From The Editor April 2012

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Welcome to the April Edition of the Digital Parents Blogazine. Well I’ve had a busy couple of months working on the Digital Parents Conference and this week we are all basking the in the afterglow. So as you can imagine plenty of content in this edition is focused on that. Last edition we had a… [Continue Reading]

Fat Free TV

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This week the Cancer Council NSW launched Fat Free TV Guide, an interactive website which allows parents to search over 100 popular TV shows, rating and ranking the best and worst, based on how much junk food is advertised to children. The aim of the site is to inform parents just how much advertising your… [Continue Reading]

Omega Delight

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I love seafood, I do. Could have something to do with my Mediterranean background. My mother would bake fish with potatoes in a tomato based sauce; roll fish in some flour and fry it; or squeeze some lemon, add some pepper and put it on the BBQ. So when I was invited to by Nature’s… [Continue Reading]

Web Hosting & Domains for Dummies with Ashur Lazar

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I took some time to chat with Ashur Lazar from Insynch Web Design about the very sexy topic of domain name and blog hosting. Here’s how it sounded: How do you search for available domain names? I use either http://whois.ausregistry.net.au/ if it’s an Australian domain or any of the hosting providers like CrazyDomains, Melbourne IT. How… [Continue Reading]

From the Editor 1 December 2011

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Hello everyone. You may have heard through the grapevine that Kristyn stepped down as Managing Editor of the Blogazine last month. Brenda rang me on the phone and offered me the position to which I wildy screamed YES down the phone line all the while trying very hard to continue driving in a straight line…. [Continue Reading]

Are gaming consoles evil?

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Do you think gaming consoles are evil? I ask this because my four year old (nearly five now) has really taken to it in the last month or so.  So much so that if I left him alone, he would play it from the moment he woke up to the moment he went to sleep…. [Continue Reading]