spring-cleaning

For so many of us, the new year is about organization and fresh starts. That's why we tend to use January as an opportunity to cross off a few tech resolutions off our lists -- or at least get a head start on some of those to-do list ite…

It's always a good time to talk about how to best clean your phone and gadgets. But especially this time of year. With cold and flu season now meeting Covid-is-back season (again, sigh) it's important to know how to safely clean your pho…

We talked last week about tips for spring-cleaning your phone , and this week I'm taking a stab at my email. I'd never let my actual snail mail pile up in a massive overflow of unanswered bills and letters, but for some reason I let my e…

With spring nearly here, I'm getting antsy to clean up my yard and go through all my closets to get rid of all the junk we've accumulated over the winter. But I'm going to start small, literally, and follow these tips for spring cleaning…

We've already told you how dirty your phone probably is right now . So now, we're going to gross you out a little more by telling you that your AirPods are probably pretty dirty too. If you're on a bit of a disinfecting tear, we suggest …

Spring is nearly here, despite snowy forecasts even down South. But our allergens haven't gotten the note that we're not ready for them yet, and my entire family is sneezy, itchy, and cranky. And after my son's allergies got so bad we en…

Let me start by saying that we here at Cool Mom Tech are hardly germaphobes, however, if you knew what was growing on your iPhone and tablet screens, not to mention your ear buds (yep, just think about that for a second), you might be mo…

If you're like me, you probably have 6,782 photos sitting in your camera roll on your phone, hundreds of song downloads you never actually listen to, and tons of out-of-date unnecessary documents on your laptop. If that sounds familiar, …

We're hardly germaphobes but if you knew the bacteria growing on your phones, tablets, and earbuds, well, let's just say you might take a few minutes to clean them off every week (and not just once a year), especially if your kids are to…

Just because January is over doesn't mean we can't still clean, organize, declutter and start fresh . Most of us will start (and finish) with the obvious physical objects surrounding us and taking up space. While our editor Christina sha…

With three kids, one dog, and enough stuff to fill a suburban house, I quickly became a convert to the KonMari method of organization, or "tidying" as founder Marie Kondo puts it. Her simple and direct way of weeding through all the stuf…

The first word that pops into my head after I hear "spring" is "cleaning," probably because three kids plus one dog equals a lot of cleaning at any time of the year. And with today being the first day of spring (yay!), my free app of the…

Do you have some basic tech chore to do -- say, deleting old digital photos -- but you just never seem to find the time to get to it? It's like permanently etched in your to-do list, and every time you scroll through your loaded smartpho…

We've been spring cleaning our house for a few weeks now, thanks to a little book on the Konmari method of tidying and organization , so when I heard the song called Too Much Junk by Elska, I knew I had my family's new anthem. Give it a …

Ready for the best tips to help you spring clean your tech? Hey, it doesn't even have to be spring. The way we are constantly putting our hands all over the faces of our smart devices, you would think we were John Travolta at the Oscars.…

Now that temperatures have finally crept beyond 40 (just barely), I am looking ahead to April when I go into total spring cleaning mode. With my home office and workspace area littered with Post-It notes, pens that don't work and lots an…

There are household chores that simply must be done, begrudgingly, like laundry, emptying the dishwasher, cleaning the bathrooms...some of which can be a little more automated than others. But what if there was something like a Roomba or…

I have tried any number of screen cleaners, sprays, pre-moistened wipes and home remedies for cleaning my laptop screen and at last I found one that actually uh...cleans. Go figure. When the sigOth showed up with a package of Windex Elec…

With four kids under seven running around my house, you can imagine what my floors look like. Fortunately, my husband is a little obsessed with keeping it clean, which at times can take up more time and energy than he has to spare. I've …

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…

If there's anything that drives me crazy, it's an overflowing, disorganized email inbox. I get upwards of 200 emails a day (and that's just the pitches!), but I do a pretty decent job of keeping everything in order, thanks in part to som…

With iPhones, iPads, e-readers and video games coming out of our ears, my house is being overrun by cords. Aside from labeling them with a Sharpie (Tip: silver works great on black cords), I've decided that since I'm cleaning and organiz…

Now that we have adopted a large, hairy lab, I am fighting a losing battle against little black hairs everywhere. So when I spotted this latest weapon in the battle against dirty floors, I couldn't resist giving it a try. And though the …

With spring officially here in the Deep South, I'm determined to do a massive spring cleaning before the end of the week. And that includes my computer, which definitely needs a little TLC. So while I'm dusting the blinds and washing the…