5 tech picks you might have missed this week
Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges! Unless they’re for things like Awesomeness, which they are. We hope you’ll give this round-up of picks the “You’re the Bomb” badge. 1. Google isn’t just for finding pics of Ryan...
4 cool Google tricks you might not know
I’m a card-carrying member of the Google frequent searchers club, whether it’s odd cold symptoms or Ryan Reynolds photos. (Heh.). But little did I know that Google can do a whole lot more than just random searches. Here are four cool Google tricks that can...
5 reasons why we already like Google+
When the floodgates for invites to Google+, Google’s new social network, briefly opened up last week, I was fortunate enough to snag one from a friend. Since then, I’ve been playing around with what at first I was thinking was “yet another time...
Tech support for luddites (Read: your parents)
Are you spending every visit home showing your dad how to turn the computer on… again? Fielding frantic phone calls from your mother about how her monitor is “broken,” when it turns out it’s just sleeping? Then you’re going to love...
10 chic designer themes for Google Chrome
I get a little geeky when it comes to jazzing up my browser with themes–it’s such an easy way to give your PC a makeover. I find I’ve been spending more and more time with Google Chrome lately, and poking around the themes page, there are quite a few...
Piquing Our Geek: Google Wallet
I barely carry cash around with me any more, relying solely on my soon to be dubbed George Costanza wallet of credit and debit cards to do the work for me. But it looks as though even those will be obsolete, thanks to a the next release from Google that might just...
Create your own personalized email set-up with Gmail Labs
One huge redeeming quality I find in people is when they can poke fun at themselves and not take the world too seriously. It’s even more fun when a technology company can do the same. If you’re a Gmail user and haven’t taken advantage of that little...
Syncing calendars with Blackberry – Reader Q&A
I was wondering if Cool Mom Tech has a recommendation for an online calendar system to keep up with everyone’s busy schedules in my family? I need something that syncs with my Blackberry, as well as Outlook or Yahoo, and preferably free! -PI We’re firm...
3 reasons why finding cool Android apps gives us a headache
So many of you have been asking us to recommend Android apps–we hear you! So we’ve been searching long and hard to find ones that we think are cool. But after a few days of trying a bunch out on a Motorola DROID X loaner, we now understand why you’ve...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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