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Editor: This article has been updated with more current information since publication If you keep tabs on your teen on apps like Instagram and SnapChat, you're going to want to add another one to your list, parents. VSCO (pronounced vis-…

Summertime is the perfect time for the kids and I to explore nearby Boston--hey, we need to do that Freedom Trail someday, right?--but, oy, do I hate driving around looking for parking. So, when a well-traveled friend told me that she'd …

If you're like me, you try a bunch of lipsticks out on your hand, then think you find the right one only to realize it's totally not your color. Well, that's all about to change thanks to the new free Urban Decay Vice Lipstick app which …

If there is one gift I could give to all new parents, it would be the ability to make their baby fall right asleep on command. But since my super powers were never really strong in that area, I'll have to settle with telling you about a …

I have fallen into a dinner rut, relying on a few tried-and-true recipes that I can whip up before the kids get too peckish at the end of a busy day. But now that I've download the free and gorgeously designed Yummly app , which is avail…

It's Sunday morning and your kids' friends just had to cancel their afternoon playdate. Or, you are on vacation with your toddler, and rain has just ruined your plans to visit that cool new park you read about online. What to do? Well, n…

As much as I love the vastness of the internet, sometimes I just want to find the perfect little black dress (should Liz and Kristen not be around to tell me just what to buy!) or the name of a great family restaurant at the beach withou…

If you're an iOS user, check out iTunes and you might be interested to see a new category called Valentine's Deals with Apple Pay. Well, at least I was interested so I took a closer look. And it seems that as an incentive to use Apple pa…

If you haven't quite gotten around to having your kids write out their thank you notes for all those Christmas and Hanukkah gifts they got last month, you might want to check out the new Felt greeting card app which just launched. By let…

If you're looking for help tackling your 2016 New Year's resolutions, we're here to help. Check out these cool, free apps that our Editor Kristen featured on The Today Show this morning. Lark: To help you keep your fitness goals Lark (fr…

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 madnes…

When I'm driving around running errands, I usually have NPR on the radio, unless I'm listening to Spawned , of course. The stories that almost always end up with me in tears, searching for a Kleenex in the console, are the reports from S…

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…

Shopping online has been Captain Convenience for so many of us for years now, although when you're shopping for clothes, it can sometimes lean into "this is such a hassle" territory if you've got six open tabs to compare prices at six di…

Along with the diapers and burp clothes and countless other pieces of baby gear, perhaps the most valuable things that new (and newish) parents can receive are the BTDT words of wisdom from other parents who are boldly and actively doing…

The trend of online doctor visit apps is definitely reaching critical mass as people learn it's a great way to get professional advice and even subscriptions without the hassle of making appointments or schlepping out the door. And now w…

I didn't even know there was a term for it, but of course there is. O versharenting . It's that thing that so many of us parents do on social media -- especially on Facebook -- where we share, or overshare, info about our kids that range…

I'm not even kidding that when I heard the the word Meerkat being tossed around for the past couple of weeks, I thought to myself, Is that Meerkat Manor show back on TV again? But then, when the Periscope live streaming app for Twitter l…

Have you ever been scrolling through someone's fashion-fabulous Instagram feed and spotted a pair of shoes or a clutch or scarf (or ahem, Liz's stack of bracelets ) that you really like? I'm talking really like, to the point of wishing y…

My grandmother once stowed away in the back seat of her father's Model-T while her sister went on a date. Then they crashed the car, into a pig. Now that she's gone, I really wish I'd had her record stories like that one so that my kids,…

As a Brooklyn resident who falls squarely within the lucky Brooklyn-Manhattan delivery area for the new Amazon Prime Now app ( iOS and Android ) I downloaded it stat. It is a genius premise, functioning essentially like a Fresh Direct ki…

We've already declared that 2015 is the Year of Better Sleep , so here we are with even more helpful techie ways for all of us to get those good Z's. I tried two more of the latest sleep tracking apps to see whether they'd be a good fit …

The weather is so crazy lately that I wouldn't be surprised if the actual forecast was cloudy with a chance of meatballs, or some other spherical meat product. We all need a sense of humor with weather like this, and while we have a grea…

I'm patting myself on the back for finally sitting down this weekend and sending out the thank you notes for holiday gifts that, yeah, I probably should have sent a bit earlier. But then, it was the holidays! I'm a busy working parent! I…