Molly, Author at Cool Mom Tech

Parrot MINIKIT+ is like a personal secretary in your car

Edited to add: Don’t miss a chance to win your own! Details below Thank goodness there are Bluetooth devices like the Parrot MINIKIT+ for my car, because toting around four girls means I have become a multi-tasking master of question-answering,...

A Mac photo app that works magic on your photos

by Molly | Photo Apps

You just captured the perfect seaside photo of your two adorable kids playing in the waves only to realize that right when you clicked the shutter, two beach-goers wandered into the frame of your quintessential moment. Your husband snapped a great portrait of you and...

The 3 Little Pigs, only everyone lives.

by Molly | Educational Apps For Kids

If you’re a traditionalist who doesn’t like people messing with classics like “The Three Little Pigs” on their iPad apps, then you might as well not read this post. Jekolab, an Italian app developer has recently released a slightly less...

Smartr makes your overwhelming contact list a whole lot (yep) smarter.

by Molly | Productivity Apps

I remember the day I got my fancy new iPhone. And I also remember the day that I tried to go into my phone’s contacts to make my first phone call. There before me was a list of contacts that seemed to include the name of every person I’d ever emailed,...

Van Gogh and the Sunflowers – way better than that Art History class in college

by Molly | Educational Apps For Kids

Even though I managed to pull a strong B+ in my college Art Appreciation class, my art history is a little rusty all these years later. And Van Gogh? Beyond the usual “ear incident” and the iconic sunflowers and starry night, my wealth of knowledge begins...

Snapjoy: A brilliant way to organize and protect your photos. (No more excuses!)

by Molly | Websites Worth a Bookmark

For all the spouting off I do about organizing your digital photographs, backing them up and filing them neatly away, I have a confession: My iPhoto is a bogged-down, disorganized mess of a thing. For all that “delete! delete! delete!” preaching I do, I...

No Picnik? No problem! PicMonkey is here!

by Molly | Websites Worth a Bookmark

Many of you photo-clicking moms like me may be starting to panic just a little with the closing of Picnik next month. But along with the other Picnik alternatives we shared a couple of months, we’ve found another awesome solution and in our opinion, it’s...

10 simple tips for taking great pictures of your kids

by Molly | Tips and Tricks

It doesn’t even phase my kids anymore that my camera is always in front of my face like an extra appendage growing out from my nose. And while I give them the occasional photographic direction, “Can you please zip up your zipper before I take some more...

Slice – An essential app for the savvy online shopper

by Molly | Shopping Apps

It only takes one trip to the mall with all four of my girls in tow for me to remember why I love online shopping so much. But between buying that box of diapers on Amazon, those cute shoes on The Mini Social and my cousin’s wedding present on Etsy, I’m...

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Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz

Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

We started Cool Mom Tech in 2010 to help make our increasingly digital lives easier, more organized, more meaningful, and more fun, however old your kids may be.

We love that it's grown to become the go-to source for millions of parents who want commonsense info about tech delivered with a smile.

We even have the privilege of sharing our tips + tricks with The TODAY Show, CNN, HLN, GMA, Nightline, newspapers and magazines around the country, and our favorite -- regular parents who stop us at PTA meetings and ask us how old kids need to be to get a smartphone, and whether they really need to panic about Snapchat.

(Answer: It's complicated.)

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