Spring cleaning your tech: 5 tips for organizing photos

by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks

I consider myself to be a fairly organized person, but I admit to pushing photo organization to the very bottom of my list. That means I’ve got a zillion photos on my DSLR and smartphone, and the rest are scattered about my computer in oddly named files that...

Syncing calendars with Blackberry – Reader Q&A

by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks

I was wondering if Cool Mom Tech has a recommendation for an online calendar system to keep up with everyone’s busy schedules in my family? I need something that syncs with my Blackberry, as well as Outlook or Yahoo, and preferably free! -PI We’re firm...

Nintendo 3DS: Effects that jump out at you, hold the glasses

by Beth | Games + Gaming

As with most families with pre-teens these days, we’ve got those moments when I need something new and cool to keep my boys entertained: that very important phone call, the long wait in the doctor’s office, the never-ending road trip. You know, those times...

Lo-Fi makes your photos fancy on your PC

by Jeana | Best Apps

There are a lot of smartphone apps out there that let you edit your photos, add cool borders and special effects, but if you don’t have a snazzy phone that works with apps, well, you may feel a little left out. And we hate when our readers feel left out! So I...

Best Buy Wish List: Home Theater, yeah!

by Cool Mom Team | Holiday Tech Gifts

Best Buy Wish List is a sponsored series in which we feature the things we’re coveting at Best Buy–and then give away gift cards so you can buy them yourself.  Whee!With six kids between us, our movie theater is our home television. And really, with...

A little Christmas present for your ears: New family-friendly holiday tunes ready for download

by Christina Refford | Entertainment, Kids

It’s Christmas week, and if you are like me, the ears could use a break from the same old Christmas songs that have been blasting across radio stations and throughout department store PA systems since the day after Halloween.   Let’s just say that if...

Best Buy Wish List: Gaming (whoo!)

by Cool Mom Team | Holiday Tech Gifts

Best Buy Wish List is a sponsored series in which we feature the things we’re coveting at Best Buy–and then give away gift cards so you can buy them yourself.  Whee!It’s no secret that we have a thing for gaming around here. Must be all those...

The Neato robotic vacuum sucks. In a good way.

by Christina Refford | Life and Home

For the past two Christmases, my mother has given me vacuums, a gift I try not to take as a judgment on the state of my house. And while the Dyson was–and still is–great, my little robotic Roomba continues to make me positively giddy as it whirls around my...

MobiGo by VTech gets the skeptical mom vote

by Cool Mom Team | Tech Toys

My near 4 year-old son has been eying my oldest’s Nintendo DS for awhile now, but he’s just not quite old enough to do anything but ask us to help him play a game. Sort of defeats the point of having it. But since the brand new MobiGo from VTech arrived in...

Here’s how to get to inbox zero. You can do it!

by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks

I have more problems managing my inbox flow than you can imagine. Seriously, you don’t want to know how old some of the emails in my inbox are. (Okay, 4 years. Just in Gmail. My other account goes back to 2002.) So after much urging by kindred spirits on...