by Cool Mom Team | Travel
After lugging my gigantic MacBook Pro around with me around town for work, and then on a few business trips, I decided that it might be time to look at something smaller. I own several netbooks, but unless I’m just checking email or doing light word processing,...
by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized
When I opened the mysterious package that arrived for me this week, I was surprised to pull out a vintage hat box. Surprised and happy–since vintage hat boxes are one of my most favorite things. Inside, there was all this cool ephemera…a very smart way of...
by Cool Mom Team | Photography
Now that you Android users can enjoy an Instagram obsession like me, the next thing you’ll find yourself wanting to do is to display your photos on something other than your smart phone screen. So aside from all the cool ways you can print Instagram photos, now...
by Christina Refford | Uncategorized
Part of the magic of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series is that my kids are still as crazy about the stories as they were when they first read them a couple of years ago. And today, they are all aflutter about the lastest news about The Boy Who Lived: J.K....
by Cool Mom Team | Editors' Picks of the Year
If parents all do one thing with technology, it’s take and share pictures. Lots and lots of pictures. This year saw a slew of new apps and resources to help making your picture taking, editing and sharing easier and more fun. Here are our editors’...
by Beth | Gear + Hardware
If you are a PC user who has been coveting a laptop as light as a MacBook Air – then the wait is over with a new offering from Intel that weighs less than 3 pounds. Intel Ultrabooks are not only lightweight, they’re less than 1 inch thick, and I’m so...
by Cool Mom Team | Websites We Love
It’s hard to remember that there was a time that we simply snapped photos and had to be satisfied (gasp) with whatever it was that appeared on the film a few weeks later. No Photoshop? No Instagram filters? The horror! The new website, Picfull, makes it crazy...
by Christina Refford | Websites We Love
It’s Halloween! Yay! And that means as parents, the only thing we’ll have more of tomorrow morning than slimy, discarded candy wrappers, is digital photos. Because you are of course obligated to send dozens of photos to every relative on your list as a...
