Halloween projections: The easiest way to have the creepiest Halloween house on the block
If you're still figuring out how to make your house the coolest on the block--after all, you do not want any leftover Halloween candy on Saturday morning, trust me--then ooh, I have a treat for you. Check out AtmosFEARfx which is doing nifty things with Halloween...
The Nike+ Running app helps turn your miles into life savers.
I'm a runner. I hit that road year round, no matter the weather. And I live in New England. Trust me when I say I've heard every version of "you're nuts" about this, especially come wintertime. Hey, some frozen mornings, I question my sanity, too. One thing that gets...
Tinybeans app: A smart, simple, free baby book app to keep you from annoying everyone on Facebook
If you have a baby, you've probably said it's all going by so fast 20 times just this week alone--and then felt guilty at least four times for forgetting to record all those sweet moments in a baby book somewhere. We get it! We look for the best apps for new moms and...
About the Apple Pay shutout, and why it should concern you
Considering all the major security breaches of the last year at all kinds of major retailers, online and off, I've been pretty surprised to read the news over the past couple of days that tons of major retailers are trying to circumvent the brand new, game-changing...
A DIY light up Halloween bucket: Because you need both hands free to scoop up all that candy.
With all the things that can go bump in the night, I just hope none of them run into one of my kids while they are out trick-or-treating in the dark streets of our neighborhood. So, along with this easy DIY Pumpkin light necklace tutorial we recently found, I love...
Halloween Every Night by Mista Cookie Jar | Halloween music download of the week
They might not agree on their favorite candy or even who has the best costume, but my kids would be in total agreement with Mista Cookie Jar that Halloween Every Night might be the best idea ever. With a spooky-cool surf guitar setting the mood, kindie's Mista Cookie...
Reader Q+A: Should I secretly spy on my teen using a child tracking app?
I'm looking for a child tracking app to secretly put on my 17-year-old's iPhone to track his whereabouts. My wife's "spidey senses" are telling her that he's going places and doing things without permission. I know I could Google but I'd rather ask you guys what you...
RosterBot: A sports team management app that does everything but laundry and carpool. Sold!
With all my kids very actively involved in sports (hello fellow swim moms!), I'm so glad to find a sports team management app like the RosterBot app and website, which I think is a great resource for coaches, managers, and team parents, like me. And even better, it's...
Dyson Mist: Making us covet a humidifier. Who knew that was possible?
I think it's fair to say that you know you're a parent when you're excited about Dyson news, even more when it's something you need to survive the winter with kids, which is why we're counting down the days until we can get our hands on the Dyson Mist. Update: The...
Flic app makes iPhone camera roll management super easy. You only have to lift a finger.
We're always on the lookout for new, fun ways to help you finally do something productive with all those photos you have pilling up on your iPhone. You can print your photos. Make them into darling photo books, Turn them into magnetic photo artwork. Well, here's a new...
Scare up some fun before Halloween with Toca Boca’s new Toca Boo
If Halloween's scary side has your kids jumping at every bump in the night, you'll want to check out Toca Boo, a brand-new app for iOS by Cool Mom Tech favorite Toca Boca that lets your child be the scary one---and not just when they miss their nap. Toca Boo is an...
Ozobot: A smart robot that gets your kids more intelligent too
The concept of intelligent robots taking over the planet used to be something you'd only see in sci-fi movies but I'm starting to wonder whether a robotic takeover may not be so far-off. Okay, maybe not in our immediate future, but highly-programmable smart robots...
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7 helpful tips for taking Halloween photos of your kids. Your Instagram friends await!
In addition to fun-sized everything, one of the best parts of Halloween is seeing all of the adorable (adoraboo?) photos of people's kids in costume. Some of you are so clever with these costume ideas you dream up for your kids! We wanted to help you show off the...
DIY tech: A Halloween pumpkin light necklace
There are certainly a ton of cool flashlights you can buy out there for your trick or treaters--not to mention handing over your iPhone flashlight while the batteries slowly (or uh, quickly) wear down. But I got excited when I saw this adorable little tech craft at...
The easiest way to Halloween-ify your photos from spooky to silly
While we think Halloween photos are pretty fun as they are, PicMonkey has updated their super fun Halloween themes and added a brand new superhero theme that are about the best time-wasters on the web right now that make you feel somewhat productive. You can use them...
One very cool night light
As my kids get older, we are just aging out of the night light market. But sometimes in a new place, like a hotel room or a cousin's guest room this holiday, it can help. So I started poking around and came across this awesome night light switch at Kikkerland,...
Spotify announces Family Accounts. Because there are a few times that sharing isn’t nice.
We are definitely a Spotify family. And by family, I mean I do not tend to publish my playlists because they range from "Every version of every Frozen song ever" to "Every Gummy Bear song sung in every language ever." Okay, I do have a few 80's playlists in there...
Windy and Friends: Apps so good, they’re making our kids put down the tablets.
For me, exposing my preschooler to tech is about inspiring him in his non-tech world too. So I tend to be drawn toward apps with a simple aesthetic that he can relate to. The new Windy and Friends apps are some of the best iOS apps (edited to add: And now Android...
Pumpkin Pied by Gustafer Yellowgold: Kids’ music download of the week
We are all about the pumpkin right now, from cool pumpkin decorating ideas to yummy pumpkin-spice treats, so it's only natural that the kids' music song we're singing along to this week is pumpkin-flavored as well. And this one comes from the not-pumpkin-colored...
The ultimate Bluetooth keyboard for the ultimate multitasker (you know who you are)
As a longtime iPhone user, I have gotten used to typing long emails and texts on that teeny tiny keyboard, but that still doesn't stop me from cursing said keyboard with each and every mistake (damn you, autocorrect). Thanks to the new Logitech K480 Bluetooth...
Todo Math app: Way more fun for kids than worksheets.
For me, as a kid, mathematics was fun until it wasn't. I would say the party fizzled around the time If a train leaves the station at 10:15... questions became regular players on homework. So that's why I enjoyed giving the Todo Math app for kids a try. It took me...
Razor Deluxe Crazy Cart: This is not your father’s Big Wheel
If you're looking for the spendy kids' holiday gift of the season (and I know, I can't believe I'm thinking about this already either) I think I've found it in the new Razor Deluxe Crazy Cart ride-on car. I spent a few minutes tearing through a tech press show on one...
Juse: The solar powered mobile phone charging case we’ve all been waiting for.
We have covered hundreds, if not millions (Okay, probably not millions) of mobile phone cases over the years, and loads of mobile phone chargers too. But this super cool Indiegogo project I just learned about named Juse is the first solar-powered mobile phone charging...
What you need to know about new iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3. Besides that they are awesome.
Today's big Apple livestream announcement, as predicted, heralded the launch of the much anticipated new iPads: the iPad Air 2 and the iPad Mini 3. And this is the point at which you kind of secretly hope that maybe your screen on your new iPad Air cracks or...