The Mommy Poppins app for Android is here, giving fewer kids the chance to say “I’m bored.”
Last night I was thrilled to join founder Anna Fader in celebrating the anniversary of Mommy Poppins, her terrific regional website network for parents looking for the best stuff to do with their kids. They’ve now been saving families (like mine) every weekend...
Serenity now! A free meditation app offers help for busy modern parents and their kids.
Life can be crazy for me as a working mom of multiple kids. And even though it’s good-crazy, sometimes I really want just a few moments away from the clutter in the living room and the constant pinging of my iPhone to just get a bit of calm back into me. But I...
Umano app: A great way to get the news when you feel too busy to get the news.
Remember when you used to sit lazily on a Sunday morning with a huge cup of coffee and read the paper? I call it the BK era (before kids) and clearly some of the developers of the Umano app for iOS and Android feel it too. This app was designed to read the news to you...
Mother home monitoring device by Sen.se: More like Big Brother
There were so many great tech products for families that came out of the Consumer Electronics Show this year like the kitchen of the future, cool home security systems that don’t look at all like security systems, even smart appliances that do the cooking for...
Kooboodle MeFinder: Find pictures of yourself on other people’s phones without even stealing them.
Being an avid picture-taker, I have thousands of pictures of my kids in my camera roll. It is blatantly obvious who the photographer is since I am probably in about ten of these photos. But there’s a crazy exciting new app that we checked out at CES this year...
The Cal Calendar App makes scheduling your crazy life a little more pretty and a lot less crazy.
I need a calendar app that is going to make it easy to schedule multiple kids in different sports, clubs, dance classes, and music lessons, not to mention my work commitments. Oh yeah, and I’d like to have some time left over for fun. Or at least to just sack...
5 of our favorite tech Pinterest pins
Are you following our Cool Mom Tech Pinterest boards? You should be! Take a peek at all the tech coolness you might be missing. 1. How cute is this DIY earbud case? 2. This amazing app helps you ditch the annoying junk mail. So handy! 3. We’re drooling over this...
Be an organized parent and classroom volunteer with 9 helpful apps and websites
Ever since my kids started elementary school, I have always tried to volunteer and chaperone whenever possible, especially in these years that the kids still actually want me to be there. But with many different opportunities to help out in the classroom, school...
The new Camera+ App Version 5: Now even plus-ier than before.
I have long coveted a DSLR (and not just because I’d need a gorgeous camera bag to carry it). But thanks to the latest update to our beloved Camera+ app, I’ve got powerful photo editing features right on my smartphone. We’ve been fans of Camera+ for...Creating Secure Passwords: The Easy, Step-by-Step Guide
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