Picjoy: Because one way to help with a photo organization problem is to have an app do it for you.

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

If we asked you to count the things you’d rather spend a day doing than iPhone photo organization, what number would we be talking about here? Fifteen? Fifty? Eleventy hundred other things you’d rather do? Yeah, wrangling the tons of photos we’ve all...

Got a budding shutterbug? Grab this photo 101 book by National Geographic Kids

by Nicole Blades | Photography

I am pretty sure that it’s written somewhere in the fine print of the Parenthood Contract that we’re supposed to take tons of photos of our kids. So it’s always a nice bonus when the subjects of our countless pics develop their own interest in the...

Olloclip Active Lens: Get your iPhone ready for summer adventures and group selfies.

by Nicole Blades | Photography

To say that we like iPhoneography is like saying Frozen was a marginal success. Yeah. No understatement: We are huge fans of iPhone picture-takin’ over here.  Which is why I’m always excited to see what cool, new accessories are popping up to tack on to my...

Tips from a pro for taking better family vacation photos. Good timing, right?

by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks

If you’re like us, you’re counting down the days to a summer vacation, whether it’s a weekend at the grandparents’ place or something bigger. Either way, hopefully it means sleeping in late (kids willing), lazy days, catching up on books and of...

The Pictli photo framing app yields one sweet, sentimental Father’s Day gift if you hurry.

by Stephanie Mayers | Best Apps

I have always loved giving photos as gifts for everything from Father’s Day to birthdays. Really, what’s better having the luck to capture a perfect moment, then having someone special enough to share it with. So I am crushing on Pictli, a service with a...

Sound the alarms! The new game-changing Google Photos app is pure fire.

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

I am a longtime, shameless, all-things-Apple fan. But that doesn’t mean I don’t tip my hat frequently to cool, non-iOS products. And, when it comes to this new Google Photos app? I’m basically standing up and doing a slow-clap, because the app is...

2 super easy new photo book apps for iPhone that will have the dad or grad in your life smiling

by Nicole Blades | Photography

We’re very pro-photo book around here. Actually, we support any service or app that helps us get all the digital pics we snap off of our devices and on display for all to enjoy. And with Father’s Day and graduation season officially underway, here are two,...

Personalized battery chargers blend practical with sentimental for Mother’s Day

by Liz Gumbinner | Mother's Day Gifts, Photography

Nothing says I love you like, please don’t let your phone die when I’m trying to reach you because it really freaks me out.  Which is why I think it’s so clever that Shutterfly has launched the first personalized battery chargers that I’ve...

8 cool Mother’s Day gifts for photographers. We’d take all of them.

by Nicole Blades | Mother's Day Gifts, Photography

As we start looking around for cool Mother’s Day gifts, we realize not every mom is into keepsake pendants and baby footprint artwork. So for the photographer mom in your life who is always trying to capture those special moments with her trusty dSLR or...

5 things to knock off your tech to-do list, and how to find the time. Thanks to Gretchen Rubin.

by Nicole Blades | Tips and Tricks

Do you have some basic tech chore to do — say, deleting old digital photos — but you just never seem to find the time to get to it? It’s like permanently etched in your to-do list, and every time you scroll through your loaded smartphone camera roll,...