“Family & Offender GPS Tracker is easy to use and gives me both knowledge and peace of mind,” she writes. “Right now I’m primarily using it for offender information but when my children are old enough to venture off on their own the family member tracking will definitely come in handy.”
This week, we’re doing something a little different for our weekly comment contest. To celebrate the launch of Life360’s brand new iPhone app, Family & Offender GPS Tracker, we’d like you to download the app and leave a comment about it! With the app you can:
Track your young children’s current location using GPS
Monitor if sex offenders live in your neighborhood
Get notified when a family member is in danger
But while the method of entry is different, the prize remains the same; a $100 Amazon gift card. So what’re you waiting for? Go to the App Store and download our free app. Then leave a comment about your thoughts. We’ll pick a random winner next Friday!
Fine print: entrants must be 18 and older, and obviously, spam comments won’t win.
Last week’s comment winner was Fritter. (If that’s you, send us an email.)
We launched our brand spanking new iPhone app last week. But we’ll be honest — we deliberated forever and ever over the icon (that’s it to the right). So we wanted to ask you, loyal readers, how you felt about it. Knowing nothing about the app, would you be inclined to check it out? Does it say “safety” and “family” to you?
Life360 is proud to announce the launch of its new iPhone app, the Family & Offender GPS Tracker. We took all the things that made our Android app such a success and brought it to the iPhone. The app lets you:
Track your young children’s current location using GPS
Monitor if sex offenders live in your neighborhood
Get notified when a family member is in danger
And it’s free, so there’s no reason not to check it out.
Babble has assembled an epic list of the 50 best iPhone apps for moms (and dads), ranked and separated in five different categories, ranging from health and fitness to cooking. So what topped the list?
Grocery Gadget, which comes at an affordable $4.99, lets you manage your grocery list through both your iPhone and the Grocery Gadgets website. You can even scan the barcode with your phone’s camera!
In second place was How to Cook Everything, based on the Mark Bittman cookbook of the same name. This one is a personal favorite of mine, and while I think the app’s design is a little clumsy in places, the fact that you can get one of the best cookbooks out there (and more) for the price of $4.99 is amazing. It even lets you automatically start a grocery list, based on what recipe you choose.
Safe Browser took third place. It’s an alternative version of MobileSafari for your iPhone which restricts and monitors what sites kids are accessing, which is perfect when you let them surf while you’re not watching them. Unfortunately, it doesn’t stop them from sending annoying text messages to your contacts. Read More
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The smartphone is a blessing and a curse. With all that power and connectivity in your pocket — whether it’s constant communication with friends or the office — parents can often be distracted at times that they should be giving their kids their full attention. But is this something to worry about?
DJ Dell’Antonia at Babble says no!
We see mothers pushing strollers while chatting away on their cell phone and we think, “what a bad parent — ignoring her child like that!” And while there are cases where parents are paying more attention to their BlackBerry than their children, we often suffer from nostalgia and forget how much more convenient phones make parenting. Read More
Yesterday, Apple announced the new version of the iPhone. There are a handful of new features — sharper display, HD video camera, slimmer body — but the biggest one is called FaceTime, which lets you make video calls. There’s a camera on the front that lets you see who you’re calling! It’s a feature geared toward families who want to keep in touch. Totally cool. Here’s a neat video of it.
Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything is my go-to, jack-of-all-trades cookbook. It more or less taught me the basics, and I find myself constantly consulting it for recipe ideas and tips. And now I don’t even have to lug that 1,000-page book around because it’s an iPhone app, including all 2,000 recipes and 400 how-to illustrations.
I know I sound kind of like a Bittman huckster right now, but I can’t really explain how important this cookbook has been to me. I’ve played around with the app for a few minutes, and I’m pretty impressed so far. Every recipe from the book is included, and there are some handy features like an automated grocery list and built-in recipe timers. It’s $1.99 in the App Store, which is a lot cheaper than the physical copy.
We live in the age of smartphones. Even middle schoolers have them. But how does this effect the way parents keep tabs on their kids? Max Kalehoff at OnlineSpin observes the trend and its implications on the relationship between parents and their children. While GPS-enabled smartphones — iPhones, BlackBerrys, etc. — make it easier for parents to know where their kids are and what their kids are doing, and in a lot of ways, eliminate the traditional “I’ve arrive safe” phone call.
“On one hand, parents can track and check in on their kids more easily, in a variety of ways,” Max writes. “On the other, reliance on smartphone services for check-ins demands that kids fully integrate these electronic devices into their lives. How natural or reliable is that?” Read More
Heather of the very wonderful blog The iPhone Mom, and famously Babble’s list of the Top 50 iPhone Apps for Moms, has written a glowing review of Life360’s Family & Offender GPS Tracker.
This week, we’re doing something a little different for our weekly comment contest. To celebrate the launch of Life360’s brand new iPhone app, 
We launched our 
Babble has assembled an epic list of the 50 best iPhone apps for moms (and dads), ranked and separated in five different categories, ranging from health and fitness to cooking. So what topped the list?
Yesterday, Apple announced the new version of the iPhone. There are a handful of new features — sharper display, HD video camera, slimmer body — but the biggest one is called 
Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything is my go-to, jack-of-all-trades cookbook. It more or less taught me the basics, and I find myself constantly consulting it for recipe ideas and tips. And now I don’t even have to lug that 1,000-page book around because it’s an iPhone app, including all 2,000 recipes and 400 how-to illustrations.
We live in the age of smartphones. Even middle schoolers have them. But how does this effect the way parents keep tabs on their kids? Max Kalehoff at OnlineSpin observes the trend and its implications on the relationship between parents and their children. While GPS-enabled smartphones — iPhones, BlackBerrys, etc. — make it easier for parents to know where their kids are and what their kids are doing, and in a lot of ways, eliminate the traditional “I’ve arrive safe” phone call.
