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9 fantastic gender-neutral apps for kids around themes that traditionally weren’t. Because girls like robots and boys like styling hair.

This week I was reading a post from one of our favorite app developers, Toca Boca, about how actively they try to create gender-neutral apps, and I was really impressed learning just how much effort they put into it. Like the sketch they featured in developing the...

Apps for (RED): Help fight AIDS, right from your iPhone

by Julie | Causes and General Do-Gooding

Tomorrow may be Cyber Monday, but it’s also World AIDS Day. Which means it’s an awesome opportunity to do some extra good when you shop, and at one of our favorite places too, the Apple store. All this week through December 7, Apple will donate a portion...

Bring the great outdoors inside with the scenic Toca Nature app

by Christina Refford | Fun Apps for Kids

Though my kids love to explore the woods behind our house, with the weather turning frosty their time spent outdoors will be shortened considerably. So for those days when Mother Nature is less than hospitable, I’m thrilled to find the Toca Nature app from Cool...

6 of the most fun Halloween apps for kids to get them excited about something other than chocolate.

by Jeana | Fun Apps for Kids

So of course Halloween has crept up on us seemingly faster than ever before. I’m going to avoid thinking about what happens after Friday (holiday shopping, eek!), and focus on getting those costumes ready and devising a strategy to not eat every peanut M&M...

5 of our favorite tech Pinterest pins

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then check out these 5 pins plus lots more of our own tech picks and coolness from around the web. 1. This hilarious iPhone 6 case cracks us up every time, because yeah, we get it. (And it’s not even the holidays...

Scare up some fun before Halloween with Toca Boca’s new Toca Boo

by Christina Refford | Fun Apps

If Halloween’s scary side has your kids jumping at every bump in the night, you’ll want to check out Toca Boo, a brand-new app for iOS by Cool Mom Tech favorite Toca Boca that lets your child be the scary one—and not just when they miss their nap....

Huge news: New App Store bundles get you lots of your favorite iOS apps for less

by Julie | Fun Apps

Along with all the other coolness that Apple has launched recently, they’ve also introduced app bundles with iOS 8 — multiple apps from the same developer, bundled together for a lower price than if you bought them individually. A few of them stand out...

Web Coolness: How to take Fireworks photos, Toca Boca app sale, and more

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. Helpful tips for taking geek-worthy Fireworks photos, plus our own photo tricks here. You might not believe what Facebook did with users’ feeds....

Toca Pet Doctor app lets kids care for animals without ever touching a real litter box.

by Julie | Fun Apps for Kids

We’ve raved many times about Toca Boca, one of our absolute favorite kids’ app developers–and yours, from everything you tell us. Today they’ve released Toca Pet Doctor, another app we’re pretty sure kids (and parents) will love, because...

Toca Boca apps on sale, one day only. Your kids want them, promise.

by Liz Gumbinner | Fun Apps for Kids

While we’ve been singing the praises of Toca Boca apps for kids for ages now, we’re not the only ones. They are wildly engaging, often educational, and absolutely charming with quirky details and humorous characters that can only come from this Swedish...

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