by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks
I have been told by various people that various planets are in retrograde, which evidently explains why all of my favorite sites have been going down this week. Including Twitter. Of course without Twitter, how the heck was I going to go on Twitter to ask, “Hey...
by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks
This month I received several ominous warnings from my ISP, popping up to interrupt my web pages as I was browsing – We are replacing your wireless router! Order now or your service will be interrupted! You have T minus 14 days…13 days…12...
by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks
My husband and I have been using our Kindle Fire and NOOK Tablets respectively for the last six months, and over that time, we’ve definitely developed strong opinions about these two new tablets. Let’s just say one of them is getting a lot more use than...
by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks
Just this week, Facebook leaked that they are considering allowing kids under 13 onto the site, albeit it with parental supervision. There’s been lots of speculation as to why (stocks down, need new readers for page views), so it makes sense to target the group...
by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks
With Instagram finally available to Android users and now getting snatched up for 1 billion dollars by Facebook (whoa!), it seems like soon everyone will be on our beloved photo sharing app–aw Instagram, we can say we knew you when. So I’ve rounded up five...
by Jeana | Tips and Tricks
You’ve probably been hearing a lot about Google Play lately, especially if you’re an Android user. What exactly is it? Well, in a nutshell, Google Play is the company’s attempt at re-branding the formerly-named Android Marketplace–going...
by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks
For so many working parents in this world of technology, the office isn’t just in your house or a building. It’s wherever you happen to have a cell connection–the subway, your kid’s lacrosse game, the coffee shop, movie theater. (But just...
by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks
No matter how much I try to follow the “clean hands = clean gadgets” rule, I’m also dealing with four kids who seem to get their smudgy hands on them any chance the get. Now’s the perfect time to get in the habit of cleaning your gadgets, from...
by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks
If there’s anything that drives me crazy, it’s an overflowing, disorganized email inbox. I get upwards of 200 emails a day (and that’s just the pitches!), but I do a pretty decent job of keeping everything in order, thanks in part to some of the...
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...
by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks
We are so excited that Cool Mom Tech is partnering with Motorola this month, makers of the new Motorola Elite Sliver Bluetooth Headset, to provide tips to help make the lives easier for all you busy working parents.Now that we’ve tackled home office...
by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks
We are so excited that Cool Mom Tech is partnering with Motorola this month to bring you this series that provides tips to help make the lives easier of busy working parents.One of the things we really like about Motorola as a company is how much they genuinely care...