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Web Coolness: 4th of July fireworks photo tips, Apple Music is here, and tech keeping kids safe at the pool

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. A huge round-up of tips, tricks, and helpful hints for taking the best fireworks photos with your smart phone or point and shoot. Apple Music is here!...

Olloclip Active Lens: Get your iPhone ready for summer adventures and group selfies.

by Nicole Blades | Camera Gear, Cell Phone Accessories

To say that we like iPhoneography is like saying Frozen was a marginal success. Yeah. No understatement: We are huge fans of iPhone picture-takin’ over here. Which is why I’m always excited to see what cool, new accessories are popping up to tack on to my...

The Instagram 7.0 update is practically begging you to travel

by Nicole Blades | Photo Apps

Oh, Instagram. Just when we think we couldn’t love you more, you go an pull something like this? Yes, our fave photo social media app just got a really cool update that will help you discover new places and may just revitalize the way your travel this globe....

Tips from a pro for taking better family vacation photos. Good timing, right?

by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks

If you’re like us, you’re counting down the days to a summer vacation, whether it’s a weekend at the grandparents’ place or something bigger. Either way, hopefully it means sleeping in late (kids willing), lazy days, catching up on books and of...

The Pictli photo framing app yields one sweet, sentimental Father’s Day gift if you hurry.

by Stephanie Mayers | Photo Apps

I have always loved giving photos as gifts for everything from Father’s Day to birthdays. Really, what’s better having the luck to capture a perfect moment, then having someone special enough to share it with. So I am crushing on Pictli, a service with a...

Sound the alarms! The new game-changing Google Photos app is pure fire.

by Nicole Blades | Photo Apps

I am a longtime, shameless, all-things-Apple fan. But that doesn’t mean I don’t tip my hat frequently to cool, non-iOS products. And, when it comes to this new Google Photos app? I’m basically standing up and doing a slow-clap, because the app is...

2 super easy new photo book apps for iPhone that will have the dad or grad in your life smiling

by Nicole Blades | Photo Gifts

We’re very pro-photo book around here. Actually, we support any service or app that helps us get all the digital pics we snap off of our devices and on display for all to enjoy. And with Father’s Day and graduation season officially underway, here are two,...

The photo series guaranteed to make you smile from Francois Dourlen

by Liz Gumbinner | Photography

This seems like the kind of weekend after which we all need to smile a little. And I’ve found just the thing. The series of ironically placed iPhone photos over real environments by clever French photographer, professor, and cool dad Francois Dourlen are so...

8 cool Mother’s Day gifts for photographers. We’d take all of them.

by Nicole Blades | Camera Gear, Mother's Day Gifts

As we start looking around for cool Mother’s Day gifts, we realize not every mom is into keepsake pendants and baby footprint artwork. So for the photographer mom in your life who is always trying to capture those special moments with her trusty dSLR or...

Instagram apps that allows you to add text over photos? Reader Q & A.

by Nicole Blades | Photo Apps

Hey Cool Mom Tech! Do y’all know of an Instagram app for iPad that allows you to add text or make a collage? -Delilah, via Twitter Hey Delilah! The short answer to your question is: Indeed we do. And we totally get it, too. Sometimes you just want to fiddle...

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