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iHandy Carpenter – essential tools in your back pocket

We recently re-painted our living room and designated one wall for our arrangement of black-framed photos. In my haste to get the project done, I eyeballed placement–never a good idea. It looked nothing like the spread I saw in Restoration Hardware’s...

Welcome CBS Early Show viewers!

by Cool Mom Staff | Best Apps

We’re so thrilled that you caught our Editor-in-Chief Liz Gumbinner on the Early Show this morning talking about the Babycenter.com Mobile Moms research. Or if you missed the segment, you can watch it right here. We’re the first to admit that we love our...

Dads Dig This: NPR Music app

by Cool Mom Staff | Best Apps

We’re thrilled to welcome Grammy nominee Brady Rymer as a guest Dads Dig This blogger. He’s one of our favorite family music artists whose new album “Love me for who I am” is just out! If you’re on the lookout for a trusted place to...

Sing your baby to sleep with your smart phone

by Kristen Chase | Best Apps

Even though I’m the one with a few music degrees, it just so happens that my husband is the bedtime songbird around our house. Only problem is that he travels much of the month, leaving me to try to recreate his original lullabies for each of the kids. And then...

Gorgeous baby announcements right from your smart phone

by Cool Mom Staff | Babies, Best Apps

The joke around our house is that by the time we actually get around to sending paper baby announcements, we might as well just make them first birthday party invitations and kill two birds with one stone. Or card. Too bad I didn’t have this amazing iPhone app...

Hot Trend Alert: Playdate apps for smartphones

by Jeana | Best Apps

The more developers realize that moms are devouring phone apps, the more they’re creating awesome apps just for us. Last week alone, we learned about a whole ton of new FourSquare-style apps just for parents, that help you connect with your social circle for...

An app that motivates my kid to clean his room? I am so in.

by Betsy | Best Apps

Sure, in a perfect world my son would make his bed and clean up the minefield of LEGOS without being asked. That would be the same perfect world in which I could eat chocolate cupcakes and lose weight. But in the world in which I actually live getting my son to take...

Budgeting iPad apps? Reader Q&A

by Cool Mom Staff | Best Apps

Although I am enjoying my iPad I miss some of the things my laptop offered, like excel for budgeting. Do you have any budgeting app suggestions? – Steff What? You mean iPads aren’t just for games? I seem to forget that since my kids can’t stop...

Make those midnight new year calls with Skype. On your cell phone. In full video.

by Beth | Best Apps

For so many of us, it’s a tradition to pick up the phone at midnight on New Year’s–okay, maybe 12:03 after we’ve done our kissing a those with us in person and made fun of Snooki–and wish our loved ones a happy New Year. Obviously Skype...

SpeakSake is like an audio scrapbook of awesomeness

by Cool Mom Staff | Best Apps

Previously posted on Cool Mom Picks Ever been the person in charge of a group gift, and discovered that special circle of purgatory that involves trying to contact large numbers of people and keep track of who’s done what and who still needs to contribute? Yeah....