Friday, May 31, 2019
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Friday, May 10, 2019
It's Friday and time for something free! Today, it's a great website for kids.
I'm not sure how many people know about the odd problem that YouTube had a while ago with kid's videos. It was a strange one. Mixed in with perfectly ordinary kid videos were bizarre Elsa/Spiderman/Joker/Etc videos with adult themes of self-harm, inappropriate toileting, strange pregnancy and sexual innuendo. YouTube has tried to slap down the offenders, but the videos are still popping up occasionally on the YouTube Kids feeds.
The feeds are auto-generated by an algorithm rather than curated by humans, so yeah, that's going to happen. Parents have to be super aware of what their kids are watching on YouTube Kids because it can get weird really fast when it moves to the next video on auto-play.
This site is the remedy to that. The Kid Should See This is an awesome site with all kinds of educational and fun videos curated by real humans.
You can hoover over any of the categories at the top and you will be treated to a drop down of a few videos in that category. Click on it and see a plethora of educational and fun videos like "Playing Piano Under A Sleeping Cat" in the music category.
Clicking on Random is also fun.
There are also curated collections by the staff. They include topics like Legos, The Human Body and Poop (but not the inappropriate kind as above).
Or just click on the first link you come to and follow the links below.
I watched "The Very Hungry Maggot" thinking that if I was going to get something that kids would like, it would be this. Yep, starts out with puppies as a sort of eye-bleach at the beginning and then you go to a lab dealing with the food-chain. We eat chicken, maggots eat our food waste and chickens eat maggots. Beautifully explained with squiggly, wriggly maggots.
The ads are small and unintrusive. Clicking on one, even by accident will not result in unintended consequences.
Give the site a try. Hand it to your kid on your tablet, laptop or even your phone. It's really cool.
I'm not sure how many people know about the odd problem that YouTube had a while ago with kid's videos. It was a strange one. Mixed in with perfectly ordinary kid videos were bizarre Elsa/Spiderman/Joker/Etc videos with adult themes of self-harm, inappropriate toileting, strange pregnancy and sexual innuendo. YouTube has tried to slap down the offenders, but the videos are still popping up occasionally on the YouTube Kids feeds.
The feeds are auto-generated by an algorithm rather than curated by humans, so yeah, that's going to happen. Parents have to be super aware of what their kids are watching on YouTube Kids because it can get weird really fast when it moves to the next video on auto-play.
This site is the remedy to that. The Kid Should See This is an awesome site with all kinds of educational and fun videos curated by real humans.
You can hoover over any of the categories at the top and you will be treated to a drop down of a few videos in that category. Click on it and see a plethora of educational and fun videos like "Playing Piano Under A Sleeping Cat" in the music category.
Clicking on Random is also fun.
There are also curated collections by the staff. They include topics like Legos, The Human Body and Poop (but not the inappropriate kind as above).
Or just click on the first link you come to and follow the links below.
I watched "The Very Hungry Maggot" thinking that if I was going to get something that kids would like, it would be this. Yep, starts out with puppies as a sort of eye-bleach at the beginning and then you go to a lab dealing with the food-chain. We eat chicken, maggots eat our food waste and chickens eat maggots. Beautifully explained with squiggly, wriggly maggots.
The ads are small and unintrusive. Clicking on one, even by accident will not result in unintended consequences.
Give the site a try. Hand it to your kid on your tablet, laptop or even your phone. It's really cool.
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Mobile Mom's Day
Mom's Day
Sorry about how late the post is. For mother's day I figured that I'd make mobile wallpapers for moms to be! Go to our main blog to download the full size 720x1280 mobile wallpapers. Or click on the mini.
Sorry about how late the post is. For mother's day I figured that I'd make mobile wallpapers for moms to be! Go to our main blog to download the full size 720x1280 mobile wallpapers. Or click on the mini.
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Sunday, May 5, 2019
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Well, that was unpleasant
For the people who use Firefox with add-ons/extensions, you are not the only one experiencing problems. A lot of Firefox users had all of their extensions/add-ons disabled last night.
Including me. 😡
I use Firefox for casual browsing and one minute I was fine, the next, not so much. The absense of my Extensions breaks my Firefox (and Chrome, etc.). For me it's like having a smart phone without apps.
Here's the message from Firefox:
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/certificate-issue-cau…/39047
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/certificate-issue-cau…/39047
The link will take a long time to load. The site is under heavy traffic.
I think the best thing for people to do is either switch to a different browser or try to follow the workaround instructions. I don't recommend the workaround unless you are confident with tweaking browsers. For those that want to try, here's the link:
There are lots of browsers to chose from if you want to switch: Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Waterfox, Vivaldi etc. I'm using Chromium right now. I'm not thrilled with it, but it's what I have. I'm going to experiment with Waterfox later today.
Friday, May 3, 2019
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
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