Kids' (free!) music download of the week: Good Morning My Love

The good news this morning? The kids slept past 6am. The bad news? Most of us lost an hour of precious sleep to daylight savings time.

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A great excuse to ignore that incoming call

Your mother is calling--again--and just when the Bachelor is handing out his roses. (Priorities, people!) What do you do? Ignore the call and feel guilty? Reject the call and feel guiltier? Pick it up and feel grouchy during the whole exchange? Or maybe...there's another option.

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How to make your online videos look better

In my camera roll, I'd say the proportion of photos to videos is about 90/10. The videos are fun keepsakes, but I find that with my videos, they're not quite ready for prime time--they're either too shaky, too short, too long, or my voice is the only thing you can hear.

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Your life...turned into a comic book

Ready for one crazy addictive app for you iPhoneographers and world travelers?

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5 of our favorite Pinterest pins this week

Obsessed with Pinterest as we are? Follow us! Then check out our favorite pins from this past week that you might have missed.

1. A fabulous educational video series for kids that also happens to be free.

2. Are you as guilty as the people on this funny, geeky poster?

3. A wonderful resource for girl-inspired content that helps to promote self-confidence. Love!

4. The ultimate gift for Dr. Who fans. Whoa.

5. It's amazing apps like this one that make us so glad to have tech as parents.

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Scratch Hard: An app to help you save money shopping. And it's fun. Like shopping.

I'm all about saving money, but don't really have time to scour through the Sunday circulars for coupons. And while there are a slew of coupon/deal apps out there for finding local savings, I found another one that you might want to add to your arsenal of shopping apps.

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7 of our favorite women-founded tech companies

Today is International Women's Day, and we thought it would be cool to highlight some of our very favorite women-owned tech companies that matter to parents--you know, aside from Cool Mom Tech.

As much as we need more women in technology fields, the truth is there are lots. Lots. Even if you don't hear about them enough. Everyone here is thankful for all those brilliant women who are changing the face of the world through technology every day.

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Web Coolness: Creative Wi-Fi names, a free math app, and the best educational websites for kids

Here are a few links we've enjoyed reading this week. We hope you like them too!

We're thinking it's time to get more creative with our Wi-Fi network names. Ha!

You'll never guess which tech icon is moonlighting as a pastry chef.

Make sure you check out our picks for great educational websites for kids.

This may look like the intro to some cool laser show, but unbelievably, this piece of art was made from something your kids use!

One of our favorite math apps is free today only. Hurry!

Techlicious's keyboard shortcuts for Windows and Mac are super helpful.

Could this kind of technology actually help kids with dyslexia?

Guess which cool Instagram product we covered (and drooled over) is going into production in 2014? Yay!

One of our top tech picks from CES 2013 is now available for pre-order. See why you'll want to be on the list to get this first. 

We were sad to hear that this social information sharing service is ending on April 30th. Make sure to check your account before they close!

This beautifully-written letter from the Fried Okra blog will make you think twice before judging the mom at the playground with her head in her iPhone.

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Facebook privacy tips: 5 Facebook settings you should double-check

My Facebook activity has dropped off lately because I realized how much time I was spending on it--but also in part because of the confusing Facebook privacy changes that they seem to be making continually, sometimes unbeknownst to their users.

With today's anticipated News Feed announcement (being able to filter your feed to suit your interests) and recent Facebook Graph search update allowing profiles to be searchable in the near future, seems there's always good reason to just double check that your privacy settings are up-to-date.

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