Two Grannies from Westchester County, New York are “Going Back to the Future” with their newly launched website, www.granniesgaloshes.com.  Looking to reinvent some simpler times when family and together were not a strange twosome, Grannies Lynda Karanikolas and Iris Fisher came up with  

www.granniesgaloshes.com. Mrs. Fisher, author, columnist and teacher and Ms. Karanikolas, a well known artist and muralist have been working together on children’s books for quite a few years.  Grannies’ Galoshes is their way of sharing the library of fun games, recipes, and activities that they have created for children and their families over the years. 

“Daily, we read about the serious problems that exist in today’s families. If a family just eats dinner together, it’s touted as something special. That simple family time is a rarity,” say the Grannies.  For Iris and Lynda the website is their way of presenting activities that will keep the family laughing and having great times together.  The website is designed in a way that both kids and their families can easily access an activity or recipe based on the season it is associated with. The website offers an endless amount of holiday cooking recipes, easy nature crafts, little kid projects and family fun.

Want to have a fossil treasure hunt? Invitations, handmade favors, games, and a roaring dino-saurus cake recipe are available. There’s lots more in the fall fossil section. Fall is only one fun filled season. Winter has easy holiday recipes, nature crafts, seasonal crafts and a section called, “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow.” Lynda and Iris bring this part of winter to families all over proving weather can be just a state of mind.    

The seasons are filled with stimulating activities, crafts, projects and recipes. Each can be done by the family. Some are just for teenagers. Some are to be done by younger brothers or sisters. They’re all fun, easy to do and don’t require exotic, hard to find ingredients.

The site is constantly being added to. The next season, winter, begins with Chanukah and then on to Christmas. No matter where you live, the grannies will have you throwing snowballs, pulling taffy and making maple snow candy.

 It will be a promising winter. Brrrrr-ing on the good times.

                                       www.granniesgaloshes.com

Problem: I was writing a simple application and I received this error “Object Expected”. I was so confused because it worked perfectly in all the other browsers (firefox, safari, etc) I tested it on. After researching a bit, I figured out what the problem was. Basically it was giving the error “Object Expected” because it was calling my function prematurely. What was supposed to be called within the function hasn’t even been loaded on the page.

Solution: To fix the error I did something simple. I just moved my jquery code from the top of the page (the header) to the bottom of the page (the footer). Therefore, when it goes to call the function it will know where it is returning to

What is a web application? A web application, also known as the ‘webapp’, is an application that can be easily accessible through a web browser over the internet. A web application is coded languages such as PHP, ColdFusion, and Asp.net combined with in a markup language like HTML.  What are the many benefits of a webapp? For one thing, web applications are cross platform compatible. Unlike certain software, which may only work on a Windows machine of a Mac machine, web applications have the ability to work across many different kinds of software such as internet explorer, Firefox, Safari as well as many different kinds of operating systems such as Windows, Linux, or Mac OS. Web applications are also extremely cost efficient. They have much lower maintenance and support costs than software as well.

Another benefit of the webapp is that you will never have to install an application on your computer to take up hard drive space. A webapp will always occupy a virtual cloud of space on the internet. Web Apps also allow you to constantly have the most up-to-date software. No more upgrade fees!

Web Applications are also available anywhere and anytime! This is huge - similar to the way you can access your email from any browser, any computer, etc., you can also access any web applications from anywhere.

With webapps you can also stress less about viruses.  Webapps require no  installation, which  means no viruses (unless you were to just get a Mac then you would never have that problem). The biggest benefit of all (in my opinion) is that mobile has arrived- allowing us to take our web apps anywhere our cell phones go.
Black Rhino Solution Inc’s Favorite Applications:
1.        Facebook (social networking site)
2.        Google Wave (an email and collaboration tool)
3.       Mint (a site to keep track of all your finances)
4.       Kuler (a color application to find colors that match and work good together)
5.       Google Maps (a map application)
6.       You Tube (Video application)
7.       Go To meeting (a virtual meeting application)
8.       Wordpress (blogging application)