PuzzleMyLife

PuzzleMyLife

• $0.99
• Category: Games
• Released: May 30, 2012
• Version: 1.0
• Size: 11.9 MB
• Languages: English, Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Bokmål, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
• Seller: iBurger Apps
• © 2012 iBuRGeR Apps

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

Features:

• YOUR own pictures
• Zoom & crop
• Available configurations 4x3 (3x4), 8x6 (6x8), 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, 6x6, 7x7
• 3 levels of difficulty
• Stopwatch, Moves counter
• Intuitive & Careful interface
• All orientations supported (portrait, landscape...)
• PuzzleMyLife is based on a slide puzzle, but all you have to do is just touch the image box and it moves to the spare space.  Very simple to use. 

Description:

The first screen has a photo icon and a camera.  

Then choose the size puzzle, best for your child.

Easy-Hard Puzzle

Easy Puzzle

The applause for success sound at the end is lovely.

Note: the time and the number of moves to complete the picture underneath.  This would be handy for older children trying to beat their previous score, but for our situation I am using it more of an educational tool.

Once you select the green tick, then you can talk about the image.

I have looked at this app as an educational game app for our situation.  If you are using visuals then this app would be a great addition to make an added learning experience for your child, as we all know our children need a variety of activities to learn the same information.  Flashcards could now be a puzzle, family photos with their name underneath are now a puzzle, the option are endless.

Note: I prepared the document on my computer, took a screen shot, put it into iPhotos and used iCloud to get it onto the iPad, very quick and easy, which is just another option for getting an image into the app.


I did notice when using the app, I lost some of the selections at times.  By moving the iPad from Landscape or Portrait the selections came back.

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ABC Aliens 2 Giveaway

ABC Aliens 2

• for iphone
  $1.99

• Category: Education

• Updated: 26 February 2011

• Version: 1.2

• Size: 5.7 MB

• Language: English

• Seller: Cambridge English Online Ltd

• © Cambridge English Online Ltd. 2011

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

Description:

Let our amazing aliens help you learn your alphabet! Learn and practise the letters and sounds of the English alphabet as never before, thanks to our funny little aliens. Plus, test yourself, your friends or your family with our set of addictive alphabet countdown games. With 4 great resources in one (each with US and GB accents options), this iPhone version of ABC Aliens has something for everyone.

*****

8/10 review by AppCritic (www.appcritic.co.uk)

"Not only are apps becoming more and more helpful in daily life, but they are quickly becoming great learning tools for kids too. ABC Aliens is one such app, a colourful and fun spelling adventure, aimed at teaching young children their ABCs."

*****

Letter recognition and learning phonics (the sounds that letters make) help provide the building blocks for your child’s reading and writing development. So, let our ABC Aliens give your child a head-start on their road to literacy success.

This beautifully-illustrated/animated and professionally-recorded (with US & GB accents) resource helps children master the English alphabet as well as the sounds each letter makes. Capital and lower case letters modes, as well as a choice of voices (alien or child) allow for even more flexibility in your child’s learning and development. Add to this the Record & Play Your Voice functions (iPhone/iPad only) and you have an app that is hard to beat when it comes to taking the first steps towards successful reading and writing. To consolidate what your child has learnt, why not take the addictive ABC or ZYX Countdown challenges?

Loved by children, both native and non-native speakers of English, from ages 3 to 10, (as well as their parents and teachers!) ABC Aliens is a stimulating way to join in and engage with your child’s learning while boosting their English level through educational play.

Developed by online & mobile education specialists, Cambridge English Online Ltd, with 10 years’ experience creating cutting-edge online and mobile resources, ABC Aliens has been tested and reviewed by teachers and parents and aims to support National Curriculum guidelines on teaching and learning letters and sounds. It is also a perfect way to start learning for non-native speakers of English.

Features:

- 4 fun, educational alphabet Letters & Sounds activities in one app

- Practise the sounds of the English alphabet (choose between capital and lower case letter modes)

- Learn and practise the letters of the alphabet (choose between capital and lower case letter modes)

- Choose between British or American pronunciation

- Choose the character and voice you want to hear. Alien or child?

- Play our highly-addictive, tension-filled ABC Countdown games (capital and lower case letter modes). How quickly can you go from A to Z?

- Play our even trickier, tension-filled ZYX Countdown game (capital and lower case letter modes). How fast can you click through the alphabet backwards?

- Record and play your own voice function (iPhone/iPad only)

- Beautifully illustrated/animated, aliens help engage/entertain

- High-quality, professionally recorded audio (US & GB accents) to help perfect pronunciation

- Ideal for native and non-native speakers of English

- Perfect for helping developing literacy

- Ideal for helping to develop fine motor skills

- Easy to use, navigate and enjoy


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Bigmouth Keep Fit Giveaway

Bigmouth Keep Fit

• $2.99
• Category: Education
• Released: 20 June 2012
• Version: 1.0
• Size: 11.0 MB
• Language: English
• Seller: Vox Aux ltd
• © 2012 Vox Aux

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later.

Bigmouth helps children practise lip and tongue movements, making funny faces along the way! Whether it’s for therapy or just for fun Bigmouth Keep Fit is engaging and fun to join in. 


Bigmouth Keep Fit v 1.0 includes: 


*Bright and colourful Bigmouth cartoons with animated mouth shapes to show kids exactly what to do 
*Quality voice recordings giving you spoken instructions on what moves to make. Standard English accent used. 
*Progressive ‘exercises’ from single movement to sets of moves in a sequence to help with coordination 
*A great big cheer at the end for doing your Keep Fit routine with Bigmouth! 


Link to the iTunes Store for Bigmouth Keep Fit


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Bigmouth Sounds Giveaway

Bigmouth Sounds

• $5.49
• Category: Education
• Released: 16 January 2012
• Version: 1.0
• Size: 34.3 MB
• Language: English
• Seller: Vox Aux ltd
• © Vox Aux 2012

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later.

Bigmouth helps children learn the speech sounds for spoken English. Bigmouth is a friendly cartoon character that gives direct guidance on how to make the sounds correctly. Stories and games make learning fun. It’s designed for kids to play by themselves or with adult guidance. 

Bigmouth Sounds v 1.0 includes: 

*Quality voice recordings allow children to hear speech sounds and learn to make and discriminate speech sounds. Standard English accent used. 

*24 consonant sound character cards and 12 vowels character cards, with all sounds heard in isolation and in words. 

*Written and spoken instructions available on how to produce each sound. 

*5 fun, sound-based stories that are read aloud to the child with picture scenes. These encourage listening and repetition of sounds. 

*Snap game for auditory discrimination work: two spoken sounds are heard and can be repeated, with Bigmouth characters, feedback on success or try again. 

*The app has 5 levels to choose from. These levels work up in difficulty in accordance with the recognised developmental order that children learn speech sounds. Level 1 is the easiest. Level 5 is ‘all sounds’. 

Link to iTunes Store for Bigmouth Sounds

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Lost Kidz

• Free
• Category: Lifestyle
• Updated: Jun 23, 2012
• Version: 1.0.4
• Size: 4.9 MB
• Language: English
• Seller: E-scape Interactive Limited
• © 2012 E-scape Interactive Limited

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

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1. Basic Subscription$0.99

As parents, we all know the heart stopping moment when we realise that our child has gone missing.


The idea for Lost Kidz came after watching a documentary about the abduction of Jaycee Lee Delgado - sat up all night thinking of how we could use tech to help with the Jamie Bulger case situation (30 people stopped the boys asking what they were doing but no one knew he was missing) and Maddie McCann (hours before a proper police alert was issued - with the App they could have had thousands looking within minutes)


The Lost Kidz App has been developed to enable parents to send out an alert to other parents in the area if their child goes missing.  The alert includes a current photo and any relevant information about the child, allowing an anxious parent to recruit the help of everyone in the vicinity to reunite the parent with their child.  This will also act as the deterrent to anyone intent on harming a lone child, as they know that the eyes of the public are watching and on alert.


The object is to minimise the time period for a parent and child to be reunited and therefore reduce the risk of that child being harmed, either accidentally or on purpose.  


About:
Lost Kidz is an App designed to allow parents who have lost or been separated from their children to issue an instant alert to people in the vicinity.


Mission:
Together we can make the world a safer place for all of our children


Company Overview:
Lost Kidz. An App designed for every parents worst nightmare ~ the loss or abduction of your child.


Description:
1 million children are reported missing in the US and the UK every year.


Millions more are lost for periods of less than one hour, and it is every parents nightmare that your child has wondered into traffic, or into a neighbours pool. 


If your child goes missing, you can use the App to alert everyone in the vicinity, with a current photo and details of your child. Without it, hundreds of people could be watching someone walk away with your child and not even know its happening.


Any sightings or details of where the child has been found are sent directly to the parent.


With this App, we aim to reduce these numbers significantly, but we need YOU! to help get the word out.


The free App will let people without kids help out by receiving and responding to alerts, so everyone can help! The App for parents to send our an alert will cost just 99c 


Also when you download this app in the US, a donation is made to the American Humane Society.


For more details see their: 
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CourtTrack Give Away

CourtTrack, the inaugural app by PerfectTrack has recently launched on the Apple App Store. Priced at just £0.69 / $0.99, the app allows tennis players, coaches, parents and fans to track the points scored in a tennis match. Based on these points, the app calculates a number of statistics and presents them to the user, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses. You can view statistics for the whole match, or for individual sets. This shows the user where to concentrate to improve their match play, and helps to identify where time should be spent in training.

CourtTrack has an unobtrusive and simple data entry screen, meaning that you can continue to watch or participate in the match as quickly as possible. Undo and Redo support means that correcting your mistakes is just as easy! 

CourtTrack also supports backing up your matches, players and data to iCloud, meaning your previous statistics and historic matches are kept safe. 

The app is fully localised for Spanish and French users, with German localisation coming soon. Improvements to the app and new features (that are available free to anyone who purchases the app now) are also coming soon and include: 

- Improved iPad support - support for landscape mode and statistics visible on the same screen as the point entry buttons.  

- Statistics shown on charts, and graphs showing the momentum of the match. 

- Additional statistics and indicators to find weaknesses and strengths in your game. 

All of the above features make CourtTrack a great tool for: 

Players, 

Umpires, 

Parents, 

Coaches, 

Journalists, 

and Fans

To find out more about the app, visit the PerfectTrack website at visit www.perfect-track.co.uk 

PERFECTTRACK 

PerfectTrack is a new iOS development company specialising in the development of tracking applications for sports players and fans. Based in the small costal town of South Shields in the North East of England, the company aims to deliver easy to use, powerful apps that sports participants can use to improve their performance. To find out more about PerfectTrack, visit www.perfect-track.co.uk

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Giggle Ghosts Giveaway

Giggle Ghosts
for iPad only

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  • $0.99

• Category: Education
• Updated: May 30, 2012
• Version: 1.20
• Size: 24.2 MB
• Language: English
• Seller: Busy Bee Studios
• © 2011 Busy Bee Studios, Inc.

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or laterRequirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later

Description

Get ready for some counting fun!Perfect for toddlers and preschoolers learning counting and numbers, this game is a great way to get started in early math.

Help the Giggle Ghosts get to the party on time! Bounce, drag and giggle away as you try to get all 20 ghosts to the house – then see what surprises await you once you’re there!

Keep an eye on a ghost’s path as it falls, and try to anticipate which chimney it will land on. Then bounce the ghost across the rooftops by touching the chimneys for a musical ‘toot’. Count each ghost as you rescue them – rescue all 20 ghosts, and you earn even more fun at the interactive Ghost Party! 

The game features 4 levels that teach basic math skills (counting and numbers) and simple physical science (anticipating a trajectory) while they have fun with the bouncing, laughing ghosts, plus the musical chimneys and all the surprises that await them at the Ghost Party.

Features colorful art, engaging music, brand-new giggles and a unique, fun game play!

From the makers of the award-winning preschool app "Zoo Train" and the popular "Bug Games"!

***QUESTIONS? CONCERNS?***
We have no way to contact you via a review - if you have any issues or questions, please contact us at preschoolgames@busybeestudios.com! 

Questions? Comments? Please drop us a line at preschoolgames@busybeestudios.com, or visit us at http://www.busybeestudios.com/games.

***PRIVACY AND SAFETY***
This app contains NO ads, in-app purchases, push notifications, tracking, or any data collection whatsoever. 

This app does contain a link to our website for more information, and links to the iTunes app store in reference to our other games; these links are found only in one contained Parent screen which is separate from the game play screens.

Busy Bee Studios is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families.


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