Anker MP 141: A portable Bluetooth speaker with a lot of bang for the buck
The portable Bluetooth speaker market might be a crowded one, but I found a new one that not only packs a lot of punch into a small package, but does so with a bargain basement price. Playing around with the Anker MP141 Portable Bluetooth Speaker, I loved the sleek...
Animated selfies, just when you thought the selfie world couldn’t get any bigger.
Just when I thought I had seen all the selfie apps and selfie gadgets out there, I stumble upon selfie360, an easy to use app that lets you take animated selfies or panoramas. The free iOS and Android app is ridiculously easy to use and pretty fun to play around with....
Saving money shopping online without doing anything? Yes, please.
I love the convenience of being able to buy everything from coffee to couch pillows on sites like Amazon, but it’s not always easy to be sure I’m getting the best bang for my buck when I’m shopping online. Well, that’s where the Zinc...
Anki Drive review: Racing video games get real
If you’ve not hear about the wildly hot new tech toy Anki DRIVE, it’s the brain-child of oh, just a few Carnegie Mellon scientists who combined robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and slot car racing to create an entirely new breed of toy....
A baby journal book that glows as your child grows
I’m not a scrapbooker, journaler, or preserver of much beyond Instagram and Facebook, but I love the new Highlights of Your Life baby journal book created by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Sara Gillingham. In my own baby books, my children look like they stopped...
Going paper free just got easier and way more organized with FileThis.
Are you drowning in paperwork like me, and dying to start going paper free as part of your spring cleaning routine? Between the kids’ forms, the manuals, the permission slips, the bills, the important documents, the health records, the receipts, the tax forms,...
Kidizen app: For buying, selling, and coveting gently used kids’ stuff.
Online consignment for children’s clothing isn’t exactly new. We’ve shown you sites like ThredUp and Swap Mamas. But now there’s the new Kidizen app that makes quick (and financially savvy) work of buying and selling kids’ clothes, toys,...
Juxtaposer App: For when you need alter the photographic reality just a bit
I will freely admit that I had a little too much fun reviewing the Juxtaposer App for iOS with my kids. This compositing app lets you combine multiple pictures into a fun scene or photomontage, way more easily than Photoshop. We thought about lots of silly scenes we...
Adaptxt Learning Keyboard for Android: No more damn you, autocorrect.
When we recently moved to Long Island, I was a little overwhelmed with the town names — places like Setauket, Ronkonkoma, and Hauppauge all led to some pretty comical auto-corrects on my smart phone. If only I had had the Adaptxt keyboard app for Android, I...Creating Secure Passwords: The Easy, Step-by-Step Guide
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