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08.17.12Royal Mail Smilers app turns your children into stampsThis isn't just an app for children, but we reckon Royal Mail Smilers is going to appeal to a lot of parents nonetheless. It's an official app from the UK's Royal Mail, tying into its existing Smilers website, which lets people create stamps from their own photos. New apps for iPhone and iPad take the idea mobile. "Just send us your photo and choose a stamp from our Smilers range and you can share that special moment with family and friends," explains the App Store listing. Continue Reading...
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06.22.12FamJam iPad app helps families share their digital artworksPhoto-sharing apps like Instagram are all the rage, and mobile game Draw Something was a big hit earlier this year. Now imagine these things combined, but aimed more at children and their extended families. That's FamJam. It's a free iPad app that aims to be "a safe private communication hub for your entire family", as well as "the best drawing and photo sharing app made for kids, grandparents, and everyone else in between". That means you can take photos then scribble on them (or attach cartoon accessories), or simply draw a picture, then share it with whatever family members are registered in ...
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06.14.12Two new Fisher-Price apps: Giggle Gang and Photo StudioFisher-Price may be best known for its range of real-world toys, but the company has been making apps for a while now too. Two new ones show its ambitions to make digital toys, as well as physical ones. Fisher−Price Photo Studio is aimed at children aged three and up who are starting to get interested in the iPhone or iPod touch camera. It's a kid-friendly photo-editing app with an array of drawing tools, virtual stickers and digital effects to apply to photos – either shot within the app, or pulled from the device's Camera Roll. Clear icons are used to access the different options, ...
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05.14.12Madagascar 3 gets Mad Wig Out app for iPhone and iPadPhoto-manipulation apps like FatBooth have been big hits on iPhone, but a new app looks set to be fun for children who are fans of DreamWorks' Madagascar animated movies. The app is called Mad Wig Out, and it's free to download for iPhone and iPad. It's focused on the Zooster characters from Madagascar 3, inviting you to "join the afro circus with a virtual rainbow wig". Yes, that means taking a photo of yourself or your child, then slapping a virtual wig onto it, before sharing it with friends and family on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. The novelty may be short-lived, but ...
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04.07.12Crayola Silly Face Swaps HD gets creative for iPhone and iPadThere are lots of good colouring apps out there for iPhone and iPad, including several under the name of drawing brand Crayola. This latest one has a twist though, putting your child (or you) into the pictures. So, Crayola Silly Face Swaps HD has a series of black'n'white outline scenes to colour in, with settings including space, under the sea, a pirate ship and so on. There are 64 virtual crayons to colour in with, as well as 24 pencils, 10 marker pens and a fill tool. Each picture includes a body with a head ready to be swapped with one of ...
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09.12.11AvatarBook Pinocchio puts your child in the book-appThis week, we've been looking for a Christmas present for our four year-old: one of those personalised books that puts their name (and their brother/sister/dog/etc) into the story. We're still looking, if you have any recommendations... AvatarBook Pinocchio is a new iPad app that goes one better: it puts your child's face into the book. You take a photo of them (or use one already stored on your iPad) which is turned into the avatar for the main character, Pinocchio. Yes, there is a scene where their nose grows, too. I'm more enthused by the idea than this specific app, based on ...
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09.07.11Snap & Share Kids Cam makes iPhone photography simpleMy eldest son went through a big PhotoBooth phase on the iPad 2 a few months ago. I've still got hundreds of photos on the device to prove it: he'd shoot five or six at a time, staring into the lens with a faraway look in his eyes. But he didn't really know what to do with them then. Snap & Share Kids Cam isn't an iPad app: it's for iPhone. But it's a cracking idea nonetheless. Developer Qbikai Software describes it as "the first ever camera and photo sharing app for children". That means big buttons, voice prompts and no fiddly ...
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07.24.11Magic Safari offers augmented reality animal-spottingMobile augmented reality technology can be a bit geeky, but a new iPhone app called Magic Safari puts AR to nifty use in an animal-spotting game for children. Actually, augmented reality makes it sound a bit more complicated than it is: this is more about automatic photo manipulation. The idea: walk around your neighborhood (or wherever you happen to be at the time) and take photos. Magic Safari then inserts one of a range of animals for your child to 'spot'. There are horses, elephants, lions, tigers and even some dinosaurs and dragons to be found, with their locations plotted on a ...
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