How to get the most out of the Magisto video editing app
If you’re like me, you’ve got tons of family videos on your smartphone and lots of aspirations to do something with them all. But then “one of these days” turns into months and years, because who really has time to sit down and edit together...
How to add video on Twitter: The answer is, well, Twitter.
If you’ve been wondering the best way to add video on Twitter, it seems the folks at Twitter have been wondering that too and have been hard at work making it happen. In fact, Twitter is about to get a lot more fun (not to mention become more of a time suck)...
Everything you need to know about Facebook’s new Graph Search
With all these Facebook updates coming in rapid succession, including ones to my beloved Instagram app, it can be hard to keep up with all the changes. So when we heard about the new Graph Search announced just yesterday, we had our fingers crossed that it would be...
Holy Holga Case, Batman! Or Android users. (Same thing?)
‘Droiders, rejoice! We were jumping with nerdy photo-taking joy when the Holga iPhone lens made it possible to take Instagram-like photos from your smartphone and whatdya know? Now there’s a Holga for the Samsung Galaxy i9100. Like the iPhone version we...
The coolest trends at CES 2013: Wi-Fi Photography
After we featured the Samsung Galaxy Camera last month, I wasn’t surprised one bit to find a new crop of built-in Wi-Fi cameras popping up at CES 2013 in Las Vegas last week. And considering I haven’t used my DSLR or point and shoot camera to take photos...
Best Windows Phone photo apps? Reader Q+A
Q: You keep posting all these awesome must-have apps, but what about for those of us who have Windows phones? I am looking for a photo app. Do you know of any that are worth getting? Right now I just send all my pictures to Facebook, which is annoying because then I...
Our most popular tech posts of 2012: From privacy tips to strange gadgets, the best apps for kids and more
Looking back through our archives from 2012, it’s amazing how far tech, gadgets and social media have come. Just think: how many of you were on Instagram or Pinterest a year ago? And look how many times Facebook has changed their terms of service since then! By...
The 11 best tech New Year’s resolutions worth keeping
Yes, we all make New Year’s Resolutions to eat better and work out more and blah blah blah. Cue the leftover cheesecake entering my mouth at 10AM on January 1. But if you’re online at all (hi there) I’ve put together a few tech resolutions you should...
The best photo editing and sharing resources: Editors Best Tech of 2012
Whether you take all your photos right on your smart phone, or you carry your trusty DSLR wherever you go, there are so many photo editing and sharing services now (a must for parents!). Here are our very favorite from this past year. Kristen Snapseed Since I...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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