10 ways parents can use Spotify

by Kristen Chase | Entertainment, Kids, Tips and Tricks

I’ve been a big Spotify fan ever since this awesome music service finally hit the United States. Since then, I use it pretty much daily to listen to music myself, but also to help me parent my kids. Check out these 10 ways parents can use Spotify, some of which...

DayOne: A fantastic baby book app, even if your baby isn’t a baby anymore

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

Now that I’ve discovered this amazing new journaling app, I know plenty of parents can make up for lost time without going out of their way. In fact, it might be the very best baby book app I’ve found. I pretty much ditched the baby book after my oldest...

How do I watermark my photos for free? Easy!

by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks

Now that I’ve started posting photos of my family on the Internet, I’ve been thinking much more about how to watermark my photos. Thankfully, it’s not nearly as complicated as I thought, especially with the help of my go-to photo editing site,...

How to get the most out of the Magisto video editing app

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

If you’re like me, you’ve got tons of family videos on your smartphone and lots of aspirations to do something with them all. But then “one of these days” turns into months and years, because who really has time to sit down and edit together...

How to make an iPod Touch safe for kids

by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks

[This post has been updated as of January 2014 to include new information] I’m pretty sure almost every one of my oldest daughter’s friends got an iPod Touch for Christmas this year. We’re talking third-graders. And while even we here at Cool Mom...

Piquing Our Geek: The Lomography Smartphone Film Scanner

by Kristen Chase | Photography

While I was cleaning out my mom’s house this summer, I found a boatload of old 35mm film negatives and other than send them to a service that develops old photos, I had absolutely no idea what to do with them. Well, with this campaign on Kickstarter (update: and...

The new FitBit One and FitBit Zip: Don’t wait until New Year’s to get in shape

by Kristen Chase | Fitness + Health

I was a big fan of the FitBit back when it came out, a handy little gadget that’s sort of a pedometer on steroids. It’s great for those of us who aren’t super hard core fitness buffs but just want to have something that keeps track of our basic...

Where to print Instagram photos? SnapBox makes the answer a whole lot easier.

by Kristen Chase | Photography

With everyone wondering where to print Instagram photos, it’s nice there are helpful apps like Keepsy and cool services such as CanvasPop to turn them all into great artwork and gifts. In fact, I think I’m already done with most of my holiday shopping....

The new Evernote smart notebook from Moleskine – Changing note taking forever

by Kristen Chase | Uncategorized

Considering I never leave home without my Moleskine and am completely addicted to Evernote, you can imagine how excited I was to hear about their brand new collaboration that’s nothing short of amazing. And if you’re not yet using Evernote, an amazing...

How do people make those collages on their Instagram photos?

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

I’ve been eyeing up the adorable photo collages on my Instagram feed, wondering how my fellow iPhoneographers were making them. Well, it definitely can’t hurt to ask, because I got the scoop on the coolest collage app that’s super easy to use....