The lettrs app means letter-sending 2.0. We’re in love.
While I consider myself to be tech-savvy, thank you notes are just one of those things that I always hand-write and make my kids do the same. And on the receiving end, there is something special nowadays when I receive a hand-written anything in the mail, which is why...
Want travel tips from insiders? Mosey on over to mosey.
Whenever I plan a vacation or any kind of day trip with my family, I tend to shy away from the big travel sites of all the typical “must sees” and instead like to dig to find lesser known spots that the locals know about. Rather than spending hours...
Getting work done in the coffee shop without even leaving home.
If you’ve become used to getting some work done during the day at the local Starbucks, you’ll crack up with (or be wildly intrigued by) by this super clever new idea. Designed to increase your productivity and creativity, hit the Coffitivity website which...
How to make your online videos look better
In my camera roll, I’d say the proportion of photos to videos is about 90/10. The videos are fun keepsakes, but I find that with my videos, they’re not quite ready for prime time–they’re either too shaky, too short, too long, or my voice is the...
The best way to manage all your instant messages from different places? We’ve found organizational genius.
When I use instant messaging services and have all windows open at once, it gets a little complicated at times to keep up with AIM, MSN Messenger, Gchat and Skype messages that are all coming at me at the same time. (I swear, it’s not just that I’m...
Gogobot books travel, hotels and restaurants right from your Android. Yay for spontaneity!
Let’s just imagine that I’m standing on a street corner, chatting with a friend on my Android phone and suddenly she says “Hey, let’s go to Paris this weekend, stay in an reasonably-priced hotel, eat at some fabulously-reviewed restaurant and...
Crowdsource your kid’s college fund
Everyone knows the greatest gift of all (besides a free babysitter) is the gift of education. And while you might get an occasional check from the grandparents meant to help, the money doesn’t always end up where it should. But with the launch of a new online...
WikiCancel: Cancel your accounts and magazine subscriptions in a click
If you’re like me and you’ve spent way too long trying to figure out how to cancel your accounts or magazine subscriptions, then you will love this awesome new site I discovered that gives you simple, quick directions in a click. Think of it like...
A place to record all those funny things your kids say. Quick, before you forget one!
As parents, I know so many of us keep some kind of record of our funny kid-isms (they do say the darndest things, right?), but a new service called Limetree will now let you record all of them in one place. Limetree is both a website and a mobile app for iOS...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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