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Sales and discounts: 9 of our best tips for saving money when you shop online

Sales and discounts: 9 of our best tips for saving money when you shop online

by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks

If you plan on hitting up the Labor Day sales this weekend — or sales any day, honestly — our best advice: Do it online! While there are always some great deals in store, if you’d rather chill with the family, or do basically anything besides...
iPhone trick: How to lock and password-protect notes in your Notes app.

iPhone trick: How to lock and password-protect notes in your Notes app.

by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks, Best Apps

Raise your hand if you know how to lock your notes on the Notes app on your iPhone. And now…here’s me not raising my hands.Honestly, I never even realized you could do it at all! So leave it to my 11-year-old daughter to show me a cool iPhone tip I...
One visit to this website can change the entire school year for a U.S. kid in need

One visit to this website can change the entire school year for a U.S. kid in need

by Liz Gumbinner | Causes and Giving Back

When we first discovered Daymaker, we fell instantly in love with the organization’s use of tech to easily allow good samaritans — as in, you and your kids — to anonymously fulfill the holiday gift wish lists of kids in need. Now they’re doing...
How kids can get artful with coding: The fun new sketch pack from Wonder Workshop.

How kids can get artful with coding: The fun new sketch pack from Wonder Workshop.

by Liz Gumbinner | Tech Toys

I’m always happy when companies find a way to take their kids’ toys, games and activities and add components or extensions that keep them fresh for kids to play with. One of the best tech companies at this: Wonder Workshop, whose robots we’ve called...
The new parental controls and screen time management tools coming to iOS 12. THANK YOU, APPLE.

The new parental controls and screen time management tools coming to iOS 12. THANK YOU, APPLE.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

No judgments, parents — we too have admitted (often) that it can be hard to manage kids’ screen time, especially when our kids get older and we’re not attached at the hip. Well Apple gets it too, and in today’s big iOS 12 announcement,...
Why iOS apps are better than Android apps, and why we tend to review more iOS apps

Why iOS apps are better than Android apps, and why we tend to review more iOS apps

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

Every so often, a commenter gets frustrated that we have reviewed an iOS-only app, and asks why we don’t review more Android apps. We feel you. So every so often, we offer a response as to why iOS apps tend to be better than Android apps, and why iOS apps are...
If you’re a Twitter user, you must update your password STAT. That’s 330 million of you.

If you’re a Twitter user, you must update your password STAT. That’s 330 million of you.

by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks, Internet Safety

As Twitter has just informed all 330,000,000 of its users in an apologetic but so far underreported post, you should really change your Twitter password right now, this very second. Not to be alarmist — but out of an abundance of precaution. Evidently, a bug...
Amazon’s Echo Dot for Kids is here.  But there will be no “Alexa, buy me a pony.”

Amazon’s Echo Dot for Kids is here. But there will be no “Alexa, buy me a pony.”

by Liz Gumbinner | Kids, Life and Home, Tech Toys

The Echo Dot has been one of Amazon’s most popular speakers, so it’s no surprise that they saw an opportunity to bring all the joy and magic and Orwellian fun of Alexa to kids in the form of the new Echo Dot Kids Edition available exclusively at Amazon....
Who was Stephen Hawking? These terrific shows can help.

Who was Stephen Hawking? These terrific shows can help.

by Liz Gumbinner | Entertainment

With so many of us mourning the passing of Stephen Hawking, and celebrating his many contributions to the world of science, it leaves a lot of our kids asking who he was, what he did, and what he believed — and some of us adults are interested in learning more,...
10 awesome girl power phone cases for International Women’s Day….and every day

10 awesome girl power phone cases for International Women’s Day….and every day

by Liz Gumbinner | Uncategorized

Considering it’s International Women’s Day today, and Women’s History month for the next three weeks, there are certainly a lot of phone cases out there to honor women through history we admire. But I think there’s something kind of special...
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