by Cool Mom Team | Editors' Picks of the Year
Over the course of this year, we’ve put together lots of helpful tech tips and tricks, so many of them from your own questions to us. (We love answering reader questions!) Here, 11 of our very favorite tech tips of the year (including lots just for parents or...
by Liz Gumbinner | Tips and Tricks
Last year, Nicole put together this wonderfully helpful post on how to take better holiday pictures of the family, and it’s definitely worth another look today. At least if you think you might come across, oh, one or two photo opps of the kids over the coming...
by Christina Refford | Tips and Tricks
I am always amazed by some of the creative holiday photo cards that come my way in the mail each year. I have some creative friends and family, I guess! I love them all of course, but there are always a few shots that take my breath away, make me laugh out loud, or...
by Liz Gumbinner | Travel
I have become a total battery power junkie, never leaving home without at least two portable chargers. Well, that’s including my charging case, to be fair. Partly it’s the dreaded iPhone battery drain that I’ve experienced more than I’d like,...
by Kristen Chase | Uncategorized
If you’re like me, you’ll be printing your fair share of printables and more over the holiday season, which as we all know, often means those dreaded last-minute trips to the office store for more printer ink. Always at the most inconvenient time, right?...
by Cool Mom Team | Tips and Tricks
The holidays are coming—as in, fast—and that means company. While we’re always thinking about organization tips like cleaning off the china or straightening the bookshelves, it’s easy to forget about what a presence tech is in our homes and how it can...
by Nicole Blades | Tips and Tricks
In addition to fun-sized everything, one of the best parts of Halloween is seeing all of the adorable (adoraboo?) photos of people’s kids in costume. Some of you are so clever with these costume ideas you dream up for your kids! We wanted to help you show off...
by Jeana | Tips and Tricks
With Instagram having officially passed Twitter in mobile users this past spring, it’s not surprising that the other social networks are trying to take a page from what’s successful about Instagram. I’ve always loved all the great apps for creating...
by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks
I cannot tell you how many times I call a fellow iPhone user with FaceTime Audio and they’re all, What is this? followed by Wow, why don’t I ever use it? It seems that a ton of people, at least in my wide circle of friends and family, are familiar with...