Do your kids collect Silly Bandz? Each of mine have a mini collection but since they were banned from our school I haven’t seen them lying around the house as much lately. I had no idea there was a Silly Bandz app until the review request came through my inbox and I certainly had no [...]
Animal Phone lets your child call and interact with members of the Animal Kingdom. Graham Gorilla is included in the app’s download and you can snag Kelly Kangaroo and Ziggy Zebra from the in-app Animal Store. With Animal Phone your child can give the animals a call one of two ways. First, they can tap [...]
Crazy! That is what SwipeTapTap is. Crazy good, crazy simple and simply driving me crazy. The game’s premise is simple, a twist on Simon Says. Follow nine different symbols on the screen and tap or swipe in the direction they say. Nine symbols for nine gestures. Never underestimate a simple premise when it’s well executed. [...]
Are you ready for Mother Goose like you’ve never seen her before? Yes? Well pull up a tuffet and get ready for a wildly entertaining ride through some nursery rhymes. In Goosed Up Rhymes Mother Goose will read stories to you and some adorable ducklings. If you look closely you’ll see the Ugly Duckling is [...]
Today I’m taking a look at the apps created by the development company RapDevPro. Randy Ullrich runs the company and many of the apps were inspired by his two young sons. Here’s a list of several of RapDevPro’s offerings: MatchMonstersHD – This is a memory matching game that uses monster pictures on the memory cards. [...]
Bobo and his friends are the stars of the Jellytoons Toddler Skills app and they are very excited because it’s Bob’s birthday! Today is his party and he’s ready for presents but the friends still have a few last minute details to handle. This is where your child comes in. Bobo has six friends and [...]
Polly Poodle’s Noisy Book is NOISY! So consider yourself warned because once your child starts playing with this one they’ll probably be at it for awhile and you’ll be listening to horses neighing, cows mooing, alligators snapping and more. Joyous noise! Did you ever wonder what a warthog sounds like? Or how a sloth snores? [...]
Landlubbers – Landlubbers wants to know if you remember the “old school LCD handheld games”? I do. In fact the majority of my video gaming experience falls into the old school time frame. I showed my kids a picture of an Atari not too long ago, don’t worry it didn’t turn into one of those [...]
How many of you became first time iPad owners over the weekend? In no particular order here are the most used apps on our well loved iPad.
Today I’m taking a nice break from the educational apps that I’ve been reviewing lately. This app is Wanderland and it offers up a simple, never ending game. Wanderland takes place in a magical forest. You begin in a tree house and you can tap around the screen to change the decorations, curtains and toys [...]
My 9 year old daughter told me about an iOS 5 feature that I was totally unaware of until last week. Miss S. showed me how to set up individual text tones for my contacts.
iOS 5 Gets Its First Update Thanks to my husband Zack for getting this post out about the new iOS 5.1 release. I’ve yet to install the update…but I’ll be following his instructions below. Shortly after the iPhone 4S hit the market a bug was discovered that severely impacted battery life on those new devices. [...]
I review iPhone apps for moms. I have a decent grasp of techy things but the technical guts (for lack of a better word) of how the apps work are beyond me. So my reviews will be practical and purely subjective. Reviews for moms by a real life, actual mom. My kids will vouch for me.