iPad Apps

Language Apps You’ll Find Useful

November 23, 2012 by noemi

Do you have a fixation on words and languages? Do you fancy yourself speaking more than one or two languages?

Luckily for you, technology has made it easier for self-motivated people to learn new languages. While there are still a lot of ways you can learn formally, there are also countless language apps which can either serve as your main source of learning or as a supplement to your formal program. [Read more…] about Language Apps You’ll Find Useful

Games to Keep You Occupied on a Long Flight

November 16, 2012 by noemi

I haven’t been on extremely long flights, but even on flights that take three or four hours long, I get fidgety unless I fall asleep. Lucky for me, my body seems to take a moving vehicle as a signal for sleep most of the time. If all else fails, there is the iPad which keeps me busy for the duration of the flight.

If you are going on a trip soon, and you are preparing yourself for hours on the plane, here are some iPad games that have proven to be entertaining. Download them before you go. You won’t regret it!

Flight Control

Every time I write something about awesome iPad games, Flight Control makes it to the list. It is that awesome. The premise is to route and reroute planes so that you can land all of them safely. It is a bit weird to play this game while you’re 30,000 feet above ground, but you’ll certainly not feel the time pass. [Read more…]

Five Apps to Keep Your Kids Safe

October 14, 2012 by DailyBits

Technology is a double-edged sword in parenting. Monitoring your child’s use of the family PC is simple enough, but supervision becomes more complicated. Eventually the time will come when your child will grow up and leave all his baby gear behind. As a parent you still want to keep an eye on your children and this is quite simple done through the use of smartphones. Fortunately, there are many apps that would help you keep your kids safe. Here are our five favourites. [Read more…] about Five Apps to Keep Your Kids Safe

Full Metal Jacket Diary

August 27, 2012 by noemi

Full Metal Jacket is one of the iconic movies of its time, and movie buffs will tell you that if you have not seen it yet, you simply ought to stop what you are doing right now and watch it. It’s Monday morning anyway. You probably won’t get much work done! ((Disclaimer: I have only seen it in bits and pieces myself.))

If you appreciate the movie as most people who have seen it, then you will love the new iPad app that Matthew Modine has released. The star of Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 film decided to release the app, dubbed Full Metal Jacket Diary, because of the amount of material he had collected while keeping an actual diary as they filmed the movie.
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Obsessed About Your Biological Clock? There Is an App for That!

June 29, 2012 by noemi

I am not kidding, and if you know a woman who has very strong urges about passing on her genes to the next generation, you would also know that the ticking biological clock is not a joking matter. In fact, I am sure that studies have been made about just how this fixation on the biological clock has gotten a lot of women down.

Not that I am one of them, but just in case you are, or you know someone who is, then here is an iOS app that might just help. Or maybe not, I don’t really know.

In any case, let me introduce you to the Wonder Clock, an app that was specially designed to count down a woman’s biological clock in real time. [Read more…] about Obsessed About Your Biological Clock? There Is an App for That!

Kepler Explorer iOS App for Armchair Astronomers

April 4, 2012 by noemi

How often do you find yourself gazing up at the vast space above your head – that is, when there is no roof above you? If you are a frustrated astronomer, an astronomer in the making, or an armchair astronomer, here is an app that you will want to download NOW: Kepler Explorer. [Read more…]