Cook with Kids It is important to show kids how to cook and tell them about the dangers. Everything  can be fun, however, as adults we know the dangers. Kids unfortunately only see the fun and forget until it is too late. I cooked pancakes with my 8-year-old daughter today and she wanted to cook some. I let her cook the first few and the last few. I explained to her as we went things that I might forget to ...

Safety in the car all year round The current road toll is still in operation over the 2012 Christmas period. I am not sure if it helps reminding people of this horrible number. I know it is a busy time of year and it is the Government’s way of trying to keep us focused and safe, but is there another way? The national road toll period runs from 0001 December 23, 2012 until 2359 January 3, 2013, local times, ...

Mobile devices ensure that catching up with the latest news and feeds is a doddle. Whether you’re looking for a magazine, or just want an update from your favorite sources, there are more apps available than most people would care to count. Press, a Google Reader app for Android, is a prime example of such an app done properly, and not only it organizes your content in an easy-to-find interface, but is argu ...

Remember when you purchased your first iPhone, received your first telephone call on it and were entirely perplexed when the screen turned itself off every time you raised the device to your head during the call? I certainly remember getting the original iPhone in 2007 and believed the behavior based on the inclusion of the proximity sensor was nothing short of with craft. As I learned more about the device ...

Whenever a new and improved mobile software is released nowadays, there’s always that moment in which owners of certain devices discover theirs will be left out in the cold. In the case of Windows Phone 7.x, that was everybody, and although Microsoft has delivered Windows Phone 7.8 in something of a watered-down edition of Windows Phone 8, it’s still lacking many of the key new features of Windows Phone 8. ...

Despite having been around for considerably less time than the App Store, Google Play has grown to house almost as many apps as its Cupertino rival. With 2012′s conclusion nigh, the Big G has released a list pertaining its favorite apps and games released this year in two separate lists. "Games We Love" focuses on those addictive, exciting, and thought-provoking releases this year, while "App Focus" gives a ...

Despite having been around for considerably less time than the App Store, Google Play has grown to house almost as many apps as its Cupertino rival. With 2012′s conclusion nigh, the Big G has released a list pertaining its favorite apps and games released this year in two separate lists. "Games We Love" focuses on those addictive, exciting, and thought-provoking releases this year, while "App Focus" gives a ...

LockMemos is one of the latest tweaks to land on the Cydia store for jailbroken devices, and although, it doesn’t bring an eye watering amount of additional functionality to the iPhone, the obtrusive nature of its feature set may be beneficial to those who constantly need reminding of things. Whenever LockMemos is active, the device will display a standard iOS formatted alert to the user to remind them to c ...

Want to see Windows RT on a smartphone? We know you do, that’s why we’re fairly sure this latest news will excite you just as much as it does us. Windows RT has been ported to the HTC HD2 smartphone. Honest! Some hardware just doesn’t know when to give up on life. We’d put HTC’s HD2 squarely into that category of devices, whether HTC intended it to or not. That HD2, the same phone that has been around for l ...

VLC media player is considered the de facto media player of choice for those who want a feature rich media player that can handle any format. Having used VLC for nigh-on ten years on a variety of platforms from Windows XP to iOS, and in that time, it has – in its various forms – played everything I have thrown at it with aplomb. Now, the VideoLAN team behind VLC want to make a version in-keeping with the ti ...