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!...
Web Coolness: Kids and screen time, undo send on Gmail, hooray!, and lots more tech news
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. This cool little gadget alerts you of your calendar events with a bubble. Funny! (via swiss miss) Love this: Valedictorian dedicates an anonymous...
Web Coolness: Hillary Clinton on Instagram, big Apple News, and a text walking lane (not kidding).
Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. We think this Star Wars mug makes the perfect geeky Father’s Day gift. Hillary Clinton is on Instagram! There was lots of speculation about her...
The New Spotify changes: 3 awesome reasons to become a Spotify Premium member right now
We’re huge Spotify fans in my home and on the go (in case you were still wondering whether moms actually know how to use Spotify), and now with the big New Spotify announcement yesterday, I’ve suddenly got a few more reasons to love this popular streaming...
Web Coolness: Minecraft Easter eggs, Periscope, and big Facebook changes. Again.
Here are a few tech links we’ve enjoyed this week. We hope you like them too! Easter is just over a week away. Who’s making these Minecraft Easter eggs? We love all the new iPhone 6 ads featuring actual user photos, but these parody Apple ads are...
7 of the best podcasts for parents. And other people who like listening to smart, fun things.
As I woke up New Year’s day and made pancakes to the sweet sounds of NPR, I realized how much I really like radio. But with radio dying, I’ve started making my way over to podcasts which let you filter exactly what you want, when you want it, often for...
Web Coolness: Sleepy time photos, Facebook pay-for-play, and flash drives – do or don’t?
Here are a few links we’ve enjoyed reading this week. We hope you like them too! Check out this cool series of photographs on how we sleep. If you’ve ever wanted to quit Facebook, this is a good essay to read. Speaking of Facebook, do we really have to...
TuneIn to 70,000 radio stations and 2 million podcasts. Hopefully not all at once.
Once in a while, my husband and I have been known to make wise family decisions and this was one of our best: we took the TV sets out of the entire first floor of our house, wanting to spend a bit more time in conversation (remember that?) with our kids and a bit more...
Looking for a way to entertain the kids without screentime? Don’t forget the podcast!
With the plethora of app offerings these days, I had all but forgotten the trusty podcast; the non-streaming, no frills audio and video sessions that are there for you whenever the mood strikes; whether in the air, below ground or at your desk. Thankfully Apple...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
We started Cool Mom Tech in 2010 to help make our increasingly digital lives easier, more organized, more meaningful, and more fun, however old your kids may be.
We love that it's grown to become the go-to source for millions of parents who want commonsense info about tech delivered with a smile.
We even have the privilege of sharing our tips + tricks with The TODAY Show, CNN, HLN, GMA, Nightline, newspapers and magazines around the country, and our favorite -- regular parents who stop us at PTA meetings and ask us how old kids need to be to get a smartphone, and whether they really need to panic about Snapchat.
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