Flic app makes iPhone camera roll management super easy. You only have to lift a finger.

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

We’re always on the lookout for new, fun ways to help you finally do something productive with all those photos you have pilling up on your iPhone. You can print your photos. Make them into darling photo books, Turn them into magnetic photo artwork. Well,...

A personal tech desk designed around the idea that not seeing your cords is better than seeing them.

by Liz Gumbinner | Uncategorized

If like me, your desk is starting to become a tangle of devices and cords and accessories, you’ll get the genius of the iSkelter SlatePro Personal Tech Desk right away. Especially now that it’s on sale. Handmade in Arizona from premium bamboo with steel...

10 cool things Siri can do for you. Including make you wonder where she’s been all your life.

by Nicole Blades | Tips and Tricks

I have to be honest: Siri and I aren’t all that close. I usually only call on her, well,  when I need to call someone else. Call home. Call The Folks. Call Yvette, mobile. But this thin rapport is not iPhone’s fancy personal assistant’s fault.  Siri,...

Artkive Concierge: Like a personal assistant for storing your kid’s artwork digitally.

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

The Artkive app has been one of my back-to-school lifesavers ever since it launched a couple of years ago. And even if you don’t have four kids like I do, you’re probably swimming in artwork that is oh so painful to toss. The ability to store it digitally...

Gmail auto-advance: The best time-saving feature of Gmail, ever

by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks

As someone who gets literally hundreds and hundreds of emails a day (note to everyone I know: sorry I haven’t gotten back to you yet), I have been going absolutely nuts figuring out if there was some sort of Gmail shortcut to allow me to simply delete the...

15 IFTTT recipes for parents to make life easier. A lot easier.

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

There are three things you need to know about the productivity app IFTTT: 1)  It’s an acronym that stands for If This, Then That. 2) It’s pronounced like the ‘ift’ in the word gift.  3)  It’s out here saving lives. Okay, that’s a...

Communicating with your child’s teacher and class without mass email chains? Thank you, Remind app.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

With back to school officially here, I cannot tell you how much I love the benefits of organization and communication apps for parents and teachers. They really do make life so much easier. Well, I’ve just discovered another tech tool that’s going to make...

10 of the best organizational apps for parents: Back to School Tech Guide 2014

by Nicole Blades | Back to School Tech

There’s excitement and anxiousness in the air at back to school time, but for many parents, this time of year can also bring about a little dread. As in: Ugh. Here comes the deluge of To-Do lists and classroom paperwork and lunch-packing and scheduling and on...

Ecojot Connect app: Write notes the old-fashioned way, and save them the modern way.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

Even with all the great lifestyle and organizational apps available to us today, there are times that nothing really replaces writing with pen and paper, whether I’m writing down funny things my kids have said or just making my grocery list. But having digital...

The Livescribe 3 Smartpen is like no pen you’ve ever seen before. Unless you’ve seen this one.

by Nicole Blades | Uncategorized

This? Oh, nothing. It’s just the Livescribe 3 Smartpen. You know, quite possibly the greatest pen that has ever penned. Seriously. This cool tool is part gadget, part accessory, part productivity app, and now my new best friend, which is saying something because...