Tell your life story in photographs with ThisLife

by Shari | Websites We Love

I had one of those moments recently that falls squarely into the category of “modern life.” I was looking for a photograph of my kids that I could visualize in my mind, but couldn’t remember if it was on my phone camera, camera-camera, iPad,...

How does Google Drive stack up against other cloud storage services?

by Jeana | Uncategorized

If you access your Google Docs account in the coming days and see changes, it’s because Google Drive has launched. Google Drive has nothing to do with smart cars or Google-enabled dashboards (though that may not be too far off), but rather, it’s a cloud...

Saving and sharing those photos that weren’t taken by a digital camera

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

When I opened the mysterious package that arrived for me this week, I was surprised to pull out a vintage hat box. Surprised and happy–since vintage hat boxes are one of my most favorite things. Inside, there was all this cool ephemera…a very smart way of...

Snapjoy: A brilliant way to organize and protect your photos. (No more excuses!)

by Molly | Websites We Love

For all the spouting off I do about organizing your digital photographs, backing them up and filing them neatly away, I have a confession: My iPhoto is a bogged-down, disorganized mess of a thing. For all that “delete! delete! delete!” preaching I do, I...

MyMusicCloud: Music from any device, anytime

by Jeana | Best Apps

Having a multi-platform, multi-device household can be difficult when all you want to do is transfer an itty bitty song from one device to the other. It’s a whirling dervish of cords, USBs, devices, and wandering MPEG files that usually ends up with someone...

Dropbox and Android sitting in a tree

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

My love for Dropbox runs deep, but now with a new exciting feature, I’m completely head over heels–and a little envious of you Android users. The newest version of the Dropbox Android app allows you to upload photos and videos directly from your phone...

5 simple tips to get your digital photographs organized

by Molly | Tips and Tricks

I love digital photography for the ability to take 500 pictures of my daughter eating her first birthday cupcake, knowing that the perfect shot will be in there somewhere. But this also means my computer gets bogged down with tons of photo files, often with no label,...

4 Storage options for all those great holiday pictures, beyond the cloud

by Jeana | Uncategorized

There are always so many great photo-taking opportunities when kids are around, but this month especially presented a bounty of great photo moments. Whether it was baking cookies, lighting the menorah, decorating the tree, or posing in the ugly snowman sweater your...

Amazon Cloud Player: Listen to music from anywhere

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

With kids around, you can bet I’m extra nervous about keeping my precious files, documents, photos and music on my computer and portable gadgets, so I’ve been making it a point to upload everything to the cloud for a little extra security. But instead of...