5 picks you might have missed this week
Here are five picks you might have missed from last week. 1. Google+ is poised to take over the social media world. Here are five reasons you might want to hop onboard the G+ train. 2. We're totally smitten with this free app for iPad that customizes your interests...
The Proust Questionnaire – Now for your own family
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." One of my favorite quotes by Marcel Proust. So the name Proust seems appropriate for a new website designed to help people share their stories with family and close friends and to learn...
Quick tech tip: Filtering out unwanted tweets with Tweetdeck
I am on Twitter a lot. A lot. And while I really do adore all the feeds that I follow, every so often there's an event or a "Twitter party" of some sort that's cluttering up my stream and I want to filter it out. Fortunately, TweetDeck offers a simple way to get it...
Kids’ music download of the week: Be Part of the Band
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has grabbed a hairbrush and sang the haunting lyrics of The Verve Pipe's The Freshmen into it. But you may be surprised to learn that this rock band from Michigan has a more playful side, as evidenced in their most excellent A Family...
Cool Mom Tech is the #1 Tech and Gadgets shopping site on Babble.com. Yeah!
Imagine our surprise when we learned that Cool Mom Tech had been chosen as the #1 best tech and gadgets site on Babble.com. Even more awesome to see that we're ranked #4 out of the 50 fantastic shopping sites, including our own Cool Mom Picks. What an amazing honor to...
Operation: Star Wars
Operation, Shmoperation. Forget that old naked guy and his lame Charlie Horse; I've found a version that's much, much cooler for the entire family. Because it's R2D2 Yes, I'm one of those people for whom anything can be improved with the addition of Star Wars. Thus,...
To infinity and beyond. Or at least to 4+6.
During these long, unscheduled, fun-in-the-sun summer months, I've been on the lookout for some smart apps that keep my kids' brains thinking and not turning into soft serve. That's a big reason why I am so excited about this math app which we all think is out of this...
Turning your iPhone into a Leica. (At least on the outside.)
While it's clear that the smartphone is the new camera (and GPS and address book and pretty much everything else), I kind of love that someone has walked right into it with vinyl iPhone skins that look like actual cameras. At istickercool on Etsy, you can find a Leica...
An iPad 2 case from Hammerhead that finally got me to use protection
Though I knew it was risky, for the first couple of months of owning a shiny new iPad 2, I didn't use protection. Oh sure, I worried that it'd get scratched, dinged or (gulp) dropped, I was just overwhelmed with the number of cases out there: did I want a front cover,...
Jawbone Jambox – A little speaker with big sound
I have several iPhone speakers around my house, all of which either take up way too much space or require me to remove my case every time I need to use it. Well, since finding this amazing new gadget, I'm listening to my music through a tiny little box that packs a...
5 reasons why we already like Google+
When the floodgates for invites to Google+, Google's new social network, briefly opened up last week, I was fortunate enough to snag one from a friend. Since then, I've been playing around with what at first I was thinking was "yet another time suck." But after a few...
Cool computing with these designer mice
If you're a regular reader of Cool Mom Tech, you know that we love when form mixes with function in our gadgetry. Yes, cool tech has officially become the new black--there are designer laptops, designer laptop bags, designer iPad cases, and now thanks to Microsoft,...
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Zite – your own personalized zine
I recently read some astounding facts about the amount of content on the web. Each day, something like 60,000 new websites are created and 1.5 billion items are uploaded to Facebook alone. Yikes! How to sort through it all? Well for you iPad readers, there's a really...
Flying the flag 2.0
As a military spouse, I don't need an excuse to show my patriotism with a little red, white, and blue on the 4th of July or any day. Well, with this cool case I can do it with my iPhone 4. This limited edition Patriot iPhone case from Speck is fitted perfectly for an...
Publishing nerds go all James Bond, and it’s awesome
Remember last week, when I said I wanted to live in NYC so I could see some real, live yarn bombing? Still true. But now I've got another reason on my (very long) list of why I need to go to the Big Apple. I want to be caught reading on the CoverSpy blog. See, these...
Some digital fireworks to brighten up your Fourth of July
When my kids were little, I couldn't wait to take them to see the fireworks on the Fourth of July. Unfortunately, they didn't want to stay up that late, hated the booms and generally made it hard to relax and say my required "oooos" and "ahhhhs". If you plan to sit...
Kids’ music download of the week: Picky Eater
We're about to embark on a holiday weekend of picnics, and I'm about to become that mom whose son eats nothing but hot dogs and ice cream for three days straight. He looks at all food as if it will bite him back, and if you've got one of those too, you'll love this...
Orla Kiely laptop bag: Yes please!
If you frequent Cool Mom Picks (of course you do!), then you know how much we looooove Orla Kiely. So it's no surprise that I've got my eye on her laptop bag, now at a very cool price. Her signature bright bold patterns will encase your precious laptop with 100%...
File this under chartreuse
I am in desperate need of storage around my house, and I'd imagine anyone who has caught a glimpse of the piles teetering over my desk would agree. So I was browsing one of my favorite browsable online catalogs this weekend and ooh, lookie what I found! The chartreuse...
Watch out Martin Scorcese, I’ve got Flixlab
I have my iPhone 4 to thank for the piles of home videos I've been collecting since upgrading last year, but I've yet to figure out exactly what to do with them all. Since I don't really want to upload every cute spaghetti on the head moment to YouTube, I've been...
Minor Monitor lets you see what your kids are doing on Facebook.
Are your kids on Facebook yet? Mine is 8 years old, so I'm not yet at that worry stage. But I know that by the time he's ready for it, he'll also be dealing with so many other issues in his life that I'll want to know about. (Kinda glad I have a few years before he is...
Virtually indestructible iPad cases. Hooray (says the mom)
For those of you who have yet to find the perfect iPad case, I can't say I'm surprised. There are so many options out there, but none seem to have every benefit all together at once. Either you get a slim silhouette, or you get a kickstand. Either you have something...
Distracted driving becomes less so with Jabra Freeway
When I started to work at home this year, my husband was ready to outfit my car with a full Bluetooth system to put the kibosh on distracted driving. He wanted some way for me to be able to talk in our hands-free state. I wanted my hands-free phone solution to be...
Okay, ladies. Who needs an Epiphanie?
You don't have to go to an ashram or take up Bikram yoga for this sort of Epiphanie, the hottest camera/gadget bag of the year. All you have to do is be a Cool Mom Tech subscriber and invite three friends who would enjoy all the techy goodness in their inboxes, to do...