National Consumer Protection Week with Capital One: Tips for safe and secure online shopping
We’re so pleased to be partnering with our sponsor Capital One to help celebrate National Consumer Protection Week.Ā This is the second installment in our smart surfing series, focusing onĀ tips to help you with safe online shopping. We’re no strangers to...
National Consumer Protection Week with Capital One: Tips for keeping your privacy in a very public online world
We’re so pleased to be partnering with our sponsorĀ Capital OneĀ to help celebrateĀ National Consumer Protection Week. We’ll be sharing cool, smart surfing tips on how to keep you and your family’s online privacy as safeĀ as you can. Now we love social...
Video sharing sites? Reader Q&A
I love taking pictures and videos of my son and would like to email them with others but I am always concerned about where my shared pictures and videos may end up. I was wondering if you know of any websites that have a “sign-in” feature when sharing...
3 reasons why finding cool Android apps gives us a headache
So many of you have been asking us to recommend Android apps–we hear you! So we’ve been searching long and hard to find ones that we think are cool. But after a few days of trying a bunch out on a Motorola DROID X loaner, we now understand why you’ve...
5 tips for picking an e-reader that’s right for you
From the rumors we’re hearing, it might not be long before our kids are toting a single e-reader to school in lieu of all those heavy textbooks. e-readers are changing the world, so it’s not surprising that we get a ton of mail from Cool Mom Tech readers...
Best iPhone apps for a 4 year-old girl? Reader Q&A
A little birdie tells me that you might be a good person to ask for educational and child-friendly apps. I’m helping my boss sort out his iPhone and he has a four year old girl. I have a list that includes Cookie Doodle, Cut the Rope, Drawing Pad, Bloom and...
Tech resolutions for the New Year
We’re still in the throes of New Year excitement, at the beginning of January when resolve is still strong, gyms are packed and old habits haven’t reared their ugly heads. Yet. Although certain resolutions may lose their luster, we’ve got a few tech...
The Apple app store is open! Yippee!
Judging from comments on the posts here, and pithy reports from our Facebook fans, I’m not the only Mac fan that frequents these here pages. And this week, at last, you’ve finally got a central spot to download all those excellent apps in the brand new...
5 cool ways that tech can get you organized for 2011
Since so many of us add “get organized” to those (sometimes pointless) New Year’s Resolution lists, we’ve found a few great tools and apps to help you out. On our weekly column on Momformation, the Babycenter blog, this week Kristen has rounded...
Best Buy Wish List Video – Last Minute Shopping Tips
Here’s the next fun installment as part of our Best Buy Wish List video series featuring our co-founder Kristen. This time she’s getting a few last minute shopping tips from a friendly Blue Shirt who’s got the inside scoop on things like the last...
Here’s how to get to inbox zero. You can do it!
I have more problems managing my inbox flow than you can imagine. Seriously, you don’t want to know how old some of the emails in my inbox are. (Okay, 4 years. Just in Gmail. My other account goes back to 2002.) So after much urging by kindred spirits on...NEW: The podcast that helps you be a savvier digital parent in under 15 minutes a week
Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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.)
We're so glad you're here! And we hope we can help you too.
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At-Home Learning Help
* 14 very cool virtual summer camps for kids
* 8 of our favorite online educational resources
* 10 awesome online STEM camps for kids this summer
* Homeschooling 101: Tips for newbies
* 8 ideas for homeschool schedules that may work for you
* Creative ways to socialize online
* 5 audiobook apps keep us entertained and learning
* The best ways to clean and disinfect your phones and gadgets
* 15 awesome podcasts to keep kids engaged
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