Color Me!!! is a coloring book app that’s best suited to the younger kids. It lets them color in “chunks” of the picture instead of coloring like you would with a crayon, one scribble at a time. Your child would select their color and then tap on an area of the coloring page. That area [...]

I’ve received  another addicting app for my iPhone. It’s a good thing I don’t get much down time or else I’d be in the corner playing games all day long. This one is called Tumbledrop and it’s like a game of Jenga played with geometric shapes and a bit of physics thrown in. You’ll want [...]

  Here is a pregnancy countdown app that is jam packed with different tools. Here’s a brief rundown of the key features. Dashboard – This gives you a general view of your baby’s gestational progress. It shows your due date, the number of weeks along you are and the time you have left. The baby’s [...]

Here’s an app that’s just for fun. Soupface allows you to take two people’s pictures and morph them together, creating a picture of someone who is stunning, unusual or just plain funny looking. As my seven year old likes to say, that’s just weird. You can use your own photos or play around with the [...]

  Towards the end of last summer I reviewed Occupy Baby but they’ve recently come out with an update and added a few features so it’s time to revisit the app. The original farm game is the same but with a few improvements to the audio and images. Use your finger to swipe through the [...]

I was recently contacted by the developer behind the  Wee Little Gamer apps. He has several games available in the App Store but I decided to try out Sir Roly Poly and Lil’ BBall.   Sir Roly Poly is a puzzle game that has levels for adults and children. Sir Roly Poly is off to [...]

   The ESRB Rating app comes straight from the ESRB – Entertainment Software Rating Board. This is the group that puts the ratings on video games and computer software. They are the ones who decide whether a game is rated E or M. And there is a big difference between those two ratings. I found [...]

  I love finding apps that can reinforce what our kids are learning in school. I was excited to learn about PennyMe, an app that helps your children practice their money counting skills. Money gave both of my girls trouble. Part of that is genetic, there’s a reason I’ve never worked as a cashier and [...]

    We enjoy the PBS show Martha Speaks. Martha is a dog who eats alphabet soup but instead of the letters going to her tummy they go to her doggie brain. Voila – Martha speaks! If only we could feed our dog Ginny alphabet soup to find out what she’s thinking. Then again, some days [...]

  There’s a lot to the Fast Mall app. It’s big draw is it’s Virtual Map feature. This feature calculates routes around the mall for you and gives you step by step directions to follow. It lets you recalculate your route to include elevators, handy if you are shopping with a stroller. A virtual map [...]