Helpful Services – Page 8

Mapstr app: A brilliant way to track favorite places wherever you go.

Have you ever wished you could literally bookmark a favorite restaurant in a new town you’re visiting? Like, just magically click a button in your brain that lets you put an asterisk next to the name of the place so you’ll always remember it? Or maybe...

Sponsored Message: Webroot keeps you and your family safe online, wherever you are.

Skillshare brings the coolest classes to you instead of you having to go to them.

by Kristen Chase | Uncategorized

I’m really thrilled to introduce you to my new obsession, Skillshare, a wonderful community that offers online classes to help you learn new skills and dial up your creativity–or simply get it back. If you’re like me, you often see all sorts of cool...

Sponsored Message: Bevy ingeniously stores and organize all your photos and videos automatically

An overview of the Amazon Prime Now app. Should you need baby wipes or a fishnet body suit delivered in the next two hours.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

As a Brooklyn resident who falls squarely within the lucky Brooklyn-Manhattan delivery area for the new Amazon Prime Now app (iOS and Android) I downloaded it stat. It is a genius premise, functioning essentially like a Fresh Direct kind of service–the other...

One really creative way to print Instagram photos? On your arm, with Picattoo

by Kristen Chase | Photography

We get asked how to print Instagram photos all the time here on Cool Mom Tech, but of all the ideas we’ve featured before, you’ve never been able to apply them to your arm. Or chest. Or…well, you get the idea. Meet Picattoo, a new service from the...

Essential tips to help you organize your photos, and the new apps and services that make it easy. (Really!)

by Nicole Blades | Gear + Hardware, Tips and Tricks

New year, new you. Of course, we’ve all heard (and probably said) this catchy line each time January 1 rolls around. But instead of promising to completely overhaul our lives with major changes, we’re starting small and smart with this resolution: Organize...

One more reason to love the TripIt app: Skipping airport security lines.

by Liz Gumbinner | Best Apps

I have some great news about TripIt, the lifesaving, can’t-live-without-it travel itinerary app that I recommend to everyone I know. In fact, it just saved me $300 a ticket on our trip to Las Vegas for CES last week, thanks to an auto-alert from TripIt about a...

Need a mani-pedi, a piano lesson, and an oil change this week? The MyTime app is on it.

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

Let me guess: If you add one more item to your to-do list, it’s going to burst into flames and take you with it, right? I know. I’m right there with you. That’s why I’m loving the MyTime app and website. MyTime takes a help me help you approach...

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.