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Tuesday Stuff

I am SO excited for this: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/learn/. It’s a visual app builder. Instead of learning code and figuring out how to package and install your apps for Android, now google is providing a visual building block tool. This is GREAT for me since I tried to jump into the java world and failed, lack of attention span. This should make it easy for me to create apps for Chase and Charlotte to play, or to whip up something fun. Now only if I can get past this darn sign up form… what’s the deal Google!?

For those people who love building relationships with AI, you should be running to walmart to get your xbox360 with bundled Kinect (natal). Check out this freaky video. (Can’t you just imagine people reclusing into their homes to hang out with their “friends” who can’t leave the TV and have British accents)

And finally, this is a marketing campaign that should win every possible award: http://www.youtube.com/user/oldspice
They even had him do responses to comments and twitter posts, AWESOME: http://www.youtube.com/user/oldspice#grid/user/484F058C3EAF7FA6

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Tech

HAHAHAHa

New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products
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Personal

Just a Thought

If you ever have a really dirty kitchen to attack late at night before you go to bed, turn on some tunes to help it go by quickly! But keep them light and upbeat, because if any sentimental songs come on while you’re scrubbing dirty handprints off the counter, you’ll start to cry because you wish you were a better parent, and because your kids are growing up and you can’t quite remember how they were when they were tiny. And then the dishes you’re trying to wash will look very blurry.


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McVideos

Hike video

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Personal

Great hike

Thanks to Ryan and google buzz, we went on the coolest little hike up Payson canyon. We had such a fun time even though the easy walk only took about 20 minutes. It took us longer to drive there then the hike but it was fun to play in the cool water and Chase and Charlotte loved it. McGrandparents came as well as our friends the Taegers. Ryan we’re ready for the next kid friendly hike! Enjoy the pics:


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T.V. Tech

Tues. Fun

Here’s some fun for you. You can now pay for hulu.com and get access to full seasons, and watch on your mobile devices. It’s $10 /mo that’s prob cheaper than having cable, just make sure you have a good internet connection. Called Hulu Plus. (please report back if you sign up, and tell us if it’s worth it)

And secondly,

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Ranting Tech

Just don’t hold your phone

OK so there is some tech buzz going around I just have to comment on. First, the domain extension .xxx was approved. This as you could imagine is a domain reserved for adult content. So as a warning if you see a website that ends in .xxx do not click the link. What does that mean? If you see something like: Check out www.mcblog.xxx for a free virus scan! Unfortunately, the domain is just an additional place to put porn, not a required place to put porn. So you could still find a lot of junk at .com, .net, etc domains. What would be great is for all porn to be required to be located at a .xxx address. Then you could just block those domains and feel pretty good about surfing the net.

Next is this phone. The iPhone 4 came out yesterday. Apparently the phone loses signal completely or really bad when you hold it in your left hand connecting the two sides of the antenna with your flesh. OOPS! Here’s the part that made me have to blog about it, Steve Jobs responded with “Non issue. Just avoid holding it in that way.”
WHAT!!! That’s it!? That’s your response!? Hey thanks for forking out all the money for this cool thing, and you can’t hold it in your left hand because then it’s not cool. I just don’t understand people! I mean if the best phone on the planet, the EVO 4G had some problem that made it so you can’t hold it in your right hand, I would have to tell everyone that it is no longer the best phone available anymore. Sorry that’s a game changer when the PHONE CAN”T ACT AS A PHONE WHILE BEING HELD IN YOUR HAND!!!! Helllooooooo!!!!??? I know we have lots of Apple fans that read this, and I have tons around me at work, someone please explain this. Tell me you aren’t still willing to fight me to the death that the iPhone is the best phone. OK I’m gonna breath now. -source

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Personal

Drop my kids at the pool

My kids like swimming, Charlotte was more of a sit around the pool and never get in the water type of girl. Chase wanted to jump in, over and over and over again. Begin pictures!









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Personal

Chase Beckham

During our vacation, Chase attended a soccer day camp put on by the SSU Women’s Soccer team. It was 3 hours a day under the hot sun, and he played alongside “big” 5&6-year-olds, so I was glad he was willing to go every day. Overall, he had a good time, but he said he doesn’t like soccer anymore. I told him we’ll give it another try in the fall, and see if having some friends of the same age on his soccer team (and his own dad as a coach) doesn’t improve his outlook on the sport.


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McVideos

Best eyes and Messiest Eater

Those who are subscribed to our YouTube feed will have already seen this, or on google buzz (Buzz grabs my photos and videos automatically Ty b/c the accounts are linked). I wanted to make it an official McVideo. What’s so cool about it!? Joy took the video and Eyefi automatically uploaded it. Like most of our other videos I wouldn’t have seen this until the monthly SD card dump and then I mighta missed it. SO GREAT! Ty shared on facebook with the tag line: “This is my niece. She just won her high schools senior superlative for ‘Best Eyes’ and ‘Messiest Eater'”