Whether you are developing your search skills or showing others, the online no cost classes are available along with the YouTube videos of the Google+ Hangouts with Power Searching Experts.
What if you don't want to watch videos and participate in the activities? Google Search Tips and Tricks has something for everyone's curiosity, search expedition or passion.
Whether you want to know the weather in a destination location, convert currency, calculate anything, find medication information, drop an image in the search bar, track your packages via FedEx, UPS, or USPS, get real time stock quotes, search by file type, search for recipes, search within specific sites, use operators to specify a search, search by Reading levels, or tinker in the Search Playground there is something for everyone.
What is your favorite thing to do in the Search Playground?
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One product that was not around when my daughter was younger is Boogie Wipes. Chuckle...but these things make wiping the nose of an infant, toddler, adult or anyone with a runny, stuffy nose easy without leaving a red or sore nose.
As we used them, people said they had never seen or heard of Boogie Wipes, so I thought I would share it on the blog since the product was first sold in December 2007.
Since it is also back to school time, you can enter the contest Backpacks, Binders, Boogie Wipes, Oh-my! for a chance at cash, Boogie Wipes, pizza party, and other cool things through September 30, 2012. You can enter from their site as it redirects you to Facebook contests.
Save the Sleeve is another aspect of the site, with jokes, facts, a game about boogers, and a tab for teachers. So have some fun, learn something new, and save a few sleeves.
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Regardless of how you implement network offensive and defensive measures, every time you access the net the risk of online identity theft can occur. There are enough horror stories out there to divert the n00biest of n00bs to avoid the INTERNET.
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) through StaySafeOnline.org provides an Online Identity Risk Calculator. If you are the family techspert, share this site with your family members so they can conduct a self assessment by answering a few questions. Aside from banning the family from accessing the network, education and awareness are practicable options.
Some of the helpful hints that seem like common sense to the family techspert, may not seem so common to users who never delve into the 5Ws (who, what, where, why, when) of how the Internet works and risks they may be exposing themselves to every day.
Keep a clean machine
Be Web Wise
When in Doubt, Throw it Out
Play an Internet safety game like Are You Smarter than a Fraudster? or have the kids share what they learned with Phineas & Ferb and being cybersmart.
How do you keep the family safe and educated about Internet activities? What lessons learned are shared between the family users?
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