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Want a New Home Office?

Posted on 2012 by Christina Tynan-Wood ~ 0 Comments

Do you have to clear spilled orange juice, dirty laundry, and someone else’s craft project away every time you sit down to work? Not me. I have a big monitor, ergonomic keyboard, and two work surfaces — all in a room with a spectacular view and a door that locks. If you aren’t taking your work space seriously, you aren’t…

This Makes Me Want More Babies

Posted on 2012 by Christina Tynan-Wood ~ 0 Comments

There is nothing cooler than watching a baby go from incapable of sitting up to reading, doing advance math, repairing broken computers, and driving the car. But this stroller is almost enough to make a geek girl want to start over again with one of those stroller-riding sized babies.

Hacking Your Router to Control Your Kids

Posted on 2012 by Christina Tynan-Wood ~ 0 Comments

A version of this ran in my Family Tech column in Family Circle some time ago. Cowry shells were once a common currency worldwide. Spanish doubloons, too, were once much-traded as legal tender. Today we American’s favor the dollar – buck, greenback, moolah, scratch, cabbage, loot, bread, bacon, or dosh. But in my house, the Federal Reserve Note is…

Clean Tech Giveaway

Posted on 2011 by Christina Tynan-Wood ~ 13 Comments

It’s been an exciting few weeks over here in GeekGirlfriends land. You may have noticed that I completely redesigned this site. Hard work! Also, my annual tech gift guide is out in print in Family Circle magazine and online at FamilyCircle.com. And that means that I’ve been cleaning up the mess – boxes, tangled cables, chargers – left over from reviewing a gazillion…

Build a Mustang. Get Facebook for your Flight

Posted on 2011 by Christina Tynan-Wood ~ 1 Comments

If you find yourself bored on a flight before November 18, (and have a computer with you), you don’t have to ante up the $12.95 for in-flight Internet just to mess around on Facebook. There is a way to get to there for free. And it’s fun. GoGoInflight.com and Ford have a mutual promotions running till then. So all you…

Handmade Halloween

Posted on 2011 by Christina Tynan-Wood ~ 3 Comments

I wandered through the massive Halloween decoration and costume section at Target last week and felt a little sad. Sad for the landfill that so much of this stuff is destined to clog in a few months. Sad that my kids are going to parties this year instead of trick or treating in costumes they made themselves. And sad that…

Never Forget a Thing

Posted on 2011 by Christina Tynan-Wood ~ 7 Comments

[ I wrote this piece originally back in 2009. But things have changed. This is an update.] “I turned in all my homework and am now getting mostly As. Will you turn my phone back on?” –my daughter “Will you take me to a doctor’s appointment on Wednesday?” –my mother “We need to pay taxes!” –my husband “I brought my…

A Teachable Moment

Posted on 2011 by Christina Tynan-Wood ~ 0 Comments

If you are feeling sad over the passing of Steve Jobs – as are most of us are just now – and you have kids old enough to wonder why, maybe this is what we like to call in the parenting trade, a “teachable moment?” Technology might drive you crazy. You might long for a time before technology. You might be…

Uncommon iPhone Case Giveaway

Posted on 2011 by Christina Tynan-Wood ~ 9 Comments

Okay, so who has an iPhone? I’m sure a few hands went up. Because in only the first part of this year, “Apple sold 16.24 million iPhones,” according to Techcrunch. With that many fellow iPhone owners, do you ever feel like everyone at the party is carrying the same purse you are? Amid a cacophony of excitement about the…

What’s worth more? Your data or your car?

Posted on 2011 by Christina Tynan-Wood ~ 2 Comments

Last week, a friend I frequently exchange texts with grabbed me and said, “Tell me your phone number!” She had a desperate, end-of-days look in her eyes. So I didn’t ask why, I just told her and watched as she plugged it into her phone. Then she told her tale of woe: She had dropped her iPhone (in a pool…