June 2011
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Toca Boca - Making Digital Toys For Kids
Toca Boca, a Swedish app creation studio, plays in the space where things are just plain fun. Their apps are wonderfully whimsical little vignettes of life’s interactions from a child’s perspective. They encourage kids to actively use their imagination and share the fun with those around them - be they parents, pets and friends or dolls and teddy bears. These digital toys, unlike...
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Evaluating apps for young kids
When you combine a grandmother who is picky about what the little one accesses electronically with a 3-year old who is technology savvy and knows her own mind, you quickly find that some method is needed for finding just the right apps to put on the family iOS devices. Ones that satisfy everyone’s criteria. Here’s how we do it in my household: 1. Bouncer at the Door - Just like any...
All Major Credit Cards Accepted - A Square Credit...
There are many factors that combine to explain how I came to be the proud new owner of a Square, the incredibly hot mobile payments hardware that allows me to accept credit card payments on my beloved iPhone 4 but, unfortunately, none of them sound flattering when recounted aloud to friends and family. And actually, even strangers tend to look quizzical when the story of this electronic wonder is...
Best Apps for Kids 2-6 Years Old – iPhone, iPad,...
I am one of those people who tend to adopt technology early and often, which means I have a trail of fairly new (sometimes only months old) electronics in my wake. One of the beneficiaries of this electronic wealth is my 3-year old granddaughter who is the proud owner and very prolific user of an 64 GB iPhone 3Gs.
We’ve set it up with all things geared towards a child, deleted any of...
