by Mir | Mar 31, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk
We all know that playing an instrument is good for our kids, but there’s nothing quite like listening to a kid learn to play the violin. Or flute. Or trumpet. Or… well, anything other than “hot cross buns” on the piano. It’s excruciating....
by Mir | Mar 26, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk
I’m on the fence about this GE Designer PhotoPhone at Buy.com; on the one hand, an expandable DECT 6.0 (that’s geek-speak for “excellent range without static”) cordless phone combined with a 7″ digital photo frame for $49.99 seems like an...
by Mir | Mar 26, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk
Well, it’s upon us here in the south. Maybe not so much up north, yet, but down here? Every day we wake up to a wonderland that includes a skim coat of yellow pollen on everything. The driveway, the car, the mailbox. Let’s just say I tell the kids to keep...
by Mir | Mar 19, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk
I have a fabulous little Canon point-and-shoot camera that I really like, but it’s the generation before they came out with the version that has image stabilization. And while I don’t consider myself a particularly shaky person, there are photos I flub...
by Mir | Mar 17, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk
Did you take a gander at this week’s contest and sadly turn away, because you don’t own a Wii or a Wii Fit balance board? Let me help! Both the Wii console and Wii Fit are currently in stock at Amazon, and ship for free, with no taxes (unless you live in...
by Mir | Mar 11, 2009 | Hot Hot Hot!, Product Talk
We’re truly a digital household, by which of course I mean that we have at least five different brands of eleventy hundred rechargeable batteries hanging around. We need ’em for nearly everything, and by “nearly everything” I of course mean...