How you’re using it: Evernote

by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks

We’ve heard people rave about Evernote as a fantastic, free way to save inspiration and ideas and access them from anywhere – computer, phone, or your favorite mobile device. But when we asked our go-to help desk, our Twitter followers and Facebook fans,...

How you’re using it: Dropbox

by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks

One of the exciting aspects of technology is that there’s never just one way to use something. But given our limited time as busy parents, we never seem to have enough of it to dedicate to playing around with applications and gadgets to maximize their...

Quick tech tip: Filtering out unwanted tweets with Tweetdeck

by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks

I am on Twitter a lot. A lot. And while I really do adore all the feeds that I follow, every so often there’s an event or a “Twitter party” of some sort that’s cluttering up my stream and I want to filter it out. Fortunately, TweetDeck offers a...

Tech support for luddites (Read: your parents)

by Mir | Websites We Love

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...

Turn the teaching around and get your parents up-to-speed

by Jeana | Uncategorized

In addition to being a mom, wife, career woman, sister, daughter, and more lately, I’ve found myself serving as tech support for the litany of tech-related questions my parents have been asking me. Of all the mini projects I’ve helped them out with, I...

Shooting from the heart: Expressive Photography from The Shutter Sisters

by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment

I might be aging myself here, but remember when only professional photographers had professional cameras? Now it seems that every other house has a professional level camera, even if most people don’t know how to get the most out of them. Enter the fabulous new...