by Liz Gumbinner | Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
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...
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....
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,...
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...
by Liz Gumbinner | Babies, Life and Home
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...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
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...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
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...
by Liz Gumbinner | Gear + Hardware, Life and Home
One look at the Italian Cromatica Bluetooth speakers and…whoa. Think of this lamp-speaker hybrid like a mood ring for your home. You choose the color illumination that suits you, choose your music, then lie back and chill. Or, clean your bathroom. Or, get some...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Social Media
Last year, I fell in love with the A Color Story app for photo editing, and named it my cool pick of the week on our Spawned podcast. Just this weekend, they launched A Design Kit, their equally fun, friendly, and really wonderful app this time for design. Especially...
by Liz Gumbinner | Gift Guides
We always love looking for the most fun, geeky Valentine’s Day cards every year. After all, some of our favorite valentines are geeks!. Whether they’re our kids or our sweethearts, we’ve put together some awesome geeky Valentine’s Day cards...