The new parental controls and screen time management tools coming to iOS 12. THANK YOU, APPLE.
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
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.
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.”
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.
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
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...
High tech baby gifts: 4 of the best splurges for your very favorite parents-to-be
If you’re shopping for a baby gift and want to go in on The Big Gift with a group — or maybe all on your own, generous soul, maybe consider high-tech baby gifts. Talking to you, best friends from college, generous boss, first-time aunt-to-be, and amazing...
The easy way to send a free ecard for Valentine’s Day. Make someone’s day!
Whether you forgot to grab a Valentine’s Day card for the kids (or to the grandparents “from” the kids?), have a Galentine pal who would love to her from you today, or are thinking about sending a sexy “shape of things to come” message...
A cool time-saving emoji keyboard trick for iPhone (courtesy of my 10 year old)
Leave it to the kids to figure out cool iPhone tricks before we do, especially where emoji are concerned. Turns out, there’s a fun way to insert emoji into your texts without toggling back and forth between keyboards — something that can be a bit of a...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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