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The Genealogy Site That Makes Stalking Easy

PSafe Newsroom — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:00:08 +0000

Genealogy and the study of family trees has long been a practice throughout history. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, and oftentimes analyze genetics to determine family history and genetic makeup for people who are interested. Although a lot of genealogy is focused on where people have lived, it also involves the study of their employment and economic status, religious beliefs, and other factors that compose daily life.

A New Way to Explore Your Family’s History

A new genealogy website has taken a traditionally expensive experience and made it free for everyone. FamilyTreeNow, which launched in 2014, is headquartered in Roseville, California. It was created by a few veterans of the tech industry. Thanks to them, it is now simpler than ever to log on and discover the history of your family.

Easy, Free Access to Information

FamilyTreeNow has extensive access to historical records, such as census records from 1790 to 1940. They also have birth, death, marriage, divorce, and military records, in addition to records on the living, all available through their website. All of this information can be accessed for free with no limitations or restrictions.

How to Use FamilyTreeNow

On the site, you can use their “family tree builder” to begin creating and tracking your own personal family tree. You can search through all of the records and trace it back to find your ancestors. You are also able to share the family-tree-in-progress with other members of your family, like siblings, cousins, and parents. That way, the process is more fun and collaborative — you can research your family history with the help of your family.

You can use FamilyTreeNow to explore your family’s origins and maybe even find some long lost relatives or extended family you didn’t know you had. Simply search for a family member by name, and the extensive search engine will provide information for certain family members. This information includes their birth year, city, and lists of other potential relatives. The latter makes it easy to find more members to add to your family tree.

Contact New Family Members

Begin your tree with one person and expand it out to all of your living relatives. The library of research provided by FamilyTreeNow will allow you to dive deep into the past. It will even provide addresses and phone numbers for people that you search, which allows you to potentially contact your family members.

4 Parental Control Android Apps Every Parent Needs

PSafe Newsroom — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 21:47:30 +0000

Whether we want them to or not, kids are growing up online. They want to play games, need to do research for school, and are asking for smartphones earlier than ever. Certainly, there are lots of benefits to giving kids smartphones — they’re a way to reach you more easily, have GPS tracking enabled, and afford children access to new information. But you also want to keep your kids safe from being overexposed to some of the seedier sides of the Internet. These four parental control Android apps will help you do just that:

1. Net Nanny Social

Net Nanny Social gives you the control to monitor what your children are doing on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms. Using your online dashboard, you get flags of anything that looks like risky behavior online, as well as updates about your child’s friends and posted photos. The app also tracks what your child is doing on social networks across all of their devices.

2. KuuKla Parental Control

KuuKla lets you set time restrictions for individual apps on your child’s smartphone. Parents set weekly time limits that kids can spend on each app, and when kids reach their time limits, the app is automatically restricted.

3. Screen Time Parental Control App

Like KuuKla, Screen Time lets you manage the amount of time your kids spend online. Specifically, it lets you create restrictions for particular apps while your kids are in school or should be sleeping. It also lets you create checklists for what kids need to complete — homework, chores — and then reward them with extra screen time when they’ve finished these obligations.

4. Kids Place

Kids Place stops your kids from downloading any new apps without your approval. Specifically, the home screen will only display the apps that you’ve approved for your kids’ use. This app is particularly useful if you let your kids play on your phone because you can enable and disable the Kids Place app. When it’s running, your kids can’t call or text any of your contacts.

Keeping your kids safe from seeing all of the nasty corners of the Internet isn’t always easy. But keeping their Android phones safe from malicious attacks and viruses is. Download PSafe Total to provide free Internet protection for all of your Windows and Android devices.

The 6 Best Apps to Keep Toddlers Busy

PSafe Newsroom — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:22:09 +0000

The one thing that always captivates babies and toddlers is a bright, shiny screen with moving pictures, aka, a smartphone. Whenever I babysat growing up, kids were always reaching for my phone to look at, and it became my go-to to stop my charges from crying or throwing tantrums. Knowing this, app developers have brilliantly jumped on this trend and created a multitude of apps designed to distract little ones and give their parents a moment to breathe. Here are some of the best:

1. Ant Smasher

This game is exactly what it sounds like. The point is to try to smash as many ants with your finger on the screen as possible, while not smashing any bees. The game requires very few motor skills and rewards children with very satisfying splattering visuals and audio. It essentially allows your toddler to poke at the phone for an extended period of time.

2. Fisher-Price

Fisher-Price is responsible for all kinds of non-mobile kids entertainment games and products and it has now expanded its services to include those available on technology. The Fisher-Price app offers a variety of baby games including hide-and-seek games, nursery rhyme games, and counting games. As well as having a wide variety, the app also offers the option of multiplayer if you have a few who want to play at once.

3. Kids Animal Piano

This game combines the mechanics of a piano with the tried and true favorite for all youngsters: making animal noises. Kids Animal Piano allows your babies and toddlers to push different keys and hear a satisfying variety of animals sounds. This allows your youngster to create a musical composition that could realistically be heard in a barnyard.

4. Kids Doodle

Kids Doodle is a drawing app that specializes in bright colors and is easy to use; perfect for young kids. There are about two dozen brush options with different colors and thicknesses and every image can be saved to the device so you can preserve your young one’s masterpieces for all of eternity. The coolest part is a section called “film mode” that allows you to replay all of the different images in a video format.

5. My Talking Angela

Part of the “My Talking” series, these apps feature an animal character that children can talk to, and the character talks back. This app is simple but also involves adorable animal figures and smaller, mini games on the side that teach skills like tooth brushing.

6. Baby Scratch

This is literally a DJ app for toddlers. Kids can touch records that play children’s songs like “Mary Had A Little Lamb” and other classics, causing them to create remixes. There is an option to record your own voice or music which can then be altered as well. This app requires few motor skills and a short attention span.

If you are curious about more of the craziest and weirdest apps out there, check out PSafe’s blog which features articles about all different kinds.