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With holiday card season around the corner (eek!), I'm already making my lists and checking them twice to make sure I have everyone's addresses. In between the numerous places I store contact information, there are a lot of addresses tha…

Each week as part of our ongoing 3 Springpad Notebooks that you're going to love series, we're rounding up some of our favorite notebooks--some pretty, some practical--but all cool enough to catch our our attention and hopefully yours. T…

With a new online address management system called conXt , I made be able to solve this problem. ConXt makes it easy to organize contact information in one place on the web. You start by signing up for a free account and then can import …

Once in a while, my husband and I have been known to make wise family decisions and this was one of our best: we took the TV sets out of the entire first floor of our house, wanting to spend a bit more time in conversation (remember that…

Don't get me wrong, I like photographs of my kids, family and friends, but just looking at pictures doesn't "send me." UNLESS they're in a slideshow with music and text--then I become a blubbering, "Memories"-singing mama. Which is why t…

Earlier this year, we discovered Springpad , and have since fallen in love with this amazingly helpful website. Far more functional than Pinterest for me, far more powerful than Evernote, I'm finding more and more that it's packed with h…

A new travel search engine that checks first to see if that trip could be free? Yes, please. Enter Superfly , a travel search engine that does what we're entirely too busy to do; namely organizing frequent flier miles and hotel rewards i…

I'm already counting down the days until I can upgrade my iPhone 4 to the spiffy iPhone 5. (And not the iPhone 4S that we all thought was the iPhone 5 either.) Getting money for my existing iPhone will surely soften the blow of getting t…

If there's one downfall to having thousands of photos stored on my iPhone, it's figuring out how to get them from the phone to a photo album. (Yes, with actual prints!) Now you can skip the photo printing service middleman, with a terrif…

With the recent WHO announcement last week that there needs to be more research done on cell phone radiation and ways to minimize any potential negative impact, holy cow, have our inboxes been jamming with every company promising the per…

Have you ever wanted to turn all of your friends' various Instagram photos into a gallery on your tablet? What about finding a way to share your Instagram, Facebook, Shutterfly and iPhone galleries with your family in an easy way--emphas…

My daughter loves to play house and has lately taken to using my car keys - for carpooling, of course. While she is usually good about putting them back, there have been times when she has left them somewhere on her "route," resulting in…

The more kids I've added, the worse I've become at sending paper thank you notes. Sorry mom! But now that I've downloaded this cool new app to my iPhone, I have absolutely no excuse any more, considering they even deliver the card right …

This past week, I was excited to have a chance to Skype chat with a teacher in Maine about the amazing things she's doing in her classroom thanks to technology. If you take a look at the Skype Education page , you'll be blown away by the…

Considering most of the photos of my kids are taken with the Instagram app , I'm always looking for cool ways to get them off my camera.So now, along with Casetagram iPhone cases and Stitchtagram pillows , you've got a new option: turnin…

My kids are now at the age where the questions are getting harder than simply, "what's that?" The fun part is that when they ask about evolution or the number of stars or the life cycle of a butterfly, we get to explore the answers toget…

Talking to parents of older kids makes me want to build a machine that will stop time in its tracks. While I look forward to my kids getting older (kinda), there is so much comfort in their ages right now and not having to question where…

As a runner, I've used my fair share of GPS watches, all of which tend to have the same issue: Too darn big for my wrist. And while I personally don't mind strapping my smart phone to my arm in my beloved Arm Pocket , that's not an optio…

I have been told by various people that various planets are in retrograde, which evidently explains why all of my favorite sites have been going down this week. Including Twitter. Of course without Twitter, how the heck was I going to go…

As much as I love my SLR, it's been collecting a bit of dust in my office thanks to my iPhone 4 camera, which I pretty much use almost exclusively these days to take photos. But even with my few cool camera apps, I'm still far from an ex…

Because my absentminded husband has lost a Kindle and a set of Bose noise canceling headphones (ack!), he's taken to writing his contact information on all his gadgets. Well, now that I've found these smart labels, I'm not only blown awa…

As a military wife, I've experienced the benefits of military charities firsthand. And thanks to technology, all it takes is a simple click to get involved. So in honor of Memorial Day, here are 3 worthy military-related charities that h…

I can't count the number of times I've wished that I could just share a YouTube video at the best part rather than sending the whole entire thing. Well, even though you can actually do that on YouTube (who knew?), here's a cool service t…

Finding great apps for kids on iTunes or Google Play can sometimes feel like the search for the Holy Grail. Meandering through the thousands of apps to find the good ones can take a lot of time--as if we have so much of it to spare. Of c…