ImaginMe: Wonderful interactive storybooks starring your child that actually look like your child. Wow.

by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps

One of my kids’ favorite activities is to grab my phone and watch videos of themselves over and over again. And yep, I know tons of you can relate.  So I can only imagine how excited they’d be to see animated version of themselves as the heros or heroines...

The Keepy scrapbook app: Part Facebook, part interactive scrapbook, and all organizational lifesaver

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps, Gear + Hardware

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?...

Photobrix: If you’ve ever imagined yourself as a LEGO portrait

by Liz Gumbinner | DIY

Twitter isn’t generally the best way to pitch us, but when we get a Tweet like this, well…how can we resist?   @coolmompicks That’s an awesome profile photo, and even better in #LEGO by https://t.co/LK9Hyuz4UG pic.twitter.com/cQoriCzIFn —...

A beautifully low tech cookbook stand for high tech tablets

by Liz Gumbinner | Life and Home

When I can manage to wrestle my iPad out of my children’s hands (shaking my fist at you, Minecraft), it is often because I need it as my cookbook. While I’ve liked products like the iPad cutting board for propping up the tablet right where I’m...

13 photos from children around the world that could actually help change it.

by Nicole Blades | Causes and Giving Back

Everyone has a story. And one excellent nonprofit called the 100 Cameras project is using photography to help kids around the globe tell theirs. The organization is made up of a team of volunteers who work with children worldwide, teaching them how to express...

A professional photo printing service that makes you want to turn your home into an Instagram art gallery

by Nicole Blades | Photography

Instagram photos are fun, but staring at them on your little smartphone or tablet screen can only give you so much joy. That’s why we’re always on the lookout for cool professional photo printing services and unique photo gifts that let us show off our...

6 great tips for getting the best Instagram photos of your kids

by Nicole Blades | Tips and Tricks

As a longtime photo enthusiast and avid storyteller, I’ve been a huge fan of Instagram since it dropped three years ago. Especially as a parent who wants to get the best photos of my kids up there. That said, I take tons of pictures of lots of different things...

Moleskine goes beyond notebooks with their swanky new laptop messenger bags

by Kristen Chase | Uncategorized

We all have our rational list of features that make for ideal laptop messenger bags but can I get real for just a second? We know why some of our menfolk pick their bags – it’s for the way they look when slung nonchalantly over their shoulders. Then...

The big new iOS 8 announcement from Apple: Photo changes, HealthKit, HomeKit and…they did what to texting?

by Jeana | Gear + Hardware

During the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, as always, people listen and discuss all the huge new Apple news. (Hence the #WWDC hashtag we saw all day yesterday on Twitter.) Apple didn’t disappoint yesterday with Tim Cook’s big iOS 8...

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.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

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...