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What reading the paper will look like?
The new for-iPads-only newspaper, The Daily, launched at an event in New York today. Only three hours old (or should we say “already three hours old”), The Daily is creating quite a buzz for Apple, iPad users and the news organizations in general. The newspaper industry will be keeping a close eye on The Daily, which will either usher in the newest model for the dying industry or be a virtual companion to beta-max hardware and video cassettes.
I’m interested in The Daily out of curiosity for the future. Is this how my kids will be buying and reading news in the near future? Continue reading »
Reason #1 to set volume limits here.
It’s not just how loud the music is, it’s how long they listen–ear buds and music players can be a lethal combination for a kids. As ABC News points out (and I would have used the same example–I hate this!) if you can identify the song your kid is listening to “just by standing next to him,” it’s too loud. But how can you convince your kids that cranking the volume to 11 isn’t pure Spinal Tap cool? About 5 million kids have noise-related hearing loss, and the earlier you slow it down, the better your child will hear in the long run.
I can tell you right now that Googling “convince kid to turn music down” will get you exactly nowhere. That doesn’t mean it’s hopeless. You can try reason. You can try threats. You can try bribes. Or you can seize the controls–grab that iPod and check the settings. There’s a way to lock down the volume. Soon, the muffled sounds of “Fireflies” could be a distant memory. Continue reading »
My kids love playing with my iPhone. To them, it’s the ultimate distraction on a long car ride, or when we’re bored in a doctor’s waiting room.
For some children with autism though, the iPod touch and it’s bigger cousin the iPad are life-changing. One teacher working with severely autistic children calls the iPod a “magic wand”. A mother with a non-verbal autistic daughter calls hers a “godsend”. What makes these devices so great for autistic children?
Whether or not you’re one of the lucky ones to have an Apple iPad in your hot little hands after this past weekend’s release, chances are your kids — if they’re under the age of 10 — will end up with an iPad-like computer in the not-too-distant future. It may not be an actual iPad or even come from Apple Computer, but the odds are even that they’ll end up with a touchscreen computer in five years’ time.
In a move intended to appease women and protect children, Apple has banned all sexy apps from their App Store. Well, almost all of them.
If your are Playboy or Sports Illustrated, your bikini-clad applications are more than welcome in the App Store. But for everyone else, a new decency standard has been put in place that not only bans bikinis, but a whole host of other potentially arousing content. Continue reading »
It’s 10 o’clock, do you know where your 8 to 18-year-old is? According to a new study, you’ll probably find him or her online.
In 2005, the Kaiser Family Foundation concluded that kids’ use of entertainment media had hit a ceiling. There just weren’t any more hours in a day for kids to be using technology, they said. So researchers were shocked to discover in a recent survey that media usage among kids has actually increased by an hour a day in the last five years.
The New York Times already did the math for us. If you’re kids aren’t in school or sleeping, chances are they’re using some sort of entertainment media.
Parents who let their kids browse the app store with parental controls to protect them might be opening their kids up for some naughty images. The controls have been found to keep kids from purchasing soft-core porn, but that doesn’t mean they can’t preview them.
In a report on Ars Technica last week, it was revealed that even a setting as low as 4+ (ostensibly limiting it to content even a four-year-old can view) only protects the user from actually making a purchase of NSFW images. Continue reading »
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