Web coolness: A digital swear jar, the Twitter password breach, and tech Mother’s Day gifts!
Here are some of our favorite links from around the web. We hope you love them too! Turns out Siri can swear. Plus, the swear jar goes digital! (top) Pokemon designers finally come clean about the inspiration behind Pikachu. We love this cooking app for kids....
Web coolness: A real life Super Mario curler, a DNA test comparison, texting 911, and more!
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Could competitive video gaming become an Olympic sport? (In the meantime, pick up Steep Winter Games, pictured above, celebrating PyeongChang 2018). We are excited...
How this free app will change the way you make your grocery shopping list.
If you’re like me, you scramble to text your partner the items you need as you think of them, which makes for a pretty disorganized shopping list. But since discovering the AnyList app in our Recipe Rescue Facebook group, my grocery shopping list is the most...
Web coolness: A colorful Millennium Falcon, fitness tracker security risks, making fun of teen’s texting, and more!
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Forget pre-made LEGO sets: this fan built an epic Millennium Falcon out of colorful LEGO bricks. And we love this remixed version of Last Jedi‘s lightsaber...
4 helpful meal planning apps for families that really work.
One of my biggest new year’s resolutions is to stay organized, and getting my meals planned is key. Because the hardest part of cooking for me — other than the kids pulling on my shirt or asking me to help them put together their 1,487-piece LEGO set right...
5 free journal apps to harness your thoughts in 2018.
Keep track of your thoughts, and maybe tackle a New Years’ resolution, with these 5 free journal apps. They’ve made it so, so easy to track your daily highs (and lows), even add photos and video like a virtual baby book, which is smart for your bigger kids...
Here’s how to order food on Facebook. Yes, you can do that now.
Just this past week, Facebook launched a brand new feature allowing you to order take-out right from the restaurant’s Facebook page. So, if you’ve ever gotten a hankering for some Chipotle guacamole or Five Guys burgers while scrolling through your news...
Web Coolness: Super Mario cosmetics, a hoverboard recall, the first all-electric SUV and more
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. A great gift for your favorite gamer: Super Mario cosmetics! A young accidental paleontologist makes an important discovery. How to use our favorite kitchen gadgets...
Why you should tell every restaurant you go to about this app that helps fight hunger.
My family has been looking for some ways to fill these long summer days by giving back to our community. We were shocked to find out that more than 20% of families are food insecure in the USA, which means you very likely know someone personally who’s struggling...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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