The Olde Ashton Family Blog

Microsoft has come out with a pretty cool table that can replace the normal computer that is in your living room. They have come out with a whole new way to interact with the table and not use a keyboard or mouse.

Here is a link to the Microsoft site for the table.

A quick video

and of course a parody video, just for fun. Warning – slightly adult language in a few parts of the video.

If you need another reason to be using Firefox, and you are a parent of children under 12, here it is. There is a new extension for Firefox that lets you create and/or approve websites that your children right in the browser. It also allows you to give the children their own username and password to allow different sites for different children.

My daughter is 4 years, and has already fallen in love with getting on the Internet with my wife and I. As she gets older, this will be an excellent tool to help us if we walk away for a few minutes.

Featured Firefox Extension: Approve sites your kid visits with Glubble – Lifehacker

Glubble – A new online experience for the entire family

This sites checks to see if your website is being blocked to people in China in real time. They have a server in China that will check your site from inside the country.

We are being blocked!!!! The nerve of those people, hehe!!!!

Great Firewall of China | Test websites

LetterPop! is a funky little web application that allows you to use drag and drop techniques to put together very sharp email newsletters. You pick from a set of templates, and you can drag and drop photos and write text, and basically publish a newsletter in short order.

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If one of your New Years resolutions is to learn a new language and have an mp3 player like iPod or something else, here is a neat way to start. I have listen to 3 of the podcasts now and like them so far.

Coffee Break Spanish