Top 5 educational apps for children

Worried about your child spending too much time on your tablet or smartphone? You can make them worth their while by installing learning apps. Here are fivetop 5 educational apps for your children: 

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1. Elmo loves 123s 

Help your child identify and count numbers from 1 to 20, perform simple math operations, trace numbers and solve puzzles while having fun with the Sesame Street characters. 

2. Disney Story central 

The app helps you with bedtime stories with its large number of e-books starring Disney characters such as Mickey Mouse, the Disney princesses, and Doc McStuffins. The app offers read-along narration and personalized book recommendations. 

3. The Magic School Bus: Oceans by Scholastic 

Scholastic is a leading book company for children, and it follows on its mobile app. This interactive storybook about Ms. Frizzle and her students embarking on an aquatic journey is a going to be a sure favorite. 

4. Stack the States 

Help your child learn about the different states and where to find them on the map with this app. It teaches state shapes, capitals, and abbreviations. 

5. Ansel and Clair’s Adventures in Africa 

Ansel, a friendly intergalactic travel photographer, and Clair, a brilliant robot, will guide your child through puzzles, animations, quests, quizzes located in exotic places such as the Sahara Desert, and the Serengeti Plains. 

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Innovative Apps You Should Have on Your Phone

Developing smartphone technology leads to changes in quality of life, as these are innovations we carry with us every day, literally at our fingertips. Here are some of these helpful apps that surely transcend sheer novelty.

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Word Lens
This awesome application translates any sign or text into a person’s preferred language via the phone’s camera. It’s now even integrated into Google Translate. More importantly, one doesn’t even need internet connection for it to work.
Assistant
This app is actually the most-acclaimed, speaking personal assistant for smartphones, and is included in the New York Times’ top android apps of the year. It utilizes language tech to launch apps, answer queries, get information, and access many web services.
Be My Eyes
An app that truly impacts people’s lives is this micro-volunteering app that links blind people with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat. Anyone with the app installed can either ask for help or offer it and become someone else’s vision.
Cardiograph
Cardiograph is your personal health assistant, using the phone camera and a sensor for measuring heart rate. It works just like actual in-hospital medical equipment. Record and track results, then save them for reference.
SoundHound
You hear a great song in the background but don’t know who the artist is? This app identifies the band or artist, the album, and the lyrics. Just turn it on and it should be able to “sniff” the info you need for more personal listening sessions later. You can even hum that song you’ve forgotten but keeps running in your head the whole day and the app will detect it.

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Three Apps For First-Time Investors

Investing, whether in the stock market, real estate, or tech, can be intimidating if you’re not intimately familiar with the inner goings of such activity. Fortunately, with the advancements in technology come a plethora of apps that can help us in this endeavor. Here are three of them.

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Robinhood

One of the biggest draws of Robinhood among new investors is its $0-commission brokerage firm that makes it easy for anyone to invest without having to pay the typical fee of $10 for every trade you make. Investors make money through their Robinhood Gold membership and earning revenue from interest gained from cash in their accounts much like a bank.

Hello Money

Hello Money’s idea is centered on letting you choose different funds and stocks to create your ultimate portfolio one piece at a time. It allows you to pick from over 24,000 different funds and stocks.

Wealthfront

Perfect for those who can’t watch over their investments by the minute, this automated management service maximizes the “net-of-fee, after-tax, real investment return for each client’s particular tolerance for risk.”

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No Keyboards Needed: Presentation Apps For People On The Go

A lot of office workers think that a killer presentation can only be done with a desktop or a laptop. But with everything in the palm of our hands, it is indeed possible to do an impressive presentation using just a smartphone or a tablet.

In the absence of PowerPoint and Keynote, there are a lot of other apps that can give the same (or better) results. Impress your clients with these apps for your presentation on the go.

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Quickoffice: Quickoffice is Google’s mobile office suite that offers presentation templates for smartphone and tablets. Users can create slideshows from different preset layouts. Photos, videos, and charts can also be attached to the presentation. 

SlideShark: SlideShark is available in standard and team editions. People can access the app through their mobile devices, desktops, and laptops. It can convert files into tablet ready format without compromising graphics, fonts, and animations. 

Prezi: Prezi is a cloud-based application, which means users can access it through multiple hardware like laptops, computers, tablets, and even mobile phones. It is perfect for those who like to use a concept-map-like theme for their presentations. It is available for offline viewing. 

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Speaker Deck: This app converts slides into lightweight, embeddable PDF format so it can be easily shared online. It may have fewer options as compared to its competitors, but users will love how the files are lightweight and can be ready to be viewed in gadgets like e-readers and smartphones. 

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Sightseeing in style: Mobile apps for travel buffs

With the unstoppable advancement of technology, the art of traveling has changed dramatically in the past decade. Today, data are readily available in everyone’s pockets, and for travelers, this means not worrying about losing out on ideas whenever they reach their destinations.

Here are some of the best and most useful apps for travel enthusiasts:

• Google Maps – Carrying a physical map is slowly becoming a thing of the past. Google’s free app allows tourists to get directions and commute suggestions for their next stop. 

• CityMaps2Go – An offline map, this free app is for travelers without access to Wi-Fi zones. They only need to download the maps ahead of time, and they can go out and sightsee worry-free. 

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• XE Currency – Need to compute currencies on-the-go? This app is your friend! 

• Gogobot – A social travel app, Gogobot helps users find restaurants and hotels in the area. By using this app, the user can access to photos, information, and ratings that other users have uploaded about different establishments.

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• Instagram – With millions of users, Instagram is the perfect app for tourists who love documenting and sharing their explorations via photographs. Furthermore, by following travel bloggers on this platform, users can gather information about the next travel destination they should visit.

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