Do you love shopping? Do you get a gleam in your eye and exhilaration in your heart when you make a purchase? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you may also classify yourself as a shopaholic. Along with being a shopaholic comes the potential for buyer’s remorse and the frantic checking of your account balance. If you should curb your spending and pay better attention to your finances, these apps are just the thing for you. Check the list below to see which apps will save you money without compromising your love of shopping.   Plan your meals with eMeals You must subscribe to the…

Today’s kids are digitally adept. That much is very clear to anyone with a toddler and an iPad. They seem to have a natural ability to take a gadget that is touch-driven and make them do magical things, often at a level higher than adults. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? The good parts are clear. Education, imagination, and integrating with today’s world are easy components with which to make arguments for the use of touchscreen devices by children. The good comes with bad components as well as the infographic below depicts. Here are some of the repercussions of having children so engulfed in the use…

It’s a tough call. On one hand, the detail and craftsmanship of these wonderful creations should be preserved for as long as cake can stay without rotting. On the other hand, letting them get to that stage at all would be a bad thing as well. After all, it’s cake, right? The folks over at that’s nerdalicious have an eye for finding geeky cakes on a regular basis. Here are some from their archives that we found exceptionally geek-worthy. Let them eat cake!   Jawa Cake [caption id="attachment_37165" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Source: Neatorama[/caption]   Assassin’s Creed Cake…

In the digital age, there are plenty of challenges popping up for parents. The ever-connected world opens doors to risks that parents have never had to cope with in the past. The need for digital manners is just one of the major negatives associated with raising children today. Thankfully, it’s not all bad. Opening up lines of communication and bringing together resources across the internet (and thus the scope of human understanding) is a big benefit that many parents can use. Below is a sampling of a thread from Facebook that points to some of the benefits of social media for parents. It wasn’t…

There’s a strange change that has been happening since the dawn of social media and that continues to accelerate every day. Teens are talking less to their parents and engaging more with their peers through social networks and mobile devices. The first shift, not talking to parents, has been happening for a long time but social media has made it even more prevalent. Engaging with their peers – it seems many communicate more with their fingers than their mouths nowadays. As a natural result of this shift, the art of parenting has shifted from watching where their kids are going to monitoring their…

What would you say if I told you that the tools you need to accomplish everything you need professionally and practically are at your fingertips in a one-stop-shop on the Internet? It’s true. And you’ll find tons of useful help and organizational guides to accomplish everything you need in a place you may have never thought to look: Mommy blogs. I’m not a mother. But knowing my own mother and watching my sister with my niece and nephew, I’m well aware that there’s no determination comparable to a woman that needs to get something done for their family. I have much less to juggle than the majority…

Collecting data is easy. Storing it is even easier. Taking it in massive amounts and understanding the complex relationships that are created from it all is the tough part. Recent advancements and focus points by large companies have given us a much better grasp on what it all means and how it can be used, but there’s definitely room for improvement. This infographic from Wikibon comes to us via Hartford Dodge and shows how big data as an entity and an industry is being “tamed” by technological advancements. As our ability to collect, store, and retrieve it continues to become stronger, the ability…

Mozilla is attempting to make inputting URLs on your iPhone a thing of the past with its new application, Firefox Home. The app was confirmed this morning on Mozilla’s Official blog. The group has confirmed that they have been working on an application for the iPhone, basing it on the Firefox Sync (formerly Weave Sync) technology. Firefox Home will give most iPhone users instant access to their Firefox history, bookmarks, and the tabs from their most recent browser session. Also, it will provide users with Firefox’s “Awesome Bar” capability, which will allow users to input their favorite…

Design stalwart Autodesk has launched a free, easy-to-use 2D and 3D home design web application. Homestyler is designed with ease of use in mind, with simple drag and drop tools and simple switching between 2D and 3D display. This is clever, simple and offers potential DIY’ers a great way to envision the end results of a home renovation project. Kudos to Autodesk for creating such a great tool, and for making it free. Source: Dexigner…

With new technology, there’s always that awkward stage just before widespread acceptance and genuine innovation kicks in. OLED screens are, apparently, in that stage right now. UK OLED company LOMOX has patented OLED wallpaper, intended to create ambient light rather than direct light like it’s bulb-based counterparts. Aside from being more energy efficient, always a plus in these eco-friendly times, the wallpaper offers the advantage of working with the design of the room, and the option of switching colours at the flick of a switch. While Mother Earth might breathe a sigh of relief, DIY…