Web Coolness: Cool online camps for kids, a new Facebook feature (again), and roasting coffee with your smart phone
Here are our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. The Death Star gets a Lego Friends makeover. Whoa. The Tonight Show’s XBOX With My Mom contest is cracking us up. Ever wonder how to add a location tag to...
Rebrickable helps breathe new life into your kids’ old LEGO sets.
I’m usually hesitant about buying a big, expensive LEGO kit because, after my kids put it together once, then what? Sometimes kids keep playing with it, sometimes it ends up dissembled with random bricks I discover all over the house months later. Which is why...
The cool site that makes your kids realize they have it pretty good. Or, maybe they don’t.
Lately I’ve gotten sucked into a new website called If It Were My Home, which compares countries around the world to your own hometown, or any other location you designate in their search engine. You’ll get a quick snapshot of all kinds of comparable stats...
Designing and printing your own custom 3D jewelry. Without buying a 3D printer.
Just in time for Mother’s Day, I was absolutely thrilled to discover Zazzy, a new platform that allows you to design 3D jewelry, only they take out all the time-consuming stuff…like downloading sometimes complicated software, figuring out how to use it,...
Oscars online resources: Live backstage feeds, red carpet interviews, celebrities on Twitter, and more.
Not all of us will be able to focus on every moment of the red carpet entrances (kids needing dinner), the Oscars monologue (kid needs to use the bathroom), or even the one award you’ve been waiting for all night (kids have to go to bed) but you can get a ton...
Where to see all the Super Bowl ads. Because sometimes that’s the best part
Football fans or not, millions of viewers flock to the Super Bowl for the commercials. Pretty much everyone wants to see the ads that will have everyone buzzing the next day — or in real time on Twitter. But if you want a pre-game sneak peek at the Super Bowl...
6 of the most fun Santa apps for kids that offer proof the big guy is real.
My daughter came home from school last week, begging for a video chat with Santa. How very 21st century. But what was more surprising was that my ever-practical, Elf-on-the-Shelf-mocking, not-believing-in-Santa kid flip-flopped! And I owe it to these creative and fun...
Bitsbox: A cool website and subscription box for aspiring young coders
If last week’s Hour of Code got your kids fired up to learn more about computer science, then we’ve got an awesome gift recommendation for you. Bitsbox is a cool free website where kids can learn and practice code, and now they’re launching a fun...
Chuck that fire wood. Yule Log 2.0 is back and burning brighter than ever on your computer
Jack Frost nipping at your nose? Perfect time to gather ’round the fire and get merry, toasty and bright. No need to load on the logs, though. These flames are coming from your computer. Oh, yes. Yule Log 2.0 is back for a second season, and we’re so ready...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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