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Be rude with Doodle Burp!


Wanna see your kids giggle? There’ s an app for that. It’s a very simple game from MIke Tsao of Attachment computing: Doodle Burp. Just draw a shape on the screen and listen it play burping sound while jiggling the drawing. Doodle Burp is available for $.99 on iTunes, or you can get the ad-supported Doodle Burp Free.
Talk about hours of endless fun :)
Read more at Geek Dad

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Design an app for building healthier kids and win $ 10,000

A competition has been announced by Michelle Obama for designing apps, games and other tools that help children make healthier lifestyle choices. All the apps participating in the contest have to use information taken from the USDA Nutrition Dataset and have to be available for free for a year after the competition is closed.
The competition is called Apps for Healthy Kids and is part of Let’s Move campaign.
All the apps and games will have to be focused on encouraging kids & families to adopt healtier lifestyles and eating habits (controlling portions, being more active, etc.). Winners will earn a check for $ 10,000 and developers will retaing full rights to their entry.
The competition runs from March 10, 2010 through June 30, 2010 (close at 5pm EST).

via Christy’s Family Computing Blog

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Mobicip and other kid-safe iPhone web browsers

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Getting worried every time your kids grab your iPhone? Maybe you already know that iPhone (as well as iPod Touch) support parental control allowing you to disable a number of features. And after you set limits on browsing through Safari, the further step you can take for your kids’ safety is using a browser like Mobicip (an iApp available for free). Once you get an account on mobicip.com, you can select the level of filtering based on your child’s age group by school (contents and categories can be either allowed or blocked for elementary, middle and high school kids). You may even set shortcuts to websites that you consider useful for you child (such as Wikipedia, Britannica, HowStuffWorks, etc.) And if you’re not satisfied with Mobicip, there are two further browsers available: iWonderSurfWebBrowser and Safe Eye Mobile.

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