by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
As predicted, Apple officially launched the new iPhone 5 today, and it’s slated to be the lightest, thinnest, and quite possibly the fairest iPhone of them all. If you’ve been waiting to upgrade from your older model iPhone, or are wondering if it’s...
by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
Since my job is primarily on the Internet, I’m pretty vigilant about my family’s privacy. So every now and then I’ll search my name to see what comes up. And even though I removed myself from the Spokeo database a few years ago, I was shocked by what...
by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
I was obsessed with getting the very best photos of my kids on my iPhone on their first day back to school. But since I happened to be away, my husband had to stand-in as family photographer–which doesn’t sound so bad until you see some of the family...
by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
These days, I take so many photos with the Instagram app, I was happy about the recent update and intrigued by the Instagram Photo Map feature. If you haven’t upgraded yet, go for it. You’ll find cool changes like a cleaner, prettier interface, ease of...
by Jeana | Tips and Tricks
The next time you hop on Facebook, you may be delighted to see that the photo of your friend’s beautiful new baby is displayed prominently across your page. Or…you may bummed to see that your friend’s drunken wedding photos are displayed prominent...
by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
More and more, you’re probably hearing about checkpoint-friendly cases for your laptop–in other words, cases that make things easier for the TSA; and help you get through that security line quickly, so that Mr. Grumpypants Impatient Frequent Traveler...
by Jeana | Tips and Tricks
Q: I am tired of the piles of bills every month that I have to stuff into a file, cram into my filing cabinet, and never look at again. Can you make any recommendations on tech that can help get them organized? – Sarah Hi, Sarah. Good question! With the...
by Jeana | Tips and Tricks
If you’ve recently noticed a lack of updates from your favorite brands, bloggers, or fan pages on Facebook (or maybe you haven’t realized it until just now), it may be because of the introduction of Facebook’s new Promoted Posts. But we can help you...
by Cool Mom Team | 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 Team | 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 Team | 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 Team | 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...
