5 cool Mother’s Day gifts from Instagram photos

by Cool Mom Team | Photography

As someone who only uses my smart phone as my camera, I often use my photographs as gifts, many of which happen to be taken using the Instagram app. If you’re still hunting for a cool Mother’s Day gifts, you don’t have to look any further than your...

3 gorgeous new cases for the gorgeous new iPad

by Jeana | Uncategorized

For those of you who have been lucky enough to snag a new iPad, we know a lot of you have been on the search for a new case for it. We know, because we keep getting all of your emails!Because there was just a slight increase in the iPad’s size–.6mm in...

4 Things you can do with your old iPad (no, this is not a crazy crafting post)

by Jeana | Uncategorized

Apple’s had a record week this week with the launch of their new iPad, which is not an iPad 3, but everyone is still calling an iPad 3. If you’re one of the lucky ones who have upgraded to the new iPad (not an iPad 3), you might be deciding what to do with...

Miffy’s Garden app, just in time for spring

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Dick Bruna’s Miffy has been a longtime favorite around here–you know, cute little bunny from Holland? X for a mouth? So of course my kids were happy to get to play with Miffy’s brand new iPad app. Along the lines of Mo Willems’ Pigeon App, the...

It’s hip to be square

by Cool Mom Team | Photography

Now that photo apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic have made square photos more common, it was only a matter of time before someone got into the frame game with options made just for our collective iPhoneography obsession. Hatchcraft is a nifty little company...

The new iPad is coming March 16 (don’t call it an iPad 3!)

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

It’s new iPad announcement day! And if you follow Cool Mom Tech on Twitter, then you know that we’re pretty excited about the big Apple iPad announcement that was just made. And very intrigued by the fact that it’s not an iPad 3. After hearing about...

iPad as wingman

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

So you’ve got the iMac. You’ve got the iPad. And now you’re realizing that wait…you might even need to use both at the same time. Say, if you want to have a Facetime chat while searching the web or reading through a Powerpoint deck. Or when you...

iPad SD and CF card readers. Hooray!

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

After discovering the iPad USB flash drive that our readers went wild for, I thought I had nabbed the holy grail of tech gadgets. But then I spotted the new card readers at Photojojo and now I know there’s more grail to be found. The iPad CF and SD card readers...

Piquing Our Geek: iPad USB Flash Drive

by Cool Mom Team | Tech Toys

If I have a complaint about the iPad (and believe me, I don’t have many) it’s the lack of USB ports. So when I saw this new gadget that’s coming out just for people like me, you can bet that I added it to my wish list stat. Touted as the...

Baby got back.

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

There’s just no way I could go without a case on my iPhone 4, thanks to four little ones, but I can’t help but be a little jealous every time I see one those brave folks who go cover-free with their pretty, sleek iPhone. Well with these cool iPhone backs,...