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Giving a child a phone or tablet can be risky business. From apps with 3rd party tracking (usually to see what else they’re interested in and to sell their user data to advertisers), to anyone who wants to contact them, there need to be set measures in place. Now Apple, creators of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers, have added to their suite of advanced tools to keep users safe from potential online hazards. – These changes go live on the upcoming OS/app updates. These tools ...
Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge
Canadian photographer Peter McKinnon was included on the curated panel of international judges who reviewed tens of thousands of images. The winning images are now featured on apple.com, the @apple Instagram and on billboards in select cities around the world. Via Apple.com press release Over ...
Heading to the gym? Don’t make these 5 gym mistakes
Are you making a big change or promising yourself to be healthier next year? Start off on the right foot by avoiding these common gym mistakes. Wear the right gear (including a good mask!) I’ve injured myself so many times by wearing the wrong shoes on the treadmill. The wrong gear can ...
47% of Canadian parents feeling uncertain for the 2022 school season
With the ambiguity and concerns presented by the highly transmissible COVID-19 Omicron variant, which is spreading rapidly across Canada and causing Public Health measures to continuously change, almost half (47%) of Canadian ...
The Letter [video]– Advice from Fathers to Their Daughters
With the potentially negative impact of social media always present, it can be a challenge for parents to provide meaningful advice to their children. Ken Wimberly commissioned this short film, “The Letter” so fathers could connect and be more present in their children’s ...
Office Life is Dead. What Work in 2022 Will Look Like
Thanks to the transforming and evolving pandemic that keeps coming back in waves to change what we had become accustomed to, our jobs will never look the same. Office based Monday to Friday jobs are a thing of the past. There never was a good reason to make everyone sit in the same windowless ...
The Best Invention of 2021? The Paper Shoot Camera
Cameras, just like phones have been getting more and more powerful but so much less fun. I miss the good ol’ days of every kind of new device looking different and most importantly fun. In the early-mid 2000s, Lomography cameras brought a trendy revival of shooting on 35mm cameras, but ...
2021 Black Friday Shopping List and Hot Deals
Hold on to your hats, you just know all the brands are going to be making up for a slow couple of years with an epic Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend. While it’s still a few days until the official Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend, I’ve found a few early launches. Keep ...
The Perfect Christmas Gift List
*This blog contains a few affiliate links, some brands I love, and some I’ve previously worked with and thought were awesome. I asked on Twitter, ‘If you could get anything for Christmas, what would it be?’ And to those who responded, here are your gifts (kinda). “World ...