by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
If you’ve seen posts floating around telling you that you’ve got free Ticketmaster tickets to claim, it’s totally legit. Due to a huge class action lawsuit that just settled, if you bought tickets between October 21, 1999 and February 27, 2013, you...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
So your friends keep bugging you to listen to Serial (Season 1, trust us), or you’ve heard us keep telling you to download our Spawned with Kristen and Liz podcast but you have absolutely no idea how to get podcasts on your smart phone. Well, we’re here to...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
If you’ve been using Facebook’s photo sync feature to back-up your photos, then you’ll want to be sure to back them up. Why? Because if you don’t do it by July 7, they will be deleted for good. Keep in mind that this only applies to Facebook...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
We love discovering awesome iPhone features that help make our lives easier, which we can all use, busy parent or not. This is exactly the case with these two tricks that make sharing your texts and voice mails super simple. How to share texts on the iPhone Instead of...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
There’s nothing worse than putting a post up on your Facebook feed only to have only a few of your friends like or comment on it. Okay, there are lots of things worse than that, but you know, it’s annoying, especially when you’ve got a question you...
by Kate Etue | Tips and Tricks
This week I got a scam email claiming to be an invoice from my iTunes account on Apple. Luckily, a few things tipped me off that this wasn’t legit, so I contacted Apple about it and saved myself the tremendous hassle of having to change all my credit card...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks, Gear + Hardware
So, I want my daughter to read more this summer, and with all our upcoming travel, I’m considering a tablet or e-book reader but I’m not sure which is best. -Dawn We’re definitely with you that gadgets can be a whole lot easier to travel with, Dawn,...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
I’m not sure if it’s because texting has made me a little phone-call averse or if it always seems like people call at the moment I’ve got a kid throwing a tantrum, but I have a hard time answering the phone when the calls are coming in. And yes,...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
This situation probably sounds all too familiar to you: You’re at your kid’s basketball game or a family birthday party and your mom or your brother sitting next to you asks you to send them some iPhone photos and videos you’re taking, which you do...
by Meredith Gordon | Tips and Tricks
I hate to admit it, but I used to be that parent. You know the one who proclaimed her kids would never watch TV or play on a computer, and instead spend endless hours playing outside in any weather. (Torrential rainstorm? Builds character!) Well as you can imagine,...
by Kate Etue | Tips and Tricks
You know the junk mail or spam box in your email, where sometimes non-spam emails end up? Well, it turns out Facebook has a similar filter for your Facebook Messenger PMs, and just like with email, a lot of legit messages are getting sucked into this filter and...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks, Internet Safety
Parents are always asking us how to monitor the safety of their kids online. Combine that with social media, and it can be really overwhelming for parents to know how to educate their kids while still keeping track of their activity. And as someone with a tween in the...