Author: Jason
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Have you ever wondered whether the time you spend scrolling is creating connection or slowly eroding your peace, attention, and empathy?
That question hit me not with a sudden moment of revelation, but as a slow dawning. I didn’t wake up one day and say, “I need to quit social media.” Instead, it was the accumulation of countless tiny moments more stress, fractured attention, feelings of comparison and anxiety especially during COVID that finally made me…
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Outsmarted: The Ultimate Family Quiz Game We Loved This Christmas
Outsmarted is a smart, app-powered trivia game that brought our whole family together over the Christmas break. With age-based questions and remote play features, it quickly became a holiday favorite for kids and adults alike.
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iOS 26: What Parents Need to Know Before Updating
Apple’s iOS 26 introduces stronger parental controls and privacy tools — but some protections only work if parents know how to set them up. Here’s what’s new, what’s missing, and how to keep your child’s iPhone truly safe.
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‘Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are’
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote this in his book Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante. He goes on in the book to explain how there is deep connection between our dietary choices in our beliefs and who we are. Just as our food choices shape our physical health, our digital diet shapes our mental health,…
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OurPact
Ourpack is a parental control software that you can install on iPhones, iPads, and any android phone or tablet. We have been using it in our family for many years now. It’s not perfect but for how we manage devices in our home, it gets us 90% of the way there the other 10% we…
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TikTok, RedNote, Lemon8, etc.
There has been a lot of chatter on these apps recently. Politically there are stances around data privacy, freedom of speech, cyber security, propaganda, etc. You don’t have to search hard to get an opinion around these apps and any of these listed topics and more. I am going to try and not get into…
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500,000 Daily
This is almost the average cost of a home. Is the approximate weight of 100 elephants. But more importantly, it is the average number of predators online daily according to a study done by the FBI. Data from Screen & Reveal states: So, hypothetically, out of 100 children: Their goal being 32% of the time…
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Why am I doing this now?
There is a litany of places to go to that can tell you about the risks of screen time. You just search the news and find dozens of stories where a predator was using apps like Snapchat, WhatsApp, games like Roblox and really any app | game that has a messaging capability for soliciting images…
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Tech, Games, Movies, TV
My career, hobby, and vice. I’ve been involved in tech for 20 years between support, sales, marketing, and management. I love gaming. Board games, video games, and card games all of various types. Every Friday we’d go to blockbuster for the latest release and if my brothers and I were strategically persistent we’d be at…
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