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What Will My Kids Look Like? There’s An App For That
So are you pregnant or thinking about getting pregnant? There’s an app for that. Well, at least to let you know what your kid will look like once it arrives. Well, sort of. iMated is supposed to be goofy - think all those face-melds currently making the rounds of Facebook - so the scientific “genome” mumbo jumbo from their Webpage shouldn...
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The iPhone 3GS: A Parenting Essential?
My friends rave about it. "My child sat still at the Doctor's surgery for 20 minutes watching Dora on my phone last week." Mummy bloggers say it's an essential tool to keep their blog updated remotely. Others just take a bunch of pics of their kids and upload them to Twitter. I'd resisted the hype until now, but with the launch of the new-genera...
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11-Year-Old Smarty Pants Develops iPhone App
When I’m tooling around town, I like to daydream about get rich quick schemes. Besides winning the lottery, playing the market or getting a big old book deal, one of my most current and prevalent fantasies is of designing a best selling iPhone App. But you know what stops me - besides a great idea- not knowing how to do the programming. Did that...
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Baby Shaker: A Fun Form Of Pretend Child Abuse!
It appears Apple has pulled an iPhone app that outraged child advocates and, well, makes you kind of queasy to read about. Called "Baby Shaker," the 99-cent app, developed by Sikalosoft, made iPhones cry incessantly like a baby while showing a charcoal drawing of a kid. How to comfort/quiet the needy squawker? You shake it. Hard. Ha, ha! So fun...
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Apple To Release IPhone For Kids
Not satisfied with dominating the cellular phone market for adults, Apple will now try and corner the potentially lucrative child cellular phone space. The only other major player in the kiddie cell arena is Firefly, a device that allows children to call only a few select people. The KiDPhone, on the other hand, will essentially be an iPhone, ab...
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Who Do You Call During iLabour?
No one, silly. Your iPhone can do it all. My first reaction to Labor Mate -- an iPhone application that times your contractions -- was something along the lines of "Oh, please. What will they think of next? An app that gets down in your business and looks for crowning?" Then I remembered those first panicked, anxious hours when it was my job...
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Got Apps?
I’m not talking about the puff pastry kind, but the useful wonders that are available for the iPhone. This app turns your iPhone into an instant baby monitor. Read more...
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The iPhone: Making Parenting Easier (and Techier)
There are plenty of iPhone applications to occupy our kids' time and attention. But what about the apps that make parenting easier? A recent post on ParentDish — which I discovered via Wired's Geekdad blog — provides an extensive overview of iPhone applications that are particularly helpful to parents. So far, no one has figured...
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Ten Best iPhone Apps For Distracting Young Children
We've all been there. You're in the grocery store, or doctor's office, or a restaurant and you need a five minute distraction for your toddler. And if you're a dad or mum on-the-go who doesn't keep a spare stuffed animal in their pocket, you're usually relegated to whatever you have handy. If one of those things is an iPhone...
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