Photography

I still remember my Polaroid camera and how cool I thought I was, able to snap pictures and have them print out instantly. So talk about blast from the past when I saw these cool iPhone skins. The Deluxe Polaroid Camera iPhone 4 skins tu…

Now that you Android users can enjoy an Instagram obsession like me, the next thing you'll find yourself wanting to do is to display your photos on something other than your smart phone screen. So aside from all the cool ways you can pri…

With Instagram finally available to Android users and now getting snatched up for 1 billion dollars by Facebook (whoa!), it seems like soon everyone will be on our beloved photo sharing app--aw Instagram, we can say we knew you when. So …

For all the spouting off I do about organizing your digital photographs , backing them up and filing them neatly away, I have a confession: My iPhoto is a bogged-down, disorganized mess of a thing. For all that "delete! delete! delete!" …

Now that I'm getting back in the habit of carrying around an actual camera, as well as my trusty iPhone, I'm starting to eye all the fabulous dual-use camera bags out there that can double as purses too. Wow, they've come a long way, bab…

I have no qualms about professing my love for the Instagram app , which is probably one of my favorite ways to capture images of my kids on the go. So when I heard about a new app that lets you play memory with your Instagram images, I h…

Many of you photo-clicking moms like me may be starting to panic just a little with the closing of Picnik next month . But along with the other Picnik alternatives we shared a couple of months, we've found another awesome solution and in…

Out of sheer convenience, my iPhone has become my de facto camera and video camera to record all those precious kid moments. But in looking through my thousands of photos and videos in my library, I realize that I'm actually in about thr…

After my huge, exhausting spring cleaning extravaganza last weekend, I found myself with a gigantic box of photos and absolutely no idea what to do with them. That was until I heard about this cool, new-to-me site that will scan and digi…

As a total Instagram and Hipstamatic addict, I've been hoping that at some point that they might actually be synched together for the ultimate iPhoneography match. Well, it seems my wish has been granted. Yes, it's true! Hipstamatic app …

No matter how much I try to follow the "clean hands = clean gadgets" rule, I'm also dealing with four kids who seem to get their smudgy hands on them any chance the get. Now's the perfect time to get in the habit of cleaning your gadgets…

It doesn't even phase my kids anymore that my camera is always in front of my face like an extra appendage growing out from my nose. And while I give them the occasional photographic direction, " Can you please zip up your zipper before …

I've seen my fair share of camera apps for the iPhone that crop, filter, enhance, and make your photos look more professional. There a handful of great ones out there, but one that's recently launched really is in the awesome app categor…

Now that photo apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic have made square photos more common, it was only a matter of time before someone got into the frame game with options made just for our collective iPhoneography obsession. Hatchcraft is …

If you've just come to accept that your iPhone is now your main camera, at least there are plenty of options now to help make those pictures look a lot better. The Holga iPhone lens is a nifty little device that snaps right to your phone…

My love for Dropbox runs deep, but now with a new exciting feature, I'm completely head over heels--and a little envious of you Android users. The newest version of the Dropbox Android app allows you to upload photos and videos directly …

After discovering the iPad USB flash drive that our readers went wild for, I thought I had nabbed the holy grail of tech gadgets. But then I spotted the new card readers at Photojojo and now I know there's more grail to be found. The iPa…

As a casual photographer whose muses are three never-stop-moving children and one wiggly black lab, I am constantly frustrated by the shot that almost was. In the second or two that it takes my camera to focus on the image I want, it's g…

The geek love story of 2012 goes like this: Kaitlyn Trigger, the girlfriend of the wildly popular Instagram app co-founder Mike Krieger, decided to surprise him with an app of her own for Valentine's Day. So she taught herself HTML, CSS,…

I'm a new video baby monitor convert ever since I tried the Philips video baby monitor a couple of years ago. But with a few expecting friends and family members asking me for other options, I was interested in checking out the Motorola …

For some people in our lives, there is no better way to say "I love you" on Valentine's Day than with an awesome new gadget. (Of course for some people, jewelry is preferable, but for them we have Cool Mom Picks .) For those gadget fans …

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…

Now that Google is closing down Picnik , any suggestions for what I can use to edit my photos? -Delilah We were definitely surprised to hear that Picnik is shutting down. I've used it many times to quickly and easily edit photos, and whi…

Editor's Note: We've updated this post with new information we received regarding the changes to Picnik. You might have been as surprised as I was to learn the news that Google will be closing down Picnik , the go-to photo editing site f…