Sick of using trite filters and childish fonts to doll up your pics? Get edgy with Tangent.
For a while, apps like Instagram made you feel like you could make art out of ordinary pictures, but then everybody on earth (including me) took a picture of a decrepit door and added some shadowy, sepia-y filter and once … Continue reading
Life begins when the kid leaves home and you can take over and redecorate her room: iPlanit
Imagine living in a two-bedroom apartment with a husband and his two kids (half the time) with both you and said husband working full time from home. Exactly. In this configuration, my personal space — the space that is an … Continue reading
Put your poodles in your pocket and even sell them with Boxes
So maybe you’d hate my vintage poodle figurine collection, but my poodles mean a lot to me, and they live on my desk. You put things you love where you can see them, where your friends can admire them (or … Continue reading
All about QR codes and why you should love them (and Scan, so you can use them)
Have you seen those little black and white squares on posters or other things and wondered what they are? They’re QR (quick response) codes, and they’re there so you can point your smartphone at them and be automatically taken to … Continue reading
Remember those paper chains for counting down to Christmas? Now there’s Countdown+
There aren’t that many huge events in our lives, but sometimes we attach great importance to less significant events, depending on what’s going on with us. You need things you can look forward to when the grind is grinding you … Continue reading
What’s in your phone, Marie ‘maloki’ Axelsson?
Marie ‘maloki’ Axelsson is an enthusiast for tech and new services. She’s a gamer and a community manager, a Linux, Mac and PC user, with an Android phone. You can find her on Twitter, Pinterest, and G+. And somewhere in … Continue reading
When you and a friend have words, it can sometimes be a great thing: Words with Friends
Yes, this is one of the most popular mobile games on the planet and, yes, it’s old news, but trust me, there are plenty of people who don’t know about it. Like my over-40, non-geeky women friends who inspired me … Continue reading
An app that’ll tell you when your aunt’s due to drop in… Period Tracker
Boys, you might want to skip this one. But then again, maybe you’ll learn something… So this is the deal: for five years I took a med that stopped my periods. I know, lucky me! But then I went off … Continue reading
Elixr, so you and your mermaid can enjoy a fancy cocktail in good company
Nothing makes this cowgirl feel fancier than putting on a little cocktail dress and sipping at a fancy cocktail. Preferably with a mermaid. But it’s just not too ladylike to sit at a bar all by yourself, and my friends, … Continue reading
Elevatr is not about big buildings, it’s about big ideas. Yours.
So how many times a year do you have one of those million-dollar ideas? For me it’s about five. (Although I’m still not a millionaire, so something is not quite right…) My latest one (a week ago) was to create … Continue reading
As if I can remember the last time I had my teeth cleaned! But Time Flies remembers for me.
I have Too Much Information to deal with, and my memory is getting flakier by the day (because of age, or outsourcing my brain functions to digital tools, or both). So I honestly couldn’t tell you when I last saw … Continue reading
SOLAR, because even crappy weather should be pretty weather
At least once a week I look at the weather in San Diego (because I’m a masochist), and I look at the weather on Guam because my son’s there, and I occasionally check a few other cities where people I … Continue reading
