by Liz Gumbinner | Causes and Giving Back, Tips and Tricks
If you want to know how to check your voter registration, we’re glad you asked! Because you might have heard there’s a pretty big election coming up, not just for President, but for 33 US Senate seats, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, and...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Educational Apps
We’ve hit that point in the summer, where, we might be getting a little more lax about keeping kids off screens. (It can be exhausting, I get it.) The last thing parents want our kids to do the rest of the summer is to spend all day watching YouTube videos or...
by Liz Gumbinner | Kids, Photography
I am extremely familiar with the current trend of summer camps requiring campers to have cameras that don’t rely on phones, tablets, or internet connection. And I absolutely support the idea of giving kids a break from screens when they head off to sleepaway...
by Liz Gumbinner | Life and Home
A few years back, Kate tried out the smart, touchscreen Skylight Calendar to see if it was a helpful way to organize multiple family calendars in ways that benefit the whole family. TLDR; yes, she found it wildly helpful, and worth the price, and dozens of our readers...
by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion + Accessories, Gear + Hardware
For some reason, I wasn’t familiar with Burga, which may actually make the coolest phone cases and tech accessories that I’ve seen for a very long time. And I’ve been sharing cool iPhone cases and cool Android phone cases for a very very long time! I...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks, Internet Safety
This past week, I received several emails “from LinkedIn” indicating that someone from Bardstown, Kentucky requested a “reset password” link in the wee hours of the morning. I shared this information on Threads and in our Out Tech Your Kids...
by Liz Gumbinner | Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
I know we’re all still in New Year’s resolutions mode, whether you’re purging and recycling old tech, embarking on a family tech detox, or committing to more books and audiobooks and less mindless doomscrolling. But if there’s one thing the you...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
For so many of us, the new year is about organization and fresh starts. That’s why we tend to use January as an opportunity to cross off a few tech resolutions off our lists — or at least get a head start on some of those to-do list items we always bump...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
It’s not an exaggeration to say that email management is overwhelming to me. As someone with anywhere upwards of 10,000 emails in my inbox — many of them unread, to the dismay of my minimalist friends — I am always looking for tips and tricks to help...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
Just last week, someone in our Out Tech Your Kids community mentioned how a major app just “pretends to care” about the well-being of kids, after realizing a child safety feature wasn’t particularly functional. And I thought, well, that sounds like...
