Easter Apps

Predictably the Easter season has also affected iPhone and iPad developers and as a result they have come up with a number of Easter-themed Apps. If you're stuck inside this Easter or just want to avoid the mess that comes with a game of Egg Toss - check out the following free Easter Apps for a bit of entertainment on your iPhone, iPod or iPad over Easter.

• Bunny Fingers Easter Rabbit Reality - Ever get the feeling that you're seeing bunnies everywhere ... well this app
  helps you see them.




• Easter Egg Hunt 3D - go on elaborate Easter Egg hunts and never leave the house with this app.
  
  

How to use your iPhone as a Baby Monitor

Using your iPhone (or other iOS devices) as a baby monitor is a pretty cool solution to keeping an eye on your baby when you don't have another baby monitor to hand ... like when you are traveling or visiting friends and family. Here's a list of the top 7 Baby Monitor Apps (in no particular order) that allow you to do that (some of them require 2 devices):

• "iBaby" by Cyan Design ($0.99)
  
• "Baby Monitor" by CodeGoo http://www.codegoo.com/page/baby-monitor ($4.99)
  
• "BabySight" and "BabySight Lite" by Softopinion Group Corporation (free)
  
• "Baby Monitor & Alarm" by TappyTaps ($2.99)

Free DIYFather App to help you dress your child

DIYFather's first iPhone App solves one of the essential parenting dramas for dads – “how to dress your child to get wife approval”. “Dressify” is a free App that provides dads with an instant result on whether their little princess is dressed well enough to leave the house or needs to be changed.

The Dressify App uses face recognition and a proprietary “dress sense” algorithm to judge the outfit of your kids –you gotta see it to believe it. Download Dressify here – it’s totally free.

Dressify will take the stress out of dressing your kid and gives you the definitive answer on whether you child is dressed well. Use the Dressify result to settle arguments with your partner, impress your buddies/other parents or instill a sense of superiority in your child.

Also check out the Dressify Facebook Page, our Hall of Fame and follow the Dressify team on Twitter for the latest news on Dressify.

Another baby monitor for iOS devices

Looks like smartphones are the new baby monitors – there are a number of super popular apps on pretty much all smartphone platforms that allow parents to use their phones as baby monitors. No surprises there ... we all carry around smartphones these days so why not make use of them as baby monitors when we're away from home (or even when at home). I've recently come across a very popular one called "Best Baby Monitor" (voted top 3 in parenting apps by babble.com) which is really easy to use and has a few features I haven't seen anywhere else. So I thought it was worth a giving it a quick DIYFather app-titude test.

iPhone app for multilingual children

Check this out - pretty amazing! It's a great and playful app when you are brining up children in several languages (the app is called "Word Lens" by Quest Visual). Enjoy!

-Stef

iPhone dads - spelling app

Here's another useful app for all iPhone dads - "Bubble Alpha". This app helps preschoolers and school children with improving their spelling. The app, available for $0.99 from the iStore comes with a standard spelling package for pre-schoolers and additional themed packages (animals, food, etc) can be added on. This is a great idea to get kids to improve their skills in a "non-boring" format. The downside - the cost ... it's quite expensive for the number of words that are stored in the system. But hey - who wants to put a price tag on avoiding embarrassing spelling mistakes when your kids send their tweets to millions of followers :-)

Enjoy

-Stef

iPhone dads - the Wiggles app

Well I guess it was only a matter of time ... The Wiggles have launched their own iPhone app. In fact they have launched 7 iPhone apps (!) One of the seven apps ('Colouring In') is available free of charge from the app store - all the others are paid for apps and will set you back $1.29 per app.

So all up you're looking at a spend of $10 if you get them all (not too bad considering what all the other Wiggles stuff costs). Here's a list of the apps with a short description:

• Big Red Car – Drive the Big Red Car while collecting a range of musical instruments as The Wiggles make their way to their next concert destination.

An alternative to baby monitors - use your iPhone

If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch as well as a PC or MAC with a webcam you can save yourself the $100 or so that it would cost to buy a video baby monitor. An iPhone development company in Canada have created an app that enables a Mac/PC to become a video/audio monitor for your baby, kids or pet. As an added bonus, users can select a favourite lullaby from their iTunes library to make falling asleep that much easier. If you're an iPhone dad - check out www.softopinion.com for more information.

Enjoy and have a good night!

-Stef

iPhone dads and star wars fans

If you've got an iPhone and a toddler you must know about the iPhone lightsaber application by Lucasfilm Ltd. If you haven't heard of it - get down from whatever planet you are on, hop on the App Store and download the "Lightsaber Unleashed" app. It is very cool and will allow you to produce endless videos of your toddler acting out real-life light saber duells (and with no risk of losing life or limb). Like this one ...

iPhone Dads - check out the "Appvent Calendar"

Seasonal greetings to all iPhone Dads! Last year we reviewed 25 online advent calendars in the run up to Christmas. This year it's all gone a bit iPhone and some creative gaming company has come up with the "APPVENT CALENDAR". The website reveals a free iPhone game every day till Christmas. Download the game of the day at work and try it out with the kids when you get home.

Enjoy!

-Stef