The CMT/Motorola Productivity Guide for Working Parents Series: 5 great productivity tips
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 organization,...
Judy Blume e-books – Are You There Kindle? It’s Me, Margaret
Like so many of us, Judy Blume's books hold a prominent place in my memories and in my heart. They took me from slightly confused tween to slightly more confident teen, and the themes in her work still resonate with kids today. So why can't today's kids read her books...
Kids’ music download of the week: Rockin’ Rockin’ Leprechauns
Though you'd have to go pretty far back in my kids' family tree to find any Irish blood, they still get as excited about St. Patrick's Day as kids do with any holiday. And while I love lists of kids-friendly Irish jigs and folk songs, I also love finding something...
Camera Awesome for iPhone lives up to its name
I've seen my fair share of camera apps for the iPhone that crop, filter, enhance, and make your photos look more professional. There a handful of great ones out there, but one that's recently launched really is in the awesome app category. Camera Awesome is no...
Piquing Our Geek: ZOOKA Wireless Speaker for your iPad
Piquing Our Geek is our series of posts on items that are upcoming or so new, we haven't tried yet ourselves--but they sure look cool. I'm not sure if it's my age or all the super-loud concerts I frequented in my 20s, but I am constantly pushing the volume up to the...
Slice – An essential app for the savvy online shopper
It only takes one trip to the mall with all four of my girls in tow for me to remember why I love online shopping so much. But between buying that box of diapers on Amazon, those cute shoes on The Mini Social and my cousin's wedding present on Etsy, I'm suddenly...
Miffy’s Garden app, just in time for spring
Dick Bruna's Miffy has been a longtime favorite around here--you know, cute little bunny from Holland? X for a mouth? So of course my kids were happy to get to play with Miffy's brand new iPad app. Along the lines of Mo Willems' Pigeon App, the all new Miffy's Garden...
It’s hip to be square
Now that photo apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic have made square photos more common, it was only a matter of time before someone got into the frame game with options made just for our collective iPhoneography obsession. Hatchcraft is a nifty little company that's...
The new iPad is coming March 16 (don’t call it an iPad 3!)
It's new iPad announcement day! And if you follow Cool Mom Tech on Twitter, then you know that we're pretty excited about the big Apple iPad announcement that was just made. And very intrigued by the fact that it's not an iPad 3. After hearing about all the cool new...
Holga phone! We’ve got some cool news. (Ha.)
If you've just come to accept that your iPhone is now your main camera, at least there are plenty of options now to help make those pictures look a lot better. The Holga iPhone lens is a nifty little device that snaps right to your phone like a case, giving you 9...
Bring out your kids’ inner author with this creative storytelling app
My sister makes this little laugh/cry sound every time her first grader brings her another one of his books. It's so awesome that he loves to write stories, and yet the amount of paper he goes through each week makes her consider planting a new tree for every book he...
The CMT/Motorola Productivity Guide for Working Parents Series: Part 1 Home office organization
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...
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iPad as wingman
So you've got the iMac. You've got the iPad. And now you're realizing that wait...you might even need to use both at the same time. Say, if you want to have a Facetime chat while searching the web or reading through a Powerpoint deck. Or when you want to keep that...
Kinect Star Wars – The force is with you, or at least in your left hand
My boys and I can't watch Star Wars movies without afterward pretending to be Jedis, using sticks as light sabers and our voices for sound effects. Sound familiar? So last week when I had a chance to review the new Kinect Star Wars game at a press demo, I knew that...
Spring cleaning your tech – 4 ways to tackle cord nests
With iPhones, iPads, e-readers and video games coming out of our ears, my house is being overrun by cords. Aside from labeling them with a Sharpie (Tip: silver works great on black cords), I've decided that since I'm cleaning and organizing every other part of my...
Kids’ music download of the week: Me and My Brand New Haircut , featuring Davy Jones
I heard a collective sigh of sadness when news of the death of Davy Jones, lead singer of 60's pop-rock band The Monkees, started working its way across my Twitter feed. And while there are some lovely covers of The Monkees' songs (take a moment for this pretty...
The digital board book: Planes, trains, and rhombuses
Board books are a staple in every new parents' library, even if we know that they end up mostly as chew toys. So I love that DADA Company came up with a virtual version of the board book that's equal parts interactive story, animated illustration and digital game....
Keith Haring goes high tech
As a bona fide child of the 80s, I've always had a thing for pop art pioneer Keith Haring. And I think he would have loved seeing how his artwork has new life in the world of tech. The Keith Haring laptop case and iPad case are made of cushy neoprene, my fabric of...
MyMusicCloud: Music from any device, anytime
Having a multi-platform, multi-device household can be difficult when all you want to do is transfer an itty bitty song from one device to the other. It's a whirling dervish of cords, USBs, devices, and wandering MPEG files that usually ends up with someone throwing...
5 apps to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday
In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday, I've rounded up some of our favorite Dr. Seuss apps, from cool books to fun games, even a camera app that lets you turn your kids into the Cat in the Hat himself, you'll find a slew of great ways to celebrate one of the greatest...
Piquing Our Geek: A Bluetooth toothbrush.
Smart phones. Bracelets that track your heart rate and the number of steps you walk each day. A self-adjusting thermostat. Gadgets are getting scary smart, right? And we just found out about the smartest toothbrush in the world, powered by Bluetooth, and promising to...
Dropbox and Android sitting in a tree
My love for Dropbox runs deep, but now with a new exciting feature, I'm completely head over heels--and a little envious of you Android users. The newest version of the Dropbox Android app allows you to upload photos and videos directly from your phone right to a...
Know how your kids love stickers? Woudn’t it be great if they couldn’t stick them on your furniture?
Not sure what it is about children and their love for stickers, but I do find they end up everywhere but in the six-dollar sticker book that the kid begged and pleaded for in the store checkout line. So how great that DK, one of the best sticker book publishers, has...
3 simple apps to help you use your Leap Day wisely
It's only every four years that you get an extra day, so I'm thinking it's the perfect time to step up my game and get a little more done before March starts. Now while I couldn't track down an app to finish up that last load of laundry, these three popular apps will...