Kristin Camplese

If you're like me and have ever tried to pop that perfect picture onto Instagram only to discover it just sucks as a square, you need to try InstaSize , a cool app that will show you how to resize a photo for Instagram. Well better, it w…

The portable Bluetooth speaker market might be a crowded one, but I found a new one that not only packs a lot of punch into a small package, but does so with a bargain basement price. Playing around with the Anker MP141 Portable Bluetoot…

Just when I thought I had seen all the selfie apps and selfie gadgets out there, I stumble upon selfie360 , an easy to use app that lets you take animated selfies or panoramas. The free iOS and Android app is ridiculously easy to use and…

I love the convenience of being able to buy everything from coffee to couch pillows on sites like Amazon , but it's not always easy to be sure I'm getting the best bang for my buck when I'm shopping online. Well, that's where the Zinc Sa…

If you've not hear about the wildly hot new tech toy Anki DRIVE , it's the brain-child of oh, just a few Carnegie Mellon scientists who combined robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and slot car racing to create an entirel…

I'm not a scrapbooker, journaler, or preserver of much beyond Instagram and Facebook, but I love the new Highlights of Your Life baby journal book created by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Sara Gillingham. In my own baby books, my children loo…

Are you drowning in paperwork like me, and dying to start going paper free as part of your spring cleaning routine? Between the kids' forms, the manuals, the permission slips, the bills, the important documents, the health records, the r…

Online consignment for children's clothing isn't exactly new. We've shown you sites like ThredUp and Swap Mamas . But now there's the new Kidizen app that makes quick (and financially savvy) work of buying and selling kids' clothes, toys…

I will freely admit that I had a little too much fun reviewing the Juxtaposer App for iOS with my kids. This compositing app lets you combine multiple pictures into a fun scene or photomontage, way more easily than Photoshop. We thought …

When we recently moved to Long Island, I was a little overwhelmed with the town names -- places like Setauket, Ronkonkoma, and Hauppauge all led to some pretty comical auto-corrects on my smart phone. If only I had had the Adaptxt keyboa…

The new The MoMA Art Lab app is for every parent who knows that kids are the original modern artists. Think about it: a child's artistic interpretation of the world is not always realistic or literal, they love to use non-traditional mat…

Let's talk about juice. Both in the edible and technical senses. In our house, we are either spilling it (in liquid form) or out of it (in battery form). Both problems tend to affect the mobile phones in the house too -- which is why I w…

Remember when you used to have to wire your whole house for audio wire if you wanted decent sound? Yeah. We don't do that anymore. The advances in portable speakers have been phenomenal, with great sound now coming from wireless systems …

For those of you who didn't know, it's always best to shoot video from your phone in landscape mode--meaning turn your phone sideways--rather than in portrait mode. You'll get the full scene and when it displays on the computer or TV, th…

It can sometimes be difficult to keep tabs on the dizzying array of digital and streaming music services and choices. Add on top of that free vs. paid services, pricing models, and mobile vs. web or desktop options -- and well, are we co…

Did everyone's aunt have a Polaroid camera? Because that was the coolest thing I had ever seen sometime around 1978. The idea of seeing, capturing, and instantly sharing imagery certainly didn't start with Instagram -- Polaroid was the f…

If you live anywhere in the midwest or on the east coast, you know you are freezing and sick of hearing about polar vortexes. So let's think about wonderful summer produce instead? We recently found this the great Farmstand app for iOS, …

We finally decided to give our sixth grader a smart phone. And while I think the good has outweighed the bad so far, I really wasn't prepared for how complicated things would get -- and how quickly it would happen. So I can see why imple…

When we recently moved, it was hard to see boxes of video camera tapes with so many special moments from my kids’ early days-- i.e the days before easy cell phone video. There are so many first moments and birthdays and holidays that sit…