My Virtual Fashion Show app brings kids’ drawings to life on a virtual runway. Calling Tim Gunn…

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

Sadly, my kids’ interest in most drawing apps are growing more and more short-lived. The basic digital coloring pages just don’t hold the interest of a seven and nine-year-old they way they once did. And then we found the My Virtual Fashion Show from...

The educational Osmo game: Reinventing what it means to play with an iPad.

by Julie | Games + Gaming

Sure, our kids love to play with iPads like uh, all kids these days, but no matter how educational an app may be, it’s usually a solitary activity. We’ve loved collaborative games made for iPad like Duo Plink  (though the company is sadly no longer) and...

Animated selfies, just when you thought the selfie world couldn’t get any bigger.

by Kristin | Best Apps

Just when I thought I had seen all the selfie apps and selfie gadgets out there, I stumble upon selfie360, an easy to use app that lets you take animated selfies or panoramas. The free iOS and Android app is ridiculously easy to use and pretty fun to play around with....

The new Pinterest Guided Search: How to use it, and will it actually work?

by Julie | Social Media

As we well know, Pinterest can be a wonderful source of information and inspiration; we provide lots of it ourselves. But the lack of great search functionality can make it a tad overwhelming, especially if you’re not entirely sure what you’re looking for....

The new Sesame Street S’More digital magazine is brought to you by the letter E, for Excellent.

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps, Educational Apps

The Sesame Workshop just always gets it right, striking a wonderful balance between education and entertainment while keeping it family-friendly. So I’ve been eager to check out Sesame Street S’More, the new interactive digital magazine Sesame Street app for...

The best eggs of the Big Egg Hunt NY: Easter meets art meets social media meets social good

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

For the past few weeks, New York City has been awash in giant Easter eggs, in a brilliant (if a little time-consuming for me) social-media-meets-installation-art campaign for Fabergé called The Big Egg Hunt. It brought eager New Yorkers and tourists alike scavenging...

Stories, etc: A new app that lets you preserve your epic Ryan Gosling story for your great-great grandchildren

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

So much of social media relies on storytelling. Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, even YouTube and Vine — they are all platforms for sharing our stories with each other. Pubsoft recognized this need we have to capture and share our memories, and launched a fun family...

6 cool Android apps for sports fans to help you get the most out of the NCAA Basketball Finals at home

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

If you’re anything like the sports lovers in our lives, you’ve got the game on the big screen and your smartphone in your hand, flipping through Twitter, Facebook, and other cool Android apps for sports fans to help bring the game to life in the best ways...

The best Instagram collage apps: Which to use when one picture just isn’t enough.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

One of the most common requests we get from our readers lately is our recommendation for the best Instagram collage apps that are easy to use. There seem to be a million apps out there that provide the basic functions of creating a  photo collage, adding text to your...

Mibblio: An awesome interactive music app for kids with real star power

by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Entertainment, Kids

Mibblio, an awesomely interactive music app for kids, would be pretty terrific even if it only played generic nursery rhymes. But given that it also features music from some of our favorite names in kindie music, like Dan Zanes, Recess Monkey, The Pop Ups, Lucky Diaz,...