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It’s here! The new iPod touch – Apple just announced it is available and in stores.

YAY! It’s finally here!!! Nico is going to get the iPod touch today, his first ever Apple product. We went to two stores (Best Buy and the Apple store) over the weekend and they said noooooo, it is not out yet. But now it is!!!

PC World: BrickJournal magazine makes iPad our Legos

I like Legos and the iPad. This man is very good at it and he has a magazine about Legos. This info below my typing now is from a website called  PC World so click that link to see it or read the stuff below: ——- from PC World—– Joe Meno is the owner of BrickJournal, a magazine dedicated to everybody’s favorite building toy: Lego bricks. Meno tells PCWorld that he was impressed by the presentation of the iPad, and is excited about its potential to change the print media landscape. He described the creation process [ ... ]

lego picture app makes u into Legos

What would u look like made of LEGOs? Or your pet hamster? This app makes ur pix look like legos. free!! .

DIY Lego iPad stand: randomly cool thing

When you have spent money on an iPad, then the case… and now you want a stand but have no more MOULA you can DIY (do it yourself) and make a stand with Legos. Legos are good.

Minion Mania game app and Twinkie cakes

This is a fun game. The Minions from Despicable Me are really cool. look at the tray of Twinkies made into little minions. ROFL. The app i am telling you about is 20 levels and u show a Minion to the exit. It is $6.99 so it is expensive. Only buy it is u like Minions. It is a good game and the levels get harder. Minion Mania game–CLICK here to see it more -Nico

Tap Tanks: it is fun. I think all age Kids can play this iPad app

review by Nico, 4th grade tap tanks is a game, it is $0.99, where you make little tanks to kill other tanks and there factories. you can make them with mini-guns, flamethrower, rocket, and big bullets. they all do different amounts of damage. you also can make them with buggy, tank, hover and more armor. u can play against the iPad or you can go to multi player and do blue tooth or Internet–Which is coming soon my iPad said. You can make it easy normal hard. This is a game I would play again and again. You can play on  [ ... ]
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Interactive Alphabet: Z is best says The iPad Kids

interactive means you can touch the iPad and the letter are said outloud. You can also move things like the zipper. Our neighbor’s two little kids liked it when they did that. The Robot is good. But the Z is best because every kid likes to play with zippers. It is neat how they work and go together and come apart. I think kids who are in Pre-K and K will like this app and they will learn stuff too. The app is $2.99 here and on sale for a little bit so if you want it [ ... ]

find skateboard park place with iPad APP

I like to ripstick but you like to skateboard.  I see people doing both at the skateboard curvy parks. It is on sale for 99 cents instead of 1.99 $ This app is one to show u where to find a place to go or you can learn how to do a trick. what the itunes page said: Have you ever wondered how the Pros do those sick skateboard tricks? Now’s your chance to find out! Whagaa Software and Santa Cruz Skate Shop bring you GoLearn Skateboarding, the first ever mobile application that combines instructional videos and a GPS [ ... ]
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Bright puzzle app

By Nico, 9 yrs old This free app is where they give you samples of pictures for puzzles i play this with my family and we each take a side of the ipad as ours and try to grab the puzzle pieces that go on our side only. it gets hard because all ours hands get in the way but that is fun too. you select one and they give you pieces puzzle and you can tell what size piece puzzle you want like size: 8×8 that is 64 pieces 10×10-100 pieces 14×14-196 pieces 18×18-324 pieces and there is a tab that says groups of [ ... ]

Chuck Gnome game review BIG DEBUT

—-We are proud to be one of the first in the world to review this game. We saw it in the beta stage and loved it. Simple games such as this are pure entertainment for kids. We like the attention to detail withe the aiming of the slingshot. This is an addicting little game – for kids and adults.—- Nico, age 9, shares his review for you: In this game you’re a gnome (pronounced NOME) and u fire yourself out of slingshot (that is fun!) and u have to hit things in the background to get points.

Crazy Machines puzzle app game – Be an Engineer!

crazy machines is a building game. to beat a level you have to say get a ball  in a basket. it maybe puzzling for you it takes me 1 to 5 minutes to do each level. this is what the iTunes page says. P.S. It works on my iPad, I do not know why the iTunes does not say it. This is what the iTunes says about the game: The aim of Crazy Machines is to build crazy contraptions to complete the tasks set forth by the wacky Professor. Give free rein to your imagination and unleash [ ... ]
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Violet – new iPad book for kids – Interactive

“The iPad Kids gives it two thumbs up. Plus we want some of the blueberry pie, please.” The girl in it is trying to make her life interesting. She makes time go backwards one hour. The next day she sees that the extra hour of time has made her family happy because they were able to do more in the morning with the extra hour, like study or bake a pie. I like pie! The drawings are the best part. And the dog that is on pages- you have to kinda search for him like a treasure hunt- it is [ ... ]

Pooping birds! Foul Play HD review by Nico age 9 – iPad Kids

FowlPlay is a free app where you are a pigeon who flies around over people and poops on them! You get more points by flying thru rings but you can’t run into trees or you lose lives (you have three lives). You can upgrade and there is hot sauce that makes your poop explode!!! There is a TACO which gives you diarreha which shoots multiple poop at once. and there is a helmet that lets you run into trees without you losing lives. This is what the game people say about it: Everyone’s favorite pigeon pooping game is now available for the [ ... ]

Buster Red a Ship Game is kinda like a new Space Invaders- a old game

Buster Red by Nico, age 9. When  I started the game I chose from several ships.  the different ships shoot different patterns of bullets lasers and stuff. ur a ship and u have to shoot the bad guys ships. the backgrounds are always different. There are bosses and they are really  hard to shoot they r shooting at you a lot of bullets. you can choose from campaign boss levels and elite level which is xtra .99 to get those levels. it is like that old arcade game Space Invaders. It looks like an old fashioned game kinda but it was fun.
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Gaga ball iPad Kids get outside sometimes and play ball!

Once in a while kids need to stop playing on electronics and play kids games outside. Gaga ball is a good game to play. I play it at camp and I won yesterday. It is really fun. Here is a video of people playing. Here are the rules. Instructions Step 1 // < ![CDATA[ jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery('#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first').attr('href','http://i.ehow.com/images/a05/0u/it/play-gaga-ball-1.1-800X800.jpg'); }); // ]]> Gaga Ball HOW TO PLAY: The objective of the game is to eliminate players by hitting them, at or below the knees, with the ball. When a player is eliminated, he/she must exit the court. Players can roll the [ ... ]
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Julia's Pick

Julia

Montessori Crosswords App Review

When we were choosing the person from the iPad Kids Team, we all knew who it was going to be. ME!
This decision was so easy because I used to go to the Montessori School.
Well, back to the app, this app is very simple and easy, i would say its for toddlers around the [...]


Nico's Pick

Nico

lego picture app makes u into Legos

What would u look like made of LEGOs? Or your pet hamster?
This app makes ur pix look like legos. free!!
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Charlotte's Pick

Charlotte

I love my school….

I’ve got another funny iPad story!! It was great.
So my two friends (they’re brother and sister) both have iPads that they use at school for textbooks and stuff. And of course, they still have games on them and stuff so we were playing Fruit Ninja at lunch passing around the iPad, right? And [...]


The iPad Kids's Pick

The iPad Kids

Papa Meatballs: guess which cup it’s under. SPLAT.

Okay, so tonight we are eating meatballs from IKEA (tell your mom to buy them in the frozen section, plus the red cranberry sauce stuff. ) YUMMY-
anyway-
so, thinking of meatballs i wanted to see if there are any apps about meatballs. I mean, they say there is a app for everything now , right?
yep. App [...]


Mike's Pick

Mike

Black Enterprise magazine now on iPad. College kids read this.

Black Enterprise magazine has launched its own iPad app and offers two of its most popular issues free.

Today’s launch of an application for Black Enterprise magazine marks the first time an African-American-owned and operated publication has provided content through the iPad. The Black Enterprise app features the magazine’s exclusive Wealth for Life [...]


Dylan's Pick

Dylan

Sept 1 Apple event debuts new iPod

A new iPod is coming out.
Apple will hold the Special Event on September 1st. You can see in this photo that Apple is starting to get ready. They are decorating the outside of the San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the launch of the new iPod Touch.
Music!! iPod!