AfterCam video capture app: Free cool app of the week
If you’re into taking video, have I got a reco for you! It’s AfterCam, a sort of “after-the-fact” video recorder that helps you capture the past 5, 10, or 20 seconds in time without clogging up your phone with tons of extra video data. And, for...
Sponsored Message: VidMob helps you turn your home videos into masterpieces
This is a sponsored message from VidMob Take all those videos of school concerts, soccer games, even family vacations sucking up memory on your smartphone and turn them into professionally-edited masterpieces you’ll watch over and over thanks to VidMob. This...
The easy, free Splice video editing app is a new must-have for parents who shoot.
While parents have phones and computers filled with family video these days, I admit that I don’t always have the most cinematic eye when it comes to taking videos of my own kids. I take after my dad in that I like to narrate way too much –– Today is...
Last minute gift idea: 6 great video editing apps that let you easily send something more sentimental than a card
One of our favorite last-minute suggestions for sentimental Father’s Day gifts (and any gift really) has been to make a short, shareable video that you can create easily. While video editing used to reserved for professionals with zillions of dollars worth of...
7 creative video ideas to help preserve family memories in cool ways
It’s hard to believe that when our first children were born, capturing them on video meant getting out a clunky camera, hoping the batteries were good and that the card still had some memory left, then finding the right cords to connect it to a computer so we...
What’s Instagram’s new Hyperlapse app? It adds a cool fast-forward button to your life (should it not be going fast enough for you)
Have you ever been somewhere, sitting through an event or activity, and just wishing you could hit the fast-forward button on it all? Well, last week Instagram released a new video app that is as close as we’re ever going to get to that. It’s called...
The Video Star app lets your kids become the next Spike Jonze
I have no idea why it took me so long to finally download and try the Video Star app, but now that I did, I’m so in love. Mostly with how creative my kids are getting with it. Aw, and just when I thought nothing would tear them away from Minecraft. This is...
Last minute tech gifts for Father’s Day: Ideas galore. Good ones.
If you’re still scratching your head about the perfect gift for a tech-savvy dad, we’ve got some last minute tech gifts for Father’s Day that we hope will do the trick. Things to ask that might help you out: Can I get it in a local store? Can it be...
The Shadow Puppet app is back, letting kids turn photos into videos that are even more fun than before.
In the five months since we introduced you to the coolness otherwise known as the Shadow Puppet app, which lets kids create their own voiced-over slideshows, an updated, upgraded version has already launched. And version 2.0 has definitely turned up the dial on the...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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