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...
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Nerdy babies know that B is for binary code
Our first child was born perfect. Ten fingers, ten toes. Still, we had to wait a couple of years to see if she had inherited one very important trait. When she picked up her first lightsaber at age nineteen months, we knew. We had a nerdy baby. And there was much...
The Maserati of laptop bags at a price that revs my engine
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Yarnbomb my cell phone
Sometimes, I dream of living in a big city. Not because of the amazing restaurants or beautiful sights or handy mass transit. All that's great. But my dream is much more romantic and capricious. I long to come across some quality yarn bombing. A statue in a crocheted...
The joy of tablets: 6 former necessities a tablet replaces
This post is brought to you by our sponsor introducing the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. Since my tablet has become a regular fixture in my everyday routine, I've found that life (and my handbag!) is sooo much simpler, streamlined and better organized. Let's just say that...
5 picks you might have missed this week
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I’m so crafty I make tribbles
One of the most amazing things about today's technology is that you can find almost anything on the internet. And most of it's for sale. Mario + cross-stitch? Buffy the Vampire Slayer + fuse beads? Star Wars + jelly jars? They all exist. And you don't have to use...
VideoHunters makes the hunt for kid-friendly videos easy
We've all witnessed the hilarity of viral YouTube hits like David at the Dentist and Charlie Bit my Finger. But there are countless others that haven't gotten nearly the same amount of attention that are just as funny. And here's how to find them. Or any videos,...
With this app, there’s never a bad hair day
As soon as I could turn my back on my kids with the safety scissors, I knew it was only a matter of time before they decided to give themselves (or each other) a trim. A far better way to scratch their itch to play hairdresser, comes in a handy go-anywhere app where...
Kids’ music download of the week: Covered in Bandaids
It's finally the season of long sunny days spent outside riding bikes, playing kickball and tag. Oh, and that all-too-familiar sound of one of my kids tripping, falling and skinning yet another part of their body. I am not kidding when I say I have stashes of bandages...
PhotoRocket: Photo sharing doesn’t get any easier than this
Maybe I'm just getting older, or maybe it's the fact that I'm a busy working mom with two kids. But lately, my mantra has been keep it simple. It's probably the reason we've been having one too many breakfast-for-dinner meals lately. It's also why I'm loving this new...
Hold the phone. The gihugic rotary phone, that is.
Every day brings with it amazing new developments in the world of technology. And, of course, I love that. But there are moments when I have fleeting issues with anxiety over just how fast everything is moving. I think those little panic attacks would be the perfect...
Teaching the US presidents with the help of aliens
Most of us know that George Washington was the first president and Al Gore was never one, but there are a whole lot of years in the middle there that are not my strong suit. That's why I love a new app that helps my kids and me brush up on our U.S. history in an...