Just last week, ED Unloaded was featured as a Parenting Blogger on City News. This printed magazine has a reach of 40,000 readers and enjoys 14,000 page views on a weekly basis.

Many Thanks once again to all the loyal readers out there, who have been following the blog! I hope that you have been enjoying this parenting journey together with us, as we highlight the “Ups” and “Downs” of Parenting. 

To read the full article, you can check out the Full Paper Online (dated 17-18 April 2010).

You can also check out some other Parenting Blogs that are mentioned in the article. They are all good friends with us:

1. Klessis – 1st Mummy who introduced me to Blogging

2. Sandra –Mummy Blogger

3. Daphne – Munmmy Blogger

Recently, my Blog has been selected together with 2 other parents to be the resident Bloggers of U Family!  

U Family is an initiative of  NTUC, and it’s objective is to build up a community of "strong and happy families" in Singapore. Focusing on family initiatives to strengthen family bonds within the workplace and to support working parents,

ED Unloaded is glad to be part of this government project. Check out the Bloggers involved in this project here

With it’s objectives focused on strong family ties, U Family has lots of upcoming events for young married couples as well as young families.

They organize events such as: Family Night Out

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What is the event about?

And if your kids are like mine and you  eXplorerkid @ E!Hub at Downtown East,  your children can enjoy PLAYTIME in the largest indoor playground in Singapore, while you sit back and relax for a parenting talk.

Tonight they are having a talk entitled:

Super Dad & Mum – Success in Parenting and Career
by Mr. Lau Tat Chuan, Director of the Centre for Fathering

This talk is designed to help you explore practical methods to balance career and family aspirations, and discover new approaches towards successful living and parenting. We will also discuss the different strengths both men and women can bring to the family as well as allow you to enhance your personal effectiveness as you share leadership roles within the family.

If you are interested in events such as this:

Family Night Out is happening again on 7 May 2010.

Kids can look forward to a pyjamas party at eXplorerkid while you relax and acquire parenting tips!

More details coming your way soon!

Date: 14 May 2010

Time: 8.00 pm to 9.00 pm (talk)
7.30pm to 10.00 pm (children’s playtime at eXplorerkid)

Venue:E!Hub @ Downtown East, 1 Pasir Ris Close, 3rd Level, Singapore 519599 

Write down this date on your calendar and follow this link to find out more details and register for the event.

It’s the time of the year again, where I will need to call upon your help!

In 2008, Ed Unloaded was awarded 2nd place in the Hottest Daddy Category for the Blogger’s Choice Awards.

Being an International Competition, which gives recognition to Blogs according to popular vote, I would like to ask for a favour from all my loyal readers.

Do click on the icons below and sign up for a account. From there, you can proceed to vote for the Blog.

If you have voted in this competition before, the accounts are still valid, and you can continue to use your previous accounts.

Although there are no prizes for being 1st in this competition, but it is always encouraging to be recognised as an authority in the Blogging Arena.

Do help, as I continue to write in faith, and take on the uncharted waters in this blogging community. This Blog is my little contribution to the Cultural Mandate, as we make ourselves more relevant to the world, and hopefully becoming a voice in a virtual community.

I just got a Macbook through the promotion offered by Singtel, and I am currently trying to get used to it. Being an avid Blogger, one of the first softwares that I looked out for a useful Blog editor.

An essential software on the PC, is this Blog editor called Windows Live Writer.

Produced by Windows, this program is heaven’s gift for all Bloggers. The normal Blog editors supplied by Blogger and WordPress are not only NON user-friendly, but also provide editing headaches.

What I dislike about WordPress, is that, it is totally unfriendly when u want to add videos and pictures. The interface is also more unfriendly as compared to Blogger!

With the Windows Live Writer, you have a WYSWYG (What you see is what you get) editor.

If u want to add videos or pictures, all you need to do is to use the insert functions, and you can add the videos seamlessly. I have had no problems using it with YouTube and Vimeo.

You don’t need any knowledge in coding in using this program and best of all…

It’s FREE!

If you are a blogger on the PC, you have got to try out Windows Live Writer!

Switching to the Mac, I thought that I would find a better or an equivalent program!

The Mac is often touted as a lifestyle PC, and more suited and more customised to the everyday user.

Well, it definitely has a short start-up time as compared to the pc, but in terms of Blogging Editors, it is definitely one generation behind.

The best program that they can offer, which incidentally does NOT come FREE, is called Blogo. 

Costing US $25 dollars, the interface looks classy but it pales in performance as compared to Windows Live Writer.

When you insert a picture, you do not get to see the graphic until you go to preview or publish. Instead all you see is a black box!

When inserting a video, you have to paste it in the HTML editor, and not via a simple insert plugin, as found in the Windows Live Writer.

Blog editing screen view is also smaller, with a lot of unnecessary tables around.

Apple should definitely look into this issue, if it wants to be touted as a lifestyle computer! I mean, nearly everyone from generation Y and  Z has a blog at some time of their lives!

Meanwhile, I am still trying to get used to the Mac, and I hope that the other programs prove to be a more appealing adventure.

What Blogging editors do you guys use? If there is a better editor out there, please let me know!

Just recently I accidentally deleted some of my photos in my hard disk.

What happens if the photos cannot be found in the recycle bin?

Can you still retrieve those precious baby photos? Can you restore deleted Photos?

Before you panic, there is good news for all you parents out there!

Pictures speak a thousand words, and I can’t imagine losing photos like these!

Please don’t fret, as anything is possible in this computer world.

Well, I went to download.com and I found this program called Pandora Recovery

This program is highly rated by the CNET editors as well as users alike (Gets a near 5 star rating)

Best of all, this program is TOTALLY FREE!

It can not only retrieve photos from your hard disk, but also from your SD/CF cards as well. Therefore, even if you overwrite your photos in your SD card, you can still retrieve them!

Just how powerful is this program?

Currently, I use a company notebook. When I took over the notebook a year ago, I deleted away the previous users photos.

Guess what?

After using the program, I saw the previous user’s photos and any photos before that as well.

What’s more – you don’t need to be a computer genius to use this program. The interface is simple and easy to use.

So no need to key in any codes, or interface with any funny and weird symbols

It is no wonder that the computer geeks can retrieve anything from your notebook.

Remember the series “Prison Break”, the FBI was still able to retrieve information from Scofield’s Hard Disk, despite the fact that he had thrown it in the river!

Well, the good side is that – don’t despair!

We may make mistakes, but the photos are still retrievable.