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Our editors’ most helpful tech tips of the year: Editors’ Best Tech of 2015

by Cool Mom Staff | Editors' Picks of the Year

Over the course of the year on Cool Mom Tech, we’ve put together so many helpful tech tips and tricks, many of which are answers to reader questions we get via email, over Twitter, on Facebook, and heck, even from our friends and family in person! So we’ve...

Web Coolness: Why your kids love Snapchat, Gmail auto reply, and a complete guide to the new emojis

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them too. We’re loving The Monster Project, where kids draw monsters and artists around the world recreate them to help teach kids the importance of creativity and imagination. Why...

Web Coolness: Exciting news for Ahmed, who won Back to the Future Day, + geeky Halloween costumes

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

We rounded up some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you like them as much as we did. Here’s a fun, quick DIY for Halloween that the kids will love. We’re geeking out over the Gems of Wikipedia tumblr. (via swiss miss)...

Web Coolness: Facebook Reactions, a laundry-folding robot, and the world’s first smart menstrual cup.

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them too. Calling all Star Wars fans. Now this is one Halloween lawn decoration you need. Great news! HBO NOW is now on Roku. Whoo! Instead of the highly-anticipated dislike...

Web Coolness: #PlutoFlyBy, Camp Google, and is your private Instagram account really private?

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you like them too. We’re pretty impressed with Camp Google. Bonus: It’s free! Awesome way to keep kids busy this summer. Why this mom became a SnapChat convert. Are private...

Web Coolness: How Periscope is changing music, a new Art of the Brick exhibit, and the coolest dad on Instagram

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Reason #51923 we wish we were at Comic Con: Art of the Brick creator Nathan Sawaya is previewing his new DC Comics exhibit. (via Pop Sugar Tech) Hey swimmers,...

Web Coolness: Kids and screen time, undo send on Gmail, hooray!, and lots more tech news

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

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: POTUS on Twitter, Facebook dangers for people with depression, and new emoji coming soon

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web this week. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. For you Star Wars fans, a very fascinating Droid encyclopedia. 5 reasons Facebook can be dangerous for people with depression. Love this: A site that...

KiDCASE is a clever, new iPad smart case that puts more screentime control in parents’ hands

by Nicole Blades | Laptop + Tablet Cases

Watching our kids maneuver their way through all this new tech is a joy. It’s just so cool to see how much they’re doing and learning on these glowing gadgets. But the other side of that is trying to stay on top of what they’re watching, monitoring...

Smartphone addiction: 5 things I learned when I put away my phone around my kids for a week

by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks

I’ve often wondered if I’ve had a bit of a smartphone addiction, seeing as how my iPhone often functions as my third arm. Or second brain. As a busy work-at-home-mom who runs her own business, my smartphone allows me freedoms that I wouldn’t...

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