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Web Coolness: How to write the perfect email, Amazon bans hoverboards, and mousejacking.

Here are some of our favorite tech links from this week. Hope you enjoy them too! This cool mom turned an old playroom into a super rad NES game room for her kids. How to write the perfect email. Or at least, one that will have the best chance of getting read. (via...

Web Coolness: Apple’s message to customers, how teens are using messaging apps, and Monopoly goes cashless

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them too. Easy, clever ways to clean-up, store, and display Legos. Sock over the vacuum hose?! On creating a computer voice that people will actually like. (Kristen says, Why...

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

by Christina Refford | Helpful Services

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...

How to get started on Minecraft PE: One newbie parent’s intro into the square world

by Nicole Blades | Games + Gaming

Of course I’ve heard about Minecraft. How could I not? The crazy best-selling, square-loving video game is practically everywhere and has been for years now. I also knew the super skinny basics on Minecraft: It’s all about virtual, 3-D worlds engineered by...

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

by Christina Refford | Fun 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 11 coolest new tech toys of 2015: Editors best of the year

by Cool Mom Staff | Editors' Picks of the Year, Tech Toys and Random Fun

Okay, so this is the post in our editors’ top picks of the year series we know a lot of our readers have been waiting for: The coolest tech toys of 2015. There are so many amazing trends we’re seeing here: Coding is becoming more accessible to even...

$5 great STEM toys for kids with a math focus. Because despite what you may remember, math is now fun.$

5 great STEM toys for kids with a math focus. Because despite what you may remember, math is now fun.

by Christina Refford | Tech Toys and Random Fun

As we approach the final week of Christmas shopping, I plan spend a few minutes to make sure that I’m buying toys and games that will feed my kids’ brains as much as their need for play. And while “math toys” has never appeared on any of my...

Web Coolness: Minecraft for Wii U, top 10 YouTube videos, and Facebook goes Star Wars crazy

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them too. Great news: Minecraft is coming to Nintendo Wii U! Have you caught the Instagram Husbands video yet? It’s hilarious. Girls Who Code are making their way into...

Guitar Hero Live review: Cool updates put this classic back on top of the charts

by Nicole Blades | Games + Gaming

Honestly, haven’t we all rocked out to an air guitar at some point in our lives? (Or maybe this morning in the shower — ahem.) Pretending to be Lenny Kravitz or Joan Jett shredding the axe and professing our love for rock ‘n’ roll out loud got...

Cool tech gifts for men and women under $25: 2015 Tech Gift Guide

by Cool Mom Staff | Holiday Tech Gifts

For our final installment of our 2015 Tech Gift Guide, we’ve got lots and lots of cool tech gifts for men and women under $25. Yes, you read that correctly. And no, we’re not talking about stocking stuffers, folks. These are awesome gifts that would be...

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