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Top 10 Audio Books for Children

GuestPoster — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:02:03 +0000

Audio books are good learning materials — especially for kids. They can be instructional materials that can help kids learn faster than just reading a book. Some people just learn easier by listening which makes audio books very helpful. Audio books are also a good way to expose kids to the classics like Tom Sawyer especially if they are not really fond of reading. Knowing the top 10 audio books for children will allow parents to know which are good listening materials for their kids.

It is easy to find top 10 audio books resources online. One website you can visit to look for top audio books for kids is AmblingBooks.com. They have a good collection of audio books for kids and here are their top 10 picks.

1. The Magnificent Mummy Maker, by Elvira Woodruff
2. Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book One – The Capture by Kathryn Lasky
3. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, by Kathryn Lasky
4. Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book Eight – The Outcast, by Kathryn Lasky
5. Winnie-The-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
6. The Ravenmaster’s Secret – Escape from the Tower of London, by Elvira Woodruff
7. Fear Itself Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School #2, by Andrew Clements
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
9. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
10. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

The best audio books for kids can actually replace bedtime stories and you can enjoy listening to them with your kids. They are educational, informative and at the same time entertaining. It is probably hard to choose which would be the best audio book with the myriad of choices to choose from – from classics to contemporary to educational.

If you are somewhat unsure of which audio book to purchase for your child, try to check out the list of Ambling Books top 10 audio books for children. This will give you a good idea which books kids are reading nowadays.

Protect Your Children With GPS

GuestPoster — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:38:13 +0000

Ever since GPS was introduced as a commercial device, its use has grown exponentially. But this is not a new thing in the technology industry. When a device or improvement is developed and released to the market, its use typically spreads from an “unknown” to a “can’t live without it” response from consumers. This is because the devices are more expensive when they are first made available. As more people buy the devices and the cost of making them decline, the price will then decline and more people in different economic conditions will be available to purchase them. From here it is a no brainer that its use will have widespread adoption. One of these success stories is the GPS (or Global Position System) device. And as GPS has grown to be ubiquitous in our world, parents have begun using kids gps to keep their children safe.

Tens of thousands of children go missing each year. The tv and print media are replete with stories of children that have been abducted or have never returned him and are classified as missing. Parents cannot watch their children 24 hours a day so having a GPS tracker on their child can be a huge boon for their peace of mind. These GPS devices can be placed in their jackets, shoes or even their watches. These are the best places to hide a GPS device as someone who is intent on taking your child will not think to have them take off their shoes (for example). If a child goes missing and they have a GPS locator on them, all the parent needs to do is have the police track the location and they can quickly get their child back safely and unharmed.

Parents of teenagers might also want to keep track of their child as well. So they can easily buy their teen a cell phone that has a cell phone locator and keep tabs on them as well.

Finding A Good Deal On Pink Laptops

GuestPoster — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:06:04 +0000

With the explosion of internet websites, discovery shopping has become a breeze. Finding a deal on pink laptop computers is easy with so many retailers at your fingertips. All you have to do is pick a search engine and go. Cheap is up to the discretion of each individual, but most people would consider $400 to be a fair deal on a laptop. So prepare to be amazed that even with the latest craze being for pink laptops, you can find one for that amount as well.

Acer has many different options for laptops but among the more feminine style the Acer Aspire One D260 is an affordable front runner. Sporting Lilac flakes, it measures 258.5 mm x 185 mm x 24 mm it is perfect for slim, sporty, feminine ladies wanting something softer but modern for their machine. The system has Windows 7 starter and processes at 1.66 GHz.

The Asus Karim Rashid Designer Netbook offers a true pink with a crocodile looking skin. This machine has a large hard drive and offers these specs: 250 GB hard drive, 1GB RAM, 6 hours of battery life, and is priced around our fair deal price. This Designer Netbook has a counterpart called the Asus Eee PC 1008HA 10-inch Netbook. It’s slim and comes in a pale pink, but has the same general specs as the Designer Netbook, although is a bit curvier, smaller and cheaper.

Along with Acer and Asus, HP has many options fit for a lady, but the one we’ll discuss is the HP Mini 110-1150SA Pink Chic 10.1-inch Netbook. It comes in a luscious deep pink, has the standard 1GB RAM and 250 GB hard drive, and a built in webcam and microphone. HP Mini runs with the Windows 7 and has 3 USB ports for usability.

Samsung outdoes its competition with choice. There are three pink laptops available through Samsung. The dark pink NC 10 has 1GB RAM and 160 GB hard drive. Another option, the N150 has 8 hours of battery usage. Finally Samsung offers a model called the N130 that comes in pale pink.

The choices are plentiful, and if you have a serious budget to stick by you may want to consider buying a used computer, although it’s not too great of a choice considering you can’t get a refund and it’s not guaranteed or warranty covered. And don’t forget a pink laptop bag to keep your new purchase safe and sound.

Should You Cave In To Your Child’s Request For A Cell Phone?

GuestPoster — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:43:01 +0000

There is no doubt about it: parents today have a completely different set of decisions they have to make for their kids than their parents had to make for them. Most adults today grew up when the technology age was just beginning. There was a hint of things like cell phones and personal computers but they weren’t mainstream like they are now and not too many people had them.

Cell phones for kids is a problem that parents have to deal with it seems at an earlier age than ever before. What does a mom or dad do when their 6 or 7 year old starts asking for a cell phone? Really, is a cell phone at that age really necessary?

Cell Phones For Kids

Kids always want what they see other kids with and as long as there is someone in class with something new like a disney cell phone for kids, every child will want it. The age debate with cell phones centers on just how young is too young for a child to have one? Some parents believe in the safety factor and want their children to have one and learn how to use it real early on. Other parents want to protect thier kids as long as they can from all this new technology.

Kids are supposed to be running, playing tag, kicking and throwing balls, and other things that children have always done. Now though, this new generation of youngsters would rather play video games than learn how to play golf or baseball. Many parents are concerned that new things like iPhones and Wii’s are taking over and actually doing harm. Children getting a cell phone at a very young age does help usher in a child’s desire to have these new gadget and may ultimately squelch their desire to just go out and play like a kid.

How Can I Match A Phone Number To A Person

GuestPoster — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:37:55 +0000

When you’ve just received a call and you don’t immediately recognize the number, the first question that enters your mind is, “how can I match a phone number to a person“, isn’t it?

Most telephone and cell phone users just can’t stand the idea of not knowing who the missed or unknown call was from. And some people will go to any lengths to match a phone number to a person. “Whose cell phone number is this?”, if truth be told, probably gets asked about a zillion times a day.

In fact, that is the problem with my best friend, Pam. Popular gal that she is, my friend gets a ton of calls from guys that she has never met, and believe me, there are some of them that she doesn’t want to meet either.

Pam won’t rest until she finds out to whom a phone number belongs. She used to drive her Mom, sisters, and all of her friends nuts trying to discover the identity of the owner of some unknown number that popped up on her cell phone.

match a phone number to a person

We finally all got together and made a list of things we could do to help her find out who a phone number belongs to. First, she could continue to ask us, her friends and family, then, if we didn’t recognize the number, she could google the number.

Actually, googling worked out pretty well if the call was coming from a business number or a number that had been published online, however, lots of people do not let their personal number be published.

She could look in the local phone book, but there again, how many cell phone numbers are listed there? And, who wants to go flipping through hundreds of pages trying to discover whose cell phone number is this?

Finally, we all just decided that to save all our time and energy, we suggested to Pam that the best thing she could do was to subscribe to one of the online reverse phone look up services. WOW, was that ever a time saver for her and all the rest of us too.

Now, all she has to do is go to her computer, type in the unrecognized number, and straight away she has the name of the person who the phone number belongs to.

The reverse phone lookup service she subscribed to is very inexpensive, and it is totally guaranteed. If they don’t give you the identity of the owner, you don’t pay. But, so far, every single time, her question, “whose phone number is this“, has been accurately answered.

While they don’t promise that they can find the identity of every phone number on the planet, their ability to match a phone number to a person is almost like magic.