Shazam your way through the Super Bowl Commercials

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

As a music buff, I was an early adopter of the Shazam app, which allows you to easily identify song titles and artists just by holding up your phone to the music. But for tonight’s Super Bowl, you can actually use the Shazam app to do a whole lot more, like...

Penultimate brings paper and pen into the 21st Century

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

As much as I love my iPad, I still use good old paper and pen to jot down notes to myself and make to-do lists, because it’s just way faster than me clicking away on a tablet keyboard. But all that has changed since I started using Penultimate, which just so...

Gube: Like YouTube. Except safe for kids.

by Pilar | Best Apps

Justin Timberlake dressed as a cup of soup. Michael Bolton vamping as Captain Jack Sparrow. Both are a YouTube hoot. The idea of my kids coming across either one while clicking through to what they think might be age appropriate is not. Enter Gube. Think of it as...

Butt Art a mom can approve of

by Molly | Best Apps, Educational Apps

I don’t know what my kids like more–playing with this new CMP fave book-turned-app, or hearing me say, “Here, kids. First draw a butt.” From the people who brought us the wonderful Everything Butt Art book comes the brand new, just launching...

Android apps for kids: 3 new ones worth a look

by Jeana | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Our readers often ask us to suggest more kids’ apps beyond iOS, and while we do cover the great Android apps we find, there’s certainly a discrepancy in both quantity and quality when compared to what’s available for iOS. Well Android users, I think...

Webstagram makes Instagram users very happy indeed

by Jeana | Best Apps

If you’re a regular reader of Cool Mom Tech, you know what big fans we are of Instagram, the ultra-cool iPhone app/social network (coming soon to Android!) that lets you edit, add effects to and share your beautiful photos. If you’re an Instagram fan too,...

The best list-making apps? Reader Q+A

by Jeana | Best Apps

I used to use my Netflix queue to keep the list of movies I’d missed, shows I wanted to watch on DVD, etc., but now I’m not sure where to manage this stuff since we canceled our subscription. Is there a way for me to organize my lists for easy access?...

Karaoke for the preschool set

by Molly | Best Apps

I know I don’t have the only 2 year-old who can pick up my iPhone, unlock the screen and navigate apps. And it never fails, when the phone is in her hands, the Nursery Rhyme Karaoke app, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, is the first thing she clicks on every single...

iTunes U: For that free Stanford education you were always hoping for

by Jeana | Best Apps

If you constantly have regret about sleeping through all those 8:30 AM college classes or have always wanted to learn another language, technology is now making it mighty easy to add a couple IQ points, in the comfort of your own homes. An updated version of the...

Sit. Stay. Read.

by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps

After my kids had mastered mama and dada, the next thing they started saying is When are we getting a dog? Since my three kids are so obsessed with friendly canines, it was a no-brainer that we’d check out a new app that stars man’s (and kid’s)...

Word W.E.L.D.E.R. and Scramble With Friends. Word game addicts, beware

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

All last year I read about the addictive awesomeness that is the Word W.E.L.D.E.R. app. And I resisted. Oh, did I resist. I am someone enamored of word game apps like Words with Friends and Scrabble, so I knew I’d love it. But it wasn’t until Zynga went...

The new WebMD App – The do-everything, find-everything baby app for the new mama

by Cool Mom Team | Babies, Best Apps

Update: The WebMD app is now available for the Android platform too!Our first baby was born about one week before the first iPhone. The phone was a lifesaver; she was was one of those won’t-rest-anywhere-EVER-but-on-your-chest types and I was in need of things I...