Funny emoji messages for your sweetheart on Valentine’s Day: An eggplant is never just an eggplant.

by Liz Gumbinner | Holiday Picks

With an average of 300 emoji reportedly tweeted each second, it’s time to give into our graphical language overlords; our long-standing means of written communication has officially reverted back to the days of hieroglyphics and cave drawings. We succumb! So...

The top Cool Mom Tech posts of 2014

by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks

We can’t start the new year without first taking a quick look back at the 2014 posts that were most popular of the year. If you’re interested in what caught the attention of our readers for the past 12 months, here are the top ten of the year. One thing is...

#X – a simple way to prevent teen texting and driving

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

We’ve talked a lot about solutions to the texting and driving issue, from apps to hands-free devices you install in your car. And now ATT is doing more on the third anniversary of their popular It Can Wait campaign, by asking for more lifetime pledges, and...

Communicating with your child’s teacher and class without mass email chains? Thank you, Remind app.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

With back to school officially here, I cannot tell you how much I love the benefits of organization and communication apps for parents and teachers. They really do make life so much easier. Well, I’ve just discovered another tech tool that’s going to make...

99 texting acronyms and phrases that every parent should know

by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks

By now, texting acronyms like LOL and OMG are pretty pervasive in pop culture; my daughter knew them in preschool, you hear them from the least hip anchors on TV morning shows, and heck, your own parents probably have texted you an LOL at some point. But when...

Beamit App: Just when you thought photo texting was already easy.

by Jeana | Best Apps

Ever since my mom got an iPad, she has taken on the texting habits of a teenager. We go back and forth several times a day on iMessage about random questions and updates, but mostly use it to share photos. My sister is also in the mix and our little texting circle is...

The big new iOS 8 announcement from Apple: Photo changes, HealthKit, HomeKit and…they did what to texting?

by Jeana | Gear + Hardware

During the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, as always, people listen and discuss all the huge new Apple news. (Hence the #WWDC hashtag we saw all day yesterday on Twitter.) Apple didn’t disappoint yesterday with Tim Cook’s big iOS 8...

What parents should know: Snapchat text messaging

by Julie | Internet Safety

We’ve covered the Snapchat app extensively since its launch, and it’s grown to be extremely popular with tweens and teens, and now even brands are jumping into the app, finding new ways to promote to users there. Now that Snapchat has announced new...

The ultimate party invitation for any tech fan

by Delilah S. Dawson | Random Coolness

It looks like an iPhone. It feels like an iPhone. And it’s going to be the fanciest party invitation they’ve ever received. The only RSVP response will be: iCan’t Wait. We’ve long been fans of the over-the-top, bespoke invites from Egba...

Voxer is Voicemail 2.0. Or maybe it’s texting 2.0. Or walkie-talkie 2.0.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

Ever have that situation where you don’t want to type a text and it would be easier to just leave a voicemail, but you don’t exactly want to have to make a phone call either? (I know, we’re so spoiled in this digital age). Well, here’s the app...