How to use the new Gboard app: Get search, emojis, and GIFs on your smart phone keyboard

by Jeana | Best Apps

Like most people, there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t Google some information, whether it’s five times or 25 times. (Okay, sometimes 25 times an hour.)  So you can imagine my excitement when the Gboard app rolled out a couple days ago. This...

The 2016 Doodle 4 Google student contest winners and our favorite runners-up

by Liz Gumbinner | DIY

We always love seeing the annual winners of the Doodle 4 Google contest, and this year’s huge congrats go out to Akilah Johnson, a super talented Washington DC tenth grader who answered the challenge question, “What makes me…me” with a...

75 year later, View-Master enters the world of Virtual Reality. But was it worth the wait?

by Christina Refford | Tech Toys

When I heard that View-Master had updated and gone full Virtual Reality, I was intrigued. Had the toy I’d grown up peering through to see tiny photos of animals in the wild really gone high-tech? All for under $30 — or even under $25 on sale at Amazon?...

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...

Calendar apps for a tech house divided? Reader Q&A

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

We are a house divided.  My husband is an Android user (but I love him anyway), and I am an iPhone user.  We need a calendar app that works with both, allows for the importing of Google calendar an iCal and automatically refreshes it.  Is this a possibility?...

Finally, the Google Calendar app for iPhone is here!

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

As a diehard Google calendar user and an iPhone lover, I’ve tried out tons of iPhone calendar apps over the years, none of which were actually made by Google. Until now! Once you download the free Google Calendar app for iPhone, you’ll login with your...

STEM education: 7 awesome ways to get girls excited, from apps to clubs to cool websites

by Julie | Websites We Love

I feel pretty lucky to have a couple of daughters who dig STEM — that’s science, technology, engineering and math, in case you’ve seen the acronym floating around. While there are so many exciting developments in the last few years designed to get...

Geography fans will love playing SmartyPins with Google Maps. That is, if you can handle it…

by Julie | Best Apps

The increasing essentialness that is Google Maps is fairly well known by now, so it’s no surprise that as parents, we’re loving their latest project — a geography trivia game called SmartyPins that will take you around the world. Each game starts you...

Google and Code School get more women coding with free classes. Oh yeah.

by Kate Etue | Causes and Giving Back

As women in tech, we’re big believers that girls can and should succeed in any field they want to go into, including sciences and technology. That’s why sought out so many amazing STEM toys for girls over the years, why we’ve cheered for...

Google’s Made with Code: Watch our girls take over the world. (Then watch Icona Pop.)

by Liz Gumbinner | Websites We Love

I could not have been more delighted to be a part of this week’s kickoff for Google’s Made With Code, a timely, multi-million dollar initiative to bring more girls into coding and engineering and creating and solving problems via technology. Because as...