Go ahead, play with your food.
I’m usually the one on kitchen duty, but today, my kids served up some fried sausages, microwaved pears, boiled carrots, and um, pureed sardines. Good thing I wasn’t the one eating any of it. Toca Boca, one of our favorite app designers, is all about...
Domo Animato, Mr. Roboto
There’s nothing my kids like more than being read to at bedtime. Whether they’re dog-eared or digital, calming, whispering affairs that encourage them to catch their forty winks are the usual go-tos, and Robot Blue From Planet 22 is no exception. In clever...
Playing house, iPhone style
Now that you’ve all got those shiny new iPhones and iPod touches for the holidays (or at least a few million of you do), it’s time to start loading up on apps for the kids. A good place to start is our editors’ picks for best kids’ apps of the...
Getting organized for the new year: Better options than an ugly metal file case
If you’re like us, one of your new year’s resolutions has a little something to do with getting organized when it comes to family management. You’ve already told us a ton of amazing ways you put your Google calendars to work for you and your family....
Counting down to midnight minus the New Year’s Eve Times Square crowds
Call me an old fuddy-duddy, but there’s not much about the Times Square New Year’s Eve crowds that has me wishing I was there in the thick of things watching the ball drop. But with this nifty free app, The Times Square Countdown, I can watch a live stream...
3 Christmas apps to keep little fingers busy while you finish wrapping presents
This was the year I was going to be organized for Christmas. But let’s see…I haven’t wrapped a single present, I have three handmade gifts to finish, a family party tonight where I’m expected to bring cookies, lots of cookies, and a messy...
Holiday audiobooks for kids: A good excuse to spend 30 hours relaxing around the fire
I tend to get a little romantic around the holidays. Not in the candlelight dinner with my husband kind of way, but more in the drink hot chocolate, nibble on cookies, music playing softly in the background while my pajama-clad children (who never fight over who gets...
The best apps for more sane holiday travel
Seeing family and friends over the holiday break is wonderful way to round out the year, but sometimes getting to where you need to be involves traffic jams, travel headaches and long delays in airports with really bad food courts. No thanks, Santa. With technology by...
Looking Glass – Like “How it’s Made” for kids.
*EDITORS NOTE: PLEASE SEE UPDATE BELOWWhen I was a kid, I used to LOVE those video segments on PBS shows like Reading Rainbow and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood that featured things being made or built. There was one visit to a crayon-making factory I hold in...
Synkup: For anti-social socialites
Being social takes entirely too much effort since becoming a mom. I don’t have time for lengthy phone calls and emails with five different recipients using “reply all” too often. Then again, being social is one of the only ways us moms stay sane, so...
Snapseed: making iPhone photos as beautiful as can be
Recently, I was looking at a friend’s amazing Instagram stream and I asked how she got her photos looking so gorgeous. She said one word: Rosebud. Then she died. No, just kidding. She said Snapseed. Within moments I had it downloaded. And let me say, this is...Creating Secure Passwords: The Easy, Step-by-Step Guide
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