Martha Speaks is one of the shows that my daughter has been drawn to. She’s 6 and still enjoys Martha Speaks. We even went to see a puppet show at a local theater here in Atlanta, based on Martha Speaks. You could say she’s a fan!
The popular PBS KIDS series Martha Speaks continues its fourth season with a special episode featuring actress and super mom Jennifer Garner. Garner, mother to three young children with actor/director Ben Affleck, will be animated alongside her dog, whose name also happens to be Martha. Her appearance on Martha Speaks adds to her advocacy efforts on behalf of children’s literacy. Garner, whose mom was an English teacher, is an artist ambassador for Save the Children’s early education programs and has worked to promote legislation that ensures quality early education and literacy for children.
“Ms. Garner shares the same passion for reading and dogs we do,” says executive producer Carol Greenwald. ” We were thrilled to have her lend her talents to this episode.”
In “Too Many Marthas,” Martha is asked to sing at an animal rescue fundraiser and she’s thrilled. But on the day of the concert, Martha gets mixed up with another Martha – a dog belonging to a lady named Jennifer (Jennifer Garner). Can Martha help Jennifer locate her missing pup before it’s time to sing? Kids can tune-in and learn new words like number, aria, and a capella.
Also airing is the brand-new episode “Too Much Martha.” In this episode, Martha’s constant pursuit of snacks has added some extra pounds and the vet says she needs to lose some weight. The family resolves to help Martha control her portions and maintain a balanced diet, but when Martha learns what this means, she’s pretty fed up. No more late-night pizza?
Tune in for this brand-new Martha Speaks Monday, February 4, 2013 on PBS KIDS (check local listings).
Over the last couple of weeks you’ve learned about the HTC OneX+ from this post and this post here on TheMommyInsider.com and this post, and this post on my other site, GadgetGoddess.com. By now, surely you know how much I LOVE this phone. Go ahead.. read any of those posts to learn why I love the HTC OneX+. Being an iPhone user for over 4 years, switching to an Android phone has been an exciting change. HTC makes the switch easy with HTC Sync Manager, apps, and widgets. Ok, I’ll get on with it..
Yes, we’re giving away an HTC OneX+!!
Thanks to HTC, we are giving a lucky reader an HTC OneX+ optimized for AT&T! Pretty awesome, isn’t it?
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Note to my readers: I received a complimentary HTC OneX+ for purposes of this review and giveaway. As always, all opinions presented in my posts are 100% honest.
I’ve been using the HTC OneX+ for two weeks. Transitioning from an iPhone 4s to an Android phone has been much easier than I expected mostly due to the fact that I can customize the OneX+ to my delight, via phone settings, apps, widgets, and the many camera settings.
The HTC OneX+ is currently one of the top selling Android phones on the market. Continuing where the original OneX left off, the OneX+ is even faster by 67 percent and includes a powerful 1.7GHz quad-core processor, twice as much battery power and a whopping 64GB of internal storage. The latter is particularly excellent for individuals who enjoy using their phone as their camera and consider themselves suave photographers. I am always taking photos and videos of my two kids. They grow up so fast, right? I have to catch all of their most precious moments on film. To that end, the HTC OneX+ is one of the best phones for shooting quality photos and video moments that you never want to forget. If you are considering a new phone based on its camera specifications, it is worth noting all the features found in the OneX+.
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The HTC OneX+ allows you to capture a group shot via group portrait view. This is the perfect feature if you are a parent and want to snap lots of photos of your kids. If your child’s eyes happen to be closed in a shot you are attempting to take you can rely on five shots taken by the phone at once. This allows you to select the best photo of each person in the shot, which means you can get the perfect shot while taking photos of the family. One of the typical great features of HTC’s One line of smartphones is that you can snap photos while shooting video. This is an excellent way to get terrific pictures time and time again. If you are shooting a movie of your child’s birthday party, you can kill two birds with one stone simply by tapping the camera button while recording. Select your favorite photos to save them or record stills while you are capturing your movie. Watch a short movie explaining how to use Group Shot here.
Capturing actions shots with the OneX+’s camera is also extremely easy. You know those times when you are at your daughter’s ballet recital or your son’s soccer game and you know it’s going to take a lot of shots to get the ‘perfect’ photo? Well, the OneX+ takes care of that with continuous shooting. Continuous Shooting is a feature that allows you to get the shot you truly want. Hold down the shutter button to take multiple photos during an action moment. You can select your favorite shots through viewing your saved gallery. This allows you to find those perfect action shots.
The HTC OneX+ camera includes a feature that lets you get great photos in varying backlight conditions. HDR can help you to snap the perfect pictures in bright sunlight so that the subject of your photo is visible and crystal clear. The feature works by taking three shots and bringing together the best light conditions from each to give you the perfect photo.
The 8 megapixel camera includes Flash (with 5 settings), autofocus and HTC’s own ImageSense, which provides the variety of great features for shooting the perfect photos. You can snap up to 99 pictures with a single press. Great for those times that you absolutely can’t miss the perfect shot. Smart Flash provides five levels of flash, which are automatically set depending on the distance to your subject. Sightseeing mode is available as well, making your phone’s camera always ready for snapping a great shot at any moment.
Some of the photographs featured in this post were taken with my HTC OneX+ provided by HTC. Learn more about the HTC OneX+ here.
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Chances are, you are in charge of the cooking, cleaning, laundry, and the kids. You are a mom. That’s your life and it’s a great life, right? My every day life consists of working, cleaning helping with homework, cooking, and playing with my kids. I am proud to be a mom.. being a mom is much of my identity.
Isabelle Grace Jewelry helps moms like you and I celebrate motherhood with beautiful, personalized, jewelry. My daughter loves it when I wear my Bloom Necklace and she asks to wear it when she plays mommy to her doll, Rosie. She learned to read the phrase You Make Me Bloom from this necklace.
Isabelle Grace Jewelry - Bloom Necklace
This adorable Bloom Necklace, now $85, celebrates the beauty of motherhood and what moms do for their children every day, we help our kids bloom. Life is about growing and blooming and this necklace is a constant reminder that what I do for my kids is helping them to bloom into beautiful young adults. The Bloom Necklace features the words “Mom” on one side and “You Make Me Bloom” on the other, along with a tiny freshwater pearl representing a seed. The Bloom Necklace would make a great gift for yourself, your spouse, or your own mom.
This sterling silver pendant measures approx 1 inch in length and is accented with 22kt gold. Available on 14kt gold filled chain or sterling silver.
I was standing in the AT&T store Friday, when I very hesitantly handed my iPhone 4S to an AT&T employee and whispered “I need to transfer my phone number to this HTC OneX+ phone”. I literally had tears in my eyes. Call me crazy. Some would call my iPhone, my 3rd hand, but I knew I was ready to take the leap after having using this phone on wifi only for a couple of days. Even after reviewing several other Android devices, I never felt as ready to switch to an Android phone as I did with the HTC OneX+. Before this week and for the last several years, I was always either holding my iPhone or it was in my pocket, and at night my iPhone was under my pillow. For the last few years I have been connected to the world via my iPhone.
This week, I made the leap from iOS to Android.
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HTC requested that I review the HTC OneX+ smartphone, but did not request or require that I stop using my current phone. However, in the interest of my readers I felt that I needed to fully immerse myself in the HTC and Android world in order to give you the most accurate and honest review of the HTC OneX+. This would be a huge step for me as I live and breathe Mac when it comes to technology. I have two MacBooks, an iPad, and most of my immediate family have an iPhone.
My HTC One X+ Homescreen
I have reviewed several Android phones and have enjoyed them all but the HTC OneX+ for AT&T is one that I found very easy to use and found using it for every day tasks like checking email and posting to and reading my social media streams, the first day I had the phone.
Three days later..
This post is the first in a series of three or so about the HTC OneX+ so stay tuned and subscribe to my feed to get updates as I learn more about the phone.
Let me start the review off with a list of my top 5 Smartphone must-have features.
My Top 5 Smartphone Feature Must Have’s:
Great graphics
Multitasking
Incredible photos
Sync with my iTunes music library
A lot of storage space
My iPhone 4S has all of those features. The HTC One X+ has these ADDITIONAL features:
Quad-core processor vs iPhone 4S’ Dual Core processor
Graphics Accelerator
1.6 megapixel front facing camera vs. 0.3 megapixel on the iPhone 4S
The Battery capacity is 2,100 mAh vs the 1,432 mAh that the iPhone 4S has
The CPU speed is 1.70 GHz vs the iPhone 4S’ 1.00 GHz CPU speed
HTC OneX+ has 64GB vs. 16GB in the iPhone 4S
While the HTC One X+ is the larger of the two phones, it weighs less than the iPhone 4S by 2 ounces.
Screen size. Are you ready? The HTC OneX+ sports a 4.7″ screen while the iPhone 4S has a 3.5″ screen.
Am I having any issues transitioning to the HTC OneX+?
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