So, you’re best friend is making you feel guilty because you don’t scrap. She’s preserving her family’s memories in pink-and-blue borders with ballooned quotes with catchy subtitles for candid photos taken at every juncture of her children’s lives. Her camera costs more than your car, and her bookcases are filled with scrapbooks categorized by each child’s birth year, vacation destinations, and first-day-of-school photo comparisons.
You, on the other hand, are lucky to print out the photos you take. You lost that cheap digital camera (though it is probably in one of those heaps in the closet and one day you’ll dig …read more

My son Truman starts T-ball and soccer this week. I asked my husband if this meant I was now an official Soccer Mom. He said no. Perhaps I fit more the role of the Soccer Moms of the 1990s than those of of the 2000s. But in the 1990s, being a mother, especially one who totes her child to various sports and activities, was the farthest thing from my mind.
These days, though, I’m more apt to be associated with another demographic, iPhone Moms. That’s right. A study done by Greystripe, a mobile ad network, has identified iPhone Moms as a …read more

More years ago than I wish to admit, when I was not quite a year old, my parents packed up the birdshit white Volkswagen Camper and drove from Southern California, up through Canada to Flushing, New York. My father was beginning a post-doctorate fellowship in immunology, and my mother was escaping to some semblance of independence from a family she’d been bound to since birth. This was the days before car seats and other safety devices (before air conditioning was standard in cars, too) and my father was thrilled to have developed this net-like contraption that would latch on the …read more

Every mother deserves some down time. Mine, this week, is at the beach with five of my old sorority sisters. I hate to admit how difficult it is for me to leave my family. But the minute the first friend arrives and we load up the car and head to the beach, I’m recovered.
Today I slept until 7:30 a.m., ate two cinnamon rolls, got a massage and read People magazine on the beach until my skin was scorched. I caught American Idol’s Adam Lambert’s version of U2’s One on my iPhone (heart) while poolside and sat in a hot tub …read more

Can’t bear to be away from the cuteness of a puppy for even a few hours? iPhone has the app for you!
The Daily Puppy iPhone app lets you browse the cutest featured puppies and grown-up puppies on a daily basis!
You can also shake the phone to view randomly selected Puppies via the Pupfolio feature.
The app can be downloaded for .99 cents and the Daily Puppy will give 10% of net proceeds received from the sale of the application to nonprofit Animal Rescue Organizations and Shelters.
[image used with permission from the daily puppy]

Travelers often find that they use their cell phone a little bit more when they’re on the road than they do at home.  Whether it’s calling to check on things at the office, talking with family and friends back home, picking up voice messages, or texting friends and sending photos to let everyone know that you’re some place very cool, it’s easy to see a few minutes of air time turn into several hours.
If you have no limit on your cell minutes, or have someone else paying the bill, it probably doesn’t matter.  But the last thing you need …read more

UPDATE: And the winner is…
Hello, my name is Jennifer, and I am married to a CrackBerry addict. For two years he used daily, often neglecting important things like yard work and refilling my wine glass. But I was an enabler. I would e-mail and text him constantly while he was at work, and knew it was the best – and often only way – to get a speedy reply.
But then I got an iPhone and began the process of switching many of our services to AT&T. The bundling reduced our monthly bills, and would benefit us more if I could pull …read more

You can now find love right from your sexy touchscreen phone!
For those of you who are as tech savvy as you are love unsavvy, there’s a new Match.com application for iPhone and iPod touch.
It’s basically the same as the company’s web site, and lets Match.com members edit their profile fand upload photos to their profile.
But the wackiest part? Taking full advantage of the built-in location-based technology, the application has an opt-in feature that gives members the ability to check out other singles in their area, making setting up a first date easy.
Hello, blind date. Sort of. Would that even be …read more

Sometimes you just gotta go.  And it’s not always at the most convenient time or place.
When you’re traveling, it can often happen when you’re in unfamiliar surroundings, and the last thing you want to do is spend time looking in the wrong place for bathroom facilities.
If you use an iPhone or iPod Touch, Have2P is a handy little app that claims to find a listing of nearby spots that have public restrooms.
Here’s how it works:  The app determines your current locations, and then scans a lists of nearby restrooms.  It includes some helpful notes, like if there is a changing …read more

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Hands up if you’re not addicted to your laptop or your mobile phones? Ok, I am addicted to my MacBook Pro. Who wouldn’t be with such a sexy and slick machine?
My phone, yes I suppose I’m addicted to it. I never used to bother with its camera and video capabilities but now I’m finding that I’m using these more and more.
Who knows in the next iteration of iPhone, Apple might be offering mobile scrapbooking functions. Won’t that be …read more