I have duplicate photos in my iPhoto libraries. Is there a program that can help me eliminate the dupes? - @SallyHogshead via Twitter Now this is one question that a lot of us have faced ourselves. Duplicate photos are most definitely an…
There's nothing like a new purse to kick off the New Year (I have at least a couple more weeks to use the New Year excuse to shop). And when a fantastic deal like these Alicia Klein, a former Burberry designer, comes around, well, I'm re…
If you were lucky, Santa brought you a brand new shiny gadget for Christmas. You may be donning a super chic iPhone 4S or Samsung Galaxy, but also may be wondering what to do with your old phone. Of everything I use Amazon.com for, one t…
The other day, I was reading a recipe off my iPad while cooking and while scrolling down, knocked the device from the shallow groove that it was propped on and...anyone have any tips on how to get flour out of an iPad crevice? My iPad ca…
There are always so many great photo-taking opportunities when kids are around, but this month especially presented a bounty of great photo moments. Whether it was baking cookies, lighting the menorah, decorating the tree, or posing in t…
Word has it, just a few people out there bought some new e-readers for the holidays this year. The NOOK is now Barnes + Noble's best-selling anything ever, and the Kindle Fire just increased the number of Kindles out there to "millions m…
The New Year gives us all the opportunity to start fresh with a clean slate, and to that end, a clean screen. After hearing some horrible statistic about our cell phones having more bacteria than a handle on a public toilet (ew!), I real…
*EDITORS NOTE: PLEASE SEE UPDATE BELOW When I was a kid, I used to LOVE those video segments on PBS shows like Reading Rainbow and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood that featured things being made or built. There was one visit to a crayon-making …
Seeing family and friends over the holiday break is wonderful way to round out the year, but sometimes getting to where you need to be involves traffic jams, travel headaches and long delays in airports with really bad food courts. No th…
I recently did a round-up of great videoconferecing options for connecting with family over the holidays. But if you're one of those families that travels for the holidays, you will be happy to know that Skype just announced it is offeri…
If you're like me and have relatives far, far away (can't get much farther than Korea), the holidays are a great time to re-connect. Times have changed a great deal from when we used to call an operator to connect to Seoul and then could…
If you're the lucky owner of a new Kindle Fire, you're probably admiring your new e-reader with its bright screen and how easy it is to spend large amounts of money at amazon.com directly from your lap. While you're figuring out all the …
If you were like me, you anxiously awaited the iPhone 4S and accompanying iOS 5 announcement. As an iPhone 4 owner, I realized that the "S" didn't have enough new features to warrant me making the upgrade, but I was still pretty stoked a…
If you read Kristen's awesome NOOK vs Kindle Fire review last week and decided that the NOOK is more your style, I bet you're now looking for some advice on fantastic covers. Hey, that's what we're here for. It seems like most existing N…
Everyone knows by this point that the LeapFrog LeapPad has become the must-have tech gift for the holidays this year. We love it so much that we included it as one of our 10 hottest holiday tech gifts in 2011. It's a great toy--but the t…
After the mountain of wrapping paper I find myself beneath on Christmas morning, I am usually bombarded by kid requests for one thing - batteries. And of course, of the thousand things I've gotten to prepare for C-Day, batteries are usua…
The other night, I was flipping through the channels and stumbled upon the very end of one of my absolute holiday movie faves, It's a Wonderful Life . (You too?) While I'm sure it will be on again soon, many times, I'd like to be able to…
A future world I envision involves zipping around on hovercrafts, seeing holographic billboards and never having to carry a purse or wallet. (Fine, my futuristic images were greatly informed by Back to the Future ). We're probably not at…
Q: My kids ages 8, 9, and 10 are getting iPods from their grandmom for Christmas. Can you recommend an alarm clock/charging dock that's good for their age and not too expensive? -reader by Twitter What a generous grandma! Your kids will …
Whenever I open a particular junk drawer in my kitchen, I am confronted with a tangle of cords from the fifteen pairs of earbuds that my husband and I have accumulated over the years. (Yes, for some reason, we've kept the ones we've gott…
For the many of you who have made it a post-Thanksgiving tradition to do all your Christmas shopping on Black Friday thru Cyber Monday weekend, I salute you. I don't even have enough energy after hosting Thanksgiving to pull one side of …
Ordering shoes online for the kids is fantastic, but without in-store help, I'm often guessing their shoe sizes--erroneously--and then having to return them the next day. Luckily, I found out about an app called the Foot Fairy which meas…
The Black Friday deals, promotion, and general insanity continue! This time, from a favorite on every mom's list, the Old Navy/Gap/Banana Republic/Athleta/Piperlime behemoth, thanks to a new integrated social media promotion called Shop …
Every time I see the ad with the crazy Target lady in the red jumpsuit, I marvel at her energy (yes, I know she's not real) and realize that I would never have the energy after a tryptophan-induced haze to go shopping at the crack of daw…