Lumafit fitness tracker: Wearable fitness tech for your ear.
I’m a triathlete and a data geek, so as you might imagine, I keep my eye on cool new innovations in fitness technology. Which is why I was intrigued when I discovered the Lumafit fitness tracker, now on Kickstarter. The Lumafit uses some of the brand new fitness...
How to resize a photo for Instagram? Use Instasize.
If you’re like me and have ever tried to pop that perfect picture onto Instagram only to discover it just sucks as a square, you need to try InstaSize, a cool app that will show you how to resize a photo for Instagram. Well better, it will do it for you. Simply...
Need help forming new habits? The Habit List app to the rescue! (And it’s way more fun than it might sound.)
With more tasks on my plate than I’ve got time in the day to complete them, and a little trouble prioritizing and juggling, I’m thinking I might need help forming new habits so I don’t feel so overwhelmed all the time. If that sounds familiar, you...
Animated selfies, just when you thought the selfie world couldn’t get any bigger.
Just when I thought I had seen all the selfie apps and selfie gadgets out there, I stumble upon selfie360, an easy to use app that lets you take animated selfies or panoramas. The free iOS and Android app is ridiculously easy to use and pretty fun to play around with....
Untethering from the phone with Jabra ROX wireless earbuds and the new Jabra Sound app
Back when I discovered the Jabra Stone, it was my first experience with a bluetooth headset. And yet…it looked like a headset. Meaning I could walk down the street taking hands-free phone calls, and looking a crazy person talking to myself. (I kind of always...
Anki Drive review: Racing video games get real
If you’ve not hear about the wildly hot new tech toy Anki DRIVE, it’s the brain-child of oh, just a few Carnegie Mellon scientists who combined robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and slot car racing to create an entirely new breed of toy....
History of the World with Google Earth takes you on a tour through the ages.
We’ve used the cool virtual map Google Earth to get a bird’s eye view of our house, Disney World, and my mother’s tiny hometown in Europe. And now there is a really neat history book for kids, History of the World with Google Earth, that puts the...
The new Pinterest Guided Search: How to use it, and will it actually work?
As we well know, Pinterest can be a wonderful source of information and inspiration; we provide lots of it ourselves. But the lack of great search functionality can make it a tad overwhelming, especially if you’re not entirely sure what you’re looking for....
Facebook Nearby Friends feature: Should you be worried about your teen’s privacy?
This is the first in a new series of posts about apps that kids are using, that parents should be aware of. And there are lots. Hope it helps. Last week brought the announcement the new Facebook Nearby Friends feature in the Facebook mobile app, which is a clear...Creating Secure Passwords: The Easy, Step-by-Step Guide
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