Bond creates, sends, and signs gorgeous, holiday photo cards for you. Put away those pens!

by Nicole Blades | Holiday Picks

Sending holiday photo cards is as much a part of our holiday season as sugar cookies, sparkling lights, hot cocoa, and chestnuts roasting on an open fire — or at least listening to Nat King Cole croon about it. I always look forward to seeing my friends and...

7 of the best photo storage options for families with tons of pics on different devices: Reader Q + A

by Nicole Blades | Photography, Tips and Tricks

Hi Cool Mom Tech, Have you written about a tech solution that gathers photos from all the family computers and phones into one place for backup purposes?  – James We’ve been exactly where you are, James: looking at all the options and scratching our heads,...

8 simple, smart tips to help work-at-home parents crush productivity and get more done in less time.

by Nicole Blades | Tips and Tricks

There are two things folks typically say when you tell them that you work from home. The first is: You’re so lucky. You get to be in your pajamas all day and wake up whenever you want! Uh, sure. And the second is something along the lines of, I wouldn’t get anything...

The new Polaroid CUBE+ is super cool, wifi-ready, and still cute as a button

by Nicole Blades | Photography

As you may have guessed, we’re officially smitten with the new Polaroid CUBE+. It all started last year, when we first laid eyes on the 1.0 version of this bite-sized, lifestyle action camera. Back then, we were totally impressed with the 6 megapixels pics and...

SimplyCircle app streamlines parent-school communication. And parent-soccer team, parent-carpool group, even parent-parent living in the same household. Which we often need too.

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

A large chunk of parenthood is about communication: With your partner, your kids, other parents, teachers, coaches, you name it. And too often, mishaps pop-up and communication goes wonky — especially this time of year, when it seems like there are more class...

4 of our favorite photo booth apps. Because, why have one party selfie when you can have four?

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

These days, one of the best parts of parties of all kinds, are photo booths, whether we’re employing pro photographers, or some great photo booth apps installed on our own laptops or tablets. The fantastic pics they yield of our costumed kids on Halloween, our...

Here’s how to keep Facebook’s On This Day feature from rehashing your worst memories

by Nicole Blades | Tips and Tricks

For so many of us, Facebook is like a having your own personal time machine and their On This Day feature can definitely make for a fun throwback, plus let you re-share those important digital memories. But there’s a flip side to skipping down memory lane for...

How to use the new Boomerang app from Instagram. Because who doesn’t love GIFs?

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

Its pronunciation may be in the tomayto/tomahto zone, but when it comes to GIFs there’s no debate about their popularity. So, last week when our favorite social network rolled out the Boomerang app that basically lets you produce and share GIFs, let’s just...

7 simple tips for taking photos at night, so your Halloween photos come out scary good

by Nicole Blades | Photography, Tips and Tricks

Calling all you ghosts, pirates, zombies, superheroes, and that small army of Queen Elsas — it’s time for your closeup. Because one of the best parts of Halloween for us, besides stealing our kids’ fun-size Snickers, is getting photos of the kids in...

An awesome photo app that helps preserve more than snapshots, it preserves your family stories.

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps, Mother's Day Gifts

So, you have tons of photos on your iOS Camera Roll, right? Yeah, same. Now, how would you like to preserve those memories — with audio — forever and a day? Yeah, that’s what I said. Bring it! That’s why I was happy to discover the everyStory...