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5 Saving Tactics & Apps to Help Your Family Budget This Winter

February 5, 2018 by Kathryn 1 Comment

Winter is that time of the year when expenses get a little higher and budgets get a little tighter. Many families need to be a little more careful with savings, so take a look at these fun tips and tricks to save more, easily.

As winter reaches its peak, the energy bills also spike up, forcing you to look for both power and money saving tactics. Here are a few useful and effective savings tactics and apps that will take care of the soaring prices and help you keep a tight lid on your finances. There’s no need for that budget to go haywire as the snow starts piling up!

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Store and Protect Your Family’s Data with the NETGEAR ReadyNAS 202

June 2, 2015 by Kathryn 18 Comments

Staying connected is something that’s important to my family not just because I work online for a living, but also because the Internet adds so much to our day-to-day lives. From having Skype conversations with distant family members to relaxing together while watching a movie on Netflix to sharing photos and videos, we are definitely a digital family.

NETGEAR has already done so much to revolutionize my family’s connectivity, and I honestly don’t know how I ever got by without the speed and strength of my NETGEAR Nighthawk X6 router. Now the company has a brand new product perfect for ensuring important family files are protected: the NETGEAR ReadyNAS 202!

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Make a Fresh Start on Your 2015 Reading Goals and #ReadMore with Kobo-Giveaway

January 9, 2015 by Kathryn 20 Comments

It’s a new year, which means it’s time for a new start and for me, that means expanding my knowledge with some great new books! My Kobo Glo is an essential in my life and for 2015, I’m loading it up with all kinds of great hit titles I want to read!

The biggest challenge for me each year is finding time to read, but getting a fresh start means making plans to overcome my challenges and that’s what I’ve been doing! First of all, I decided that every Saturday morning, a time that’s generally a very relaxed one for me, would be spent reading a new book. Secondly, I decided to expand my reading by exploring some great new genres!

I’ll be the first to admit that I have an obsessive weakness for science fiction and fantasy novels. And while I do sometimes read other books, I tend to gravitate back to the same genre again and again. This year, I’m planning on diving into non-fiction a lot more and I started already by downloading The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs. Just a few chapters in, I’m already hooked and I can’t wait to finish it tomorrow! [Read more…]

TELUS Inspires Today’s Youth Through We Day and the We365 App

November 20, 2014 by Kathryn 48 Comments

For the last three years I’ve had the privilege of attending We Day Saskatchewan and I always come out of the event impressed by the passion of today’s youth and inspired to make a bigger difference in the world myself. Teaching my boys about social responsibility and supporting the causes they believe in is a big part of that and this year I decided that my eight-year-old son Zackary was finally old enough to attend We Day with me.

TELUS has been a proud sponsor of We Day each time I attended and this year was no exception. I’ve been a TELUS customer for a long time and while that’s partially because the company offers such amazing smartphone plans, it’s also because of its passion for bettering the world. The ongoing sponsorship of We Day is a perfect example of that.

kathryn lavallee zackary captain phillips — Meeting Captain Phillips!

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Breeze Through Your Holiday Shopping with the YP ShopWise App

November 13, 2014 by Kathryn 44 Comments

If there’s one time of the year that’s hard to stay organized, it’s the holidays. Between stocking up on festive food, shopping for gifts and taking advantage of some of the awesome deals available, shopping during the holidays is lots of fun, but it can also be pretty frantic! This year, the YP ShopWise app from Yellow Pages is determined to make the holiday shopping experience as pleasant as possible, and the app is now available on Android and Blackberry as well as iOS!

I had the chance to test out the app for myself recently to see what it was like. Getting it set up was as easy as could be. I simply downloaded the free app, opened it up and gave it permission to use my location so that I could find deals close to me. Then I was ready to start exploring! I started by clicking the “Nearby” tab at the front. By zooming in, I could find all the deals currently in my area. I was immediately impressed by the variety of deals that were displayed; I was able to access deals at businesses ranging from fast food restaurants to jewellery stores! [Read more…]

Kids and Parents Will Both Love the New Shaw Go Disney Junior, Shaw Go Family and Shaw Go Disney XD Apps-Giveaway

May 5, 2014 by Kathryn 76 Comments

A few months ago I learned about the Shaw Go service available to Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct customers; a collection of apps that lets Shaw subscribers watch their favourite shows on portable devices when away from the house. Benjamin immediately fell in love with the kid-friendly apps that the company offered and now, Shaw has made Shaw Go even better for families with the introduction of three new children’s apps for iPhone and Android: Shaw Go Disney XD, Shaw Go Family and Shaw Go Disney Junior!

My boys were all too eager to test out the new apps and I knew that Benjamin would be especially excited about the Shaw Go Disney Junior app. Some of his favourite shows are on this channel and seeing his eyes light up when he saw programming including Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Handy Manny and Special Agent Oso was so much fun. He immediately started exploring his options and even discovered a new favourite cartoon to love, The Secret World of Benjamin Bear. He’s been talking about the show for days now!

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Fairway Solitaire Blast Available Today for iOS and Android Devices #FSBlast

April 3, 2014 by Paresh Pandya 5 Comments

If you love solitaire, you’ll love the latest release from Big Fish Games available today for iOS and Android devices! Fairway Solitaire Blast, the sister game to the hugely popular Fairway Solitaire, takes the ever-popular game of solitaire to a new level with fun animation, cool power-ups, bright colours and a gameplay style that’s appropriate for all ages!

The goal is to clear the cards off the board. The twist is that you get to use an array of power-ups to help you beat challenges that are designed around hand-crafted card layouts. All played on golf courses that include hazards like crab grass and sand traps. Altogether, you’ve got a unique solitaire puzzle game that earned the franchise IGN’s Fan Favorite Mobile App and Mobile Game of the Year nominations in 2013. Devise your strategy then attack the course!

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Upgrading to the Telus Samsung Galaxy S4

January 28, 2014 by Kathryn 28 Comments

I was a little slow to get on the smartphone bandwagon, but after getting a Samsung Galaxy S3 phone at the end of 2012, I was hooked. I am an Android girl through-and-through and proud of it, though after over a year with my S3, I couldn’t help but think about upgrading. So when Telus gave me the chance to review the new Samsung Galaxy S4, I was eager to it a try.

In all honesty, I didn’t expect much of a difference. I had seen the S4 and aside from being slightly larger and thinner, the basic layout and features seemed to be pretty similar to my current phone. So essentially, I expected I would be reviewing a slightly larger version of the same phone I already used with maybe a few minor tweaks to the interface and features.

samsung galaxy s3 and s4 comparison — The Samsung Galaxy S4 is just a little bigger and a little thinner than the S3, but it makes a big difference in the overall feel of the phone.

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