by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
If you’re like us, you find yourself using Google to check the same recipes and ratios over and over again. How much water for brown rice? What amount of butter do I need for that pie crust again? That’s why we’re loving this clever iPhone trick from...
by Kristen Chase | Cell Phone Accessories
A new season on the horizon means a new iPhone case for me, and from all my searching, it looks like geodes, marble, and rocks are hotter than ever. I love that you can go bright or subtle, depending on your taste, both of which are sure to stand out from the crowd....
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
Leave it to the kids to figure out cool iPhone tricks before we do, especially where emoji are concerned. Turns out, there’s a fun way to insert emoji into your texts without toggling back and forth between keyboards — something that can be a bit of a...
by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Star Wars and Louis Vuitton together? Yes, please! We found your next family trip: Check out this real-life Mario Kart. Nintendo goes low-tech with high-tech...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
Over the holiday break, I took my family on a trip to Sedona, Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and thanks to my fantastic iPhone 8+ camera with Portrait Mode, I’ve got some fantastic photos. But, as I quickly discovered after some trial and error, Portrait Mode...
by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups
From scary apps your kids might be using to the solar eclipse of 2017 (remember that?), we rounded up our top 10 most popular posts here on Cool Mom Tech from 2017. 10. Is Unroll.me safe to use? After the controversy over their use of data (which is common amongst...
by Kristen Chase | Cell Phones
If you’ve always had a sinking feeling that your iPhone battery started to you know what the fan when new iPhone models were released, you probably felt vindicated last week. That’s when multiple sources, like our friends at CNET, reported that indeed,...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
Even we here at Cool Mom Tech were surprised to learn about this hidden iPhone safety feature that could possibly help save lives. And while it’s easy to activate, it’s not something you would happen to do by accident, which is great for those of us with...
by Kristen Chase | Holiday Picks
I’ve seen lots of different kinds of photo ornaments, but none like this clever DIY tutorial for iPhone photo ornaments we found at Chica Circle, created by Elba at Live Colorful. And hooray, it looks like even us not-so-crafty folks could figure how to make...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
Okay, so please tell me I’m not the only iPhone owner who’s had an iPhone for literally years…and never knew this super basic time-saving iPhone trick. Turns out, your clock — you know, the little digital display of the time at the very top...