If you haven’t noticed, Shooting the Kids has been on a little (OK, <ahem> not so little) summer break. We’ve been playing at the beach and eating ice cream and staying up late because, well, it’s summer and that’s just what you do! We’re also in the middle of a house move, which is both [...]

You’re never too old to send Valentines, right? Wait, I should clarify: the ones with Disney characters or generic messages should definitely be banned for the over eight-year-old set. So what about the rest of us who want to share some love this Valentine’s Day, but without the cheesy sentiments of those chalky candy hearts [...]

Amy’s got this whole Dutch thing going on where she’s extremely conscientious about correspondence. She always RSVPs, writes thoughtful letters, sends thank-you notes, sends out announcements, etc. Left to my own devices I would probably forget all of those, but I have Amy to remind me. So, I sat down at the [...]

Actually, my mom loves Ubuntu. My mother is like most parents these days - they buy a computer at Best Buy or Walmart and they take it home, plug it in and start using the web. The computer they bought usually has Windows on it and some form of AOL. After [...]

While working on my post for StK about Extreme Background Removal, my eMachines desktop computer decided to go poof. That ozone smell was horrifying. This event required me to turn my Mac Mini back into a desktop computer (it’s been a faithful little file server for our house for months) so that I [...]

I thought I’d pass along this tip just in time for the typical overindulgence of the Thanksgiving holiday.
You know how they always say that the camera adds 10 pounds? Well, HP decided to finally do something about it. Their new line of digital cameras contain a subtle new weight-loss trick — the new “Slimming [...]

If you’re like me, you’ve got a lot of Flickr sets. And I’m sure you created them, like me, as a quick and easy way for people to view particular groups of your photos. Well, I just found out about a way to make viewing photosets one step easier and more convenient: the “detail view.”
I [...]

Remember when people used to send fun mail? I mean like letters and postcards and the like? In the age of email and online photo sharing, I’m sure there is a grandma or two who misses getting goofy snapshots in the mail in lieu of a link to a Flickr photo stream.
But then I came [...]