Cool Mom Team

Here are five picks you might have missed from last week. 1. Google+ is poised to take over the social media world. Here are five reasons you might want to hop onboard the G+ train . 2. We're totally smitten with this free app for iPad t…

I am on Twitter a lot. A lot . And while I really do adore all the feeds that I follow, every so often there's an event or a "Twitter party" of some sort that's cluttering up my stream and I want to filter it out. Fortunately, TweetDeck …

Imagine our surprise when we learned that Cool Mom Tech had been chosen as the #1 best tech and gadgets site on Babble.com . Even more awesome to see that we're ranked #4 out of the 50 fantastic shopping sites, including our own Cool Mom…

While it's clear that the smartphone is the new camera (and GPS and address book and pretty much everything else), I kind of love that someone has walked right into it with vinyl iPhone skins that look like actual cameras. At istickercoo…

When the floodgates for invites to Google+ , Google's new social network, briefly opened up last week, I was fortunate enough to snag one from a friend. Since then, I've been playing around with what at first I was thinking was "yet anot…

I have several iPhone speakers around my house, all of which either take up way too much space or require me to remove my case every time I need to use it. Well, since finding this amazing new gadget, I'm listening to my music through a …

I recently read some astounding facts about the amount of content on the web. Each day, something like 60,000 new websites are created and 1.5 billion items are uploaded to Facebook alone. Yikes! How to sort through it all? Well for you …

As a military spouse, I don't need an excuse to show my patriotism with a little red, white, and blue on the 4th of July or any day. Well, with this cool case I can do it with my iPhone 4. This limited edition Patriot iPhone case from Sp…

If you frequent Cool Mom Picks (of course you do!), then you know how much we looooove Orla Kiely . So it's no surprise that I've got my eye on her laptop bag, now at a very cool price. Her signature bright bold patterns will encase your…

I have my iPhone 4 to thank for the piles of home videos I've been collecting since upgrading last year, but I've yet to figure out exactly what to do with them all. Since I don't really want to upload every cute spaghetti on the head mo…

For those of you who have yet to find the perfect iPad case, I can't say I'm surprised. There are so many options out there, but none seem to have every benefit all together at once. Either you get a slim silhouette, or you get a kicksta…

This post is brought to you by our sponsor introducing the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 . Since my tablet has become a regular fixture in my everyday routine, I've found that life (and my handbag!) is sooo much simpler, streamlined and better…

Okay, so maybe summer mornings are anything but easy with sprinklers and camp and yesterday's melted popsicles. That's why we're here--to make things easier. Hopefully, these five picks from the past week will make your life just a littl…

Every day brings with it amazing new developments in the world of technology. And, of course, I love that. But there are moments when I have fleeting issues with anxiety over just how fast everything is moving. I think those little panic…

About five months after having my third child, I had to wear a strapless bridesmaid's dress to my sister-in-law's wedding. With more than 40 pounds of my baby weight still to lose, I decided that was enough motivation to whip myself into…

I love that iPads aren't just fun little gadgets anymore. Considering all the accessories for them now, you can really make them work hard for you. Case in point: a beautiful, thoughtful stand for those smitten with the Apple aesthetic. …

This eco tech series is brought to you by our sponsor, Sprint Replenish , who is helping us think of ways to can go green with our technology. I can still remember looking for a stylish, eco-friendly laptop bag a few years ago and I swea…

This holiday season, my family enjoyed the spoils from my experimentation with the very cool Martha Stewart Makes Cookies iPad app , so you can imagine how excited they were when I decided to give her new smoothies app a try, just in tim…

Wishing all the cool dads out there the day they deserve today. We'd say we hope you can unplug and relax...but maybe you'd rather plug in and relax? Happy Father's Day! [ binary code "dad" tee via think geek]

Every month, my husband and I comb through Netflix and try to figure out what to put in our queue. We generally give up and just end up putting in something for the kids. But since finding this new app, I've already got a slew of awesome…

I never actually realized how much I relied on my print-scan- fax trifecta of printer features until the thing bit the dust a few months ago. Since then, I've been begging neighbors to scan docs for me, and hitting the local office store…

Oh Appy Day! gives you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. This week, Dr. Harvey Karp shares his fave. Besides helping parents have more fun with their babies and toddlers, I have spent the past 20 yea…

I get a little geeky when it comes to jazzing up my browser with themes--it's such an easy way to give your PC a makeover. I find I've been spending more and more time with Google Chrome lately, and poking around the themes page, there a…

This is part of a sponsored series for Sprint Replenish who is helping us think about going green with our tech. I'm all about saving trees--hey! I like trees!--so I do my best to avoid overindulgent paper use. Sure, we recycle junk mail…