate and then finally on board. On board At boarding children are greeted by one of our flight attendants and shown their seat. During the flight our flight attendants will look after the childs needs and make sure they feel comfortable. A special childrens menu a selection of toys and a highly varied inflight entertainment programme all help to make the time go by quickly.
Please note that for security reasons this person must be able to identify himself as the person you have designated. Click on English on top left She will be well taken care of.
I am letting my parents take my 11 yr old on vacation do I need to get her some identification or will my parents be okay getting through security.
If it is a domestic flight your child does not need any identification. If it is an international flight your child will need a passport and possibly a visa. That being said you will need to give your parents a notarized letter stating that they have permission to take your child on a trip by themselves. This is for their protection due to the increase of child abductions done by relatives. You should also make sure that the letter gives them full authorization to seek and obtain any and all medical attention for your child.
This document is very easy to obtain. You can get it from anywhere there is a notary. I know a lot of banks will provide notarial services for free or a very small fee for their clients who have an account with them. The post office also offers this service as do lawyers offices and the fee is very cheap usually no more than 5. A very simple but brief letter is all that is needed. It should include your and your spouses names the name of your parents your childs name and what is allowed. An exampleWe and give and our full consent to travel alone with our child.
You want the document to be specific enough that they wont get turned down at any point during their travels or denied medical treatment but you also want to keep it vague enough that should the travel plans change canceled flight delayed flight some sort of emergency etc they wont encounter problems either. All you must do is have the letter typed up but not signed. Take the letter your drivers licenses or other form of picture identification such as a national ID card passport etc and then you and your spouse will have to sign and date it in front of the notary.
If there is no additional fee and there usually isnt get at least 13 extra copies. Why Well your parents will need to keep the original with them at all times for the length of the travel. I always like to keep the original plus 12 extra with me in case something happens to one or an airline employee takes one. You should also keep a copy with you so that if need be you can fax it or send it to your parents. You should also give your parents a notarized copy of your childs birth certificate. This will help to verify that you are truly the people who signed the consent form.
That way if any emergency should arise no matter where they are the treating physician will at least have some verifiable information to go on. This book also usually includes what your chil is allergic to and some small but very helpful notes from hisher doctor. Be sure to give your parents the name and number of your childs doctor as well and along with this be sure they take your childs Medical ID card. Ive been flying internationally domestically with my children since they were each 2 months now 86 9 months and I am currently pregnant with 4.
We do another 810 international and domestic flights a year as a family. I have never had any problems with my children. I wrote a small article about flying with children that goes more indepth gives security rules and regulations for the US EU UK and Australia offers tips and tricks for the travel etc. If I can be of any more help or assistance please feel free to contact me.
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Alone
Alone. Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react.
Alone. That’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son’s death.
Alone. A madman survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he’d done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous. And filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance. What brings them together is a moment of violence—but what connects them is a passion far deeper and much more dangerous.
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May 17th, 2012
Elite Email has learned that defeated Republican presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich, is violating email marketing best practices and his campaign’s privacy policy by selling his email mailing list data to dig the campaign out of its $4 million debt.
New York, NY (PRWEB) May 16, 2012
Newt Gingrich, the defeated Republican presidential candidate, is selling his donor email marketing mailing list in an effort to dig the campaign out of a $4 million debt. This is a complete breach of trust with his supporters who are now going to receive spam from any illegitimate organization that decides to purchase the data. The unsolicited email will be of the worst kind because not only is the Gingrich campaign selling the actual email address, but it is coupled with other personal information as well, according to the investigation by Elite Email. This action completely violates email marketing best practices and ethics, which ultimately damages the reputation of Newt Gingrich and the Republican Party as a whole.
“As a leader in permission-based email marketing, we at Elite Email are disappointed by the actions of the Gingrich campaign,” said Robert Burko, CEO of Elite Email. “We proudly teach all of our customers how to properly build an opt-in mailing list and safeguard their customers privacy. To see someone who was trying to become President completely dismiss the importance of privacy is a very sad thing that email marketers everywhere should shake their heads at.”
The Newt 2012 privacy policy clearly states, “We are committed to protecting your privacy online.” The policy also goes on to say, “We may obtain information about you from outside sources and add it to or combine it with the information we collect.” This means that even if a donor did not supply their email address, the Gingrich campaign can use other personal information and perform an action known as “email appending” to obtain an email address and piece together a complete record about the donor that they can ultimately sell. This practice is heavily frowned upon by all email marketing service providers and no legitimate email marketers engage in such an action.
Organizations all around the world use email marketing software to send out email newsletters and announcements as the Newt 2012 campaign had claimed it would be doing. But, all of those organizations work hard to build a permission-based list of people who explicitly asked to receive their email marketing campaigns. They follow email marketing best practices and treat the private information of their customers with the care, security and sensitivity it deserves.
The Newt 2012 data is being sold through the data brokerage firm TMA Direct. The pricing is setup so that the price of the data is higher for those donors who gave larger amounts of money, with smaller donors having a lower price tag. With this email marketing data now readily available, donors to the Newt 2012 campaign should be on high alert for increased spam and be vary wary of any organizations claiming a linkage to the campaign when sending an email.
With increased spam as a result of the actions of the Gingrich campaign, marketers should use caution when using their email marketing software to send out campaigns by avoiding words that might appear in this “Newt Spam” so that their legitimate emails do not get incorrectly flagged as spam.
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May 17th, 2012
The Irish Times – Thursday, May 17, 2012
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AN IRISH-based firm has unveiled new software aimed at keeping children safe on their mobile phones.
The brainchild of MM Technologies, Mobile Minder helps identify potential child-safety issues for parents such as cyber-bullying, inappropriate photographs and messages their child may receive on their smartphone.
It works through an application installed on a child’s smartphone, and an online platform that parents can use to monitor their child’s activity when necessary. That includes everything from length of calls and texts to website history and app usage, giving parents a detailed look at mobile activity.
With about one in five Irish children reported to have experienced some form of cyber-bullying, the software intends to ease parental concerns and alert them to situations of which they may have been otherwise unaware.
As well as flagging inappropriate content, parents can use the software to get real-time information on their child’s location, receive alerts when their child reaches a predetermined location, and to see the interactions between their child and their mobile contacts in a visual display.
An emergency “help me” button can instantly broadcast the child’s location to a parent through a text message.
The Mobile Minder software came out of a existing project on which MM Technologies chief executive Don Corbett and co-founder Brian Shannon were working.
“Things were moving quite slowly, so we decided to adapt it to the child protection market,” Corbett says. “We looked at the existing solutions out there and they seemed to assume that your child was doing wrong, and parents needed to know about it.
“That’s the wrong approach I believe – I think it’s about creating trust. It’s not about creating a tool that spies on your child, it’s about creating an alert system so if your child is in any sort of danger or needs your help, they can get your assistance.”
Earlier versions of Mobile Minder were adapted after feedback from some users that gave rise to new features and refined existing ones.
The software cannot be disabled by the child, but, in keeping with the company’s “trust” approach, it is flagged by an icon in the phone’s on-screen notification bar that alerts users of the phone that the software is running in the background.
“The icon is visible. It’s about trust; the child knows it’s there,” Corbett says.
The subscription service works with Android and BlackBerry phones and costs about 10 cents a day. It is available in Ireland, the United States and the United Arab Emirates. More markets are expected to join in the coming months, with the company also looking at Africa.
MM Technologies, which is a subsidiary of Associate Mobile, is a relatively new company, having been established in May last year. It currently employs 11 people.
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It’s widely considered now that web filtering software is very necessary to keep an eye wherever there is an active internet access. With an increment in cyber crime and misuse of internet, there is a probability that you may face an unfortunate event if you choose to work without a full proof internet filtering software. It is not always possible to keep an eye over your shoulders on all the fellas using your computer.
Thus, whether you are a businessman, or the principal of a school, a librarian or parent of a child you need to install a good web filtering software to control the activities that may take place on your system in your absence.
Web filtering software is a tool designed to give you complete protection against the risk and dangers associated with the usage of internet. The software can monitor a single computer as well a group of computers or multiple users at a time.
It is totally customizable and can only be controlled by the person who has an access over its password. Internet filtering software lends complete power to business owners as well as parents to block all the undesirable websites on the internet. In other words, this software will assist you in blocking P2P programs and to detect if any unproductive information or content was downloaded from the internet through your computer.
It goes without saying; parents today are so busy that it becomes impossible for them to stay back at home to check manually what their children are doing at home on the internet. When installed properly and with correct settings, the internet filtering software will restrict the access of your child to undesirable and unproductive sites. Besides the internet filtering software is engineered to allow you to set the amount of time your child can spend online all throughout the day. The internet will automatically disconnect as soon as the scheduled time gets over. Call this software your best bet in protecting your child from the bad elements of internet.
In addition to the above features, most internet filtering software has default settings. Default settings permit the software to block anything which it feels to be offensive. For example if you try to access a site which is innocent, but has illustrations of nude paintings as it deals with art education, the internet filtering software will spontaneously prohibit you from accessing the site. Thus, as the controller of the system it’s your responsibility to arrange the customized settings by stating specifically about the contents that need to be blocked.
There are many different types of internet filtering software available in the market such as the client-side filters, the content limited ISP’s, the server side filters and so on. Choosing one should be based on your needs. You may take the help of software professional to direct you towards the right kind of web filtering software depending on your needs.
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May 17th, 2012
Computer Safety for Kids
Start With the Basics – Protect Your PC
Guarding Access to Your PC – Get a Firewall
Beginning in the Zhou Dynasty, which was in the 11th century BC, construction was commenced on what was to become the Great Wall of China. For 2,700 years, culminating in the mid-1600s, construction continued on the wall until it stretched 4,163 miles from east to west China. The wall was constructed to prevent invasion by other stdined ons of China and outer tribes.
When you connect your PC to the Internet either through cable, dial-up, or DSL,Chat En Espanol Gratis. it is like China prior to the Great Wall. Anyone can invade your PC, and plunder, pillage, and destroy content on your PC. A firewall acts just like the Great Wall of China. When installed, it acts as a barrier between your PC and the outside world. It prevents unwanted and unauthorized associdined ond with your PC over your Internet connection.
Firewalls come in two basic forms:
- Hardware firewalls – hardware firewalls are some of hardware, like a PC, that gets installed between your PC and your Internet connection. Literally, a cable from your cable or DSL modem gets connected to the hardware firewall.What Is The Definition Of A Chat Room?. Another cable is connected from the hardware firewall to your PC. When done, the hardware firewall acts as a barrier between your PC and the Internet. It lets you get out to the Internet, but it does not allow unauthorized access from the Internet to your PC. Many cable, DSL, and wireless routers/switches have firewalls built into them.
- Software firewalls – A software firewall serves the same purpose as a difficultware firewall. It, however, is software that gets installed directly onto your PC.How To Use All Messengermailsocial Network In Single Software?. The software monitors all inbound and outbound Internet traffic, and credined ons comfortableware barrier between the Internet port into your PC and everything else on your PC. Once installed, it lets you get out to the Internet, but it does not allow unauthorized access from the Internet to your PC. Software firewalls have an advertisementvantage in that they can implement rigid controls over what software installed on your PC will be permitted to access the Internet.
Many people use both a difficultware firewall and comfortableware firewall. It is similar to having a fence to protect associdined ond with your yard, and then a front door to protect associdined ond with your house. Everyone should use at least one firewall, hardware or software. If you have a laptop,for. you should use comfortableware firewall. That way the firewall goes with you, wherever you go, protecting your PC.
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Plug the Holes – Make Sure to Download Operating System Upddined ons and Patches
By now,for. the security holes and flaws in Windows have become legendary. To their credit, Microsoft publishes a steady stream of fixes, patches, and upddined on releases to plug all known security holes, flaws, and problems. In order for your PC to gain benefit from these patches and upddined ons, you must, at minimal, download as well as install of the critical security upddined ons that Microsoft makes getable. You can do this one of two ways:
- You may download as well as install of them manually by visiting the “Microsoft Upddined on” link on the Microsoft web site.
- For newer versions of Windows, such as Windows XP, you can turn on the “Automatic Upddined ons” feature of the operating system and also the upddined ons to be downloaded as well as installed automatically.
Either method works well. The “Automatic Upddined ons” route takes the thought and work out of the process. Regardless of which method you choose,How To Join Aol Chat Rooms?. the important thing is to keep Windows up to ddined on. Out of ddined on versions of Windows can leave your PC open to hackers and viruses.
If you are using Mac OS or LINUX, then none of this practical applicationlies. You are actually using inherently more secure operating systems. It is still, however, important to install upddined ons and patches to these operating systems as well to be up to ddined on and to provide the best protection against unwanted intrusion.
Take Your Medicine – Install Antivirus Software
A computer virus is an unwanted software program that:
- Gets loaded onto your PC
- Replicdined ons itself, meaning that it copies itself and distributes itself to other computers
A virus can get onto your computer from any of several sources, including:
- From a removable disk
- From an attachment to an e-mail message
- From a download while surfing the web
- From a worm through a known hole or flaw in your operating system
Once on your PC,kids. the impact of a virus can range from relatively benign to rendering your PC unusable.
Antivirus software is software that you use to protect yourself from computer viruses. It can detect and remove known computer viruses. There are many excellent antivirus package ranges getable that are relatively inexpensive. There are also several excellent antivirus package ranges getable for free for home, non-commercial use.
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To prevent viruses form being able to hhand your PC, you need to select one of the antivirus package ranges as well as install it on your puter.
TIPS: Make sure that your antivirus software is setup to:
- Automatically check for upddined ons so that its’ virus definitions database is up to ddined on and you are protected from the ldined onst threats. Most upddined ons are provided on an annual subscription time. Make sure that you renew your subscription when it expires. Free products, such as AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, provide the upddined ons at no cost.
- Automatically perform a virus scan at least once a week. If the PC is used to surf the web extensively then you may wish to perform virus scans more frequently, even once a day.
Stop the Spies – Install Anti-Spyware Software
Adware is any software that displays advertising on your computer screen, either through banner advertising within an practical applicationlication, or through pop-up windows.Safety. Spyware, which may also be known as a spybot, or tracking software,How To Effective Online Dating Online Dating Tips?. is computer technology installed on an individual’s PC that gathers information about them and their computer use. Adware and spyware removal software, or anti-spyware software, is software that is installed on your computer to comsoftball bat the threats of adware and spyware.Kids. It will search your computer’s memory, file system, system registry,Free Music for Cell Phone. and comparer cspasms for the existence of adware and spyware. It will then remove or quarantine any items that it finds. Adware and spyware removal software may also monitor for, and actively block, the downloading of spyware practical applicationlications.
There are two excellent anti-spyware programs getable for free, Ad-Aware SE Personal from Lavasoft, and Spybot Search & Destroy from Safer Networking Ltd. There are also many excellent anti-spyware package ranges that range in price from $19.95 to $39.95. Select as well as install one of these package ranges and run it on a regular time.
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To prevent adware and spyware from being able to gather information about you, you need to select one of the anti-spyware package ranges as well as install it on your PC.
TIPS: Similar to antivirus software,http://datingswift.com/html/live-links-watch-packers-vs-colts-online-on-pc-nfl-scores-watch-packers-vs-colts-live-on-pc.html.Kids. make sure that your anti-spyware software is setup to:
- Automatically check for upddined ons so that its’ adware/spyware definitions database is up to ddined on and you are protected from the ldined onst threats. The two free package ranges, Ad-Aware and Spybot do not have automatic upddined on features, so you will need to perform this task manually. Ad-Awhave least tells you that your definitions database is getting old and requires you if you want to upddined on it.
- Automatically perform an advertisementware/spyware scan at least once a week. If the PC is used to surf the web extensively then you may wish to perform scans more frequently, even once a day.What Is Judge Greg Mathis Worth?. Ad-Aware SE Personal will only run automatically at system startup time. If you leave your computer on all of the time then you will have to remember to manually run the scans. Spybot can be scheduled to run automatically as one of its “Advanced Mode” features.
Spring Cleaning – Think About Privacy Software
As you use your computer, and surf the web, traces of your activity get left behind, stored on your computer in lists, temporary files, and cspasms. The best case is that these “leftovers” can clutter up your PC,How To Use Juno Email For Beginners?. and, with time, degrade its performance. The worst case is thseveralone who gains unauthorized associdined ond with your PC can read these files and learn a fair helping about you, potentially helping them to steal your identity.
Privacy software removes all traces of your PC and Internet activity, helping to protect your privacy.
As with antivirus software and anti-spyware software, privacy software should be run on a regular time. It, too, can be setup to run automatically on a regular time so that a conclusion-user does not have to do anything to protect their privacy. The first time the privacy software is run it is not at all uncommon for it to recover in excess of 500MB of disk space by deleting the “leftover stuff” on your PC.Free Chat Rooms No Registration.
To prevent unauthorized intruders from being able to gather information about you, select one of the privacy package ranges as well as install it on your PC.
Think Before You Click – Use Some Common Sense
A little common sense can go quite a distance when trying to protect your PC. Most of what can compromise your security will come through e-mail, or when you are surfing the web. Because of this, you definitely need to think before you click. If you have not realized it undoubtedly, most unsolicited e-mail is gargolf bage. No matter how good the offer may sound, the common sense rule of “if it sounds too good to be true,safety. it is…” practical applicationlies. Most of what you receive unsolicited is designed to scam you out of money, to trick you into divulging privdined on information, to install spyware and adware on your computer, or to install viruses on your computer.How Old Is Nicki Minaj?.
Identifying Suspect E-Mails
So how do you identify the bad “stuff”? It actually is fairly easy to identify “suspect” e-mails. Common bad or suspect e-mails include:
- E-mails from people or companies with whom you have never corresponded or conducted home business. You may receive e-mails that you need to verify your account information from a company that you do not do home business with. You may receive a message that looks like it is from eBay that says they are going to shut off your account and you have never done home business with eBay. Individuals and groups trying to perpetrdined on fraud will go to great lengths to try to look like a legitimdined on home business. You need to use common sense. If it does not “feel” right, it probably is not.
- E-mails with gibberish in the title or in the complete body of the message.
- E-mails from friends, relatives,Free Downloadable Books in PDF Format. or home business associdined ons that do not make any sense.
- E-mails from yourself that you never sent or e-mails that are “returned” to you from someone that you have never corresponded with.
This list can go on forever with the many subtle variations. The bottom line is that if it does not feel right then consider it to be a bad e-mail.
Suspect e-mails should be deleted. Never click on links in suspect e-mails. Never open file contraptions to suspect e-mails. Never reply or forward suspect e-mails. Simply delete them and move on.
Safe Surfing
Installing firewall software and antivirus software, and running anti-spyware software and privacy software should go quite a distance to protecting you when your are surfing.Computer. Here, again, some common sense practical applicationlies. Avoid sites that do not “feel” right. Sites that are constantly trying to get you to fill out forms before you have much of time to learn anything about the site and the organization who owns the site are highly suspect. Pornography sites are famous for downloading spyware and viruses onto people’s computers. Stick to sites you know, the sites of reputable companies, and sites that come recommended by people you trust and you should be okay.
Protecting Your Kids
Now that you have taken care of the basics and protected you PC, it is time to specifically worry about keeping your kids safe. When trying to protect your children,Safe Teenage Chat Rooms. it is important to:
- Set expectations
- Monitor and control what your children do online
- Use some common sense
Setting Online Expectations
It is important for you as a parent to be clear with your children what you expect of them when they are using the PC. You need to be clear about what you consider to be practical applicationropridined on online behavior,How To Chat In Yahoo Messenger?. as well as what is and is not practical applicationropridined on to be accessing online. Children should be taught:
- That they should never give out personal information such as their name, address,Oprah Teen Book Club. e-mail address, phone number, or age to anyone over the Internet without your express permission.
- That they should never fill out forms without your permission.
- That they should tell you if they come across anything or anyone online that they feel is not practical applicationropridined on or that makes them uncomfortable.
- That they should ask before downloading or installing software on a PC.
- That they should never, under any circumstances, arrange to meet alone with someone who they have met online. This can be especially important for your teenage children who may feel that they have met the daughter or son of their dreams online. If they feel that they absolutely must meet this individual, then they should arrange to do it with a responsible adult present. You should remind them that it is very easy for someone to masquerade as someone else online.
Monitor and Control What Your Children Do Online
The PC that your children use should be setup in a public location where it is easy for you to monitor what your children are doing. It is very difficult for a child to engage in questionable online activities when everyone in the family can easily look over their shoulder.How Do I Create A Website Totally Free?. If you have children who participdined on in chat rooms or use instant messaging software you should regularly ask them who they are communicating with. If they are evasive or do not tell you, take away their computer privileges. Having a safe mad child is recommended than having a dangerous hpractical applicationy one.
There is also software that can help parents protect their children.Where Can I Build a Free Website?. Softwin order to help keep children safe comes in two forms: monitoring software, and parental control software.
Monitoring software allows parents to monitor activity on the family PC. Many package ranges will allow you to monitor computer activity including web surfing activity, e-mail message ranges, chat, as well as instant messaging. Some software will even allow screen shots to be taken at predetermined increments of time. Mall of these package ranges will operdined on in stealth mode, meaning that no one will know that the software is even installed and running. Of course telling your children that you have software that is monitoring their activity may also act a a deterrent. Monitoring software typically does not filter out any bad content. It simply lets you know if someone is accessing things that are inpractical applicationropridined on.
Parental control software, or Internet filtering software, allows parents to control content that is displayed and block specific web sites. Some filtering software will filter e-mails and chat rooms, block pop ups,How Do I Send a Home Video through Email?. as well as in many monitor chat rooms. This software is, by its very nature, more intrusive than monitoring software. It will filter out lots of bad stuff. It may also miss some bad stuff. It may also filter out some good things.
The choice of which softwin order to use will come down to personal preference. Some parents use both. If you choose to use no software than having the family PC in a public place and prompting questions about what your children are doing online becomes much more important.
Use Some Common Sense
You should be aware if your child becomes secretive about what they are doing online. Averting a computer monitor, or quickly turning it off whenever someone walks into the room is not normal computer behavior. It is, however, the behavior of an individual who is trying to hide something. If your child is exhibiting “odd” computer behavior question them. If you get no answers or you do not like the answers,Computer. take away their computer privileges and/or get software that monitors their activity. As has undoubtedly been stdined ond, a mad safe child is recommended than a hpractical applicationy unsafe one.
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May 13th, 2012
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Funamo proudly releases its latest parental control software Funamo Parental Control for Android devices that gives parents the power to safeguard their kids’ mobile phones and tablets. Now parents can have peace of mind when giving mobile devices to their kids knowing that they are protected by Funamo.
Online safety has always been the number 1 concern when it comes to parental control. According to a recent study done in UK, 33% of ten-year-olds have seen explicit materials online and 80 percent of kids have accessed pornography online when they reach 16. Unlike a family PC, a mobile phone or a tablet is a very personal device and is often carried by the child to places such as schools and libraries. It makes parental control for mobile device even more imperative and challenging.
“Numerous studies have shown that using mobile devices greatly enhances kids’ learning capabilities.” said Howard Li, Funamo’s founder and CEO. “However it also creates new challenges such as pornography, game addiction, sexting and cyber bullying, just to name a few. Parents are looking for an effective and easy-to-use parental control solution for mobile devices.
“Our patent-pending web filtering technology was designed from ground up specifically for mobile devices. Unlike many other apps currently on the market, Funamo Parental Control offers highly robust web filtering that is optimized for power efficiency and mobile environment. It also filters out inappropriate content from web search and Youtube search results. Customization is possible with user’s own blacklist and whitelist.”
Besides web filtering, Funamo also provides device monitoring and application control. All contacts, phone calls, SMS messages, websites visited, applications run and recent locations are automatically logged and uploaded to Funamo server. So parents can login from any web browser 24/7 to keep track of all the activities on the device. Application control allows parents to set password and specify time slots for selected applications such as system settings and games. Video tutorials and FAQs can be found at Funamo website.
Funamo Parental Control can be downloaded from Android Market (Google Play) for a free evaluation.
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It can be purchased within the app for $19.99 which protects the device for as long as the user owns it. No subscription, no hidden costs. Now for as little as the price of a book, parents can have peace of mind with their kids’ mobile devices.
Funamo provides comprehensive parental control solution for Android-powered mobile devices with patent-pending web filtering, safe search, application protection/restriction and device monitoring. More information, including detailed video tutorial and FAQs, is available on http://www.funamo.com. Funamo Parental Control application can be downloaded from Android Market (Google Play).
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May 13th, 2012
Give yourself a gift this Mother’s Day: more time. These tools can help.
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I don’t know about you, but this year for Mother’s Day, I know what I’d appreciate more than anything is a little help.
These tools can deliver just that—though you don’t need to be a mom to use them.
VolunteerSpot
VolunteerSpot is a free online coordination tool used by busy moms, teachers, or anyone who needs to coordinate participation from others for activities like help in the classroom, parent-teacher conferences, service projects, donations for silent auctions, or staffing for sporting events or races.
The site was born out of one mother’s frustration with reply-all email chains. On a 35-minute plane ride from Austin to Dallas to meet with a client for her consulting business Karen Bantuveris received 45 reply-all messages about whose turn it was to help in her child’s kindergarten classroom.
“This to me was a systems problem,” she says. ”People wanted to help, but over-communication was getting in the way.”
With its easy-to-use interface VolunteerSpot has garnered more than 1.5 million users since launching in 2009. I was able to register on the site and set up a volunteering event in less than 10 minutes. It also sends automatic reminders to volunteers so they don’t forget about their committment to help and there are premium versions available for $5-$30 that add features such as participant hours tracking, custom volunteer registration fields and multiple organizers.
Net Nanny
Mothers are keen on keeping their kids safe online. While Net Nanny isn’t new, it’s definitely one of the leaders in its space. Parents use it, but schools have also implemented it and there’s even a business version. It’s a software application that gives parents control over how their kids use the Internet and is designed to protect them from pornography and other adult-themed sites, violence, profanity, cyberbullying and stalking.
Net Nanny has some great features. It doesn’t allow peer-to-peer sharing, lets parents set time limits for how long kids can use the Web as well as vary rules based on children’s ages. It also lets them set ratings limits for games.
Probably its most differentiating feature, however, is its Dynamic Content Analysis, which looks at a webpage in real-time for inappropriate content before it opens and blocks it; it doesn’t just rely on predetermined websites or pages for filtering.
In January, Net Nanny release a mobile version for Android devices that provides the same protection for kids on the go; it runs $19.99 a year. The desktop version is $39.99 per year.
Ruckus Reader
This learning program for the iPad is a library of mobile apps that provide digital storybooks, narrated video books, as well as other literary activities for kids. Moms (and dads) like it because Ruckus Reader gives them feedback on their child’s reading experience through weekly “Reader Meter” email reports and an online dashboard that communicates details about how a child is progressing in terms of in-app reading skills such as phonics and word recognition, print awareness, fluency, alphabet knowledge, sequencing, and story comprehension.
Ruckus Reader was created by Ruckus Media Group Founder and CEO Rick Richter, a father and the former president and publisher of Simon & Schuster’s children’s division.
“What I like most about the Ruckus Reader is that a parent can list up to four people to receive the Ruckus Reader Meter. This means a teacher, a parent who doesn’t live in the home, a favorite grandparent or aunt can all receive updates on a child’s progress,” Richter says. “Essentially, we can build a community around the child actively engaged in the child’s progress.”
Manilla
Manilla is a free online and mobile household account and bill organizer that helps consumers manage their accounts like credit cards, utilities and phone bills, subscriptions, daily deals, and travel rewards programs.
To set it up, you give Manilla the login credentials for your various accounts and afterward you’ll be able to access them all with one password. The dashboard shows you all your balances at once, when payments are due, as well as a repository of account statements that you can download, print, or email. You can also configure it to shoot you email or text message reminders so you know when to pay bills, or in my case, flags to know when automatic payments are getting paid and funds are leaving my bank account.
Manilla is backed by the giant media company Hearst Corporation.
Picksie
This free location-based discovery service app for iPhone and Android is great for mothers who want to find family-friendly things to do during the summer months while the kids are out of school.
Its strength and utility lies in its personalization and intelligence. It filters out things that a real person wouldn’t probably want, such as outdoor spaces in the winter. Picksie also has some handy features such as integrated museum schedules, a quick-click ticketing feature, and thousands of on-app menus and restaurant reviews.
Picksie also gets smarter the more you use it in terms of the kinds of places and venues it will serve you. It takes into account weather, time of day, day of the week, and location when recommending things to do.
One caveat—for now it only works in the New York City and San Francisco Bay areas, but national rollout is coming soon.
Tango Card
Moms are incessantly buying teachers gifts on behalf of their kids. But just how many trinkets or bottles of lotion can one teacher appreciate?
Tango Card is a way for groups of people to easily chip in for a collective gift. It’s as simple as this: One organizing parent visits the Tango Card website, establishes the parameters of the gift, and invites other families that can contribute funds and share messages and photos.
Teachers, for their part, receive the gift value with a digital greeting card and can redeem their balance at retailers like Amazon, Target, or Starbucks, donate to a non-profit or even redeem it for cash.
Tango Card is free to use.
RetailMeNot.com
Many moms are into saving money but who’s got time to clip paper coupons anymore?
Supposedly the the largest online coupon site in the United States, second only to Groupon, RetailMeNot gets 400 million site visits each year and works with more than 100,000 retailers. At the site you can redeem coupons to use during checkout at an online retailer, or print them to take with to brick-and-mortar stores.
What’s really unique about RetailMeNot is half of the 500,000 coupons on the site at any given time are submitted by community members. And there’s no sign-up necessary whatsoever–the site doesn’t ask for any of your personal information.
Performance Toolkit
Since many mothers double as the IT administrator in the home, PC Tools’ Windows utilities product, Performance Toolkit, is a good one, especially if you’re thinking about selling or offloading your computer.
The software, available as a $39.99 download for a 1-year subscription on up to three PCs, works to maintain the overall health of your PC while also protecting your personal information and files. For example, you might not know that emptying your Recycle Bin doesn’t completely remove the files from your machine; even a moderately skilled hacker can retrieve them.
Performance Toolkit removes browsing history, deletes cookies, bleaches the hard drive, and shreds digital files. And it just makes computers work better.
Emeals
The eMeals team constructs and publishes more than 30 meal plans and corresponding grocery lists every week based on food style preferences, family size, and what’s on sale at your preferred grocery stores (including Whole Foods). Dinner menu plans include classic family meals, low-fat, portion control, low-carb, gluten-free, vegetarian dishes and organic.
The site’s founder, a mother of four, created it after struggling with meal planning herself and finding her reality to be drastically different from that of her mother, who had no problem feeding her large family on a small grocery budget with a weekly meal plan of her own creation.
This one comes recommended by personal finance guru Dave Ramsey and a membership with weekly emails costs $5 a month. Coming soon to mobile.
Stringfly
Put this one on your “Apps to Watch” list. It’s an app for iPhone and Android that pays multitasking mothers (or anyone) for engaging with brands.
After downloading Stringfly, you can browse various assignments and choose one to do while you’re shopping or running errands.
For example, an offer might give users coupons and cash for simply finding a product in a particular store, checking it out, uploading a photo of it, and giving some feedback to the brand. Any coupons are emailed to users and cash is sent out via PayPal or in the mail.
Stringfly is still building up its partner brands so for now most assignments are only in places like New York and Miami.
What apps for moms did I miss? Leave your favorites in the comments.
Christina DesMarais is an Inc.com contributor who writes about the tech start-up community, covering innovative ideas, news, and trends. Follow her tweets @salubriousdish or add her to one of your circles on Google+. Have a tip? Email her at christinadesmarais (at) live (dot) com. @salubriousdish
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