Like any parent, I prize the Picasso-caliber works of art my kids create at school and around the house.

Alas, I don't own a warehouse, so I simply don't have room to store all these masterpieces. What am I supposed to do, throw them in the trash? The guilt! The guilt!

Now there's an app for that: Art My Kid Made. (It's available now for iOS and soon for Android.) With it you can take photos of various crafts and drawings to preserve for posterity, and share them via Evernote, Facebook, or Twitter.

The app is like Instagram with a refrigerator-magnet twist. After registering in-app, you can add photos or snap new ones. For any given shot, Art My Kid Made lets you make all kinds of adjustments: orientation, brightness, saturation, and so on. You can rotate and crop your shots, add text or line drawings, and apply various Instagram-style filters.

When you're done, you'll have a choice of where you want to share the image: any or all of the aforementioned services, as well as Art My Kid Made itself, which displays in-app drawings from other kids (much like Instagram "favorites").

Obviously you could always just snap a photo of a finger-painting project or whatever and keep it in your Camer... [Read more]

A look at Groupon's Breadcrumb.

Apple's iPad is now home to a Groupon application designed for restaurants.

Dubbed Breadcrumb, the application is meant to include everything a restaurant would need to handle transactions. The application includes menus, allowing servers to input a person's order and send it off to the kitchen. In addition, restaurant owners will be able to manage their tables to see what's open, how many people are sitting at a table, and so on.

According to Groupon, Breadcrumb is designed to replace the current point-of-sale products restaurants are already using. So, in addition to the application, Breadcrumb supports cash drawers and receipt and kitchen printers that are sold separately. Groupon's mobile payments can be used to handle all transactions.

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