Dads Dig This: VenMo app

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

As part of our Dads Dig This series, we ask cool dads for their own favorite tech picks.   I like writing checks as much as the next person born during the Eisenhower administration but I think my 20-something babysitter is onto something with the Venmo...

Vhoto creates photo stills from your videos (Get it? Video-photo?)

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

Have you been hit with the jump-action shot photo craze? It’s that thing where you or a group of people jump into the air and someone tries to capture the this is the good life, split-second moment with everyone virtually gravity-free. Yeah, it’s not easy...

What parents should know: Snapchat text messaging

by Julie | Internet Safety

We’ve covered the Snapchat app extensively since its launch, and it’s grown to be extremely popular with tweens and teens, and now even brands are jumping into the app, finding new ways to promote to users there. Now that Snapchat has announced new...

Adobe GroupPix: A brilliant, simple way to gather, store, and share photos from a party, vacation or, um, Mother’s Day brunch?

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

With all the photos we take at kids’ parties, sports events, vacations, and this week, Mother’s Day celebrations, I’m so glad to have found Adobe’s brand new GroupPix app , which lets you round-up, store, and share everyone’s photos with...

Animated selfies, just when you thought the selfie world couldn’t get any bigger.

by Kristin | Best Apps

Just when I thought I had seen all the selfie apps and selfie gadgets out there, I stumble upon selfie360, an easy to use app that lets you take animated selfies or panoramas. The free iOS and Android app is ridiculously easy to use and pretty fun to play around with....

Is Sprint’s WeGo cell phone for kids worth it? A parent’s perspective.

by Jeana | Gear + Hardware

Kids are using cell phones now at younger ages, and the options for parent-approved, kid-safe phones are growing, which is why it’s not surprising that Sprint is jumping into the ring with their new WeGo cell phone for kids. While there’s a lot of buzz...

NASA Global Selfie Earth Day project: One selfie that’s for more than your ego

by Julie | Social Media

While we may give the side-eye to duckface selfies (although, a selfie at the Oscars with Bradley Cooper and Ellen is fine by us), today for Earth Day, NASA has given us an awesome reason to endorse selfies, thanks to the NASA #GlobalSelfie project. Wherever you are,...

The best eggs of the Big Egg Hunt NY: Easter meets art meets social media meets social good

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

For the past few weeks, New York City has been awash in giant Easter eggs, in a brilliant (if a little time-consuming for me) social-media-meets-installation-art campaign for Fabergé called The Big Egg Hunt. It brought eager New Yorkers and tourists alike scavenging...

Snupps app: A digital inventory app to help you keep track of everything except your head. (Well, maybe that too.)

by Jeana | Best Apps

I often have moments when I wish I had Google Maps for items I can’t find in my own house. And now, like magic, there’s a new digital inventory app called Snupps may make finding your things a lot easier before they’re even “lost.” While...

Do they make stylish laptop bags? Yes, yes they do.

by Kristen Chase | Uncategorized

I used to think that stylish laptop bags were just an urban myth until I discovered Knomo, whose gorgeous totes are a staple in my spring wardrobe. (Yep, that’s my own on our Instagram feed). Well, I just spotted their new collection and let’s just say, if...