App Friday: Keep The Bar in Perspective

January 12, 2012

The Numberlys (the latest from ex-Pixar Lessmore fame) are on my mind. Without even downloading it, I can already feel the cinematography oozing. It will receive superb reviews, and universal acclaim. It will be perfect. It will make me notice the audio static on my sound files, the user-interface snafus in my navigation, and the less-than-laser clarity [...]

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The Jellybean Tunes App Report: Volume 12

January 10, 2012

Welcome to the 12th installment of the App Report featuring family friendly apps from Moms With Apps. Help Pointy the hedgehog blend in, run a zoo with Dr. Suess or find the sleeping baby with this week’s books. In Education, play memory matching games, learn the Russian alphabet or keep a mood journal. Learn to [...]

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Legal Considerations for Mobile App Developers

January 8, 2012

Our guest post this week is written by Arina Shulga, who co-founded the apps development company Ingengo LLC together with her husband in 2011 in New York City.  The company started with an idea of creating apps preparing kids for admission to local elementary schools, developing their critical thinking skills and teaching different languages.  Kids [...]

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App Friday: Know Your Settings

January 5, 2012

Did you hear about the toddler who spent $200 on her mom’s iPhone? A toggle on the settings menu could have overruled the spending spree. iPhones and iPads are networked mobile computers, not LeapPads. Making it “kid-friendly” takes some customization. This App Friday, along with introducing some featured apps, we’ll include a refresher on Settings [...]

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The Jellybean Tunes App Report: Volume 11

January 4, 2012

Happy New Year and welcome to the 11th installment of the App Report featuring family friendly apps from the Product Announcements forum at Moms With Apps.   As always, we have an interesting assortment of books, games and educational apps to share with you. Fancy Nancy makes the leap from book to app.  It turns out [...]

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Learning Languages Through Bilingual Storytelling

January 3, 2012

Several developers in our network make apps that focus on learning new languages. Our guest post this week highlights strategies from two families that cover storytelling as an important component of bilingual education in the home. The first portion is written by Franck Koestel at Early Languages (Princesses Learn Chinese), and the second is written [...]

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App Friday: The Kids of Silicon Valley

December 29, 2011

It was going to be another quiet App Friday to round out the holiday shutdown. But in San Francisco today, developers for family-friendly apps were making headway. While I’m not up to speed on the free deals for you this week (our standard App Friday promotions will resume on January 6th), I do have amazing [...]

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Understanding Apple

December 28, 2011

I am not an Apple employee, but I’ve often wondered about the company’s DNA. With some downtime over the holidays I was able to read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. The narrative helped me peer into Apple’s core values. And as I step back, I find myself less frustrated by the chaos of the [...]

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App Friday: 10 Tips for Downloading Family-Friendly Apps

December 22, 2011

It’s a soft App Friday today because iTunes Connect is closed for the holidays, which means developers can’t change prices for their apps. However, we still have plenty of news to share. Let’s talk about what happens during the holidays when someone unwraps a shiny new iDevice, and the kids reach for it. Where do [...]

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The Jellybean Tunes App Report: Volume 10

December 22, 2011

The App Report turns 10 this week with another full selection of family-friendly apps from the developers within the Moms With Apps network. [Note: These apps are collected directly from the developers' "Product Announcements" on the Moms With Apps forum. Please read the full app description in iTunes to determine if the app is right [...]

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