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Emily is a freelance writer who loves discovering new apps whenever she can pry the iPad away from her children or husband. You can contact her via Twitter: @whatwentwrite

Resolved to Build an iOS App in 2013? Don’t Miss InteractBuilder 3.0 — a Kickstarter Project

By | January 2, 2013 | 3 comments
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According to InteractStudios‘ Ezra Weinstein, “You don’t need to be a programmer” to create a mobile app using the InteractBuilder 3.0 platform. Anyone with an iPad (or even a desktop or laptop) can use InteractBuilder 3.0 to create a wide range of interactive materials including games, kids books, photo albums, greeting cards, and presentations that will function on a variety of tablets and smartphones. InteractStudios hopes that a successful Kickstarter campaign will help bring Interact Builder 3.0 to market.

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December Kids’ App Roundup: Ten iPad Apps We Love

By | December 28, 2012 | No comment yet
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12karfeatWe at PadGadget are lucky, lucky people because so many wonderful apps cross our digital desktops that we can’t possibly review them all. In this month’s installment of the Kids’ App Roundup, we include 10 can’t miss apps that will please animal lovers, future stylists, and scientists-in-training.

Did we miss anything? Please share the name of your favorite newly released edu-apps and games for kids.
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Wine Without Tears: Wine Simplified Demystifies, Educates — iPad App Review

By | December 21, 2012 | No comment yet
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wineappAnyone can drink a bottle of wine, but it takes a wine snob to choose it, right? Not so fast. According to Wine Simplified, another Inkling/Open Air Publishing collaboration, a few tips can help any wine buyer make more informed choices. Did you know that most wines sold today aren’t meant to be cellared? Do you think you only like one kind of wine, most often described as “red” or “white”? If so, Wine Simplified is for you.

Using a combination of interactive text, video, and slide shows, Wine Simplified’s approach banishes jargon, explains wine-speak terms such as “body,” “oaky,” and “tannin,” and gives the vast majority of wine drinkers the knowledge to choose their next bottle of wine with confidence.

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Create and Print 3-D Paper Crafts with Foldify – iPad App Review

By | December 20, 2012 | No comment yet
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foldifyappJust when avid iPad owners begin to think we’ve seen it all, an app like Foldify‘s release excites us with its simplicity and novel use of iOS.

Foldify allows the user to customize then print a digital template that when folded becomes a 3-D object. This iPad-only app is an analog offering in a digital universe that uses the iPad to connect the user to something tangible and outside the virtual world, plus it promises to appeal to a range of ages and artistic skill levels.

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Kids Learn to Make Change, Count Coins with Splash Money — iPad App Review

By | December 19, 2012 | No comment yet
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spmoneyappParents are charged with many duties to their offspring, not the least of which is teaching kids how to handle money. A child can’t even begin to make smart financial choices until she can count coins and make change. How else is your darling entrepreneur going to run that Lemondade Stand she’s always begging to set up?

Splash Money, which is part of the Splash Math series of iOS apps created by StudyPad Inc., gives students a chance to learn money basics, practice skills, and earn rewards.

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WakaWaka Power: a Solar Charger for iPad that will Light up Haiti — An Approved Kickstarter Project

By | December 18, 2012 | No comment yet
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waka1Whether you want to prepare for inevitable power outages or charge an iPad more sustainably, WakaWaka Power, an approved Kickstarter project, offers tablet and smart phone owners a way to keep a device charged using only the power of the sun. The project is so popular on Kickstarter that it has already hit its first stretch goal, enabling increase from 2200 mAh battery capacity to 2750 mAh capacity.

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Sharpen Those Knife Skills with Kitchen Knife Skills: Essentials for the Confident Cook — iPad App Review

By | December 14, 2012 | No comment yet
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knifeappDoes the idea of trying to chiffonade mounds of herbs or chop onions for the Christmas stuffing fill you with dread? Do you wish you knew how to gut and skin a whole fish? Did you ever wonder why some knives cost hundreds of dollars while others can be had for so much less? Kitchen Knife Skills: Essentials for the Confident Cook promises to address these questions, and many more, through its interactive and intuitive digital interface.

With holiday dinners fast approaching, the home cook is especially keen to improve her knife skills, and Open Air Publishing’s Kitchen Knife Skills serves up all the skills one needs to select, use, and care for kitchen knives. The app includes 36 video tutorials covering both the daunting (carving a turkey, prepping pineapple) and the mundane (carrots, lemons).
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Montessori Crosswords Teaches Kids Phonics and More — iPad App Review

By | December 13, 2012 | No comment yet
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montcrossappInspired by the Montessori method of hands-on learning, L’Escapadou’s Montessori Crosswords isn’t just a word puzzle game for 3 to 10-year-olds, it’s a simple, but effective, phonics learning system.

While not a brand new offering, this universal iOS app merits parents attention because it occupies the space where play and learning overlap, pleasing parents and kids alike.

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The Orchestra for iPad Redefines Music Appreciation — iPad App Review

By | December 13, 2012 | No comment yet
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orchapplTouchPress’ The Orchestra for iPad aims are encyclopedic. This new iPad-only app from the British developer covers the interments that comprise the orchestra as well as going in-depth to break down scores from well-known pieces.

Created in conjunction with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra and its principal conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Orchestra directs the reader’s attention to both individual instruments as well as the symphony orchestra as a whole.

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Want a Stylus with a Pen? Try the InTuition Pen/Stylus – a Kickstarter Project

By | December 12, 2012 | No comment yet
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InTuition Pen/Stylus wants to be your forever stylus. Currently this attractive, sturdy iOS accessory seeks funding through Kickstarter. As the name suggests the InTuition is both stylus and pen, but since both ends of its carbon fiber and titanium barrel are refillable, the InTuition has the potential to to outlast many of its competitors — just don’t lose it!
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