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Martha Stewart Crafts on your iPad. It’s a great thing.

The tech world is buzzing about the new Martha Stewart Crafts app for iPad, and I can see why. Long ago, I used to babysit for a family who had their attic converted into a professional scrapbooking room. Filled with stacks of patterned acid-free papers and matching...

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by Jeana | Helpful Services

Finding great apps for kids on iTunes or Google Play can sometimes feel like the search for the Holy Grail. Meandering through the thousands of apps to find the good ones can take a lot of time–as if we have so much of it to spare. Of course we’re...

Emails from the Underbelly.

by Eva Glettner | Entertainment

You know those emails that we all get hooked on when we are pregnant? The ones from Baby Center that say thinks like “right now your baby is the size of a peanut?” I loved having those come into my inbox because it made my pregnancy feel so...

Doodling goes digital with Doodle.ly

by Jeana | Fun Apps

Who would’ve guessed that drawing would become a social media sensation? We’ve talked about popular apps like Draw Something and What Should I Draw. And now I’m having fun exploring a new– and free–app on the market that can hopefully...

Pholium: Professional photo e-books right on your iPad

by Jeana | Photo Gifts

I’ve come to a conclusion recently that I must make my peace with – I’m never going to catch up on updating my photo albums. Deep breaths. I’ve made valiant efforts to get prints made, but being about 1,247 photos behind in just two years,...

Oh Appy Day! featuring Mo Willems

by Cool Mom Staff | Oh Appy Day! - Celebrity faves

Oh Appy Day! gives you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. This week, Mo Willems shares his favorite! I’m a big fan of the BBC News app. It’s well-designed, and you can customize it to get the content you want. Plus,...

Artogram – say it with flowers made by independent artists

by Cool Mom Staff | Lifestyle Apps

As a mom who generally finds myself too busy to send proper hand-written thank you notes (sorry! sorry!) I love the increasing number of apps that now let you send beautiful correspondence right from your devices. Some of them are fabulous. Some of them are cheesy....

Slice – An essential app for the savvy online shopper

by Molly | Shopping Apps

It only takes one trip to the mall with all four of my girls in tow for me to remember why I love online shopping so much. But between buying that box of diapers on Amazon, those cute shoes on The Mini Social and my cousin’s wedding present on Etsy, I’m...

Surviving the lines at Disney World? Undercover Tourist is the app for that

by Liz Gumbinner | Travel Apps

This past weekend, I got through four fun-filled days at Disney World and emerged relatively unscathed from the perils of long lines and the whining that ensues on them. In part I have to thank the temperate weather, but I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the free...

6 apps and websites to help make life easier

by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks

Welcome to Cool Mom Tech! If you caught our Editor-in-Chief Liz on The Today Show this morning talking about six apps and websites that will make your life easier, we’ve rounded them up here for you. Pinterest.com This virtual corkboard allows you to pin...

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Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz

Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

We started Cool Mom Tech in 2010 to help make our increasingly digital lives easier, more organized, more meaningful, and more fun, however old your kids may be.

We love that it's grown to become the go-to source for millions of parents who want commonsense info about tech delivered with a smile.

We even have the privilege of sharing our tips + tricks with The TODAY Show, CNN, HLN, GMA, Nightline, newspapers and magazines around the country, and our favorite -- regular parents who stop us at PTA meetings and ask us how old kids need to be to get a smartphone, and whether they really need to panic about Snapchat.

(Answer: It's complicated.)

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