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Tokimeki Unfollow helps you Konmari your Twitter feed

We know lots of folks have been cleaning up their social media feeds, which is why we had to share Tokimeki Unfollow, a twitter plug-in that allows you to Konmari your Twitter feed. Related: Spring cleaning your tech – the best tips and tricks Once you sync...

How do I keep kids safe on social media? | Guide to Digital Parenting

by Cool Mom Staff | Guide to Digital Parenting, Internet Safety, Social Media, Tips and Tricks

We couldn’t create an Ultimate Guide to Digital Parenting without including tips about how to keep your kids safe on social media. After all, for our tweens and teens, the Internet is social media, and they could sooner give up the games, the videos, and even...

Web Coolness: Turning off an annoying Instagram feature, a new Snapchat feature you should know about, and more

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite links from this past week. We hope you find them interesting and useful! Here’s how to turn off the Instagram activity status feature. Did you know about this new Google Maps feature? (Plus, more Google Maps features you should...

Web coolness: Big changes to Netflix, how passwords get stolen, and more!

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are a few cool tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Running out of space on your iPhone? (And don’t miss how to save battery life on your iPhone.) This airline is using facial recognition technology to speed up security....

Web coolness: Photographing fireworks, driverless grocery delivery, and more!

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are a few cool tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Here’s how to photograph fireworks so you’ll actually enjoy the pictures later. [Photo: colink on flickr via Wired] And if you aren’t seeing them in person,...

Web coolness: Unlock your car with your iPhone, a major legal decision on privacy, and more!

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are a few cool tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. Good news for privacy: yes, police must obtain a warrant to seach location data on cellphones. [photo: Alex Perez on Unsplash] The future is here: use your iPhone to unlock...

Web coolness: A Hello Kitty bullet train, the Sally Ride stamp, and avoiding getting banned from Amazon

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some cool tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did. We are excited for this new stamp release of astronaut Sally Ride. President Trump can no longer block users from seeing his Twitter account. A lively interview with the...

Web cool: Game controllers for users with disabilities, a gold Royal Wedding iPhone X, and the smart luggage ban

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite tech links from around the web. We hope you enjoy them too! Some of our favorite tweets about the Royal Wedding. Yeah, we’re capitalizing it. Speaking of which: got Royal Wedding fever? Check out this gold iPhone X to commemorate...

Web coolness: A digital swear jar, the Twitter password breach, and tech Mother’s Day gifts!

by Cool Mom Staff | Link Roundups

Here are some of our favorite links from around the web. We hope you love them too! Turns out Siri can swear. Plus, the swear jar goes digital! (top) Pokemon designers finally come clean about the inspiration behind Pikachu. We love this cooking app for kids....

If you’re a Twitter user, you must update your password STAT. That’s 330 million of you.

by Liz Gumbinner | Internet Safety, Tips and Tricks

As Twitter has just informed all 330,000,000 of its users in an apologetic but so far underreported post, you should really change your Twitter password right now, this very second. Not to be alarmist — but out of an abundance of precaution. Evidently, a bug...

Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz

Kristen Chase + Liz Gumbinner of Cool Mom Picks

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.

(Answer: It's complicated.)

We're so glad you're here! And we hope we can help you too.