An awesome photo app that helps preserve more than snapshots, it preserves your family stories.

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps, Mother's Day Gifts

So, you have tons of photos on your iOS Camera Roll, right? Yeah, same. Now, how would you like to preserve those memories — with audio — forever and a day? Yeah, that’s what I said. Bring it! That’s why I was happy to discover the everyStory...

Recently Magazine App turns your photos into a magazine…of your own life

by Jeana | Best Apps

Getting excited at a recent dentist visit to sit and read an actual magazine made me realize how little time I have to myself. (And perhaps that I need to find a hobby). People aside, turns out I found a magazine of sorts that I’ll most definitely make time for...

Build your own bookends for all those back to school books

by Kristen Chase | Life and Home

With all the amazing books for tweens and helpful book recommendation websites we’ve been sharing on Cool Mom Picks and here on Cool Mom Tech, I’m swimming in books. Which, you know, it could be worse. But that’s why I need these build on brick...

Need recommendations for great books for kids? Bookmark these 5 great websites.

by Kate Etue | Websites We Love

Some of our kids are really picky when it comes to books — not too long, not too short, with just the right plot points and character types. Then there are the ones who go through books so quickly that we can barely keep up with suggestions for what they...

Queen Bee in Paris: Explore France with this illustrated ebook and travel guide for kids

by Kate Etue | Best Apps, Educational Apps

I’ve vowed that someday we’re going to take our kids to Paris like I did on a brief, very memorable weekend there in college (ooh, the croissants) but it’s not on the schedule yet. While we save up our money, I’ve been letting my kids play with...

The new See First Facebook Feature: How to take control back over your Facebook feed again. Yay!

by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks

For awhile now, Facebook has been using ranking to order the stories in your news feed, which means you might be missing a lot of updates and posts from your friends and favorite pages. We can’t tell you how many times we’ve heard from readers that they...

Tips from a pro for taking better family vacation photos. Good timing, right?

by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks

If you’re like us, you’re counting down the days to a summer vacation, whether it’s a weekend at the grandparents’ place or something bigger. Either way, hopefully it means sleeping in late (kids willing), lazy days, catching up on books and of...

The Pictli photo framing app yields one sweet, sentimental Father’s Day gift if you hurry.

by Stephanie Mayers | Best Apps

I have always loved giving photos as gifts for everything from Father’s Day to birthdays. Really, what’s better having the luck to capture a perfect moment, then having someone special enough to share it with. So I am crushing on Pictli, a service with a...

A smart little MacBook cable organizer for those of us familiar with the term, cord spaghetti.

by Liz Gumbinner | Travel

Hi, nice to meet you. I’m one of those people whose cord always somehow slips off my laptop adapter in my bag, making me that person next to you in the airport lounge or the business meeting, pulling out the big, embarrassing handful of cord spaghetti, and...

A printable Star Wars coloring book made free: Kindness that gives the world a new hope.

by Liz Gumbinner | DIY

Bless the big-hearted Star Wars fans of this world, for on May the Fourth Be With You Day, they are always an extra-giving bunch. Like Jason Yang, the designer and illustrator behind Invisible Element, who just offered up this wonderful free printable Star Wars...