Jeana Tahnk

One of the things I like least about traveling is the very initial phase of planning and researching flights, comparing fares, and figuring if it's worth paying $100 more to have a non-stop flight (it always is). The new Orbitz app , as …

Someone recommended I purchase the "Total Baby" app and it doesn't look like it's available anymore in in iTunes. Any similar apps you know of and could recommend for parents of newborns? - Kelly Hi Kelly! When we checked, the Total Baby…

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 …

The Fodor's guides have been travel essentials for anyone traveling anywhere for the last few decades. But can the Fodor's app become a reasonable substitute for those pages and pages of great info? I gave it a shot. In preparation for a…

Q: I am tired of the piles of bills every month that I have to stuff into a file, cram into my filing cabinet, and never look at again. Can you make any recommendations on tech that can help get them organized? - Sarah Hi, Sarah. Good qu…

Every time I see toddlers wildly tapping and swiping at their moms' phones, I wonder how much they're inadvertently racking up in iTunes purchases--or perhaps which international country they're dialing. But it's not just toddlers that a…

As a former photographer, there are times when I feel guilty using my iPhone as my main camera source. The iPhone takes great photos, no doubt, but sometimes I think I should dust off my old Canon EOS DSLR and put it back to work. The on…

One of the many things I love about summer is the enticing and oh-so-summery smell of things cooking on the grill. Mmmm...meat. My husband is the house-appointed grillmaster, but I'd like to start expanding my grilling horizons beyond ha…

Talking to parents of older kids makes me want to build a machine that will stop time in its tracks. While I look forward to my kids getting older (kinda), there is so much comfort in their ages right now and not having to question where…

If you've recently noticed a lack of updates from your favorite brands, bloggers, or fan pages on Facebook (or maybe you haven't realized it until just now), it may be because of the introduction of Facebook's new Promoted Posts . But we…

Believe it or not, summer brain drain is a real phenomenon. Bill Nye the Science Guy even said so recently on Kids Place Live (yes, the de facto radio station on in my car) and he mentioned that math and science are the first subjects to…

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…

Ever since my husband took over my iPad, I figured it would be easier to just give up and use my Kindle Fire at bedtime. But as part of my news-reading routine, Flipboard had been sadly absent from list of go-to apps. That is, until now.…

I think it's pretty well-established at this point that I'm a fan of fashionable tech , and the same goes for cases for the popular new Kindle Fire . I use any excuse possible to accessorize my gadgets with beauties like this Van Gogh iP…

Since I work off a five-year-old laptop that looks like a Commodore 64 next to some of the newer laptops on the market, I'm always looking for ways to spruce it up. I frequently update my desktop wallpaper with kids' photos and change th…

Ever since the big Apple announcement last week, I've been contemplating taking the plunge on a MacBook Air . As excited as I am for this possibility, I'm probably more excited about all the fun ways to accessorize the Air--like this gor…

One probably wouldn't have guessed that a one-eared Dutch post-impressionist painter from the 1880s would still be making an impact in our tech-obsessed world of today, but Van Gogh seems to be popping up all over our digital devices, wh…

Last week's big Apple WWDC announcement about major updates to iOS and MacBooks, along with yesterday's Microsoft tablet announcement...well, you can imagine I'm pretty much in tech heaven right now. Even though I'm a loyal iPad user, I …

The place where I charge my iPhone is on the desk in our kitchen, where mail, bills, kids' artwork and trinkets always seem to get placed. And every day or so when I need to juice my phone, I always find myself maneuvering the cable arou…

Anytime Apple holds a big event, we at Cool Mom Tech wait with bated breath for the news of their next great tech innovations. Yesterday at the WWDC (World Wide Developer's Conference), in usual Apple fashion, their announcements didn't …

I've been eyeing the MacBook Air for quite some time now and after reading Kristen's recent post on why exactly it's so great for moms, I'm convinced. My old Dell laptop has been my loyal computing companion for the past several years, b…

My kids are at the age now when piggy banks are more than big rattles and loose change is no longer a choking hazard. Money is starting to take on new meaning--like when my son recently asked for new Bey Blades and I said he could save u…

Any other parents in denial that the school year is coming to an end? Summer vacation beckons and lots of trips to the beach, trips to Grandma and Grandpa's, and trips in general are on the horizon. Yay! That said, the planning leading u…

My kids, like many, fall into the "Quasimodo trance" as I call it when they are alone with my iPad and play mindless games. They sit, hunched over and when asked a question, simply respond with grunts and indiscernible noises. Not so whe…