Web Coolness: #PlutoFlyBy, Camp Google, and is your private Instagram account really private?
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you like them too. We’re pretty impressed with Camp Google. Bonus: It’s free! Awesome way to keep kids busy this summer. Why this mom became a SnapChat convert. Are private...
Web Coolness: How Periscope is changing music, a new Art of the Brick exhibit, and the coolest dad on Instagram
Here are our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Reason #51923 we wish we were at Comic Con: Art of the Brick creator Nathan Sawaya is previewing his new DC Comics exhibit. (via Pop Sugar Tech) Hey swimmers,...
Web Coolness: Kids and screen time, undo send on Gmail, hooray!, and lots more tech news
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. This cool little gadget alerts you of your calendar events with a bubble. Funny! (via swiss miss) Love this: Valedictorian dedicates an anonymous...
Web Coolness: POTUS on Twitter, Facebook dangers for people with depression, and new emoji coming soon
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. For you Star Wars fans, a very fascinating Droid encyclopedia. 5 reasons Facebook can be dangerous for people with depression. Love this: A site that...
KiDCASE is a clever, new iPad smart case that puts more screentime control in parents’ hands
Watching our kids maneuver their way through all this new tech is a joy. It’s just so cool to see how much they’re doing and learning on these glowing gadgets. But the other side of that is trying to stay on top of what they’re watching, monitoring...
Smartphone addiction: 5 things I learned when I put away my phone around my kids for a week
I’ve often wondered if I’ve had a bit of a smartphone addiction, seeing as how my iPhone often functions as my third arm. Or second brain. As a busy work-at-home-mom who runs her own business, my smartphone allows me freedoms that I wouldn’t...
Web Coolness: Minecraft Easter eggs, Periscope, and big Facebook changes. Again.
Here are a few tech links we’ve enjoyed this week. We hope you like them too! Easter is just over a week away. Who’s making these Minecraft Easter eggs? We love all the new iPhone 6 ads featuring actual user photos, but these parody Apple ads are...
8 really smart tips for managing kids’ screen time that you can put into action right now
We are so excited about (and kind of in awe of) so many of the things that computers are doing for our kids, but the reality is, sometimes we need help managing their screen time. So many readers have written to us thanking us for tips like the Marble Jar system and...
The most helpful tech tips of the year: Editors’ Best Tech of 2014
Over the course of this year, we’ve put together lots of helpful tech tips and tricks, so many of them from your own questions to us. (We love answering reader questions!) Here, 11 of our very favorite tech tips of the year (including lots just for parents or...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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