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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

Bake for a Special Occasion with Wilton Cake Ideas & More – iPad App Review

By | November 13, 2012 | No comment yet
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Even if you don’t know fondant from royal icing, Wilton’s Cake Ideas & More cake decorating app is a source of ideas and inspiration for making a everything from a wedding cake to iced cookies or brownie pops.

With its included 3,000 ideas, a user could create something new every day for more than 8 years. The app’s UI is easy to navigate, as the reader can peruse it by category (e.g. Fondant, Gingerbread, 5 kinds of cake pops), celebration, theme, rating, and difficulty. There were 92 different ideas for Thanksgiving alone including a range of mini cakes, a pilgrim hat candy cup, and a stunning Autumn Leaves cake.

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A Self-Confessed Non-Gamer’s List of Favorite iPad Games

By | November 8, 2012 | No comment yet
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Gaming has come of age, and is now as ubiquitous as jeans and as popular as pizza. Look around, did you notice that gamers are no longer hiding in their parents’ basements blowing into cartridges and jiggling cords? Gamers are everywhere, even Congress.

Though non-gamers  still exist, we may soon be as rare as Passenger Pigeons or members of the Whig party, but there are still iOS users who eschew the Angry Birds franchise (even the brand new Star Wars version) and are confounded by Minecraft. No matter. The beauty of the App Store is that it offers something for everyone, even games for the user whose idea of fun doesn’t involve setting a new high score.

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Creatorverse: So Many Possibilities, Such a Steep Learning Curve – iPad App Review

By | November 8, 2012 | No comment yet
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After reporting on Linden Lab’s first foray into iOS, I was anxious to tryout this physic-based, sandbox-style game.

After spending a few minutes playing with the game, I was utterly confused. I created a bunch of random shapes but they had no meaningful relationship. While I’m not mechanically inclined by nature, I thought my native intelligence would be enough to learn how to use the app. Was I ever wrong. It was time to look for outside help.
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Game Alpha Colony Hopes to Bring Families Together — a Kickstarter Project

By | November 7, 2012 | No comment yet
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DreamQuest Games‘ newest project, which is up and running on Kickstarter, will fund the creation of Alpha Colony, an exploration, building, and trading game that pits multiple players against a rag-tag (but tenacious) group of prospectors. Project founder Christopher Williamson hopes Alpha Colony will give families today the same great memories he made playing Atari with his family in the ’80s.

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Not Hungry? Then You Haven’t Used Panna for iPad – iPad App Review

By | November 6, 2012 | 2 comments
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Food isn’t just life, it’s also become a profitable source of entertainment. From the plethora of cooking shows on TV to a recent episode of the Simpsons with guest voice Gordon Ramsay and a must-see rap, foodies have more than just the search for the perfect restaurant to keep them occupied. Panna for iPad, a new iPad-only magazine featuring celebrity chefs and high-end how-tos is the latest bunch of grapes in food lovers’ ever-growing cornucopia.

Living up to its “Best Chefs, Best Recipes” billing, the first issue of Panna includes 12 recipes from 4 master chefs — Rick Bayless, Anita Lo, Jonathan Waxman, and Nancy Silverton — and nearly 200 minutes of video. Future issues plan to include other well-known chefs including Seamus Mullen and Melissa Hamilton.

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Wreck-It Ralph Storybook Deluxe — iPad App Review

By | November 5, 2012 | No comment yet
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Not only was Disney’s animated video game tale Wreck-It Ralph number one at the box office, earning $49.1 million, but it’s also available for iPad as Wreck-It Ralph Storybook Deluxe, an interactive book with a built-in kart-decorating, racing minigame.

Not to be confused with Wreck-It Ralph the videogame for iOS, which recreates the fictional video games that fuel the movie’s narration, the Deluxe Storybook tells Ralph’s story through movie clips, narration, and interactive elements.
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Conquer iOS Cord Clutter with Whooz? – a Kickstarter Project

By | November 2, 2012 | 2 comments
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How many iOS devices do you have at home? Does your son/wife/roommate/dog always take your charger when you need it most? Do your kids misplace their white Apple earbuds more often than you’d like? Enter Whooz? These removable, vinyl identification labels for iPhone/iPod touch and iPad cords are adorable, colorful, and capable of settling the question of whose charging cord is whose (or Whooz?) once and for all.

Sativa Turner, creator of Whooz? turned to Kickstarter to raise the funds she needs to make her project a reality. At present Whooz? is over fifty percent funded, and it’s likely to reach its modest $6000 goal before the funding period is over at the end of the month.
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Animal SnApp: Farm Innovates as it Educates — iPad App Review

By | November 2, 2012 | No comment yet
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Thanks to its record of creating kids edu-apps that are consistently tops in creativity and UI/UX, I expect more from Nosy Crow than I might from most iOS developers. With Animal SnApp: Farm, Nosy Crow has found a way to give young readers six different stories that she can “unlock” by matching correctly matching a two-piece puzzle of the animal featured in the story.

Many children will enjoy the silliness created by combinations of dog and pig, lamb and hen, or goat and cow, yet it’s not too hard to get a match, and thus begin listening to one of the six stories that features these animals.
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Second Life Developer Releases Creatorverse – its First Game for iPad

By | November 1, 2012 | No comment yet
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While the name Linden Lab may not ring any bells, their über-popular game Second Life is likely to be familiar to most readers. Linden Lab’s first iOS game, Creatorverse, is now available for iPad. Described by Linden Lab CEO Rod Humble, as a “simple, 2-D shared creative space on the iPad,” the game welcomes users to enter a digital play land that encourages a user to invent and then share what he dreams up with others in a shared space within the game called the Creatorverse Galaxy. A user can also download and edit other players’ creations on his own iPad.

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Debate Settled: iPad Mini has Stereo Speakers

By | November 1, 2012 | No comment yet
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For months we speculated about the existence of the iPad mini, but, even after its release and unboxing, questions remained about whether Apple’s device had stereo or mono speakers. 9to5 Mac went straight to the source, emailing Phil Schiller, Apple Senior Vice President for Marketing, whose response confirms that the iPad mini does, in fact, have stereo speakers.

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