by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
If you want to charge your iPhone 6 or 6S faster, you don’t necessarily need a fancy cable or charging block. It’s as easy as grabbing your iPad Air charger and using that instead of the white block that you got included with your iPhone. Related: A...
by Jeana | Tips and Tricks
I’ve recently started using the Apple Reminders feature, which is free and included in your iOS device, and I’ve wondered why I haven’t been using it it more this whole time. With end-of-the-year/beginning-of-summer madness, my mind has been a...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
With kids out of school and summer officially here, I’m pretty sure most parents are struggling to figure out how to manage their kids’ screen time. We’ve featured lots of screen time management ideas here on Cool Mom Tech, as well as smart gadgets...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
After seeing a helpful Facebook post going around reminding people to set the Emergency contact information on their iPhone, I realize that I hadn’t actually done it for myself. And, my older kids who have their own phones, haven’t done it either. By doing...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
If you’ve seen posts floating around telling you that you’ve got free Ticketmaster tickets to claim, it’s totally legit. Due to a huge class action lawsuit that just settled, if you bought tickets between October 21, 1999 and February 27, 2013, you...
by Cool Mom Team | Photography
As our kids get older, they’re often more excited to be behind the camera than in front of it. Or, maybe it’s a close tie. But we don’t blame them — with so many older kids with their own smartphones, it’s easier than ever for budding...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
So your friends keep bugging you to listen to Serial (Season 1, trust us), or you’ve heard us keep telling you to download our Spawned with Kristen and Liz podcast but you have absolutely no idea how to get podcasts on your smart phone. Well, we’re here to...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
If you’ve been using Facebook’s photo sync feature to back-up your photos, then you’ll want to be sure to back them up. Why? Because if you don’t do it by July 7, they will be deleted for good. Keep in mind that this only applies to Facebook...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
We love discovering awesome iPhone features that help make our lives easier, which we can all use, busy parent or not. This is exactly the case with these two tricks that make sharing your texts and voice mails super simple. How to share texts on the iPhone Instead of...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
There’s nothing worse than putting a post up on your Facebook feed only to have only a few of your friends like or comment on it. Okay, there are lots of things worse than that, but you know, it’s annoying, especially when you’ve got a question you...