Spending Quality Time with Kids
Being a parent is a very arduous task. There’s no room for mistakes, and it requires a massive amount of patience. Kids are just a boxful of surprises. You don’t know what they’re up to most of the time. You only know you have your expectations, and when they don’t measure up, that’s when you get upset.
Balancing Career and Personal Life
It probably takes being a superhero to be successful at both career and personal life. If you’re a successful career person but without much personal life or a happy person without much of a career, you are halfway there. But you want both, right?
How to Make Your Family’s Dining Experience Fun
Eating with your whole family should be a real treat. You gather round a table side by side, all chairs occupied by the most important people in your life. But sometimes though, family eating is not as pleasurable as one would expect them to be. Everyone is cranky and crabby, with all family members just wanting to get it over with.
Minimize Chaos by Giving Kids Their Own Playroom
The toys are scattered everywhere – on the stairs, in the bathroom, on the windowsill, and sometimes in the tub! These kids just won’t listen when you tell them to only play inside their room. You go out to work and when you come home what do you find – hand painting on the wall! Isn’t there anything you can do to avoid their big mess?
Windows Tip: Get File Content Previews in Vista with the Preview Pane
If you’re a sort junkie, then you might find this new feature of Vista’s Windows Explorer a handy one. The new Preview Pane allows you to preview the contents of the more common files and documents that you have in your computer. You get instant preview (and not that wee pansy of a thumbnail but a sizable one) of documents (Office documents) and media files.
How to Spruce Up Your Kitchen
Look at your kitchen and examine all four corners. Isn’t it just plain… plain? Perhaps, if you’re a bit sloppy (or busy) you even have all your pots and pans scattered everywhere and grime has started to form in the kitchen sink and counters, your current kitchen needs more than cleaning and scrubbing. Take a picture of your kitchen’s current state and use it to mark the areas which need a total renovation.
Firefox Quick Tip: Number Your Tabs
Okay, for those of you who are quite new to Firefox, one of the quickest way to access tabs is to drop the mouse and practice some keyboard ninjitsu. A combination of Ctrl + 1 to 9 allows you to access tabs with the first tab designated as 1 and the last one designated as 9. In any case, it does take a bit of getting used to cycling through your tabs this way. It could be much faster using the mouse than guessing which number is designated to a particular tab, right? Well you really got to love add-ons, especially this one – Fancy Numbered Tabs. No need for …
Hunting for Flea Market Finds
The flea market is full of treasures – an antique box, a bronze platter, an interesting painting or an exquisite vase. Shopping is just different inside a flea market. You see things you don’t normally see in a mall and all with very agreeable price tags. Let’s take a look-see at some of the things when we’re having fun at the flea market.
Gardening for Couples
Gardening has been a hobby for a lot of people ranging from different ages and why not? Plants are known to have therapeutic effects on people and taking care of plants is a rewarding hobby. Place a little touch of heaven in your home by having a garden and maintaining it with your partner.
Firefox Quick Tip: Grab Color Swatches for Photoshop
When doing web designs, it’s quite important that you come up with studies. One way to look for new ideas is to study existing designs and observe how well it plays around with design elements. Months ago, we featured ColorJack, a nifty tool to get some really good color palettes for your design. What’s great with it is that, it lets you choose great color schemes without having to know much about color theory. Best of all, it allows you to create a swatches for Photoshop and Illustrator. But what if you can actually create color swatches directly from the model page that you’re viewing, now that would be a …