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We actually found some tasteful, well-designed St. Patrick’s Day ecards. Luck?

Should there be someone out there who needs a St. Patrick’s Day wish from you, I’d say a call is generally better than a text. But a cute ecard is somewhere in the middle, striking the perfect balance between thoughtful and I’m kind of busy because...

Windy’s Valentine Delight helps kids feel the love all year

by Julie | Educational Apps For Kids

If you’re looking for a way to entertain your kids so that you and your Valentine can have a little alone time today, we’ve got just the thing. The adorable new Windy’s Valentine Delight is a charming interactive story from Loud Crow, makers of the...

How to get $200 worth of smartphone photo editing tools free. Thanks, Aviary!

by Liz Gumbinner | Photo Apps

Well wasn’t I delighted when I went to update all my out-of-date apps (another resolution), and clicked on Aviary in the App store (also in Google Play for Android ) which is one of my very favorite free photo editing apps. It was then that I saw I could get...

3 of the best gift card apps for last minute holiday gifts

by Jeana | Shopping Apps

While gift cards won’t necessarily elicit tears of joy, they actually can make a lot of sense. Gift cards are a great choice for people you want to recognize, but don’t know well enough to choose a personal gift, or for when you have a limited budget. Here...

Sending holiday ecards: 7 of the best resources for last minute thoughts that still count

by Jeana | Helpful Services

I still have some gifts to buy and cards to send, but it’s nice to know that I can take care of some of those greetings to friends and families with a few clicks on my phone or computer. Here are seven of the best websites and apps that let you send pretty...

5 fun Christmas apps that make us feel like kids again

by Kate Etue | Holiday Picks

It’s Christmas! Time to sip some cider or egg nog and enjoy the age-old tradition of playing on the iPad with your kids. Ha. Even though the technology is so not what we had as kids, these fun Christmas apps are getting us in a festive mood and making us feel...

6 of the most fun Santa apps for kids that offer proof the big guy is real.

by Kate Etue | Holiday Picks

My daughter came home from school last week, begging for a video chat with Santa. How very 21st century. But what was more surprising was that my ever-practical, Elf-on-the-Shelf-mocking, not-believing-in-Santa kid flip-flopped! And I owe it to these creative and fun...

20Stamps: Cool customized photo stamps for the holidays and beyond

by Julie | Lifestyle Apps

It’s not often that we have good news for procrastinators, but if you haven’t yet mailed your holiday cards, then today is your lucky day. Because we just discovered 20Stamps, an awesome iOS app that lets you design your own customized photo stamps, right...

The best road trip apps to get you through those long holiday drives: Don’t even think about putting the car in gear until you have these.

by Nicole Blades | Travel Apps

Let’s be honest. You know what most people are really thankful for around this time of year? Getting from point A (home) to point B (whoever’s hosting Thanksgiving) with their sanity relatively intact. We want you to dig into that turkey (or tofurkey...

6 of the most fun Halloween apps for kids to get them excited about something other than chocolate.

by Jeana | Fun Apps for Kids

So of course Halloween has crept up on us seemingly faster than ever before. I’m going to avoid thinking about what happens after Friday (holiday shopping, eek!), and focus on getting those costumes ready and devising a strategy to not eat every peanut M&M...

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