New Trent’s Airbender 1.0 Converts My Train Seat into an Office

I commute into Manhattan every weekday, mixing a train ride with a subway and a few blocks on foot. It’s roughly a 45 minute train ride, so I have a good chunk of time to get some work done on my iPad. When I first bought my iPad, I knew I’d use it on the train, so I bought a fairly cheap cloth case that included a bluetooth keyboard. I liked it and it got …

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Win a Lionel Trains Santa Fe Super Chief Set Valued at $439.99 (Ends 11/2)

I didn’t really know my grandfather too much. He passed away when I was pretty young. But based on photos and lots of stories, I’d say Grandpa Abe was one heckuva guy. Pretty much my only memory of him is a real minor one. I have a real vivid image in my head of me as a kid sitting in their NYC apartment. I was in one of the bedrooms on the floor playing with …

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The My Muppet Show App Brings Me One Step Closer to Hugging Fozzie Bear

I’m a fan of obsessed with the Muppets. I may’ve written about them once or twice. I may’ve even equated parental lessons to their googly-eyed awesomeness. And yeah, hugging the hilarious Fozzie Bear is on my bucket list, okay? I’m ecstatic that Disney’s making a sequel to last year’s insanely Muppetastic movie, The Muppets. And to say it’d be a dream come true to actually get to attend the Red Carpet premiere of The Muppets… …

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Teach Your Kids a Foreign Language with the Highly Edutaining App ‘Gus on the Go’

I’ve always been fascinated by languages. I’ve got a pretty good memory so that certainly helps learn new ones and might explain why I generally took so well to new languages. I say “took” not “take” because now I’m over the hill and need to use all my memory cells for remembering the names of the zillions of different characters in Game of Thrones. In high school, I took four years of Spanish, including AP …

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GazziliMath Takes Your Preschooler to the Zoo to Learn Counting

I cannot tell you how many times I visited the Bronx Zoo when I was a kid. We must’ve gone every summer or so. To this day, my parents still remind me of the the one visit they’ll never forget. As usual, it was a real hot summer day and we had spent a number of hours already walking the mammothly large zoo. Apparenly all I wanted was to see the giraffes. I kept bugging …

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