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Melanie Pinola
melaniepinola
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I installed the management app on a second iOS device and it says they’ll send a code to your registered phone so it can connect to Circle, but it’s giving me an error :( Read more

You can try blocking YouTube and only allowing the YouTube Kids app? Though my 9yo doesn’t like the YouTube kids app, says it’s very limited. Read more

Interesting. Seems like it has a lot of granular control. Read more

OpenDNS does have great web content filtering (so many categories!) but that works across your whole network. What if I wanted to disable chat sites or politics for my kids but still access them myself? (I could use the second network, but that’s a strange solution). There’s also no scheduling and it can’t manage apps Read more

Yeah, I hate when companies only launch on one platform. The lack of a web console is a big drawback to this device (though you can see stats and access special Disney content from Circle’s site). Read more

I think “completely false” might not be accurate. It depends on your situation. Sometimes buying is better than renting, sometimes renting is better than buying—it depends on your market area and situation. In either case you can say the other scenario is “throwing money away” (or less harshly, spending more than you Read more

That’s great that you’ve found a stylist who works for you, but not everyone has and it can be scary to try out a new one. This is just extra insurance that the person might do a better job without that cause. And after that if you like the person then stick with them by all means. (As mentioned in the post it doesn’t Read more

Ah yeah, Smart lookup is useful. I guess for people who don’t have Office 2016, though, or want Google results rather than Bing...and I like that the Wikipedia add-in shows the text of the article in the right pane rather than opening the browser tab. Read more

I agree. I have a hard time coming up with and sticking to a budget though, and thinking of types of gifts can help. Read more

I know what you mean! It doesn’t help that some of the gifts are kind of for us too (like a new Wii U and then of course we need games for the Wii U) Read more