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Stories, etc: A new app that lets you preserve your epic Ryan Gosling story for your great-great grandchildren

So much of social media relies on storytelling. Blogs, Facebook, Twitter, even YouTube and Vine — they are all platforms for sharing our stories with each other. Pubsoft recognized this need we have to capture and share our memories, and launched a fun family...

6 cool Android apps for sports fans to help you get the most out of the NCAA Basketball Finals at home

by Cool Mom Staff | Fun Apps

If you’re anything like the sports lovers in our lives, you’ve got the game on the big screen and your smartphone in your hand, flipping through Twitter, Facebook, and other cool Android apps for sports fans to help bring the game to life in the best ways...

Mibblio: An awesome interactive music app for kids with real star power

by Christina Refford | Fun Apps

Mibblio, an awesomely interactive music app for kids, would be pretty terrific even if it only played generic nursery rhymes. But given that it also features music from some of our favorite names in kindie music, like Dan Zanes, Recess Monkey, The Pop Ups, Lucky Diaz,...

The Threes! app. Prepare to meet your new obsession.

by Julie | Fun Apps

You might think that my dark circles are due to my kids, or work, or simply insomnia, but they’re not. I’ve only got Threes! to blame. The cool new Threes! app for iOS has got me absolutely obsessed. Slide numbered tiles around a board, and combine tiles...

Ken Burns’ new app takes his docs to digital

by Nicole Blades | Fun Apps

Full disclosure before talking about the new Ken Burns app: I’m a big Ken Burns fan. For nearly 40 years, the award-winning historical documentarian has been telling beautiful, expansive, influential stories on film about everything from the Brooklyn Bridge and the...

Spotify vs. Rdio: A streaming music smackdown

by Kristin | Fun Apps

It can sometimes be difficult to keep tabs on the dizzying array of digital and streaming music services and choices. Add on top of that free vs. paid services, pricing models, and mobile vs. web or desktop options — and well, are we confused yet? So we put...

Flappy Bird app: You must have it.

by Julie | Fun Apps

If you haven’t yet heard of the Flappy Bird app, let us be the first to welcome you to this 8-bit circle of hell. In the best possible way. Flappy Bird and the pipe obstacles he has to dodge are driving everyone to distraction: our little kids, our big kids,...

The Times Square Ball App: Because falling asleep early should be the only reason to miss the ball drop

by Kate Etue | Fun Apps

The Times Square Ball has become a symbol of New Year’s Eve around the world, and if you totally geek out about the countdown, you can now be sure you won’t miss a second of the action with the new The Times Square Ball app. At least provided you’re...

Write a letter to Santa, watch it print and end up right in his hands. Magic? No, Pixma.

by Liz Gumbinner | Fun Apps

If your kid loves the magic of Santa apps, and how cool it is when Santa seems to interact with them, then we’ve got another one for you: the quirky but very charming Letters to Santa app from the Canon USA Pixma printer. If your kid has yet to write to Santa...

Doodle.ly app turns your doodles into masterpieces. Not in that “oh, everything my kid does is a masterpiece!” way either.

by Jeana | Fun Apps

A while back, we covered a fun website and app that takes doodling to the digital age. Doodle.ly is a social sharing sketchpad that lets you share doodles, see other creations and marvel at the kind of talent people have. As if that weren’t fun enough, a huge...

Zen Sand app: Particle physics gets relaxing. And addicting.

by Delilah S. Dawson | Fun Apps

What is the sound of one hand clapping? I don’t know, and I probably never will. Not because I don’t wish to reach enlightenment, but because I’m too busy using both hands to play this iOS app. It’s pretty amazing that an app can simultenously...

Your life…turned into a comic book

by Eva Glettner | Fun Apps

Ready for one crazy addictive app for you iPhoneographers and world travelers? Halftone lets you iOS users turn your pictures into pages straight out of a comic book. The colors are bright and vibrant, the fonts are straight out of an old Batman episode, and the...

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Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

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