Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island

Developer Quote: "Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island is an exciting adventure story that's a twist on the "choose your own adventure" format...thousands of ways to find the treasure and lots of hidden gold to discover in this exciting new cinematic approach to the book app."

- COST:  $1.99 cents   - APP STORE STARS:  4
- Categories:  Action, Adventure, Books, Education, Elementary School, Entertainment, Games, Native

There's nothing better to me than reading an exciting book with lots of mystery and intrigue involved. Did you know the same holds true for kids? They love a good adventure and searching for hidden items much like a scavenger hunt. Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island is a wonderful interactive story to grab kids' attention, and get them "digging" for gold in an extraordinary treasure hunt designed just for them! Children 5 years and up will be totally engrossed taking part in this lovely story.

Let me first explain that Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island is adapted from an award winning children’s book by Karen Robertson. The actual book is unique in that not only is it filled with excitement, but it comes with little treasure chests of objects with which the kids interact as they read. There are different Treasure Kai books with a similar theme that have children using all their senses and imagination to unearth hidden mysteries and treasures. Turning this excellent physical book into an electronic one is a true accomplishment as it mirrors the original so closely. Yet the app is so much more thrilling with music, sound and interaction. In this particular story, lost gold treasure is eagerly sought by little Kai. Your children will be totally absorbed when embarking upon the trail of gold with lots of exciting animations, surprises and sound effects.

Some of the many engaging features of this children's interactive iPad, iPhone book app are as follows:

- Award-winning, original treasure hunt adventure story
- Pop up and touch screen sounds and animations to discover
- Hidden gold coins to treasure hunt for
- Cinematic sound effects and dramatic original score
- Stunning illustrations by an award winning illustrator
- Read-to-me or self-read options
- You control the text box size and placement

Your story starts off by introducing Kai, his friend Kate and where they live. You get a great feel for Kai's adventurous personality here. One night as he is going to sleep, Kai begins to dream and finds himself rowing out to Shark Island where the action begins. In the story, Kai will explore jungles, castles and pyramids and find a treasure chest of sparkling jewels. Interactivity is the key that keeps kids turning the pages, and thirsting after more adventure and knowledge. They will find plenty of all these things in Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island.

One of the cool things you can do while progressing through the app is move reading text boxes around and enlarge them as necessary. My special delight is turning on and off Kai's night table lamp which is just a small example of great attention paid to details throughout. Perfectly suited adventure sound tracks add intrigue to the story. To me it almost seems that Kai is a miniature Indiana Jones in this exciting book where he must escape mazes and pass by spooky skeletons and other daunting obstacles. You'll find bats, snakes and native warriors. But in the end, finding the treasure box of jewels makes it all worthwhile! Tap the end page to start this wondrous adventure all over again!

This book has a little bit of everything in it to absorb all your senses: beautiful graphics, rhymes that give you hints on solving the puzzles, awesome sound effects, action and adventure in other mysterious worlds. The feeling of accomplishment on finding the gold is wonderful. After all, who wouldn't enjoy unearthing a chest of gold coins and sparkling jewels after a well-thought out, exciting journey to get there? Parents and children alike will be as spell-bound as I was on reading this glorious tale.

COOL CONCLUSION: "Enjoy the suspense and excitement of treasure hunting in Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island where imagination and adventure spring to life!"

--Date/Version: Updated 10/9/12 - Version 1.11
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 4.3 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: (+ Universal: For iPhone/iPad), iPod Touch
--Developer Link: Treasure Bound Books Pty Ltd.

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National Geographic Today

Developer Quote: "National Geographic Today for iPad brings you the best of National Geographic’s daily offerings—news, videos, quizzes, articles, and of course, the awe-inspiring photography we’re known for."

- COST:     Free     - APP STORE STARS:     4
- Categories: Books, Education, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Native

My Dad had a few excellent choice magazine subscriptions when I was growing up. I suspect these informative mags were not only for him, but for our education and enlightenment too. National Geographic was one of those magazines that arrived faithfully by mail.

Adults and kids today have a terrific opportunity to read up on worldwide culture, environments and global news in National Geographic Today on iPad. What a delight it is to use the iPad's glossy large screen display to view the world from the armchair, no traveling costs involved!

Enjoy beautiful, life-like photos on your iPad's screen along with a host of excellent, close-up and well captured videos to entrance everyone in the family. With this app, view highlights of the current day, or review those of the previous week. Use sharing options to send your favorite articles to Twitter and Facebook friends. Through the years, I have learned so many phenomenal and intriguing facts all from this one magazine that I probably would not have learned in school. National Geographic educational and entertaining iPad app is definitely recommended for your viewing pleasure!

COOL CONCLUSION: Enjoy free daily news with National Geographic Today along with incredible photography and excellent newsworthy videos.

--Date/Version: Updated 4/20/12 - Version 1.1
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 5.0 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: iPad
--Developer: National Geographic Society

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Christmas Kid's Piano - Festive Songs, Carols and Sounds of the Season

Developer Quote: "Play Christmas carols, listen to beautiful music, or make your own musical collage of melody and sound with three magical holiday themes in Christmas Kid's Piano."

- COST:    99 cents     - APP STORE STARS:     4
- Categories: Entertainment, Holidays Lifestyle, Music, Native, Universal

Kids love music and song. They can create their own music using pots, pans, keys, whistles or anything handy in the house. What really makes them feel accomplished and productive though is producing actual songs that they know and love - specifically Christmas songs! And they can do this easily on their iPad and iPhone using Christmas Kid's Piano - Festive Songs, Carols and Sounds of the Season.

This beautifully designed and brightly colored app uses the piano as its background to play music, make songs, play instruments and generally produce all the fun musical activities that children love. Place it in vibrant holiday theme colors, and your kids will be tapping away on your device entertaining themselves and you with lots of instrumental sounds and songs. Features of this Christmas music and songs, universal iPhone and iPad app include:

- Three musical instruments to play, including pianos, trumpets, harps, flutes, violins, bells and a chorus
- Hidden sounds to discover
- Two enchanting wintery musical tracks

Your child will find it easy to use and enjoy this app without your help as they simply follow the directions of the starfish to play 10 well-loved and known Christmas carols.



The happy smiling faces of all the characters of Christmas Kid's Piano are quite charming - from the starfish with the Santa hat to the happy musical notes. Look at the beautiful graphics including snowmen, skaters, snowflakes, packages, sparkling stars and mistletoe. Your family will be instantly infused with the wonder and magical joys of this happy season!

COOL CONCLUSION: Christmas Kid's Piano is absolutely delightful seasonal entertainment for your kids, and educational as well, as they learn to tap out the notes to popular Christmas classics.

--Date/Version: Updated 3/16/12 - Version 1.1.1
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 3.2 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: Universal: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
--Developer: Garry Froehlich

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Creople

Developer Quote: "Creople [creature + people] is a hilariously creative and fun drawing app for kids of all ages (even for the kid in all of us)!"

- COST:     99 cents    - APP STORE STARS:     4
- Categories: Art, Entertainment, Games, Native

Do you fancy yourself an artist, whether moderate or exceptional? Well, Creople lets you have fun drawing to your heart's content. There are 4 body parts to be drawn: head, torso, legs and feet. You can only see and draw one panel at a time, however, to increase the element of surprise! After the first panel is drawn, let's say of the head, then the other player gets to draw the torso. You can swap turns like this till you finish with the feet. If you're not feeling too artistic, you can borrow a drawing from the pre-designed pieces in the Creople gallery. Take a look at how to play this fun iPhone and iPad artistic drawing game:

- OPTIONS:
In the "Options" panel, along with drawing from scratch, you can also choose pre-drawn artwork from the "GALLERY". Use the magnifying glass to 'Zoom' in if you want more precision and detail.

- SETTINGS:
Tap "Options" then "Settings" panel to choose from various colors, different line thickness, and an eraser if you make a mistake.

- VIEWER:
Now you can name your Creople, save it, and even post it to Facebook to share your funniest Creople masterpieces.

- HOW IT WORKS: 
Draw 4 body parts: head -> torso -> legs -> feet. Draw one panel at a time. Each time a panel is completed, it's hidden so it's your secret drawing. Your Creople is revealed only when all 4 parts are complete.

Double your fun by tapping on Options, Settings and then selecting color or line thickness, and using an eraser as needed. When all panels are drawn, tap the Finish button and enjoy the unique creation you have made with your friend or by yourself. I bet you will be surprised at the comical or clever stuff that becomes the final Creople masterpiece. At this point you can either save your image, or post to Facebook to share with others. Creople is the perfect game for holiday party fun or when you're indoors snowbound.
               

COOL CONCLUSION:  Creople is an adorable and fun drawing game that can be played on your iOS device with friends who all display their own imagination in your drawing!

--Date/Version: Version 1.0
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 3.0 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
--Developer: 2cre8 LLC
 
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Meeting Minutes

Developer Quote: "Meeting Minutes is a comprehensive solution for managing meetings."

- COST:     Free (Limited Time)     - APP STORE STARS:     4
- Categories: Business, Communications, Lifestyle, Native, Productivity

Prior to my days in the medical field as well as the discovery and sharing of iOS apps here, I worked in the banking business. That was one field in which there were daily meetings, often three a day, to discuss loans, interest rates, customer defaults, mortgages, you name it! Usually I was in charge of arranging the meeting and reports, along with noting the minutes, including who said what when! I have to sigh very sadly and loudly here because I could have really used this app back then instead of doing everything manually!

Meeting Minutes is a fantastic way to track every bit of information, every attendee, every spoken thought and deed that takes place in meetings. It offers a complete package of organization in recalling all the details of meetings using the various media offered by your device including scanning, recording and taking photos. Feast your eyes on all the features this loaded iPad business notetaking meeting app has to offer:

1- VISUAL SEATING

- Visual seating for 20 attendees
- 3 different meeting rooms themes and tables
- Ability to move attendee chairs around the table
- Drag and drop an attendee chair at the exit sign to delete from a meeting.
- Representation of tele-attendees

2- MEETING SCHEDULING

- Scheduling from imported calendar
- Scheduling from imported previous meetings
- Two way synch with the calendar
- Geo tagging when scheduling meetings
- Adding attendees and documents while scheduling a meeting
- Scheduling recurring meetings
- Invite other attendees by sharing scheduled meeting calender

3- MEETING AGENDA

- Ability to copy and paste agenda items from any text and every line will be added as a separate agenda item.
- Ability to change the order of the agenda items

4- MEETING DOCUMENTS

- Keep meeting documents within the meeting room drawer.
- Drag documents to the meeting table to associate with the current meeting
- View documents while taking text notes
- View documents at full screen
- Support for PDF, iWork, MS Office, RTF and simple Text files
- Search capability within the documents drawer
- Search filters for documents and photos

5- MEETING NOTES

- Adding text notes
- Adding handwritten notes or drawings
- Shortcuts on the meeting table for notes
- Any text, handwritten notes or drawings are included automatically within the meeting minutes

6- MEETING ATTENDEES

- Selecting meeting attendees when scheduling the meeting or on the go during the meeting.
- Highlight all attendees and with one click they are all represented on the meeting table
- Edit the details of the attendee and write your own personal comments
- Mark the attendee as a male or a female
- Import attendees from the contacts or add them manually
- Two way synch with the iPad contacts
- Intelligent search for attendees

7- MEETING RECORDING

- Clear recording for many hours
- Labeling who is currently talking to easily identify during the playback
- Archive recording files for all past meetings which can be exported using the iTunes

8- MEETING CAMERA

- Capturing whiteboard snapshots while in a meeting
- Scan documents and attach to meeting minutes
- Right and left handed photo taking positions
- Capture photo to the attendees or the meeting room to visually remember later the meeting.
- Ability to save the photo taken with a unique name.

9- MEETING ACTION POINTS

- Take action points during the meeting
- Assign attendees to the action points taken
- Define a due date for every single action point
- Ability to add action points directly to the attendee by long pressing the attendee chair
- Send action points directly to the attendee

10- MEETINGS ARCHIVING

- Archive meeting text and handwritten notes plus the drawing.
- Ability to play back the recorded files and showing the name of the speaker.
- Archive all general meeting info plus a snapshot of the meeting table along with the seating arrangement of the meeting attendees.
- Archive the meeting minutes with the ability to re-open and modify.

11- MEETING MINUTES

- Automatically generate the minutes of the meeting if chosen when exiting a meeting.
- Ability to edit the meeting minutes
- An edit toolbar that contains bold, italic and underlined lines , large and small font size , different colors and different fonts.
- View and edit the MoM in full screen
- Exporting the meeting minutes to the Dropbox account.
- Open In feature for the meeting minutes
- Ability to print the MoM
- Sharing and sending the minutes by email to all attendees.
- Attaching meeting documents to the MoM

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There are many features that I am thrilled about with Meeting Minutes. First of all, the Visual Seating map serves to jog your memory in the event you forget who was speaking at any particular point. Secondly, the Meeting Agenda - though a simple item - often gets changed a multitude of times prior to a meeting. It is a treat to be able to so easily regenerate and re-order the Agenda here. Recording the Meeting and labeling the speaker is a terrific help, while automatically generating the minutes of the meeting is a godsend.

If you are in that position of being responsible for preparing for meetings and capturing every blessed moment of those meetings in your workplace then Meeting Minutes will undoubtedly be the app you must have close at hand to save you time, keep you organized, and keep your brain safe from a meltdown during these important and very busy occasions.

COOL CONCLUSION: Meeting Minutes is a treasure trove of business organizational strategies put to good use in recording all details in every possible way of daily meetings

--Date/Version: Updated 12/1/12 - Version 2.2
--iOS/Age Rating:  This app requires iOS 5.1 or later. Rated 4+.
--Device: iPad
--Developer: Youxel Technology

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