iOS apps

I'm all for gift cards as Mother's Day gifts (or any other gift) when it's really appreciated and thoughtful. For me: $500 to the shoe department at Saks will do. (There's a reason it's in our Mother's Day gift guide this year, ha.) For …

I'm a triathlete and a data geek, so as you might imagine, I keep my eye on cool new innovations in fitness technology. Which is why I was intrigued when I discovered the Lumafit fitness tracker , now on Kickstarter. The Lumafit uses som…

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…

With more tasks on my plate than I've got time in the day to complete them, and a little trouble prioritizing and juggling, I'm thinking I might need help forming new habits so I don't feel so overwhelmed all the time. If that sounds fam…

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…

Back when I discovered the Jabra Stone , it was my first experience with a bluetooth headset. And yet...it looked like a headset. Meaning I could walk down the street taking hands-free phone calls, and looking a crazy person talking to m…

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…

We've used the cool virtual map Google Earth to get a bird's eye view of our house, Disney World, and my mother's tiny hometown in Europe. And now there is a really neat history book for kids, History of the World with Google Earth , tha…

As we well know, Pinterest can be a wonderful source of information and inspiration; we provide lots of it ourselves. But the lack of great search functionality can make it a tad overwhelming, especially if you're not entirely sure what …

T his is the first in a new series of posts about apps that kids are using, that parents should be aware of. And there are lots. Hope it helps. Last week brought the announcement the new Facebook Nearby Friends feature in the Facebook mo…

I'm seeing no shortage of Wi-Fi baby monitors popping up and for good reason. The ability to check on your baby with your smartphone or tablet is super convenient. I recently tested out the new D-Link HD Wi-Fi Baby Camera, which gives yo…

I love my Jawbone UP24 -- it's been a fixture on my wrist for the past few months, and the data it provides has been really motivational, even a tad addicting. Now RunKeeper ,the super popular running app we love, has launched the RunKee…

The Sesame Workshop just always gets it right, striking a wonderful balance between education and entertainment while keeping it family-friendly. So I've been eager to check out Sesame Street S’More , the new interactive digital magazine…

For the past few weeks, New York City has been awash in giant Easter eggs, in a brilliant (if a little time-consuming for me) social-media-meets-installation-art campaign for Fabergé called The Big Egg Hunt . It brought eager New Yorkers…

I often have moments when I wish I had Google Maps for items I can't find in my own house. And now, like magic, there's a new digital inventory app called Snupps may make finding your things a lot easier before they're even "lost." While…

Editor's note : Unfortunately, Carousel by Dropbox is no longer available. I'm a big fan of Dropbox , especially for sharing photos. From trips to parties to big games, Dropbox is such a smart way to get pictures out to everybody without…

I do love coffee, but I don't always love what it does to my sleep schedule. So I was curious to check out the Jawbone UP companion app, UP Coffee , which sounds a little frivolous, but helps you track how much coffee you've had so you c…

With the plethora of cool camera apps out there, it can be tough to know which ones to download. And if you're like me, then you're taking a lot of photos (and sharing them on Facebook and Instagram ) and you want them to look amazing. N…

So much of social media relies on storytelling. Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, even YouTube and Vine -- they are all platforms for sharing our stories with each other. Pubsoft recognized this need we have to capture and share our memories, an…

I cannot say enough awesome things about my Sonos wireless speaker system . I am convinced that now friends want to choose my house for dinner parties, specifically so they can play with it. However if I have had any complaint, it's thei…

If you're redecorating, considering redecorating, or have even once had a vague dream about redecorating that you kind of remembered in the morning, it's a pretty exciting time to roll up your sleeves get it done. Especially considering …

I'm excited about the introduction of Gemshare , a brand new recommendations app for iOS that's like a mix of Yelp meets Angie's List meets Travelocity meets your own Facebook network. It lets you create a social network of actual friend…

One of the most common requests we get from our readers lately is our recommendation for the best Instagram collage apps that are easy to use. There seem to be a million apps out there that provide the basic functions of creating a photo…

Although I don't currently have any kids in the learning their ABCs' stage of childhood, I can appreciate a really high quality alphabet app for kids that teaches it well, especially because there are so many out there that aren't great.…