Coast 2 Coast Mom

Angry Birds Saturdays - Play and Win a Samsung SMART TV

So playing Angry Birds on our Samsung SMART TV is pretty cool, but what if you don't have one and would like to try it out too? Or better yet, what if you'd like to WIN a Samsung SMART TV by playing Angry Birds? It could happen. Just tweet a photo of yourself playing Angry Birds on a Samsung Smart TV to @SamsungTV with the hashtags #AngryBirdSaturdays and #AngryBirdSaturday for a chance to win prizes including a Samsung Blu-ray player, Angry Birds plushies, or a grand prize of a new Samsung ES8000 SMART TV. Just be sure that you're following... Read more →

Samsung SMART TV Angry Birds App Fun

Facebook just recently announced that they reached the one billion user mark last week, but one of the most prolific games ever reached a similar milestone months earlier. Which game? Angry Birds! Rovio officially announced that Angry Birds reached one billion downloads earlier in September. Now that's a lot of Angry Birds. It's hard to escape them - not only are they on your smartphone, they are everywhere! (t-shirts, plush toys, even Angry Birds Space fruities). But now you can PLAY Angry Birds in a cool way. Through the built-in camera on top of the Samsung ES8000, the Angry Birds... Read more →

Samsung Galaxy Camera Available Fall 2012

The Samsung GALAXY camera wowed me after AT&T hosted a preview of their holiday gifts last week. The Samsung GALAXY camera is a 4G LTE and WiFi-enabled point-and-shoot camera that's mostly camera, but part smartphone. It's one of those devices that catches your eye right off the bat. Beyond just its appearance, the Samsung GALAXY camera fits well in your hand, and taking great looking photos with it was easy. The camera has so many features on it, that it makes you look like a professional photographer even if you know very little about photography. If you do know what... Read more →

Attending a Taping of The Katie Show

I had a blast attending Katie Couric's The Katie Show to live tweet and blog during an episode taping yesterday with special guest Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. I arrived at ABC Studios on time despite the dreary and rainy morning. I hung out in the green room and met another NYC-area tech blogger, mommytechdiary, also there to tweet and blog during the show taping. Then after chit-chatting and comparing our Midwestern roots with the online producer, she whisked us into our front row seats amidst the comedian's audience warm-up. This was my view from the front row with my... Read more →

HomeAdvisor Re-Launches With New Home Improvement Tools

We've all been there, an appliance breaks, work needs to be done on the house, and you're not sure where to turn first, or more importantly who to trust to do the work. HomeAdvisor, formerly ServiceMagic, invited some press to learn more about their rebranding efforts, new tools and a cool new DIY app. New features add some nice value to what ServiceMagic was already doing - arming DIY consumers with the intelligence to make informed decisions, and setting expectations on costs before they pick up the phone or accept an estimate. The HomeAdvisor Cost Guide specifically caught my eye,... Read more →

Going to a Taping of The Katie Show

Tomorrow I'm attending a taping of The Katie Show with Katie Couric and special guest Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. As a member of Katie's blogger crew, I'll be sitting in the front row "live tweeting" throughout the taping on my laptop. I've also written an article for Katie's site about the impact Facebook has had on our lives moving from coast to coast that'll publish tomorrow when the episode airs. I'm super excited! :-D Katie and Sheryl will be discussing Facebook and social media, and may even touch upon Sheryl's work/life balance as a working mother. What do you... Read more →

United Nations Foundation Shot@Life App Launch

The United Nations Foundation recently celebrated the launch of an app for their Shot@Life program, an initiative to protect children worldwide by providing life-saving vaccines. The lovely ladies of Trumpeting Media invited us to attend the event and donate to the program, which we happily did. The UN Foundation worked with the American Academy of Pediatrics to launch the Shot@Life app to help parents track children's milestones while raising awareness of the need for life-saving childhood vaccines worldwide. The premise behind the app is that 1.5 million children die globally each year from a disease that could have been prevented... Read more →

Samsung Impresses Again with the ES8000 SMART 3D TV

I first went gaga for Samsung TVs at CES a couple of years ago when they started rolling out the large flat-screen HD TVs. They were beautifully-bezeled with super sharp pictures that looked like you could reach out and touch the characters or scenes onscreen. Then, last Christmas we visited my parents and c2cDad practically drooled watching TV on their new 55" Samsung SMART TV. It was impressive, and lived up to what I'd been telling him about the TVs I see at tech press events. So when we returned home to NJ after Christmas, and happened upon a fantastic... Read more →

Underwater Photos with the Sony CyberShot TX20

I used to think that in order to take underwater photos, you had to buy expensive gear, or head to a photography shop for a special waterproof camera. This month, I was proved wrong. You can take GREAT underwater photos with the Sony Cyber-shot TX20 "Exmor," model that's - get this - certified waterproof. That's right, you can take pictures in water up to 16 feet deep with it! It works like a normal Cyber-shot, with a touchscreen menu on the back of the camera. To take pictures, you just slide down the colored cover on the front to open... Read more →

North Jersey Tweet-Up at T-Mobile Paramus #NJ and GIVEAWAY

If you're in Northern New Jersey, be sure to stop into the T-Mobile store in Paramus for a casual tweet-up on Monday, July 9th from 11 a.m. EDT to 1 p.m. EDT. I'm co-hosting the event with Jen from Next Kid Thing. We'll have food, be giving away some AWESOME prizes to select winners, send you home with a fun summer goody bag, and chat about some of T-Mobile's family offerings for summer fun and safety. We hope you can join us! Please RSVP in order to qualify for the prizes, and head over to Eventbrite for more details on... Read more →