The 15 minute trick: A smart, easy way to spring clean and organize your home office
With warmer climes finally here and April right around the corner, it’s time for my annual spring cleaning to begin. At the top of my list is my home office area. If you’ve got piles of papers and cords everywhere like me, then I’ve got a helpful...
10 essential tips for protecting your tech gadgets so they last. (Or at least until the next version comes out.)
There’s that wonderful moment when you first open up the box of your newest gadget and just smile at it. Some folks even give the new, shiny, and often pricy tech toy its own special name. At no point during this grand unboxing do you envision the gadget in...
Here’s a new one in portable chargers: It backs up your data, too.
I recently found myself caught out there without portable, backup battery power. I mean, I had a Plan C — my iPhone charger in my purse — which was more like a Plan E, because trying to locate a conveniently-placed wall outlet at a massive blogging...
How to free up space on your phones and tablets with 4 easy steps. Because more pictures are coming, you know it.
If there’s one thing that will throw off my whole zen vibe, it’s seeing that “you’re out of memory” alert pop up on my tech devices when I try to download an app or take a video. I almost want to turn to my gadget and say: You’re...
A Nifty mini storage drive that really is
Like a lot of you, I feel like I live in my laptop. But that means I’ve got more than 5,000 pictures and dozens of full-length kids’ movies on my laptop, so I could use a little more storage space to keep everything moving quickly. USB drives are a great...
The big new iOS 8 announcement from Apple: Photo changes, HealthKit, HomeKit and…they did what to texting?
During the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, as always, people listen and discuss all the huge new Apple news. (Hence the #WWDC hashtag we saw all day yesterday on Twitter.) Apple didn’t disappoint yesterday with Tim Cook’s big iOS 8...
Office 365 Personal lets you start a doc on your PC, then pick up where you left off on your mobile phone.
We have covered cloud-based storage in the past like standbys Dropbox and Google Drive, which are today’s easiest way to access important documents and photos from your mobile devices. But Microsoft software users (um, everyone?) can now benefit from Office 365...
Snupps app: A digital inventory app to help you keep track of everything except your head. (Well, maybe that too.)
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...
Eye-Fi Mobi desktop receiver for Mac means you are running out of excuses to have photos stuck on your camera.
We’ve been fans of Eye-Fi and their smart, simple wireless memory cards for cameras for several years. I still remember the first time I saw the Eye-Fi card in action–the instant photo transfer from camera to desktop knocked my socks off. We’ve been...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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.
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