by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks, Best Apps, Kids
As we mentioned on Cool Mom Picks, our team is off on a little break this week. Don’t we all need one these days? (The answer is yes. Yes we do.) But hey, before we took off, we wanted to put together some of our very favorite summer tech posts — which...
by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion + Accessories
Just in time for this summer’s long-awaited 2020 Tokyo Olympics — yes, they’re still calling it that — leave it to Apple to create the accessory to match. They’re out today with 22 new, limited-edition International Sport Loop Collection...
by Liz Gumbinner | Uncategorized
Last Amazon Prime Day, my partner bought an outstanding pair of Sony Noise Cancelling headphones, which are by many accounts the best best noise-cancelling headphones of 2021. He has not stopped raving about them for an entire year, and for an avowed tech geek and...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Gear + Hardware, Tips and Tricks
Each time there’s a live streaming Apple Event to announce the new products and updates, we watch diligently to see what’s new for parents and families, or which advances and improvements will actually make our lives a little easier, more organized or more...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks, Best Apps, Gear + Hardware
Over the past year, I have been so grateful for the sleep stories on Calm and some of the Apple Music playlists to help me fall asleep. The one issue: I was sometimes waking up in the middle of the night, my AirPods still in my ears…my music still playing. Then,...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks, Best Apps, Internet Safety
This week in our Out Tech Your Kids Facebook group, we were asked how to prevent a Facebook hack, and specifically, if were any security measures to take that might help. And yes, yes there are! Here, a few really simple tips to help prevent a Facebook hack. They can...
by Liz Gumbinner | Fashion + Accessories, Gear + Hardware
Welcome to May, the month in which top brands lets everyone in the press in on all their new products supporting and celebrating June’s Pride Month. Some of these products…well, it feels like pandering TBH, but in the case of Apple, they’ve been a...
by Liz Gumbinner | Kids, Tips and Tricks
This past week, we had a fantastic chat with college coach and essay consultant Betsy Cadel on the Spawned Parenting Podcast. She offered so many incredible tips on making the college search and application process easier and less stressful, but one tech tip really...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks, Internet Safety
Have you noticed lately there’s been a huge uptick in text spam? So of course, I want to report it to…someone. Anyone! Turns out it’s so much easier than I had expected. Now when I say text spam, I don’t mean political candidates you’ve...
by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps
Every year I swear, this is the year I get organized! This is the year I find the best ever to-do list app and put everything on it and finally check things off my list instead of losing them forever and make more time for the things I love and life will be grand....
