Jan 27, 2012 - Flori the Giraffe is back in a new app that mixes story with activities. In Flori’s Adventure readers will meet Flori’s friends: Tino the monkey, Zebri the zebra, Mia the flamingo and Nala the elephant. In this story Flori is helping Tino find his lost tools so he can work on a building project. As [...]

Jan 27, 2012 - If you’re in the mood to spiff up your texts and messages then take a look at CoolTextBubbles. The app lets you type in your message and set a background image. It then combines the two, creating an image that can be copied and pasted into a message. CoolTextBubble works with messages for SMS, iMessage [...]

Jan 27, 2012 - Jumbline 2 is a new app that is perfect for people who like word games. But beware, it is addicting! I love word games and games that you can pick up and play a couple of rounds quickly – and this is one of those types of apps. While many of the words may be [...]

Jan 26, 2012 - The movie Dead Poets Society was released for the first time ever on Blu-Ray last week and I can’t believe it’s been twenty-three years since it was originally released in theaters. That makes me feel very old! It has been digitally restored for this new edition but the story remains as powerful as ever. This [...]

Jan 26, 2012 - Dude That’s Cool is a fun multiplayer, strategy game. The premise is quirky and unique – play as a hamster who is out to steal goodies from his hamster friends. To get to the other cages you place pipe, strategically connecting the pieces to reach the goodies and protect the one’s you’ve already got. The [...]

Jan 26, 2012 - It’s January which means my mind is turning to budgeting once again. Call it my personal post-Christmas shopping syndrome. Couple that with the fact that we’ve had eye doctor appointments, new glasses and an unexpected surgery for our toddler and I really need to buckle down with the finances. I feel like the money is [...]

Jan 25, 2012 - Tales of  Midlandia storybook series is  pleased to announce their updated version of the Pirate Koostoe adventure.  This app, created specifically for iPad, follows young Koostoe  on his adventure to become a pirate.  While he discovers that life may not give him exactly what he dreamed, he can find the treasure in what he has. [...]

Jan 25, 2012 - MathLands says it was designed for kids ages 7 to 77 but I’m thinking that I must have the Math abilities of a three year old because these puzzles had me stumped! To be fair I’ve never been very good at logic puzzles and problem solving and that’s exactly what this iPad app is made [...]

Jan 25, 2012 - PicYou is a new app that is designed to help you share your photos instantly with ease. I am a huge photography fan, so naturally I enjoy apps like PicYou. I was impressed with the user friendly aspect of the app, as well as all the ways available to edit your photos. There are a [...]

Jan 24, 2012 - Memorizing multiplication facts is an important step as children advance their math skills.  Sometime quite an intimidating one.  Math Times Tables organizes practice in a fun and challenging way by providing an interactive, game-like environment. Math Times Tables offers two game modes: ✦ Number sequence: Choose the correct number in a number sequence. ✦ Multiply: [...]

Jan 24, 2012 - Tillie’s Time Shop is an interactive story all about time. The story is all about Tillie, a cat who fixes clocks in Tick-Tock Town. There are eleven screens in the story, each with interactive touch points and animations. Three of the screens have full activities that center around time and learning to read clocks. In [...]

Jan 24, 2012 - Scribble Press is a free iPad app that lets you unleash your imagination to create drawings and books. Let’s start with the drawings. Users are provided with a blank piece of “paper” and oodles of colored markers. I watched my toddler use the app and she figured out the marker selection process in no time. [...]

Jan 24, 2012 - Bunny Popper is one of those fun games that requires some quick finger work on the iPad screen. The game’s premise is that inflatable bunnies from outer space are invading a carrot farm. To save the carrots you’ve got to pop the bunnies before they reach the carrots. The bunnies run towards you, as if [...]