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Ever since Instagram launched video , we're still seeing some freaking about problems and troubleshooting needs. So we dove in a little ourselves to help you get started, address some of the common issues, and hopefully, get you on your …

I have a sizeable collection of photos and videos on my iPhone, mostly of my kids. While I access my camera roll pretty frequently to find old pictures, show people my kids, watch past videos with my kids, etc., I love apps that take exi…

The last time I went to a live music concert was... oh, alright, I can't even remember. I'm sure I'm not the only parent with that answer. And that's exactly why I'm intrigued by EVNTLIVE. The concept is pretty simple. And pretty brillia…

I took the cutest video of my daughter at her piano lesson last week playing Beethoven Sonatas, jazz riffs and Billy Joel covers. It was amazing! OK, fine, it was a run-through of "Do Not Sneeze" accompanied by her piano teacher, but I s…

As a sentimental parent and one who loves to remember all the little things, I've been turning more towards my phone for digital assistance so I don't miss a thing. Which is why I love checking out apps that are designed to record memori…

In my camera roll, I'd say the proportion of photos to videos is about 90/10. The videos are fun keepsakes, but I find that with my videos, they're not quite ready for prime time--they're either too shaky, too short, too long, or my voic…

For the last couple of years, New England ad agency Mullen had created the innovative Brand Bowl, a site that collected all the tweets about the Super Bowl commercials, so that you could weigh in on the ads, and find out whether the rest…

What if you had a time machine and could zoom back to hear Janis Joplin work her magic at the Fillmore East in NYC in 1969? Or maybe you're more the type to catch 2012's breakout band, Mumford & Sons, on a studio stop in Illinois just a …

If you're like me, you've got tons of family videos on your smartphone and lots of aspirations to do something with them all. But then "one of these days" turns into months and years, because who really has time to sit down and edit toge…

After we featured the Samsung Galaxy Camera last month, I wasn't surprised one bit to find a new crop of built-in Wi-Fi cameras popping up at CES 2013 in Las Vegas last week. And considering I haven't used my DSLR or point and shoot came…

Recently, I wrote about Animoto's Best of 2012 Facebook video feature allowing you to create a montage of major highlights in 2012. A cool way to look back on big moments, but what if there were a way to compile all the small moments tha…

Starting oh, about now, every news channel and magazine will start promoting their "best of the year" piece. While it's fine and dandy to watch non-stop footage about the 2012 election, Kristen Stewart, and people camping out for iPhone …

One of the reasons why we keep our Netflix subscription is because of their fairly healthy selection of kids' television shows and movies. But now after seeing this new feature from Hulu Plus , I'm pretty excited to have more options. An…

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…

I get pitched a whole lot of "funny videos for moms" here, and while I know humor is wildly subjective, the one thing they all have in common: not so funny. In fact, some are downright painful. (Yes, poop is gross. Very original) So as a…

I've long heralded my iPhone as my primary tool for taking photos and videos. With a library of almost 2,000 images and videos from my phone, you can imagine the impact it has on my storage space. Since my kids love to see videos of them…

With an impending long road trip that the kids are already whining about, I'm in the process of loading up the digital entertainment options on my iPad. My primary source has always been iTunes, but with the launch of the new Amazon Inst…

When an IKEA opened a few miles from me, I became one of those devotees who believes one can never have enough EXPEDIT bookcases--provided you can figure out how to put them together. Not all of us have that gene (or understanding of Swe…

As much as we love all the popular apps and filters that give any old iPhoneographer more professional results, it's kind of great to see that those cheats (let's be honest) are also getting more and more people excited about learning cl…

In a world where news arrives in 140 characters or less and we thank people for their birthday wishes by clicking the Like button, it can be all too easy to fly on autopilot when it comes to deeper thinking. But there's a beauty behind p…

Last night, my five year-old asked about why Independence Day and July 4th were on the same day. Pretty good question, I thought. And when I started to explain the meaning of Independence Day, I found myself more or less paraphrasing one…

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…

A couple of weeks ago, I was invited on a trip of a lifetime: To travel to Alaska to see the Aurora Borealis with a research team from GoPro, a family-run business that's grown massively in just a few years. Before this trip, I wasn't to…

After my huge, exhausting spring cleaning extravaganza last weekend, I found myself with a gigantic box of photos and absolutely no idea what to do with them. That was until I heard about this cool, new-to-me site that will scan and digi…