Web Coolness: Turning off an annoying Instagram feature, a new Snapchat feature you should know about, and more
Here are some of our favorite links from this past week. We hope you find them interesting and useful! Here’s how to turn off the Instagram activity status feature. Did you know about this new Google Maps feature? (Plus, more Google Maps features you should...
Web coolness: The iPhone Basic, kids on social media, and Father’s Day!
Here are a few cool tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. The ultimate product to curb mobile phone addiction. Father’s Day is coming up! Be sure to get him a present that truly represents his age. Heh. Meanwhile teens are...
Web coolness: A Hello Kitty bullet train, the Sally Ride stamp, and avoiding getting banned from Amazon
Here are some cool tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. We are excited for this new stamp release of astronaut Sally Ride. President Trump can no longer block users from seeing his Twitter account. A lively interview with the...
Emoji: A history book about our kids’ favorite way to communicate. Okay, ours too.
Little history lesson for you: did you know that the emojis designs we use today — and communicate almost exclusively with our tweens in — originated way back in 1999? Like, before we even knew what a smartphone was? Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita...
A cool time-saving emoji keyboard trick for iPhone (courtesy of my 10 year old)
Leave it to the kids to figure out cool iPhone tricks before we do, especially where emoji are concerned. Turns out, there’s a fun way to insert emoji into your texts without toggling back and forth between keyboards — something that can be a bit of a...
Web coolness: Star Wars fun, a reversible emoji pillow, and how apps helped during Harvey
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Hurry! Download the Star Wars app and get yourself to one of the landmarks supporting Star Wars augmented reality through September 3rd. Not near one of these...
Web Coolness: Fun new Android emoji, origami robots, and the new gaming system we can’t wait to get our hands on!
Here are some of the coolest tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. New Android emoji from the new Oreo OS! The mermaid is killing us. Amazing solar eclipse photographs captured Monday. Ready for the next one? Bookmark the paths of...
Web Coolness: Star Wars Moleskines, the solar eclipse, and the downside of tech
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. As we get ready for back-to-school season, Star Wars Moleskines? Yes, please! Some say smartphones have destroyed a generation, while this scientist claims kids are...
Awesome, easy emoji activities and gear you need right now, because The Emoji Movie!
Are your kids as smiling-face-with-hands excited to see The Emoji Movie as ours are? We’ve already bought our tickets for opening day tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean we have to wait to start celebrating our love for everything emoji, right? While...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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