by Nicole Blades | Photography
The selfie stick struggle is real, friends. From major museums, like the MoMA and The Met in NYC to the Palace of Versailles in Paris, to sports stadiums, to musical festivals Coachella and Lollapalooza, the ban on selfie sticks shows no signs of slowing down. While...
by Nicole Blades | Best Apps, Tips and Tricks
Truth be told, I abandoned my BlackBerry for the iPhone specifically because of Instagram. And, believe me, I was quite the keyboard-over-touchscreen loyalist. But the lure of the obvious fun of sharing square photos — with filters! — was just too strong,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Internet Safety
Everyone’s favorite photo-sharing app rocked the parenting world yesterday when they announced the possibility of banning all photos of minors on Instagram. Our Twitter and Facebook feeds were going nuts, as you can totally imagine. Evidently ongoing pressure...
by PJ Feinstein | Uncategorized
Oh Appy Day! is our ongoing feature giving you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. This week, we asked Rihanna, who knows a thing or two about Instagram (she currently has 16.2 million followers @badgirlriri), to share her favorite...
by Nicole Blades | Best Apps
Just last year, we gave you the straight intel on the best Instagram collage apps. And now, finally (some might say, including us) Instagram has jumped in the game with Layout from Instagram, their very own app for making photo collages to share. It’s been out...
by Liz Gumbinner | Social Media
I’m mostly an Instagram purist. I really love following the kinds of accounts in which people share their own individual photography instead of loads of quotes, reshares, or images pulled from magazines. And while I can never resist a gorgeous baby photo, there...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
This week, I had the pleasure of joining the Meredith Vieira Show (I love her!) for a quick segment on one of our favorite apps: Waterlogue, which transforms your photos into gorgeous watercolor paintings. If you haven’t tried it, check out our full review...
by Nicole Blades | Best Apps
As parents, we are not shy about our love of cool camera apps since that’s easily half the reason we all own smartphones in the first place. And we’ve experienced first-hand how a really great camera app — like the Camera+ 6 app — can really...
by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps
This is a sponsored message for Bevy Just imagine all the free space and potentially sanity you could have back if all your smartphone photos and videos were automatically uploaded to one safe place as soon as you captured them. That’s exactly what you’ll...
by Nicole Blades | Kids, Tips and Tricks
If there’s one thing that will throw off my whole zen vibe, it’s seeing that “you’re out of memory” alert pop up on my tech devices when I try to download an app or take a video. I almost want to turn to my gadget and say: You’re...
