The Keepy scrapbook app: Part Facebook, part interactive scrapbook, and all organizational lifesaver
There’s a lime green folder in a top drawer in our kitchen that is spilling over with paper: artwork, drawings, little wobbly letters that are getting less wobbly day by day. I’ve learned to let go and throw some things away, but the rest of it?...
Beamit App: Just when you thought photo texting was already easy.
Ever since my mom got an iPad, she has taken on the texting habits of a teenager. We go back and forth several times a day on iMessage about random questions and updates, but mostly use it to share photos. My sister is also in the mix and our little texting circle is...
Lifecake: A new baby app for parents that, unlike any other aspect of parenting, does the work for you.
I’m a little embarrassed to admit that it took me about 9 months to print out pictures of my third baby and put them up around the house. When I think back to how diligent I was with baby #1 and (a little less diligent with) baby #2, I have vowed to be more...
KidCam app: Photo fun for the kids, with a nifty benefit for their parents
Have you ever gone to take a picture at the perfect moment only for your phone to inform you that you’ve reached your storage limit? It’s the worst. And almost every time this happens to me it’s because my kids have taken nearly 5,000 closeups of...
The baby book app from CanDoBaby lets you chart milestones with so much ease, you can find time to make your own homemade baby food. Maybe.
I don’t know how moms manage to get their custom, meticulously created scrapbook baby books completed when they have little kiddos at home. I mean, it’s hard enough for me to get dinner on the table sometimes. And that’s exactly what the mom and...
Vhoto creates photo stills from your videos (Get it? Video-photo?)
Have you been hit with the jump-action shot photo craze? It’s that thing where you or a group of people jump into the air and someone tries to capture the this is the good life, split-second moment with everyone virtually gravity-free. Yeah, it’s not easy...
Heyday app: An automatic digital journal that does the remembering for you
As a full-time working mom of three, I can barely remember what I had for lunch today, let alone things my kids did three days ago, which is why I am so glad to have discovered the Heyday app. It’s become my automatic rememberer (is that a word?) and journaling...
Adobe GroupPix: A brilliant, simple way to gather, store, and share photos from a party, vacation or, um, Mother’s Day brunch?
With all the photos we take at kids’ parties, sports events, vacations, and this week, Mother’s Day celebrations, I’m so glad to have found Adobe’s brand new GroupPix app , which lets you round-up, store, and share everyone’s photos with...
How to resize a photo for Instagram? Use Instasize.
If you’re like me and have ever tried to pop that perfect picture onto Instagram only to discover it just sucks as a square, you need to try InstaSize, a cool app that will show you how to resize a photo for Instagram. Well better, it will do it for you. Simply...
Animated selfies, just when you thought the selfie world couldn’t get any bigger.
Just when I thought I had seen all the selfie apps and selfie gadgets out there, I stumble upon selfie360, an easy to use app that lets you take animated selfies or panoramas. The free iOS and Android app is ridiculously easy to use and pretty fun to play around with....
The best eggs of the Big Egg Hunt NY: Easter meets art meets social media meets social good
For the past few weeks, New York City has been awash in giant Easter eggs, in a brilliant (if a little time-consuming for me) social-media-meets-installation-art campaign for Fabergé called The Big Egg Hunt. It brought eager New Yorkers and tourists alike scavenging...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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