I love you more than Leia loves Han
The language of geek love? It ain’t French, that’s for sure. And no one has ever accused Klingon of sounding sappy. No, dear friends, the language of geek love is Galactic Basic, and it makes for a stunning Valentine. Even if you’re not the...
Merry Christmas to you!
From Liz, Kristen, Beth, Christina, and everyone at Cool Mom Tech, we wish you a peaceful, happy, wonderful day, filled with good family, good food, and hopefully not too many plastic clamshell packs to have to pry open. And thanks to all of you for helping to make...
Best Buy Wish List: 2010 Holiday Gift Guide
We’re having such a great time working with Best Buy here on Cool Mom Tech over the last week. (You have been entering our gift card giveaways, right?) In fact, a few days ago, our co-founder Kristen headed out to her local Best Buy to chat with one of their...
Send your holiday greetings 2.0-style this year
The holiday cards are starting to trickle in and it’s always such a treat to receive greetings from dear family and friends from near and far. With each one, I’m reminded that we need to get moving on ours as well (as opposed to our Happy New Year card in...
Holiday shopping help from your iPhone – Ask Cool Mom Tech
Just wondering if you have come across any good apps for organizing Christmas shopping. I am an iPhone addict, but this is one place I’m really missing my old paper planner. Ideally it would have the ability to create separate lists for different people, and...
Happy Thanksgiving!
We hope you’re all doing something home-y, happy, and dare we say, unplugged today. While we couldn’t find you a pie-baking robot, we did score a fun, free Thanksgiving app that might help pass the time and give you a good chuckle while the turkey is...
Deck your phone with a festive case
Because I’m really not a fan of snowman sweaters, light-up earrings, and all that holiday jazz, apparently some people think I’m an Ebenezer Scrooge. I say it’s because I’ve yet to find the right festive accessory. That is, until I spotted the...
Dreidels go high tech for Hanukkah
One of my family’s favorite Hanukkah traditions is a rousing game of Dreidel. (I swear, I’m not just in it for the chocolate gelt!) Each year, we search for the perfect dreidel that spins just right, and we’ve ended up with quite a collection. But I...
Forget candy canes, wrap your holiday gifts in binary code
These days, trying to find the perfect politically correct design for holiday gift wrap can be overwhelming. Not every one of my friends and family members enjoy every symbol of every holiday. The Think Geek website helped me find a truly agnostic paper however. The...
Happy Halloween! May you keep sticky fingers away from your keyboard.
Our cast of characters here at Cool Mom Tech wish you and your family a sugary-sweet and not-too-scary Halloween!. And thanks for making our first few weeks anything but frightful. Let’s just say, if you came to our door, we’d give you only the full-size...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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