Apple iCloud | Online storage and app sharing

Apple iCloud Service – Online Storage and App Sharing

A few years ago I made the switch from microsoft products to Apple, and I haven’t looked back.  I’d always used Today, Apple announced iCloud, its new cloud service which joins mobile devices, desktops, and other machines running the apple OS.  Basically the service breaks down like this: Users get 5 gb of free online [...]

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Household Pecking Order

Everything in nature has a pecking order.  Usually, the most intelligent species sits atop the mountain and exercises domain over everything it surveys.  Mice eat bugs, cats eat mice, dingos eat cats, lions eat dingos (and everything else it can get is jaws around.)  Pecking order. Scientists have also observed a similar phenomenon that develops [...]

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GladDads – Site of the Week

Our site of the week, this week, is GladDads.com, which is run by two fathers, Danny Grubb and Joe Beckman. The site is a fantastic resource for dads, and goes well beyond what I would consider to be the standard “Dad Blog.”  While there are some funny anecdotes about each of their families as they [...]

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Learn how to start a home business for less than $100

5 Steps to Creating a Home Business

There are countless sites that teach you how to make money online from blogs, or by selling products or services like e-books or subscriptions.  I’ve read many of those guides and e-books, and some of them are fantastic. For the most party, they teach you how to setup your website, place advertising, and how to [...]

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5 Steps to Creating a Home Business: Step 1

Welcome back to Daddy by Default’s guide 5 Steps to Creating a Home Business.  If you haven’t read our introduction to starting a home business article yet, we recommend you start there.  At the bottom of that article is a link to return to this article, the first of the 5 steps.  The introduction explains [...]

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How Google Works

How Google Makes Your Search Happen

Google is an interesting company.  When they’re not making news about which new tech startup they’ve just bought, or The guys over at SEO Book and PPCBlog put this great infographic together showing you how Google works to return your search request in just a few fractions of a second. It’s one of the cooler [...]

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Daddy by default reviews the Fisher Price Baby Bouncer

Fisher Price Ocean Wonders Baby Bouncer

Our daughter was not one to sit still. Even from an early age we knew we were going to have our hands full. And it’s no secret that infants need constant supervision, which can make for some interesting juggling acts when it’s time to take a shower or use the toilet and the baby is [...]

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Lessons from The Wire – Crime TV

The new network television lineups will soon hit the airwaves, and undoubtedly we’ll see the standard influx of new crime dramas. Most will go the way of the do-do, but a few well written, well cast shows will stick around for the long run. If it’s lucky, it might have legs like one of the [...]

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Site of the Week: My Blessed Home

Daddy by Default’s Site of the Week feature is MyBlessedHome.net, a great blog which gives you a rare glimpse into the daily life of a family of 10. Complete with tips on homeschooling, parenting advice, product video reviews, and even some slice of life humor thrown in for good measure.  What’s more is the family is [...]

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Google Wallet Lets you pay for your purchases with your cell phone

No More Credit Cards, I’ve Got Google in My Wallet

Merchants and retailers are constantly coming up with ways to speed us ever faster through the checkout lines, from Diner’s Club, to MasterCard and Visa, PayPass, and now the Google Wallet. The Google Wallet allows you to pay for purchases with your cell phone, and will first work with CitCards and then thru MasterCard’s PayPass. [...]

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The Daddy by Default Infant and Toddler Feeding Diary

Track Your Baby’s Feeding Schedule

Grandparents are great for spoiling kids and showering them with affection…and gifts. The classic grandparent gift is a Baby Tracker, which helps you organize all the important baby papers that go along with a child’s birth. Things you might track over time are your baby’s weight, height, immunizations, illnesses (hopefully not too many), and milestones. [...]

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Resources for New Dads

New dads (and dads to be) can get inundated with advice from well wishing family and friends. Before we had our first child I received parenting tips from people who didn’t even have kids.  I guess they just wanted to pass along a few sage words of wisdom about how it should be.  Needless to [...]

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Milkman Video

Stay at Home Dad: Milkman Video

Atom.com features some funny videos, and this one, The Milkman, is particularly funny – It’s part of their Stay at Home Dad Channel. Stay At Home Dad Channel Tags: Atom.com | Funny Videos | Tournament | Upload   If your wife breast feeds or pumps, and you’ve witnessed this act, you probably understand the humor [...]

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