The easiest photo album app yet
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...
Tickle Toy Camera – The Next Tickle Me Elmo, but better. And free.
Kapu Tickle Toy Camera is a new app that is so fun that you just want to laugh out loud. I’m serious. It’s weird but watching someone get tickled is funny. Funnier still is when your child has the ability to turn the animated kooky character on the screen...
Oh Appy Day! featuring Christina Applegate
Oh Appy Day! gives you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. This week, Christina Applegate shares her favorite. I love Oldbooth. You take people’s faces and put eighties hair on them. It’s awesome. -Christina Applegate...
Animoto for Android! At last, at last!
Don’t get me wrong, I like photographs of my kids, family and friends, but just looking at pictures doesn’t “send me.” UNLESS they’re in a slideshow with music and text–then I become a blubbering, “Memories”-singing...
One of the coolest, easiest, free photo editing apps we’ve found
Just like you, we rely on trusted sources to pass along tips for great apps. So when a strong reco came in to try out Pixlr-o-matic, we had to check it out. Yes, we know, there are tons of photo editing apps already out there for both Android and iOS, but it turns out...
Photo prints directly from your phone? Snapperific!
If there’s one downfall to having thousands of photos stored on my iPhone, it’s figuring out how to get them from the phone to a photo album. (Yes, with actual prints!) Now you can skip the photo printing service middleman, with a terrific app called...
5 tips for taking better photos with your iPhone
I was obsessed with getting the very best photos of my kids on my iPhone on their first day back to school. But since I happened to be away, my husband had to stand-in as family photographer–which doesn’t sound so bad until you see some of the family...
Martha Stewart Crafts on your iPad. It’s a great thing.
The tech world is buzzing about the new Martha Stewart Crafts app for iPad, and I can see why. Long ago, I used to babysit for a family who had their attic converted into a professional scrapbooking room. Filled with stacks of patterned acid-free papers and matching...
How do people make those collages on their Instagram photos?
I’ve been eyeing up the adorable photo collages on my Instagram feed, wondering how my fellow iPhoneographers were making them. Well, it definitely can’t hurt to ask, because I got the scoop on the coolest collage app that’s super easy to use....Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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