If your teenager is like most all other teenagers, their closet could use some minimizing. While adults use apps like ThredUp and Poshmark to sell unwanted items, teenagers have fallen in love with the app “Depop”. It’s part Ebay, part Instagram and part Pinterest. It’s one of the easiest ways to shop for clothes online and it has millions of…
As teachers and parents begin to navigate a new school year like never before, many are wondering how to engage students in class work from home while giving mom and dad time to meet with co-workers over Zoom meetings, phone calls and file-sharing. While there are many educational apps in both app stores, many of them miss the mark by…
You don’t have to spend much time on Facebook these days to see friends get angry with friends and even post mean or horrible things on their pages. The coronavirus, protests, stay-at-home orders, sports cancellations…it truly has been too much to handle some days. What we need is an app to take our minds off of the bad news and…
As students prepare to go back to school this fall in some form or fashion, parents may need some help preparing themselves. School during a pandemic has revealed some difficulties for parents who haven’t been inside a classroom in years or decades. Many parents forgot everything they learned about trigonometry and calculus so when their kids come to them with…
Now that the Trump administration is looking at whether TikTok should be banned in the United States over security concerns, millions of “TikTokers” are looking for an alternative. “Byte”, a similar video sharing app that was released earlier this year is getting a lot of that TikTok traffic now. In the past 2 days “Byte” has rocketed to the top…
Photographers are increasingly using their smartphones to take professional photographs. One of the main reasons for that is the almost endless supply of photo editing apps that used to cost hundreds or thousands of dollars for a computer. Many free apps have the ability to use filters but I went looking for an app that will remove the background of…
Like you I have three or four recipe apps on my smartphone. There’s Big Oven, Kitchen Stories, Tasty, Epicurious. All great apps with thousands of recipes for meals, deserts and drinks. You’ve probably saved a bunch of recipes in those apps, but when it comes time to make one of them, you may have to go searching through all of…
Isolation or just staying at home more than you’ve ever done in the past is a great time to learn something new. Google and YouTube are the go-to places online where people can learn how to work on cars or cook or just about anything else. An app though that’s doing quite a bit of advertising may be what you’re…
2+ months in isolation or just spending more time at home, you may be running out of things to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime or Disney+. I’ve seen many posts from Facebook friends asking for recommendations for what to watch after finishing “Ozark”, “The Tiger King” and “Dead to Me” series. There are thousands of movies and shows on…
Along with not being able to get a haircut or your nails done, being unable to walk through the doors of a gym has been one of the biggest changes during the pandemic and quarantine. Sure you can work out at home, but there’s something to be said about the importance of being around other people in fitness classes or…
