iOS apps

My five year old has spent the half hour or so playing around with a new free kids drawing app called Kid Van Gogh, and I'll do the best job I can explaining it, considering I can't get my iPhone out of her hands. What seems to different…

Oh Appy Day! gives you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. This week, Angela Kinsey shares her favorite. I am not a very tech savvy gal so I don't have a lot of apps on my phone. I would rather read a …

There's been a lot of chatter about the brand new Windows Phone 8 , Microsoft's latest offering. It features a very sleek design and layout, including the new Windows 8 operating system, but still has to compete against a huge contingent…

Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us , then check out our five favorite pins from this week that you won't want to miss! 1. A cool way to blast tunes on your iPhone . 2. If you use your tablet in the kitchen , you need to stock u…

I am intermittently craft-crazy, with bouts of knitting and jewelry-making fever. Unfortunately, my skill set doesn't always match up to my enthusiasm, as evidenced by the sweater I knitted for my son that took two years. (Yes, two years…

As someone who often sends birthday notes and thank-yous through emails and texts (sorry Emily Post), I fell in love with the beautiful Cartolina app back when it first launched. Well now Cartolina has launched a new app that still allow…

A lot of readers ask us about great math apps for kids. (Cut The Rope only counts sort of) I've found a great one that's equal parts science lesson and math course with a sprinkling of cool graphics thrown in for good measure. My kids ar…

I may not understand it all, but my eight year-old says the Minecraft game is awesomeness , and given how much he and his sisters play it on my iPad, I'll take his word for it. This is a evidently a huge deal among their elementary schoo…

Let's face it, most of our children think carrots grow in a refrigerated display case in a grocery store, so any chance to teach them about seeds, soil, sun and watering is a plus. My family and I are urban folk through and through, whic…

If you're already a fan of the Keepsy app for creating photo print books directly from your iPhone, your world is about to get seriously rocked. It isn't enough that Keepsy allows you to create printable photo books directly from your iP…

Time to make it work! Toca Boca , our favorite Swedish app developer is at it again with Toca Tailor , their newest release that makes kids the head of their own design house. [don't miss a limited time discount on this app!] In Toca Tai…

Wouldn't it be cool if there was an app that could tell you about exciting historical places you might not even known were there? Like, right now? Right here, where you're standing? Meet HISTORY Here . Developed by The History Channel, i…

If you're like me, if you're plunking down cash for an app, you really want it to be worth it. So an app with four games in one has my name all over it. And when all four games are educational for the kids, my heart swoons. Smash Party i…

I just returned from a fabulous adults-only trip and after looking through my camera roll, realize I was too busy reveling in the sun, surf and eating meals without interruption to take many photos of the splendor. Thankfully, my travel …

Obsessed with Pinterest like we are? Follow us , then check out our favorite pins from this week that you don't want to miss! 1. An adorable baby gift (and Halloween costume) that will make geeky moms and dads everywhere squeal. 2. A gor…

I'm not big on sharing kid photos on Facebook--I find my privacy settings magically change too often--but I'm also not great at queueing photos in emails to send to family and friends, either. This results in irritated people who are tir…

Who picks "trick" instead of "treat?" I'm going to go with no one. Which is why I want to share with you four of my favorite iOS apps for Halloween that will keep the kids busy while I sneak another fun-sized snack from their Halloween s…

Impalas deep sea diving, vultures with beehive hairdos, sneezing squirrels--they're all part of a new crazy clever alphabet app with illustrations so quirky and modern that I want to hang them on my kiddo's wall. But even better, this ap…

As much as I wish I were a scrapbooker--or, OK, even the kind of mama that actually puts photos into an album more than once a year--I've made my peace with the fact it's probably not gonna happen. So I flock to cool apps like Martha Ste…

Obsessed with Pinterest like we are? Follow us , then check out these 5 pins that you don't want to miss. 1. One of the coolest alphabet apps we've ever seen. 2. A must have if you use your smart phone as a digital recipe book . 3. 5 sup…

You haven't lived until you've seen a video of your head superimposed on the body of an elf, dancing in a winter wonderland. Such is the magic of Elf Yourself by the hilarious company JibJab , a.k.a. the Spiridelli brothers. Now that the…

I love sharing old storybooks I've saved from my childhood, though brittle bindings and fragile pages mean it's definitely a "look but don't touch" type of story time. But in the case of this charming one-hundred year old, new-to-me stor…

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about many different ways to connect kids with their grandparents . While I covered the big ones like Skype, Facetime, Google+ and others, I just discovered a new one that is solely designed for connecting you…

Oh Appy Day! gives you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. This week, Maya Rudolph shares her favorite. I love Hipstamatic . Every lens, every case, every film. It actually takes amazing pictures. - Ma…