Mom's Gadgets

If you live anywhere along the path or hurricanes like I do, you’ll definitely want to be on the watch out for those nasty storms. I’ve been living in eastern North Carolina, minutes away from the beach for 8 years. Every year, my husband makes sure I know what’s going on during hurricane season.

I usually like to check out pictures and animated graphics compared to reading those cryptic text advisories from the NOAA. I cannot understand those. Now, I have another tool to use. Thanks to Annette, who tweeted about Stormpulse on Twitter. Beautiful tracker. Love it.

I love receiving my FamilyFun magazine. So packed with ideas especially for an unimaginative mom like me. I found this really cool. Smilebox and FamilyFun partnered to create online recipe cards. You can create your very own recipe pages, upload your own pictures, add music and email them to family and friends. I think you can also blog and print them. So fun.

Are you computer savvy? Do you Facebook, Twitter, or blog? Recently I found a new site that manages everything you do online. Lijit provides a powerful search for publishers and individuals. When visitors to site click through Lijit’s search bar it finds content within that particular site and promotes to keep readers at your site longer. This is beneficial for both you and the reader. They also offer a place where you can pay to advertise your site to other Lijit users.

The hope for publishers it that this tool will capture more page views and increase readership on a particular site. The people behind the development of Lijit have tripled their network and doubled it average publisher size and provided excellent value back to the consumer. So if you would like your Facebook, your Twitter, and your blog posts available all at the click of a button for your readers, this is a very handy tool to have.