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Waze Planned Drives: Big news for anyone who spends any time in the car at all, ever.

If you haven’t yet heard about the brand new feature from the Waze app called Waze Planned Drives, then you might be as excited as I am. Especially if, like me, if you’re the kind of person who had kids, then went from being always early, to the one...

Operator app connects you with shopping experts| Free app of the week

by Christina Refford | Shopping Apps

As much as I love the vastness of the internet, sometimes I just want to find the perfect little black dress (should Liz and Kristen not be around to tell me just what to buy!) or the name of a great family restaurant at the beach without having to scroll through a...

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7 helpful apps for your Super Bowl party, or any given Sunday.

by Liz Gumbinner | Lifestyle Apps

If you’re getting ready for Super Bowl 50 (whoa) this Sunday, and plan on having company to make it more fun, we’ve got 7 iOS and Android apps for your Super Bowl party that you’ll want to download stat, from party planning help to food and drink...

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Our editors’ most helpful tech tips of the year: Editors’ Best Tech of 2015

by Cool Mom Staff | Editors' Picks of the Year

Over the course of the year on Cool Mom Tech, we’ve put together so many helpful tech tips and tricks, many of which are answers to reader questions we get via email, over Twitter, on Facebook, and heck, even from our friends and family in person! So we’ve...

An awesome photo app that helps preserve more than snapshots, it preserves your family stories.

by Nicole Blades | Mother's Day Gifts, Photo Apps

So, you have tons of photos on your iOS Camera Roll, right? Yeah, same. Now, how would you like to preserve those memories — with audio — forever and a day? Yeah, that’s what I said. Bring it! That’s why I was happy to discover the everyStory...

10 essential tips for protecting your tech gadgets so they last. (Or at least until the next version comes out.)

by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks

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...

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Piquing our geek: Can SmartFeed make our kids’ media more mindful, not mindless?

by Christina Refford | Internet Safety

Trying to manage my three kids’ time spent and content viewed on all of the various devices we have in this house is one of the most thankless, naggy job out there. They don’t fully understand why I say “no” to the newest app, or why YouTube...

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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.)

We're so glad you're here! And we hope we can help you too.