Poppy seed bagel life hack
Up fairly early this morning and not wanting to make more mess until I had a chance to unload the dishwasher I eyed the bag of poppy seed bagels taunting me with their goodness but annoying the crap...
View ArticleHow to rig a faucet extender for toddlers
This is the faucet I did this on. Pretty standard. American Standard if I recall correctly. Something they taught Maggie at daycare is to wash her hands. This seems to be part of her world now and not...
View ArticleUnexpected WordPress admin slowness
Little off-topic for theITbaby, but something we ran into and fixed and I figured I’d share. As of last week with no changes to any hardware, software, or ISP the back end of theITbaby (WordPress...
View ArticleHow to craft a viral baby blog
After reading a few things that unfortunately came across my feeds, I think I have divined the manual for how to craft a viral baby blog post that profits the author directly. Find a fear, exploit that...
View ArticleHow to read that Ebook on any device you own
Assuming you’ve gotten an EPUB, Mobi, or PDF you can read any of the common formats on any Apple, Android, or Windows device and swap reading between them without ever missing what page you’re on. To...
View ArticleHow to save those toddler YouTube videos for offline playback
There are things I never thought I’d do as a parent, right up there with pulling a stuck poop ball out of a toddler’s butt is saving a copy of an hour long Wheels on the Bus video to my phone so she...
View ArticleHow to add Google Play to your Amazon Fire Kids edition
This article assumes you want to add the Google Play Store and associated services to the Amazon Fire Kids Edition tablet running Bellini (5.0.1). It also assumes you know a little bit about rooting...
View ArticleMagic baby hold? Flesh swaddling.
There’ve been a lot of videos and reporting on the magic baby hold, that’s a hold where you can get a baby to stop crying in next to no time. We’ve been using a variation on it to get Aerin to sleep...
View ArticleWaking the sleeping beast with toddler logic
Not even all the toys could wake her Maggie’s occasionally been absolutely exhausted in the morning, a total bear. No particular reason I can think of as bedtime is the same. Probably a growth spurt....
View ArticleYou don’t have time to be hacked: add security to Facebook
Step 1: on a browser – down arrow, settings You’ve been using the same format of passwords on eleven trillion websites you use. Who has the time to keep up with generating a new and special password...
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