by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
For busy parents, our smartphones have become our lifelines, whether it’s the calendar that helps keep families on track to the emails, social media, and various apps that keep us connected personally and professionally. That’s why it’s so important...
by Liz Gumbinner | Causes and Giving Back, Tips and Tricks
If you want to know how to check your voter registration, we’re glad you asked! Because you might have heard there’s a pretty big election coming up, not just for President, but for 33 US Senate seats, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, and...
by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
In April 2024, the total solar eclipse will hit our sky, and let’s just say we’re all pretty excited. If you’ve got the date marked on your calendar (or wondering if you should), check out these tips for watching the solar eclipse from our guest Mark...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks, Internet Safety
This past week, I received several emails “from LinkedIn” indicating that someone from Bardstown, Kentucky requested a “reset password” link in the wee hours of the morning. I shared this information on Threads and in our Out Tech Your Kids...
by Liz Gumbinner | Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
I know we’re all still in New Year’s resolutions mode, whether you’re purging and recycling old tech, embarking on a family tech detox, or committing to more books and audiobooks and less mindless doomscrolling. But if there’s one thing the you...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
For so many of us, the new year is about organization and fresh starts. That’s why we tend to use January as an opportunity to cross off a few tech resolutions off our lists — or at least get a head start on some of those to-do list items we always bump...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
It’s not an exaggeration to say that email management is overwhelming to me. As someone with anywhere upwards of 10,000 emails in my inbox — many of them unread, to the dismay of my minimalist friends — I am always looking for tips and tricks to help...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
It’s always a good time to talk about how to best clean your phone and gadgets. But especially this time of year. With cold and flu season now meeting Covid-is-back season (again, sigh) it’s important to know how to safely clean your phone, or disinfect it...
by Liz Gumbinner | Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks
This week’s Washington Post article about the teenage boy sextortion scam by Chris Moody is all I’ve been thinking about. In part because I know a kid who was targeted in this way, and it was a terrible situation. But to learn that this is a problem...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks, Gear + Hardware
With yesterday’s Apple announcement of the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max (and I am sooo excited!) I’ve heard a lot of gripes about the switch from a lightning charge cable to a USB-C charge cable. Here’s the deal in a nutshell– and it’s...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks, Kids
Just one year ago, AI was not the kind of thing most families talked about over dinner, but today parents are wondering how to talk to their kids about the use of artificial intelligence tools for schoolwork. Whether you’re concerned about AI like I am, excited...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
With back-to-school here, or just around the corner for some of us, I like to take the time to have reinforce some basic tech rules with my kids and have some important tech conversations before things get super hectic. Whether your kids have their own phones or not,...
