Fun Christmas apps for kids: 8 options that they’ll still want to play in January.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Holiday Picks

Sometimes I need just a little quiet at home over the holidays, you know? And since my kids are app-crazy anyway, they always think it’s a treat to find cool new Christmas apps for kids that they haven’t tried yet. While we have a few from years past that...

10 of the best shopping apps to put some yay in your holidays. (Holidyays?)

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

Each year around this time, we love sharing our favorite shopping apps with you. Because who doesn’t love going shopping and landing a fab deal? Exactly. And how much do you love it when you land that fab deal in the middle of the madness that is holiday...

Sponsored Message: The free Hobnob app makes creating and sending invites as easy as tap-tap-send.

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

This is a sponsored message from Hobnob   With the holidays right around the corner, the free Hobnob app for iOS makes sending invites to your holiday events, and sharing the photos afterwards even easier. Plus, you could win a $200 Target gift card just for...

7 Halloween apps for kids from adorably spooky to downright scary

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

by Julie | Best Apps, Educational Apps

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Well wasn’t I delighted when I went to update all my out-of-date apps (another resolution), and clicked on Aviary in the App store (also in Google Play for Android ) which is one of my very favorite free photo editing apps.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

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...