lifestyle apps

Ordering shoes online for the kids is fantastic, but without in-store help, I'm often guessing their shoe sizes--erroneously--and then having to return them the next day. Luckily, I found out about an app called the Foot Fairy which meas…

The other day, someone mentioned Christmas shopping and those two words alone left me in a cold sweat. How did it get to be this time of year already? For those of you who have started (and I commend you), we've found a phenomenal app fo…

I've tried my fair share of chore charts both low tech and high tech, and I've yet to find something that doesn't involve me always having to remind them to get their jobs done! Well, since trying out this fabulous new app, my kids are t…

It's amazing to me how much information is available for pregnant women now, as opposed to when I was with child more than seven years ago. Yes, we had the Internet back then (it wasn't that long ago), but honestly, my go-to resource was…

Some of my earliest childhood memories were scoring the goal as the only girl on my soccer team, learning to bunt on the Cardinals, and my flying Kareem Abdul Jabbar hook shot. I want my children to build memories playing their own sport…

We were smitten with the Red Rover app even before it came so hugely popular, but even good apps have room for improvements. Which is exactly what we think has happened with their new upgrade that should make a lot more parents take a lo…

W e're thrilled to welcome Ernest Martinez as our guest Dads Dig This blogger. He's Creative Director of Radio Disney and lead on-air personality, known to both his colleagues and millions of listeners as "Ernie D." You can catch him on-…

So have you checked out GetGlue yet? Think FourSquare for entertainment. In other words, it allows you to check in on what you're watching/reading/playing. So yeah, now you know where find a bunch of link-minded McDreamy worshippers to w…

The problem with my keychain is that it's becoming so weighed down with all the little reward program cards for stores I frequent that it ends up barely hanging off some finger because it can't fit into my pocket when I'm out with the ki…

When you're trying to get back into the work force after some time off for raising kids, it can be hard for all kinds of reasons. But then, there are some things that have gotten easier about it too. Like the fact that now professional n…

Ever since my print-scan-fax machine broke, I've been using HelloFax.com to scan, email, and fax. But as much as I love that site, it doesn't help me with actual receipts and papers that I need to fax or scan. And with back to school tim…

I have a deep and abiding love for catalogs, even more than for magazines; I can spend hours curled up with a pile of shiny catalogs, dog-earing pages and tearing out examples of how I want my life to look. Don't pretend you don't know w…

You know that you've truly made it to A-list status in the tech world, when your company becomes its own verb. Think Google, Facebook and Skype. We all know by now that Skype is an amazing tool that anyone can quickly pick up. Even my le…

Every time I get my AT&T bill, I brace myself for the additional charges I may have accrued from my month-long thumb frenzy with friends. Sure, I have a number of free texts built into my plan, but I do text a lot and even the short text…

The inconvenience of having my wallet stolen a couple of weeks ago was tripled when I had to call all my credit card companies and waste way too much time sitting on hold waiting to talk to a real person. Too bad I didn't have this fanta…

Do you know a good iPad app to track nursing, diapers, growth, etc. that would work well for twins? -question via Twitter We've done some searching and found the Total Baby app which has a ton of great features and can handle up to six k…

I was definitely intrigued by the Dragon Dictation voice recognition software that we recently featured, so when I heard that they launched an app, you can bet I had to give it a try. And wow, this free app is nothing short of awesome, e…

As savvy as my husband is with his smart phone, he's a bit challenged in the texting department. (It's true, honey.) But now that we've both got this handy new app installed, we can exchange free voice messages instantly--no fancy thumb …

This holiday season, my family enjoyed the spoils from my experimentation with the very cool Martha Stewart Makes Cookies iPad app , so you can imagine how excited they were when I decided to give her new smoothies app a try, just in tim…

Every month, my husband and I comb through Netflix and try to figure out what to put in our queue. We generally give up and just end up putting in something for the kids. But since finding this new app, I've already got a slew of awesome…

When I was younger, I was only allowed to watch TV on the weekends. I remember scouring the TV Guide that came with the Sunday paper and figuring out which shows I'd watch that week. Boy, have times changed. Peel is a free iOS app that i…

I never actually realized how much I relied on my print-scan- fax trifecta of printer features until the thing bit the dust a few months ago. Since then, I've been begging neighbors to scan docs for me, and hitting the local office store…

If you're especially proud of all the hard work and time you've put into Facebook--writing funny comments on people's walls, creating clever status updates and choosing only the cutest photos of your kids for your photo albums--you'll lo…

Welcome Dads Dig This guest blogger Jim Higley, Chicago Tribune columnist , cancer survivor, and single dad to three kids. His book Bobblehead Dad comes out on June 1. I'm a big fan of LIVESTRONG not just because I'm a cancer survivor, b…