Make a Phone Contract with Your Kids
This is post 1 of 2 in the series “Children's Devices Use” These posts discuss ways to help protect your children from pornography, bullying, stalking, and social media addiction; all…
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Easy and FREE Family Internet Filter (for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad, and everything else)
J Washburn
THE PROBLEM AND THE SOLUTION You can install an internet filter on your family computer. But that’s not going to affect your kid’s iPod. Or your exchange student’s tablet. Or…
Republic Wireless Review: Cheapest Smartphone Family Plan
I originally posted this on my personal blog (http://blog.jwashburn.com ), but I’m cross-posting here because I know many of you will be interested. A couple weeks ago, I signed up…
Review of the Republic Wireless Beta Phone (Moto Defy XT) & Service
Republic Wireless is a revolutionary (in the disruptive-innovation sense) new phone carrier. Currently it’s shipping the popular Why? They offload as much of your phone calls and data to WiFi,…
2012 MLH Giveaway 3: Apple Devices and Mac
Congratulations to our Giveaway 2 winners! Congratulations to Patrick Lynch and Dave McCabe our Giveaway #2 winners. Giveaway 3 is all about iPhone, iPod, & iPad Same rules as the…
2012 MLH Giveaway 2: Android (including Ingress invite!)
Congratulations to our Giveaway 1 winners! Congratulations to Matt Galloway and Tupou Taufa, the winners of our 1st giveaway. Giveaway 2 is all about Android Same rules as the last giveaway.…
Optimize Your Life, Presidency, Bishopric, or Council with Asana
A few months ago I was looking for a way to better facilitate communication, organization, responsibility assignment, and delegation for my business. Thankfully, I stumbled across the free webapp asana shortly after. We…
Better than paper strips: Use multimedia in class without a projector
Here’s a simple trick you can use in Elders Quorum or Sunday School: I’m a big geek—let’s just get that out in the open. I’m also a big fan of…
How to Get $250 of Classic Literature Audiobooks for FREE
Along with announcing the new Kindle Fire HD lineup, Amazon announced some enhancements to it’s Kindle technology. One is called “Immersion Reading” where you can listen to an audiobook, and…
Listen To or Watch “Tech Savvy” on the Mormon Channel
Follow us: @mormonlifehacker on Twitter | Facebook | YouTube The Mormon Channel has a great new show that should be right up all you Mormon life-hacker’s alley. It’s called Tech Savvy. On…
