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Web Coolness: The world’s most famous stolen iPhone, raising digital kids, and tech savvy dads

Here’s a few tech links we’ve enjoyed reading this week. We hope you like them too! If you thought the biggest tech story of the year was the Facebook IPO think again. Now this is how to catch a thief! It’s pretty amazing the cool music people...

5 cool Mother’s Day gifts from Instagram photos

by Cool Mom Staff | Photo Gifts

As someone who only uses my smart phone as my camera, I often use my photographs as gifts, many of which happen to be taken using the Instagram app. If you’re still hunting for a cool Mother’s Day gifts, you don’t have to look any further than your...

It’s hip to be square

by Cool Mom Staff | Photo Gifts

Now that photo apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic have made square photos more common, it was only a matter of time before someone got into the frame game with options made just for our collective iPhoneography obsession. Hatchcraft is a nifty little company...

Baby got back.

by Cool Mom Staff | Cell Phone Accessories

There’s just no way I could go without a case on my iPhone 4, thanks to four little ones, but I can’t help but be a little jealous every time I see one those brave folks who go cover-free with their pretty, sleek iPhone. Well with these cool iPhone backs,...

Piquing Our Geek: Liquipel

by Cool Mom Staff | Cell Phone Accessories

After a tragic juice box diaper bag incident, my first iPhone was never the same. With my new phone, I do my best to keep it away from sippy cups, wet counters, and bathrooms, but that doesn’t mean it’s not at risk. So that’s why when I heard about a...

Battery drain issues on your iPhone 4? Solved.

by Jeana | Cell Phone Accessories

If you were like me, you anxiously awaited the iPhone 4S and accompanying iOS 5 announcement. As an iPhone 4 owner, I realized that the “S” didn’t have enough new features to warrant me making the upgrade, but I was still pretty stoked about the new...

Heavy metal for your iPhone: it costs how much??

by Cool Mom Staff | Cell Phone Accessories

With a bunch of kids pawing at my iPhone more than I’d like to admit, I’m always on the look out for a case that might stand the test of eight grubby hands that might accidentally drop it. And so, if you’re like me, this iPhone case might just give...

Web Coolness: Movember, Siri, and Apple circa 1983

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some links we’ve enjoyed reading this week. We hope you like them too! Apple fans will get a kick out of this blast from the past. 1983 to be exact. {via @patricktoneil, @brainpicker} If your spouse is participating in Movember, he can snag a free...

10 reasons to justify an iPhone 4S (should you need them)

by Cool Mom Staff | Cell Phones

I am a proud new owner of an iPhone 4S. And yet, contrary to what you might think about someone who runs a tech review blog, I am not generally one of those crazy early adopters who need to run out and buy the very first generation everything. In fact, this phone is...

We love these iPhone cases, even if they are totally trashy

by Susan | Cell Phone Accessories

I am breathlessly awaiting the arrival of my new iPhone 4S, but my breathlessness has less to do with seeing the new iPhone than with a kind of desperate hopefulness that my current phone will not completely fall apart before the new one shows up. When it does,...

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