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March 8, 2010By Lori Cunningham

This week is National Sleep Awareness Week. Getting enough sleep is esential to your body and mind functioning properly. The Zeo personal sleep coach can help.

This week is known as "National Sleep Awareness Week, "which is the last full week of slumber before we go into daylight savings time this Saturday night. I'm sure many of you are dreading "springing ahead" and losing an hour of sleep. I much prefer "falling back" and gaining an hour of sleep myself. The 2002 National Sleep Foundation (NSF) Sleep in America poll found that 74 percent of American adults are exper >>

January 27, 2010By Lori Cunningham

Apple announced its new iPad today. The new iPad is similar to a netbook yet incorporates a touch eReader, iPod, and web browsing and multimedia experience.

Today Apple announced its newest, long anticipated and highly gossiped product, the Apple iPad. Rumors about the new iPad have been running rampant on the Internet as Apple fans and technology commentators quickly spread any gossip to help satisfy curious and die hard Apple fans. Steve Jobs presented the new Apple iPad to a packed room full in San Francisco. Reporters hung on every Steve Job's every word. Steve Jobs heralded the new iPad >>

January 11, 2010By Lori Cunningham

WellConnectedMom.com visited CES 2010 to find the top technology trends for 2010.

As many of you know, last week I visited the largest International Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Vegas. The Las Vegas Convention Center, with its 2.3 million square feet of space, was packed full of companies showcasing their latest technology products from all over the world. In addition, CES spread out into the Las Vegas Hilton and part of the Venetian. I'm telling you, this was one BIG show. CES reported today that over 120,000 people >>

January 2, 2010By Lori Cunningham

WellConnectedMom.com will be at 2010 CES reporting on the latest mom tech news on new gadgets, websites, and technologies.

20,000 New Consumer Tech Products 2,800 Companies 100,000+ Attendees 1.7 Million New Square Feet of Exhibit Space 250 Sessions and 800 Expert Speakers 1 Well Connected Mom! Watch out, Las Vegas! The WellConnectedMom.com is on the scene to explore, investigate, interview, interact, and report back to you the latest mom tech news on new gadgets, websites, and technologies that will make your life as a mom more fun, effective, and conn >>

December 19, 2009By Lori Cunningham

Moms lead overscheduled lives. There are plenty of gifts to give a mom to help her relax or even glam her up. But what's a gift that will help her to save valuable time or help her to pursue a hobby?

1 The Nook Love to read books? Do you carry around a large book around with you wherever you go? Now you can buy your books electronically -- called eBooks -- can store them on a portable eReader. The Nook is the newest eReader on the market. The Barnes & Noble's Nook weighs only 10.2 oz. has a 10 day battery life, and a 6 inch screen including a smaller color touch screen at the bottom. The words of the book are black and white, >>

December 10, 2009By Lori Cunningham

WellConnectedMom.com has scoured the Internet looking for Freebies, including a tote bag, food, helpful websites, and Microsoft's latest unreleased Office 2010 Suite!

Now, for the 12 Days of Christmas Freebies Countdown! On the First Day of Christmas... Visit http://www.aveenosampleoffer.com to order your free Aveeno Tote Bag. The bag has a retail value of $8. Perfect for toting around your children's books, your ads for the Christmas sales, your reading while materials, etc. This year's design is a surprise. Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery. All requests must be received by February 28, 2010. Supplie >>

December 9, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino

Governors from CA & NM Christen New Spaceship in the High Desert

Governors from CA & NM Christen New Spaceship in the High Desert Have you ever dreamed of going into outer space? Well, it's becoming more possible every day. In fact, the first commercial spaceliner was christened last Monday in the the High Desert. It is called SpaceShipTwo and will hold six passengers & two pilots. SpaceShipTwo will capable of taking six passengers and two pilots on two-hour low orbit, zero-gravity space flights. On >>

November 25, 2009By Lori Cunningham

Windows 7 has has many great tools for parents to organize, clean up, and showcase their photos and home videos. Creating stunning slide shows and movies is now a snap.

Windows 7 provides a playground full of opportunities to learn and play with your digital media-- your photos and videos. We've all seen those great short movies that some of our friends have created using their vacation photos and videos. How we wish we could do that too. But who has the time or interest to learn it all? With the help of Windows 7 and Windows Live Essentials (free download), it is now easier than ever to upload your photo >>

November 20, 2009By Lori Cunningham

The California Energy Commission (CEC) voted to restrict the sale of energy efficient TV's and enforce stricter standards on TV's sold in California. Is now the time to rush out and buy a TV before the ban is enacted in January 2011?

There are many inefficient TV's being sold that are increasing energy consumption, especially when you consider the proliferation of larger screen TV's in homes across America. Plasma TV's are heralded for their brightness and richness of colors, but some plasmas use up to three times more electricity than the older cathode-ray tubes. Earlier this week, the California Energy Commission (CEC) voted unanimously to restrict the sale of energy wa >>

November 17, 2009By Lori Cunningham

Windows 7 is a vast improvement over Windows XP and well worth the upgrade from Vista. The enhanced features make your computer experience very efficient and you'll spend less time searching for items you "misplaced."

This article is part two of a three part series reviewing Windows 7. The first article, Windows 7 Review: Media Center, reviews the benefits of Media Center and its potential to share pictures, movies, TV shows, and videos on computers and TVs throughout the house. Windows 7 is a valuable upgrade from Windows Vista or XP as it contains plenty of features that make it more efficient to find things and get things done more effectively. Fi >>

November 6, 2009By Lori Cunningham

Part one of a three part series on compelling reasons why you should consider upgrading to the Windows 7 operating system.

Since Windows 7 just launched recently, there has been a lot of buzz surrounding it. All new computers are either bundled with Windows 7 or include a promise to give you a free upgrade. Is Windows 7 just another highly marketed upgrade or is it worth your serious attention? If you're not buying a new computer, is upgrading to Windows 7 really going to help you much? In a three part series, I will take you through some of the compelling reason >>

October 20, 2009By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino

CHINO HILLS - Carbon Canyon residents can breathe a little easier after the construction of a $1.2 million county-built radio tower. In the event of fire or earthquake, both of which hit Chino Hills last year, firefighters and emergency personnel are now better able to communicate with each other through the 70-foot tall communications tower, officials said. Analysis of the 2008 earthquake and fire response revealed communication problems, off >>

May 22, 2009By Joe A

Residents can pay utility bills online automatically.

The City of Chino Hills has added a new online "auto payment" feature for its water/utility customers. Starting May 15th customers can set up automatic monthly payments for their utility bill charges using a Visa or MasterCard. Customers can visit www.chinohills.org, select "Utility Bill Pay" on the home page, and then select "Utility Bill." New users must have a paper copy of their utility bill handy in order t >>

November 29, 2008By Joe A

See the photo online

NASA released a satellite picture of charred remains of the Chino Hills State Park and the surrounding areas. The photo, taken from Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Oberserving-1 satellite was from November 18th, a day or so after the fires. The satellite photo gives a more clear idea of the path of the fire and the breadth of the destruction to the state park. Their site states that over 180 homes were destroyed along with 30,000 >>

November 3, 2008By -Articles From Everywhere About Chino Hills and Chino

CHINO - The city has started using a computerized, Web-based system to help track graffiti taggers. Police had been using a more traditional in-house method to document taggers, with photos being inputted onto disk. The new system will be a efficient way to compile information on taggers, police said. Chino entered into a contract with Long Beach-based Graffiti Tracker Inc. for $28,000. Graffiti Tracker uses global positioning satelli >>

April 7, 2008By Gabriel Gomez

Consider an upgrade before dumping it.

If you are in the market to replace your computer there are some things to consider before deciding what to do with your old computer. If you are replacing your computer because its running slow, there is a good chance the computer just needs some optimization and minor hardware upgrades. Older computers can make good secondary computers for your kids or can be donated to your local church for use. If your computer is running an older opera >>

April 4, 2008By The Editor

Google adds "Street View" photos of Chino Hills

Look Up Your Home Now Using Google's Street View

Some time in the past year, Google sent their camera vans to Chino Hills to photograph every street. When you see a blue outline on their maps, it means that you can use street view and actually see pictures of the homes, parks, and other scenery on that street. You might even see yourself.

The vans haven't covered every street, bu >>

August 10, 2007By The Editor

The domain name, "ChinoHills.com" has been registered for at least 7 years. Now it will finally be a useful online resource for our community.

I've been contemplating the future of ChinoHills.com. Since the Internet began, the online address has been either a parking place for advertisements or nothing at all. We purchased the URL this year as part of a goal to create a place online where our community, one that I love, can get together and communicate. Although this is a privately owned web site, I envision a place where locals can share diverse information and eventually debate i >>