Kwikset, Honeywell Bring Bluetooth Home
My motto is “Bluetooth everything,” and manufacturers like Kwikset and Honeywell know just what I’m talking about.
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Tag: apps
Help Preschoolers Learn Math Skills in the Number Neighborhood
A few years ago my son and I fell in love with the brilliantly designed Alien Buddies from Artgig Apps. Now the team has done it again with the beautiful and varied app Drive About: Number Neighborhood.
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Share Pictures With Donate a Photo, Help Worthy Causes
Sharing photos online has become the norm for most of us, and now when you share those photos you can also help a worthy cause with the Donate a Photo app.
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12 Surprising Facts About Finding Nemo (Sort of)
To help promote the Disney Movies Anywhere app, the studio is sharing secrets about a few fan favorites.
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Late to the Game: Carcassonne
Carcassonne is a classic tabletop board game, which allows players to collect points while building towns, monasteries, roads, and farms in the French countryside.
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Tinybop and a New Kind of App
“Inspired by children’s books, toys, and stop-motion films, we design digital toys that dive into the strange wonders of our everyday world,” according to Tinybop, maker of a stylish line of apps including a #1 App Store hit with their Toca Boca-style The Human Body and their new one, Plants.
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LeVar Burton's New Kickstarter Brings the Magic of Reading Rainbow to Classrooms
LeVar Burton is launching a Kickstarter campaign to raise $1 million dollars to expand the modern digital Reading Rainbow program to the web. You can help bring the beloved show back to a new audience of kids on the web.
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Snag the Starlight App for Free Over Memorial Day Weekend
The great stargazing app, Starlight HD, is free for Memorial Day weekend.
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Axl and Tuna – A Cute New Endless Runner App for Your iPad
Axl and Tuna is a new “Endless Runner” game for the iPad from the creators of the excellent Bobo Explores Light.
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See it All With Samsung's SmartCam HD Pro
If you’re anything like me, you’ll likely find the Samsung SmartCam HD Pro a good fit for your home security needs, but this little camera also offers the flexibility to be more than just a video surveillance system.
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Super Vision: a New App for Parents from PBS KIDS
Many parents want to use the free resources PBS KIDS offers and to engage with familiar PBS KIDS characters that their children love. Today, PBS moves another step forward in that direction with a sophisticated new (and free) app which gives a parent Super Vision.
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A Galaxy Far, Far Away Comes to Your iPad in Star Wars Journeys
Is $6.99 worth it for an app that retells the film most consider to be the worst of the Star Wars trilogies?
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Thrillbent Arrives in the App Store
The comics site Thrillbent launches a new iOS app along with a subscription model for instant access to its growing library of fantastic stories as they’re released.
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Toca Band: Free App for World Autism Awareness Day
Get your groove on with Toca Band, free in the app store in honor of World Autism Awareness Day.
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Meet JP from Toca Boca
As the second interview, this is now officially a series of interviews with movers and/or shakers in the world of kids technology. Today we’re meeting Jens de Pedro, also know as JP. He’s Creative Director of Stories and Consumer Products at Toca Boca.
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Sylvan Learning Launches New Mobile Games Network For Kids
Sylvan Learning aims to help make the decision about what mobile games kids should play a little easier with their newly launched mobile games network designed for kids called SylvanPlay
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Technology Helps Find Your Bra Size With ThirdLove
ThirdLove will fit you for a new bra using their new app in the comfort of your own home.
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Are You Ready for Some Football? There’s An App for That
GeekMom Rachel shares Let’s Play Football with her son, and learns a little something in the process.
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Let’s Make It With the Mister Maker App
GeekMom Helen reviews the Mister Maker: Let’s Make It! app by P2 Games.
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Return to The Room
The Room 2 follows on from the story that was set up by its predecessor as you continue to solve your way through different puzzle boxes.
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Review: If I Ran the Rainforest Ebook
If I Ran the Rainforest sees the Cat taking Sally and her brother Dick on a journey to a rainforest to learn all about them.
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Transport Tycoon Pulls Into Your Mobile Device
Transport Tycoon is a classic, originally released in 1994. The game allows players to build up a transport empire, beginning in the 1900s and progressing through time to the modern day.
Continue ReadingToca Boca: Mayhem and Makeovers
Toca Cars and Toca Hair Salon Me are two great additions to the Toca Boca suite of kids’ apps.
Continue ReadingExperiment With Fun in Toca Lab
Toca Lab encourages little scientists to run different experiments on “elements” to discover something new.
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Let Your Kids Contact Santa at the Last Minute!
Did your kids forget to send their letters to Santa? Do you want them to get responses to their letters? Maybe you just want Santa to answer the phone. All these things are possible!
Continue ReadingJingling all the way with the Jingle Bells app
GeekMom Helen jingles all the way with the new Jingle Bells app.
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ESRB Holiday Game Giving Tips for Parents
Earlier this week I received a special message from our friends at the ESRB. It contains some great information, especially for GeekParents planning to give the gift of digital entertainment this holiday season.
Continue ReadingReview: Shape the Village
A new app for toddlers that teaches shapes in a bright and engaging way.
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Exclusive: MythBusters’ Tory Belleci Launches Educational Post-Apocalyptic Game App
It’s not often that you come across an educational app aimed at kids that’s a genuinely fun, graphics-rich video game that adults will enjoy as well, and even less often that you find one set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland full of broken-down cars and sand sharks.
Continue ReadingReview: Wee Rockets on the iPad and iPod Touch
Wee Rockets is a spaceship design app for the toddler set.
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