Jeana Tahnk

Finding great apps for kids on iTunes or Google Play can sometimes feel like the search for the Holy Grail. Meandering through the thousands of apps to find the good ones can take a lot of time--as if we have so much of it to spare. Of c…

Seems everywhere you turn now, there's a new app just waiting for you to try out. We're living in an app-cessed world! (I just made that up). There have been many Facebook apps we've touted here on Cool Mom Tech, including Wrapp for soci…

Getting passport photos taken is arguably one of the least fun aspects of trip preparation (besides actually waiting on line for the passport). The last time I had to get passport pictures taken, I unfortunately chose an extraordinarily …

As tech geeky as I am, I'm a pen and paper kind of gal when it comes to my to-do lists. But I'm finding that my scattered lists are getting a little disorganized. Kind of defeats the purpose of the lists, right? There are so many terrifi…

Who would've guessed that drawing would become a social media sensation? We've talked about popular apps like Draw Something and What Should I Draw . And now I'm having fun exploring a new-- and free--app on the market that can hopefully…

Social gifting is the latest Internet trend, made clear by the numerous services cropping up for making group gifting easier ( GiftSimple , for example). Much easier if you know what it's like to take two kids under the age of four to th…

The last time I searched Craigslist was a while back when I suddenly had an urge to find a free (or cheap) piano for the living room. I have to admit, the pages upon pages of listings, the text-laden interface (even if they did remind me…

Mother's Day is just around the corner - you can tell because you start seeing more and more people crowded around the greeting card section in your local drugstore. If you want to avoid the crowds and the cards that pass for "humorous" …

If you access your Google Docs account in the coming days and see changes, it's because Google Drive has launched. Google Drive has nothing to do with smart cars or Google-enabled dashboards (though that may not be too far off), but rath…

If you want to know the best of Hollywood, you watch the Academy Awards. If you want to know the best of the Internet, you follow the Webby Awards . These accolades recognize the best websites, interactive ads, online film and videos, an…

We were pretty stoked to log onto Photobucket this week (our longtime choice for storing photos online) and say wait...what happened? It's awesome! As it turns out, they just partnered with Pixlr to offer incredible photo editing tools f…

I've come to a conclusion recently that I must make my peace with - I'm never going to catch up on updating my photo albums. Deep breaths. I've made valiant efforts to get prints made, but being about 1,247 photos behind in just two year…

Have you ever sat down to color with your kids? Not just doodle, but really dig in with the crayons, the markers, the familiar smell of construction paper...it's really quite soothing, actually. I'd never want to give up the essential ma…

I'm so loving the concept behind the SecondWind battery charger that Liz covered a couple weeks ago. We are massive consumers of batteries at our house and I feel the same way Liz does each time one gets disposed of. With Earth Day just …

So Mother's Day is coming up and she's like the ONLY person who doesn't have an iPad and darn it, the third version just came out and it's just about time, right? The only problem is, that you can't afford to get her one on your own. If …

Pre-iPhone days (hard to believe there was ever a time), I relied heavily on two things to capture my daily life with my baby - my camera and my Flip video camera. If you can recall the ease of the Flip, the compact design, the big self-…

You've probably been hearing a lot about Google Play lately, especially if you're an Android user. What exactly is it? Well, in a nutshell, Google Play is the company's attempt at re-branding the formerly-named Android Marketplace--going…

For those of you who have been lucky enough to snag a new iPad , we know a lot of you have been on the search for a new case for it. We know, because we keep getting all of your emails! Because there was just a slight increase in the iPa…

I'm a big fan of technology that gives people an opportunity to learn things they wouldn't normally have access to. We've previously raved about the universally beloved Khan Academy , and now I'm thrilled that they've just released a mob…

If you like the idea of your kids playing with iPhone or iPad apps in the back seat to keep them occupied, but feel better when the apps are educational instead of--oh, say, Angry Birds, we completely feel you. Whether you've got day tri…

Out of sheer convenience, my iPhone has become my de facto camera and video camera to record all those precious kid moments. But in looking through my thousands of photos and videos in my library, I realize that I'm actually in about thr…

Lately, my Facebook feed seems to have been overtaken by friends' Spotify picks. Not only is this hugely popular streaming music service amazing for getting essentially any kind of music from any time period, it's also fun to see what ot…

We've made no efforts to hide our love for the Sonos wireless speaker , first discovering it last year and then including it in our CMT/CNET Holiday Gift Guide . The newest Play:3 speaker is an awesome piece of hardware that emits incred…

Apple's had a record week this week with the launch of their new iPad, which is not an iPad 3, but everyone is still calling an iPad 3. If you're one of the lucky ones who have upgraded to the new iPad (not an iPad 3), you might be decid…