Best Apps

As much as I love my iPad, I still use good old paper and pen to jot down notes to myself and make to-do lists, because it's just way faster than me clicking away on a tablet keyboard. But all that has changed since I started using Penul…

Justin Timberlake dressed as a cup of soup. Michael Bolton vamping as Captain Jack Sparrow. Both are a YouTube hoot. The idea of my kids coming across either one while clicking through to what they think might be age appropriate is not. …

I don't know what my kids like more--playing with this new CMP fave book-turned-app, or hearing me say, "Here, kids. First draw a butt." From the people who brought us the wonderful Everything Butt Art book comes the brand new, just laun…

Our readers often ask us to suggest more kids' apps beyond iOS, and while we do cover the great Android apps we find, there's certainly a discrepancy in both quantity and quality when compared to what's available for iOS. Well Android us…

If you're a regular reader of Cool Mom Tech, you know what big fans we are of Instagram , the ultra-cool iPhone app/social network (coming soon to Android!) that lets you edit, add effects to and share your beautiful photos. If you're an…

I used to use my Netflix queue to keep the list of movies I'd missed, shows I wanted to watch on DVD, etc., but now I'm not sure where to manage this stuff since we canceled our subscription. Is there a way for me to organize my lists fo…

I know I don't have the only 2 year-old who can pick up my iPhone, unlock the screen and navigate apps. And it never fails, when the phone is in her hands, the Nursery Rhyme Karaoke app, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star , is the first thing s…

If you constantly have regret about sleeping through all those 8:30 AM college classes or have always wanted to learn another language, technology is now making it mighty easy to add a couple IQ points, in the comfort of your own homes. …

After my kids had mastered mama and dada , the next thing they started saying is When are we getting a dog? Since my three kids are so obsessed with friendly canines, it was a no-brainer that we'd check out a new app that stars man's (an…

All last year I read about the addictive awesomeness that is the Word W.E.L.D.E.R. app. And I resisted. Oh, did I resist. I am someone enamored of word game apps like Words with Friends and Scrabble , so I knew I'd love it. But it wasn't…

Update: The WebMD app is now available for the Android platform too! Our first baby was born about one week before the first iPhone. The phone was a lifesaver; she was was one of those won't-rest-anywhere-EVER-but-on-your-chest types and…

My kids have a serious iPhone habit, and yes, I suppose you could call me the ultimate enabler since the kidcentric apps on my devices vastly outnumber the ones meant to help adults make a decent mixed drink (ahem). And then there's YouT…

I'm usually the one on kitchen duty, but today, my kids served up some fried sausages, microwaved pears, boiled carrots, and um, pureed sardines. Good thing I wasn't the one eating any of it. Toca Boca, one of our favorite app designers …

There's nothing my kids like more than being read to at bedtime. Whether they're dog-eared or digital, calming, whispering affairs that encourage them to catch their forty winks are the usual go-tos, and Robot Blue From Planet 22 is no e…

Now that you've all got those shiny new iPhones and iPod touches for the holidays (or at least a few million of you do), it's time to start loading up on apps for the kids. A good place to start is our editors' picks for best kids' apps …

If you're like us, one of your new year's resolutions has a little something to do with getting organized when it comes to family management. You've already told us a ton of amazing ways you put your Google calendars to work for you and …

Call me an old fuddy-duddy, but there's not much about the Times Square New Year's Eve crowds that has me wishing I was there in the thick of things watching the ball drop. But with this nifty free app, The Times Square Countdown, I can …

This was the year I was going to be organized for Christmas. But let's see...I haven't wrapped a single present, I have three handmade gifts to finish, a family party tonight where I'm expected to bring cookies, lots of cookies, and a me…

*EDITORS NOTE: PLEASE SEE UPDATE BELOW When I was a kid, I used to LOVE those video segments on PBS shows like Reading Rainbow and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood that featured things being made or built. There was one visit to a crayon-making …

I tend to get a little romantic around the holidays. Not in the candlelight dinner with my husband kind of way, but more in the drink hot chocolate, nibble on cookies, music playing softly in the background while my pajama-clad children …

Seeing family and friends over the holiday break is wonderful way to round out the year, but sometimes getting to where you need to be involves traffic jams, travel headaches and long delays in airports with really bad food courts. No th…

Being social takes entirely too much effort since becoming a mom. I don't have time for lengthy phone calls and emails with five different recipients using "reply all" too often. Then again, being social is one of the only ways us moms s…

Recently, I was looking at a friend's amazing Instagram stream and I asked how she got her photos looking so gorgeous. She said one word: Rosebud. Then she died. No, just kidding. She said Snapseed . Within moments I had it downloaded. A…

Those of us who love smart-parenting magazine Brain, Child , The Magazine for Thinking Mothers know that we're in for a treat whenever another funny, tender, intelligent and quirky quarterly issue shows up in our mailbox. However, I don'…