January 5th, 2012

Tagged, You’re It

A piece on The Next Web, Why Facebook Can’t Do Anything About Other People Sharing Photos of Your Children, by Nancy Messieh rekindled my interest in this topic. We moms are curious to know what YOU think. Let’s discuss this.

Do you post photos of YOUR children online? Do you post photos of OTHER children [...]

May 23rd, 2011

Guest on TUAW Talkcast: Apple's Rough Week

Even though I drink the Apple Koolaid, I’m just as critical of the brand. And so we discuss Apple in all its glory as well as shortcomings and bad foo on the TUAW Talkcast which happens each Sunday night at 10 pm EST over on TalkShoe. Join us sometime, won’t you?

May 10th, 2011

Mother's Day TUAWradition

For the fourth year in a row, it has been an honor and a privilege to participate as a guest on the Mother’s Day edition of The Unofficial Apple Weblog’s weekly Talkcast. Spending time geeking out with my friends on TUAW always completes my Mother’s Day as it’s now become a tradition.

If you enjoy [...]

May 1st, 2011

MGG 027 Cloudapalooza

Online Music Storage & Streaming

Amazon Cloud Player

Remote Screen Sharing

Join.me

Skype version 5 has one-way screen sharing built in

Productivity

37Signals Suite

Online Photo Management & Storage

Canon Rebel EOS SX

borrowlenses.com

Flickr

SmugMug

Pick of the Week

iPhone App (iTunes Link): Remote

Apple Support Article

Babbel (Babbel - Purchase)

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December 3rd, 2010

How Do I Protect My Android Phone From a Virus or Hacker?

We have a question from a Mom who is a new Android phone owner:

How can she protect her phone from getting a virus? What is the best way to avoid things like Facebook viruses carried in games besides just not interacting with them?

Android Moms, what’s your answer or best advice?

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November 20th, 2010

MGG 026 Welcome Back

After a long hiatus, Moms Gone Geek is making a come-back. We’ re now armed with new gadgets, new apps and even a new Mom! Listen to Moms Gone Geek catch up and talk about what’s been keeping all of us so busy over the past year. This first, post-maternity break show [...]

July 20th, 2009

MGG 019 Show Them the Money

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February 16th, 2009

MGG 009 TOS Contracts

Do you read the Terms of Service contracts for each and every service for which you sign up? Do you just click accept and hope for the best? In this episode we discuss the Facebook TOS change debacle and why it’s so important to know your rights and be aware of how your [...]

October 13th, 2008

MGG 005 Special Segment: Review of the ABCs of Backup

A is for Archive

Archives are what you make them. You don’t have to use any fancy software to archive your files. Your operating system’s file browser is all you really need. (i.e., Explorer in Windows and Finder in Mac OS) When you archive something, you’re either moving or copying an original [...]

September 30th, 2008

Amber Alerts

I struggled a bit with whether or not I should post about tools to help recover our kids should they ever be abducted. I feel like its one of those things we can ignore, sweep under the rug, and hope never happens. Or, we can dialogue and be informed. So, here it is.

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June 23rd, 2008

MGG 001 Momma's Got A Brand New Bag

In this, our very first episode, we talk about who we are, what we do and how we manage to find the time to do it all on top of doing this podcast and all our other projects. (We make it up as we go along!) We talk tech: what kind of hardware [...]