Webstagram makes Instagram users very happy indeed

by Jeana | Best Apps

If you’re a regular reader of Cool Mom Tech, you know what big fans we are of Instagram, the ultra-cool iPhone app/social network (coming soon to Android!) that lets you edit, add effects to and share your beautiful photos. If you’re an Instagram fan too,...

Turn your Instagram into a Casetagram

by Jeana | Photography

Instagram loyalists: you may want to sit for this one. If you love Instagram like we do (who doesn’t?), you’ll be thrilled to know that you can now take the sweetest, finest or coolest photos from your Instagram feed and get them printed on a totally...

Turn your Instagram photos into magnets

by Cool Mom Team | Photography

Since discovering Instagram a few months ago, I’ve used my photos to make everything from a Keepsy book to an Instagram screensaver, plus a few other special gifts – like some pretty awesome photo coasters for my mom for Mother’s Day. So when I saw...

Making Instagram photos into a screensaver? Yes, please

by Jeana | Best Apps

If you’re an Instagram devotee, you’re going to love a super fun new API that turns your (and your friends’) Instagram feeds into probably the coolest screensaver you’ve ever had. By downloading the Screenstagram file onto your Mac OS (Snow...

Instagram Photo Books: It was only a matter of time.

by Liz Gumbinner | Photography

Ever since discovering the Instagram iPhone app, I’ve become completely obsessed; so much so that it’s all I really use to take photos of my kids anymore. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to share them with friends and family, other than emailing...

13 of the hottest high-tech beauty gifts this year, if only for yourself

by Caroline Siegrist | Holiday Tech Gifts, Gift Guides, Mother's Day Gifts

High-tech beauty products have improved significantly in recent years, making it possible to save a lot of money on expensive salon treatments for your skin, lips, nails, hair, and nearly everything else. It’s no wonder we’re all excited about them!...

Tackle these 11 simple tech to-dos and start your year safer, more organized, and more relaxed

by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks

For so many of us, the new year is about organization and fresh starts. That’s why we tend to use January as an opportunity to cross off a few tech resolutions off our lists — or at least get a head start on some of those to-do list items we always bump...

10 great CyberMonday tech deals on holiday gifts for families

by Cool Mom Team | Fitness + Health, Games + Gaming, Gear + Hardware, Holiday Tech Gifts, Tech Toys

While CyberMonday deals kind of started a week ago, making this entire week CyberWeek, it’s not to say that you can’t get some fantastic deals on tech products today — some of which have been on for a few days, some of which are brand new for today....

The widespread teenage boy sextortion scam: What to do if your child is a victim

by Liz Gumbinner | Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks

This week’s Washington Post article about the teenage boy sextortion scam by Chris Moody is all I’ve been thinking about. In part because I know a kid who was targeted in this way, and it was a terrible situation. But to learn that this is a problem...

5 important tech conversations to have with your kids as they head back to school

by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks

With back-to-school here, or just around the corner for some of us, I like to take the time to have reinforce some basic tech rules with my kids and have some important tech conversations before things get super hectic. Whether your kids have their own phones or not,...