5 picks you might have missed this week
Just a few of our favorite picks of this past week, in case you missed them. 1. Is your family calendar already filling up? Our readers have some great ideas for ways to use Google Calendar to stay organized. 2. Don't miss our list of our favorite helpful websites to...
Some help on 9/11 when your older kids ask “Why?”
My heart is heavy this morning as I prepare to talk to my children about the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and what it means to so many of us. My younger two are easily satisfied with my very honest, but guarded, explanation, but my ten-year-old, who was just a baby on...
Kids’ music download of the week: Justin Roberts Snack Pack EP
I'm not sure my kids or I could ever pick out our favorite Justin Roberts song--there are just too many good ones from his dozen or so years as a kindie musician. So I love that he's currently offering a handful of singles to download totally free. Justin Roberts'...
Hack your tech with pretty putty
My laptop cord frayed and died last week, and I was effectively dead in the water for four days. Naturally, the cord I ordered by next-day shipping did not arrive next day, and the guys at the big box store didn't have what I needed either. I couldn't work. I couldn't...
iPad cases that make every week Fashion Week
With Fashion Week hitting New York this week, I'm seeing lots of women in teetering heels stumbling through puddles. Fun! An easier way to get stylish this week, is with these sweet designer iPad 2 cases from none other than Project Runway winner Seth Aaron. Also,...
Back to school tech: Our favorite helpful websites
We know the one thing integral to keeping your sanity during back to school time is organization. Whether you volunteered to be the classroom mom and need to help wrangling 26 families or you're just trying to keep track of your own, we've rounded up 9 of our favorite...
3 cool camera cases for your iPhone
With the fab point and shoot camera and awesome SLR accessories we've been featuring, I admit that I was having a bit of cool camera envy since I snap all my pictures with my iPhone 4. But given the quantity and quality of the photos I'm able to take with my smart...
How you’re using it: 5 great ways to use Google Calendar
It's only been in the last year that I've come to understand the true organizational joy that is Google Calendar. But even with how much I use it, I realize that there are probably a bunch of other uses that could make me more productive. So for this week's "How...
Back to School Tech: 10 smart apps for parents
Of course back to school time is mostly about the kids, but we moms and dads need all the help we can get too, to ensure we get the kids out the door on time, all while keeping up with our own busy schedules. While we can't offer you a free sitter, housekeeper and the...
A great portable iPad stand that the kids can’t destroy? I’m Stumped.
The longer tablets are part of our lives, the more we find incredible ways to use them--in the kitchen as a cookbook, on your nightstand as an alarm clock, on the airplane as a major parent sanity saver. (I can vouch for that one!) It also means that every day we find...
Take the A train. To the C train. Then walk four blocks and catch the bus.
If you're a city-dweller like me--or even a city visitor--HopStop is definitely a lifesaver. This site offers an easy way to get transition directions by subway, cab, bus, or even by foot. (Although truly, it's the subway that gets the most use on my laptop.) However...
Back to School Tech: Educational apps for little kids
My iPhone and iPad have a few games to keep my little kids entertained, but as it turns out, they're often more enthralled with the educational apps I've got loaded up. And really, what better way to help reinforce their learning with cool games that just so happen to...
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Great gift ideas, right from your Facebook page.
There's nothing more awesome than giving someone a gift you know they'll absolutely love. The problem though is finding that perfect gift. (Although Cool Mom Picks and Cool Mom Tech have been known to help along those lines. Ahem.) Now there's a solution appearing in...
If only your iPhone could scan documents too. Hey, wait…
Ever since my print-scan-fax machine broke, I've been using HelloFax.com to scan, email, and fax. But as much as I love that site, it doesn't help me with actual receipts and papers that I need to fax or scan. And with back to school time here, I am in desperate need...
Laboring over math homework? Get some help with Khan Academy
The long lazy days spent grilling in the backyard and jumping in the pool are numbered now that our kids are getting back to the grind of school, and its pesky little sidekick, homework. And while I'd like to think that I am definitely smarter than a fifth grader,...
Kids’ music download of the week: Movin’ Right Along
We've watched OK Go's excellent video interpretation of the Muppet Show Theme Song approximately 423 times in our home, and I adore their quirky take on a song I've known since childhood.But, for my download of the week, I'm stepping a little further into The Muppets'...
The Spiderpodium – Does whatever a spider can. (Kind of.)
Don't worry arachnophobes, that's not a real spider holding up that smartphone, but rather a smart gadget I recently discovered that makes the perfect phone grip and travel dock. The Spiderpodium from Breffo is a bendable holder that allows you to grip or dock your...
Time to get that SLR back in action again
One of the biggest barriers to using those SLR cameras that so many of us have gathering dust, is the actual carrying of it. When you're toting your stuff, your kids, and all your kids' stuff, having a huge camera around your neck isn't quite a priority. But now that...
Catalogues, without the paper
I have a deep and abiding love for catalogs, even more than for magazines; I can spend hours curled up with a pile of shiny catalogs, dog-earing pages and tearing out examples of how I want my life to look. Don't pretend you don't know what I'm talking about, because...
Striiv makes fitness more fun. No seriously. Stop laughing.
In a perfect world I would have time to go for a run everyday. But in the real world, as a busy mom, that's not going to happen. So what if I could turn everyday routines into exercise? Now there's a nifty little gadget that can help you do just that. A new startup...
Back to school tech: Educational apps for kids
Getting my kids to do a few math or grammar workbook pages is not easy. But getting them to play an educational app on my iPad? Piece of cake. But not all educational apps are equal. And some are just so great, we sifted through a bunch and put together our favorite...
Stop the presses! JibJab has new ebooks for kids
If you've ever laughed at JibJab's hilarious ecards, like this one of the CMP staff at Halloween, you know how funny it is to see your own visage shimmying while dressed like Dracula, or busting a Mummy move. And now that they've entered the world of children's ebooks...
A back to school sale just for kids’ apps
Back to school sales are in full swing which means I can stock up on winter sweaters, coats and boots, even if we won't need them for a few more months. Even better is a great Back-to-School sale on some of our favorite apps for kids that we won't have to wait for the...
Back to school tech: Smart gadgets for parents
Just because it's back to school time doesn't mean kids should get all the cool gadgets. We're the ones lugging them from soccer to ballet and back home again, so we can sure use all the extra hands we can get to make life a little easier. Here are some awesome...