Apps for Kids

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Apps for Kids episodes

October 21, 2013 Apps for Kids 048: Stop Motion Studio (plus Minecraft Contest Winner)
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Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 10-year-old daughter, Jane.
In this episode, we review Stop Motion Studio, a free iPhone app that makes it easy to create your own stop-motion animated movies. We also present the winner of our Minecraft contest. The winner is 10-year-old Ruby Schweitzer, who created an entire village she calls Klenmeere Woods. See photos of her creation below. Ruby and her dad will be guests on an upcoming issue of Apps for Kids, and Ruby will get a $10 iTunes gift card.
If you're an app developer and would like to have Jane and me try one of your apps for possible review, email a redeem code to [email protected].
Jane and I love to get your emails with questions about game, gear, and tech. What's your question?
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Here's the winner of our Minecraft Contest!
My name is Ruby Schweitzer and I'm from Cary, North Carolina. I am 10 years old. I have designed a town which I call Klenmeere Woods. The photos in this email are screenshots of different interesting parts of my village.
This is what each photo is a picture of:
1: The Rainbow Bridge, a monument surrounded by a glass wall, with a door for observers.
2: The Rainbow Pyramid, another monument. It's the main statue of the town and is sort of the first thing you see when you look around.
3: A close-up of the Rainbow Pyramid. The steps were inspired by the Lincoln Memorial.
4: House number 100. This is the first house I built in Klenmeere Woods.
5: The inside of house number 100. Notice the furnace under the steps to save space.
6: The inside of house number 100. Notice the closet under the steps.
7: The inside of house 100 (view from the steps). The steps lead to the roof, where there's an outdoor bookshelf and furnace.
8: The post office. The glass roof is to add sunshine.
9: The apartment buildings. Each apartment has access to the courtyard on the roof.
10: The apartment buildings (again).
11: The waterfall in town square. (I made this by stacking two bricks and pouring a bucket of water over the top.)
12: The Town Bulletin (where everyone posts notices about sales and events.) One citizen is advertising cheap candy for Halloween!
13: The tree house. This is simply made by building a tree-shaped house and putting furniture in it.
14: The glasses. This is a monument built to look like my own red glasses. It is big enough for a Minecraft person to climb on.
15: A side view of the glasses.
16: A view of the whole town from the air. As you can see, the Rainbow Pyramid and the Rainbow Bridge are pretty dominating.
So this is Klenmeere Woods. It's not so big now, but that's because I just started.
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October 14, 2013 Apps for Kids 047: Light-Bot
Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 10-year-old daughter, Jane.
In this episode, we review Light-bot, a programming puzzle game that uses game mechanics rooted in programming concepts. "Light-bot lets players gain a practical understanding of basic control-flow concepts like procedures, loops, and conditionals, just by guiding a robot with commands to light up tiles and solve levels." It's $1.99 in the iTunes store and $2.99 in Google Play. You can also play it for free on the web.
If you're an app developer and would like to have Jane and me try one of your apps for possible review, email a redeem code to [email protected].
Jane and I love to get your emails with questions about game, gear, and tech. What's your question?
Listen to past episodes of Apps for Kids here.
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September 30, 2013 Apps for Kids 46: Nimble Quest

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Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 10-year-old daughter, Jane.
In this episode, we review Nimble Quest. It's $2.99 in the iTunes store and free in Google Play.
Our Minecraft contest deadline has been extended to October 11 at noon PT! email us a screenshot or YouTube link of your Minecraft creation and we'll pick a winner to join us on an upcoming episode of Apps for Kids!
If you're an app developer and would like to have Jane and me try one of your apps for possible review, email a redeem code to [email protected].
Jane and I love to get your emails with questions about game, gear, and tech. What's your question?
Listen to past episodes of Apps for Kids here.
To get a weekly email to notify you when a new episode of Apps for Kids is up, sign up here.
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September 13, 2013 Apps for Kids 45: Bean's Quest (Plus a Minecraft contest!)

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Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 10-year-old daughter, Jane.
In this episode, we review Bean's Quest. It's $2.99 in the iTunes store and Google Play.
We also announced our first contest! email us a screenshot or YouTube link of your Minecraft creation and we'll pick a winner to join us on an upcoming episode of Apps for Kids!
If you're an app developer and would like to have Jane and me try one of your apps for possible review, email a redeem code to [email protected].
Jane and I love to get your emails with questions about game, gear, and tech. What's your question?
Listen to past episodes of Apps for Kids here.
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8 min
September 05, 2013 Apps for Kids 44: Oh, Cube!
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Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 10-year-old daughter, Jane.
In this episode of Apps for Kids, we talk about Oh! Cube. It's $0.99 in the iTunes store.
If you're an app developer and would like to have Jane and me try one of your apps for possible review, email a redeem code to [email protected].
Jane and I love to get your emails with questions about game, gear, and tech. What's your question?
Listen to past episodes of Apps for Kids here.
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10 min
August 30, 2013 Apps for Kids 43: Animal Voyage: Island Adventure
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Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 10-year-old daughter, Jane.
In this episode of Apps for Kids, we talk about Animal Voyage: Island Adventure. It's free in the iTunes store.
If you're an app developer and would like to have Jane and me try one of your apps for possible review, email a redeem code to [email protected].
Jane and I love to get your emails with questions about game, gear, and tech. What's your question?
Listen to past episodes of Apps for Kids here.
To get a weekly email to notify you when a new episode of Apps for Kids is up, sign up here.
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12 min
August 20, 2013 Apps for Kids 42: Plants Vs. Zombies 2

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Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 10-year-old daughter, Jane.
In this episode of Apps for Kids, we talk about the followup to the worldwide hit Plants Vs. Zombies. It's called Plants Vs. Zombies 2 and it's free in the iTunes store.
If you're an app developer and would like to have Jane and me try one of your apps for possible review, email a redeem code to [email protected].
Jane and I love to get your emails with questions about game, gear, and tech. What's your question?
Listen to past episodes of Apps for Kids here.
To get a weekly email to notify you when a new episode of Apps for Kids is up, sign up here.
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10 min
August 16, 2013 Apps for Kids 41: Blocksworld

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Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 10-year-old daughter, Jane.
In this episode of Apps for Kids, we talk about a fun sandbox style iPad app by the creators of Second Life. If you like Minecraft and Lego, you will like it. It's called Blocksworld and it's free in the iTunes store.
If you're an app developer and would like to have Jane and me try one of your apps for possible review, email a redeem code to [email protected].
Listen to past episodes of Apps for Kids here.
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10 min
July 03, 2013 Apps for Kids 40: Dumb Ways to Die

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Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 10-year-old daughter, Jane.
In this episode of Apps for Kids, we talk about Dumb Ways to Die , which is free in the iTunes store.
If you're an app developer and would like to have Jane and me try one of your apps for possible review, email a redeem code to [email protected].
Listen to past episodes of Apps for Kids here.
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8 min
June 21, 2013 Apps for Kids 39: Anodia

Apps for Kids is Boing Boing's podcast about cool smartphone apps for kids and parents. My co-host is my 10-year-old daughter, Jane.
In this episode of Apps for Kids, we talk about Anodia, which is $2.99 in the iTunes store.
If you're an app developer and would like to have Jane and me try one of your apps for possible review, email a redeem code to [email protected].
Listen to past episodes of Apps for Kids here.
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7 min