HATCHEDit is like a collaborative whiteboard for Android where you can organize your collective family life with a calendar, an address book, a family news and notebook tool and household blog. It's a place to keep all the important information the family needs and then adds a social aspect by letting you share relevant information, not only with your spouse and kids, but also with grandparents, babysitters and au pairs. HATCHEDit is a mobile whiteboard for managing your personal life and succeeds in bringing social collaborative tools online and into the home. Its a free organization tool that includes ... Read more
ParentingInformer is a kids entertainment and parental education application that is almost a one stop app for all things kids related. It provides a wealth of information about kids whether they be toddlers or teenagers and features a virtual plethora of advice, tips, styles and stories from real parents around the world. It's aim is to create a comprehensive place where parents can go to get information on pretty well everything to do with their children. ParentingInformer is a multi-author website providing parenting advice, tips, styles and stories from real parents like you. By sharing information from other parents ... Read more
This simple Learn to write Chinese application from the Monkey Write people is another in the series following their earlier Numbers, Blessings and Eating Out excursions. It's a free and easy to use language, education and learning tool for android that literally teaches one to write Chinese characters and turns it into a bit of a game that even kids can play and learn from. It's said that the only way to truly master the complicated art of Chinese writing is practice, practice and more practice. However, doing that on paper could be construed as being rather dull - ... Read more
Letting your kids loose on the internet must be a worry for any parent. With a range of social networks to choose from it’s not always easy to know just who’s hooking up as a friend and looking at photographs. On the other hand of course you don’t want to deprive youngsters of the pleasure of sharing special moments and at the same time honing some useful computer skills. Doing all of this in the knowledge that the environment is safe and secure is obviously the answer to all of those concerns and Vikido looks like a great place to start your ... Read more
I remember as a kid writing long stories with a fountain pen, adding a few drawings and then binding all the sheets of paper together in brown parcel paper tied down the middle with wool. I was an author at eight years old and nobody was going to tell me any different! It’s funny but I never sold any copies but my mother still has them in a box somewhere and they come out now and again when the subject of me writing for a living comes up, bless! Read more
Well there are certainly some fun ways to get youngsters reading and writing these days and if this one doesn’t get them hooked then I don’t know what will. It could be quite a laugh to use as an adult too if you want to get a point across in a comic style. The mechanics are simple and once you log in you are taken on a step-by step guide to creating a comic strip page complete with characters and text. The first thing you have to do is choose the layout of your page from a selection of boxes and once ... Read more
If you’re a parent of young kids and you fancy a crack at being a virtual banker then you should give this one a go. Let’s face it you couldn’t do any worse than the bunch of real ones running the worlds finances at the moment! Read more
Xtravo Operating System basically lets you store, create and edit your data on the cloud seamlessly. It's cloud computing technology allows you to access it from anywhere there is an Internet connection and gives you unlimited space to store any kind of data you wish as well as giving total privacy. Read more
There is a lot of talk about kids being at risk on the Internet from bullying and potential prowlers. Kids, of course, don't see the risks and resent your intervention into their probably harmless cyber activities. So how do you monitor your child's online activities without seeming to be looking over their shoulder? Care4Teen.com let's you login to your account wherever there is Internet access and view all of their online activities. There is no charge at all for this service. Simply download the software on your computer and you’re all set to go. Care4Teen.com is a just- launched ... Read more
There are a few sites of this type around offering families a platform to keep up to date with who owes who. They follow a similar pattern in that a virtual bank is created, with Mom and Dad providing the funds of course, and virtual transactions are credited and debited to reflect the real cash position. Read more