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Top 5 Online Book Review Sites

by Barbara J. Feldman August 4, 2010

Online book reviews are available at many sites. But which ones do readers like most? Lifehacker polled their audience to come up with a list of Five Best Book Recommendation Services. In no particular order, they are Shelfari, LibraryThing, Amazon, GoodReads, and GetGlue. I use Amazon, because I am a Kindle user, but Lifehacker’s readers [...]

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Apple Announces iPad

by Barbara J. Feldman February 3, 2010

Apple recently unveiled the long anticipated Apple iPad, and announced that the first models will be shipped in late March. Gizmodo describes the iPad as a smaller, thinner, lighter MacBookPro, with a unibody construction. Or, one could also call it, a bigger iPhone. With this announcement, Apple has also opened an ebook store called iBooks, [...]

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Roadmap to Find Options for Internet Filtering

by Barbara J. Feldman October 19, 2009

The World Wide Web can do many great things for children. There is a lot of information at the touch of a button to help them with school work, keeping in touch with friends, and giving them hours of fun entertainment. But the Internet can be unsafe. Parents are not strangers to this fact. They [...]

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How to Find Legal Online Movies

by Barbara J. Feldman August 25, 2009

Speedcine is an index of about 13,000 full-length movies you can legally watch online. Some of the sites it links to offer free movies, such as Hulu and Fancast , while others charge, such as Amazon’s Video on Demand. While still in beta, Speedcine warns that not all movies are listed in the alphabetic index [...]

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Internet Filtering: Your Options and Where to Find Them

by Barbara J. Feldman July 7, 2009

The World Wide Web does, and is, many great things for children. However, along with being a rich source of information at the touch of a button which can help them with school work, aid in their ability to keep in touch with friends and provide them hours of fun entertainment options, the internet has [...]

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