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The best ways to clean and disinfect your phone during cold and flu season: From gentle cleaning to killing bacteria and microbes
Read Essay →: The best ways to clean and disinfect your phone during cold and flu season: From gentle cleaning to killing bacteria and microbesIt’s always a good time to talk about how to best clean your phone and gadgets. But especially this time…
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How to “untab” your Gmail so you never miss an important email again
Read Essay →: How to “untab” your Gmail so you never miss an important email againChances are good that you’re clicking through to this article because you don’t know what “tabbed gmails” even are. Right?…
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Our favorite tutorials to help you use G-suite tools for online learning
Read Essay →: Our favorite tutorials to help you use G-suite tools for online learningSince my son started remote learning, I’ve been looking for great G-suite tutorials to help me hone my skills, and…
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How to set these 5 smart Xbox One parental controls
Read Essay →: How to set these 5 smart Xbox One parental controlsWe’re all for setting some smart parental controls on our kids’ tech, and there are some great parenting controls built…
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Yes, it’s true. Amazon’s Alexa has been recording your conversations.
Read Essay →: Yes, it’s true. Amazon’s Alexa has been recording your conversations.So, we were all a little freaked out about the story that an Amazon Echo had recorded a private conversation…
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Ask to Buy: Is this parent-control feature that manages kids app downloads actually helpful?
Read Essay →: Ask to Buy: Is this parent-control feature that manages kids app downloads actually helpful?When we were Apple newbies, my kids racked up quite a collection of paid apps before I realized what was…
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How to opt out of Family Tree Now. Because, yikes!
Read Essay →: How to opt out of Family Tree Now. Because, yikes!Online privacy is becoming harder and harder to wrangle. Remember Spokeo? Well, recently there’s been a ton of buzz about a…
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How to use the new Boomerang app from Instagram. Because who doesn’t love GIFs?
Read Essay →: How to use the new Boomerang app from Instagram. Because who doesn’t love GIFs?Its pronunciation may be in the tomayto/tomahto zone, but when it comes to GIFs there’s no debate about their popularity. So, last…
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The Apple security hole – What you need to know
Read Essay →: The Apple security hole – What you need to knowAs someone who uses all Apple gadgets, including an iPhone, iPad, and my precious MacBook Air, I’ve had my eye…
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How to borrow free Kindle books–the ones you actually want to read.
Read Essay →: How to borrow free Kindle books–the ones you actually want to read.If you’re an Amazon Prime member, then you might be wondering how to borrow a book from the Kindle library–one…
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NYC implements social media guidelines for schools: Worth a look for parents wherever you live
Read Essay →: NYC implements social media guidelines for schools: Worth a look for parents wherever you liveWe finally decided to give our sixth grader a smart phone. And while I think the good has outweighed the…
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The most helpful tech tips: Editors’ Best Tech of 2013
Read Essay →: The most helpful tech tips: Editors’ Best Tech of 2013Over the course of the year, we’ve put together so many helpful tech tips for our readers, plenty from your…
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Forget where you parked your car? Use your smartphone.
Read Essay →: Forget where you parked your car? Use your smartphone.There’s no shortage of cool gadgets to help you find lost items, but lost cars? Not so much. I’m not…
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What you need to know about Twitter DM changes
Read Essay →: What you need to know about Twitter DM changesIf you’re big Twitter users like we are, then you know that currently, you can’t send DMs to people who…
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How to keep your profile off of Google ads with the new Google Terms of Service changes
Read Essay →: How to keep your profile off of Google ads with the new Google Terms of Service changesOn November 11, Google will go live with three new changes to their terms of service, with one particular component…
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How do I take a screenshot on my computer or smartphone?
Read Essay →: How do I take a screenshot on my computer or smartphone?One of the most frequently asked questions we get here on Cool Mom Tech is how to take a screenshot.…
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Why your favorite Facebook fan page posts aren’t showing up in your news feed.
Read Essay →: Why your favorite Facebook fan page posts aren’t showing up in your news feed.You might have noticed that some (or many) of your favorite Facebook fan pages have started disappearing–again–from your news feed…
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5 creative ways to capture first day back-to-school photos.
Read Essay →: 5 creative ways to capture first day back-to-school photos.Don’t know about you, but we tend to be sticklers for capturing those first day back to school photos of…
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How to talk to teens and tweens about smart tech use and safety
Read Essay →: How to talk to teens and tweens about smart tech use and safetyJust about every day, I have a moment where I’m grateful social media wasn’t around when I was a teen…
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How do you type accent marks and special characters? Reader Q+A
Read Essay →: How do you type accent marks and special characters? Reader Q+AI’ve always wondered if there’s an easier way to type accent marks if you don’t have them all memorized, or…