Holy Snap! It's Been Too Long!

I haven't had a breather-moment to write on my poor old deserted blog and I feel totally bad about it. Over the past 2 weeks I've worked my tail off on several things both professionally and personally. In particularly, I've picked up the "twitter-thing" which I totally was fighting tooth and nails at first. I must admit, I'm "kinda" getting the hang of it and starting to like it so please come follow me @arikajITF. I twit tech things that I don't necessarily blog about so check it out. And I've been in correspondence with the good folks over at WatchKnowLearn.org, an awesome online tool for teachers with over 33,000+ educational videos and a directory of over 3,000 categories. WKL are on a nation-wide tour trying to get their name out there and their FREE resources in the hands of teachers and children around the country. And did I mention FREE! Yep, just log on to WatchKnowLearn and see what all the buzz is about!

Personal Cartton Avatars

In my quest to find a personalized, cartoon avatar, I ran across this post about someone who uses FaceTime on the iPad to do a 10 minute sketch of you and then convert it into a digital copy that he'll email right to your inbox.

In the mist of that post, I ran across a site that offers task for 5 bucks called Fiverr. It has a similar artistic guy that will do basically the same thing for a little less. Whichever the preference, both are uniquely artistic and produce awesome results.
http://fiverr.com/relaxabe/cartoonify-your-picture?new_registration=i-vMpnDKwpIVQ

Hope to share my cartoon image soon.

Another Great Giveaway...

from Ron over at Smart Apps for Kids. Through this giveaway, you could be one of ten winners to receive the:

SatDef  (protect the Earth using multiplication!) App

Hurry up and Click This so you can read all about the giveaway and enter to win...and tell him I sent ya!

OpenDNS - CLoud Internet Security

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OpenDNS has three home plans with two of them being free. OpenDNS Home is their FREE classic service with customizable filtering and security.  OpenDNS Home VIP costs right under 20 bucks annuanlly and comes with more bells and whistles. And their last service is the OpenDNS Family Shiels that's  pre-configured to block adult content so you can set it and forget it and it's all for FREE.