eReatah: Like a Netflix for e-books. Books you get to keep.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Gear + Hardware

I love the feel of a real book in my hands, but I have to admit I really love the convenience of ebooks when I’ve just finished The Hunger Games and I can’t wait more than five minutes to get Catching Fire downloaded on my iPad. But what do you do when...

Why your favorite Facebook fan page posts aren’t showing up in your news feed.

by Kristen Chase | Social Media

You might have noticed that some (or many) of your favorite Facebook fan pages have started disappearing–again–from your news feed on Facebook. Thanks to a recent Facebook update that eliminated Facebook Edgerank, entirely changing how Facebook handles...

Turning your photos into talking photos with the Shuttersong app

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

I love when I catch that perfect, precious moment of my sweet little guys and girl on camera. But the ability to add their adorable little voices to the photo? Stop it. The new Shuttersong app does this effortlessly. This is seriously ratcheting up the adorable...

Scribd: A gold mine for free printables, free books and more

by Liz Gumbinner | Uncategorized

I haven’t really spent a lot of time on Scribd, the massive online digital documents library featuring all kinds of user-uploaded stuff. Mostly, it’s known as a place to score free ebooks. But recently, I was looking for a set of free printable Halloween...

5 cool vintage book cover cell phone cases: Because you’re not playing Candy Crush, you’re reading, right?

by Liz Gumbinner | Uncategorized

I still have that Giving Tree iPhone case bookmarked for purchase one day. There’s something about the idea of wrapping a new-fangled phone in an old- fashioned book cover that makes me really happy. The only thing better: a case made of a whole collection of...

5 creative ways to capture first day back-to-school photos.

by Delilah S. Dawson | Tips and Tricks

Don’t know about you, but we tend to be sticklers for capturing those first day back to school photos of our kids in their thoughtfully planned new outfits and shiny new backpacks. Of course they’re often hastily captured as we race out the door, late for...

Hey girl, let Ryan Gosling brighten up your Facebook feed

by Julie | Social Media

Most of the time we love Facebook, but admittedly it can be lame when that one cousin floods your feed with kitten photos. Or a downer if your summer vacation consists of a hose in the backyard, while friends are posting pictures from Paris–along with every...

Sticking it to your Instagram photos with StickyGram

by Liz Gumbinner | Photography

We love the number of companies that give you a way to actually print out and display some of those digital Instagram photos. Snapbox is great for photo printing, InstaThis turns them into wooden artwork, the Mosaic app puts them easily into a photo album, and you can...

The new Animoto Video Maker app makes video editing from your photos a snap. Or a touch and a swipe.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

We’ve been touting the benefits of Animoto video editing since the very first day we discovered how easy it was to make fabulous videos from your own snapshots, how professional they look, and how free they can be. (At least the short ones.) Well it’s...

How do you make a photo collage online? PicMonkey to the rescue

by Liz Gumbinner | Websites We Love

I am now one of PicMonkey’s biggest fans along with the rest of the Cool Mom Picks crew. It’s easy to make collages. It’s easy to edit photos. But one thing that’s always been challenging is doing both together. Argh. Well no more! Just last...