Now It’s Baby’s First Web Site

Newborns on the Net? You bet--via a new interactive baby book from My-Kids.com.

Computer-literate papas and mamas will be able to proudly show off photos of their new babies through a customized Web site established for individual families.

Parents can purchase this photo package for $49 for the first three months. Subscriptions after that cost $30 for three months. Parents send five photos and a list of vital statistics about their new child to My-Kids.com, which then creates the baby’s site on the Internet, available only to friends and family through a special password. Those who have access can send personal messages back to the parents.

If they wish, parents can change the photo captions or select alternative background colors and patterns. Through additional subscriptions after three months, parents may update their site with new photos as the baby grows.

As a special Valentine gift for new parents in the military, the company will offer them a free special Web site to showcase their babies born after Nov. 30, 1996. Information must be received by Feb. 7.

To order My-Kids.com, contact the company at (800) 638-5382 or https://www.my-kids.com/.

Wide Receiver: Speaking of the Internet, if you’d like to see two Web pages at once on a laptop, now you can with Sharp’s new WideNote, an innovative wide-screen format notebook computer.

Lightweight WideNotes (4.6 pounds) have a “theater-proportioned” LCD screen that allows users to view two Web pages or two Microsoft Windows simultaneously, with minimal side-to-side scrolling.

There are two WideNote versions--W-100D, a dual-scan display model ($2,999) and W-100T, a matrix-display model ($3,499). Both feature an Intel 133MHz Pentium processor, a 28.8 kbps voice / data / fax modem and an infrared port. For more, call (800) BE-SHARP.