Organization help: Decluttr app gives you cash for unwanted CDs, DVDs, and games. But is it worth it?

by Christina Refford | Uncategorized

Since starting to Konmari, or “tidy,” my  home almost a year ago, I’ve found myself avoiding certain categories of stuff left to purge, like the four large bins of CDs we’ve had stored in our basement since switching all our music over to...

LumiKids Snow: Free app of the week

by Christina Refford | Best Apps, Educational Apps

Welcome to our new weekly series on Cool Mom Tech that introduces you to some of our favorite free apps to download to your devices. Because as much as we love all the useful, fun, and entertaining apps we recommend here, admittedly we love them even more when...

Two fun, creative, and (mostly) free apps for kids to keep them engaged when they’re stuck indoors.

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

If you’re tearing through the list of snow day activities to keep the kids occupied when you’re stuck indoors, allow us help you with two beautifully designed, really fun new apps we’ve discovered from Seedling. As in, the same company whose...

Our favorite Santa apps that make the magic even more magical.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps, Holiday Picks

We’re big fans of Santa around here, as you might have guessed. What, us risk making the naughty list? Never!) So if you’re looking for some fun Santa apps to help bring the big guy to life on your phone, tablet, or laptop and make believers out of any kid...

10 of the best shopping apps to put some yay in your holidays. (Holidyays?)

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

Each year around this time, we love sharing our favorite shopping apps with you. Because who doesn’t love going shopping and landing a fab deal? Exactly. And how much do you love it when you land that fab deal in the middle of the madness that is holiday...

Let the StoryCorps app capture stories of your family’s history this holiday. The result is really beautiful.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

When I’m driving around running errands, I usually have NPR on the radio, unless I’m listening to Spawned, of course. The stories that almost always end up with me in tears, searching for a Kleenex in the console, are the reports from StoryCorps which...

Kids’ Table free download for Thanksgiving, from members of Recess Monkey, The Harmonica Pocket, and Johnny Bregar

by Christina Refford | Entertainment, Kids

We like to joke about the poor kids who get stuck sitting over at the kids’ table on Thanksgiving when, really, they are all having a blast on their own without having to listen to all the boring grownups talk about boring grownup things. And that’s the...

7 of the best photo storage options for families with tons of pics on different devices: Reader Q + A

by Nicole Blades | Photography, Tips and Tricks

Hi Cool Mom Tech, Have you written about a tech solution that gathers photos from all the family computers and phones into one place for backup purposes?  – James We’ve been exactly where you are, James: looking at all the options and scratching our heads,...

Sponsored Message: The free Hobnob app makes creating and sending invites as easy as tap-tap-send.

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

This is a sponsored message from Hobnob   With the holidays right around the corner, the free Hobnob app for iOS makes sending invites to your holiday events, and sharing the photos afterwards even easier. Plus, you could win a $200 Target gift card just for...

How to use the new Boomerang app from Instagram. Because who doesn’t love GIFs?

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

Its pronunciation may be in the tomayto/tomahto zone, but when it comes to GIFs there’s no debate about their popularity. So, last week when our favorite social network rolled out the Boomerang app that basically lets you produce and share GIFs, let’s just...