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Travel blogging gets easier with Trip Lens

If you’ve got a busy summer ahead of you with adventures in new and exciting places, and you like to share your every move with your closest friends and family, a new app called Trip Lens is one to add to your packing, er, download list before you leave. Trip...

Web Coolness: Missing Facebook updates, Fireworks on your smart phone, and Seventeen Magazine

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some tech links we’ve enjoyed reading this week. We hope you like them too! Good tips on how to take photos of fireworks with your phone. Could you have used it this week? A cool infographic on where the world’s tweets come from. Hello brazil!...

Orbitz, take me away

by Jeana | Travel Apps

I usually don’t feel the need to “go away” on vacation during the summer months, especially since it’s already warm out and we live close to the beach. But after seeing a show on the travel channel about Tahiti, I decided that is where I want...

Piquing Our Geek: Would you buy a plane ticket on Twitter?

by Delilah S. Dawson | Travel Essentials

Not quite today, but very soon, you’ll be able to book cheap flights on Twitter with one click and three keystrokes. Is that something you’d ever be willing to do? TweetAFlight is leading the pack in bringing e-commerce directly to Twitter and cutting out...

Web Coolness: Instagram tips, Etsy scholarship, and kids on Facebook

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some links we’ve enjoyed reading this week. We hope you like them too! This week, our lucky Editor Kristen saw the Aurora Borealis as part of a #GoProAlaska expedition. Check out the amazing Flickr Pool (pictured), and stay tuned for her thoughts on...

Should car cell phone use be (almost) totally banned?

by Cool Mom Staff | Causes and General Do-Gooding

As a mom with a house full of kids, sometimes the only place that I can actually make a quiet phone call is when I’m in my car, thanks to the help of my hands-free device and OnStar. However, on Tuesday I learned about a proposed cell phone ban in which the...

Take the A train. To the C train. Then walk four blocks and catch the bus.

by Liz Gumbinner | Travel Apps

If you’re a city-dweller like me–or even a city visitor–HopStop is definitely a lifesaver. This site offers an easy way to get transition directions by subway, cab, bus, or even by foot. (Although truly, it’s the subway that gets the most use...

3 top language translation apps you’ll want to have on the road

by Cool Mom Staff | Travel Apps

Having just returned from two weeks in Spain with my family, I can assure you traveling internationally with a couple of kids can truly be a joy. (Fear not the plane ride!) But then, there are times it was also a little stressful, what with me having studied French...

4 cool Google tricks you might not know

by Cool Mom Staff | Tips and Tricks

I’m a card-carrying member of the Google frequent searchers club, whether it’s odd cold symptoms or Ryan Reynolds photos. (Heh.). But little did I know that Google can do a whole lot more than just random searches. Here are four cool Google tricks that can...

With Gogobot, travel plans get social. Or, more social?

by Jeana | Travel Apps

When you’re traveling to a new location, there are obviously lots of websites that gather recommendations from the public. But you do kind of have to take it all with a grain of salt, when you don’t actually know who is insisting that Mama...

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