Moms With Apps was begun by three iPhone and iPod Touch developers who connected over Twitter. They quickly recognised the family-friendly nature in each of their apps and suggested a brainstorming session on cross-marketing. The group’s founders were Alesha and Jill from MomMaps, Lynette from PicPocket Books, and Lorraine from My Busy Kit, and what started as a small conference call for brainstorming soon grew into an enthusiastic group with members collaborating over the internet in a huge variety of ways.

The purpose of the group is to brainstorm and support each other in mobile app marketing and development – most apps are for iPod Touch and iPhone although there are a few for other mobile platforms.

The apps represented within the group cover children’s books, family-friendly destinations, audio tales, magazines, communication tools, games, and interactive stories. All apps share the common purpose of providing a quality experience to help kids and families.

The group is certainly well represented on the internet in multiple ways:

• Read their Moms With Apps Blog to keep up with the main goings on.
• Follow @momswithapps on Twitter for short updates
• Become a fan of MomsWithApps on Facebook
• Any parent developer, reviewer, or industry specialist interested in family-oriented mobile apps is welcome to join the MomsWithApps Google Group where brainstorming and development happens.

The My Little Suitcase app for kids

I’d like to wish them all the best – I’ll be looking out for iPhone and iPod Touch apps from the group to review for iTalkMagazine in future.

Cheers,
Jeshyr

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Welcome to the world of RIDDIM RIBBON, where you guide a spinning ball as it races and rushes down a twisting, turning ribbon that’s floating in a dynamic digital space. With the beats of The Black Eyed Peas (and downloadable levels from Tiësto, Benny Benassi and, soon, others) pumping in your ears, use the iPhone / iPod Touch’s ultra-sensitive tilt controls to stay in the groove.

Each fork in the ribbon presents a new direction for you to take the mix of the song. Jump the ramps to reach upper levels, where wild audio effects kick in and the sound becomes more uniquely yours. Roll over pebbles and hit targets to maintain your speed through the checkpoints, but watch out for beat-dropping obstacles – you’ll need to flick your phone to jump over them! If you veer off the target line too long, instruments start fading, the music slows down, and the track falls apart. Then you’ll certainly lose the crowd, which is a DJ’s worst nightmare. The better you play the game, the better the song sounds!

Playing Riddim Ribbon

The game comes with three different Black Eyed Peas songs (Boom Boom Pow, I Gotta Feeling, and Meet Me Halfway) and, like the Tap Tap series, has in-game purchases from other artists, avatars, and online scoring.

There’s three skill levels for each song and (I like this bit best) there’s multiple ways to get successfully to the finish line for each skill level. So if you’re bad at games like me, you aren’t stuck with just one thing to do at the easiest level! On the other hand if you’re really good at games, check out the Riddim Ribbon Launch Contest: Every day for 30 days, one Riddim Ribbon player wins the entire Black Eyed Peas catalog, which includes Behind the Front, Bridging the Gap, Elephunk, Monkey Business, and The E.N.D.! Then, one grand prize winner gets a pair of Beats By Dre Headphones! You win by posting the highest score (on any set) is the winner for that day. For more details, check out the Tapulous blog.

Here’s another screen shot for you:

So, who’s playing Riddim Ribbon and how’s it going for you?

- Jeshyr

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There’s also a handy auto-reload setting, enabling you reload the page automatically every 30 seconds.

App URL: http://khotrahul.110mb.com/

This application is a web app, rather than one you buy in the iTunes Store. You may wish to read the following articles:

• What's a web app?
• How do I use a web app?

- Jeshyr

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Learn10 is designed for adult language learners, it aims to “give you a learning habit that’s hard to kick.” Amongst other modalities, they have a web app suitable for iPhone or iPod Touch users. They also offer a toolbar and screen saver for Windows users, and can be found on Twitter, Facebook, and other places.

Learn10 offer 15 different languages, and every day you will have 10 new words to learn. The words are taken from a list of the 1000 most commonly used words so they’re words you can use right away.

App URL: http://m.learn10.com

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Happy Learning!

- Jeshyr

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We have a great gift for all iPhone and iPod Touch users thanks to of the people from Shoot It!. If you sign up for Shoot It! New Year’s Eve Freebie you’ll get to send five free postcards to friends in America, as well as a chance to play with the free Shoot It! software. These aren’t email postcards or MMS postcards – they’re real physical postcards the postman will deliver to your recipients!

And if you have an iPod Touch or another device without a camera you can still take part – the Shoot It! software can grab any pictures you’ve synchronised from iPhoto and use those on your postcards. And for a change, this one isn’t just for iPhone and iPod Touch users – Shoot It! also works on Windows Mobile devices, Android devices, and the Blackberry!

If you want to send more than five postcards, you can purchase additional credits from the Shoot It! website and send as many as you like – it’s US$0.99 or less per postcard, depending how many credits you purchase at one time.

It’s the new year in New Zealand now, and it’s 10pm in Melbourne, Australia where I am so go sign up for Shoot It! New Year’s Eve Freebie and I’ll sign off now and go enjoy my own new year’s eve. Anybody want a postcard from me?

I hope your 2010 is everything you wish for.

- Ricky

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Most of the apps available are games, but there are a few non-games amongst the bunch too. The full list of discounted apps is:

• Twilight Golf
• Crayon Ball
• EyeGore’s Eye Blast
• Pinch ‘n Pop!
• Pollywog
• Smiles Zen
• Smiles
• Train Conductor
• iTweetReply
• CatTaTa
• RocketFuse
• Rail Adventures
• Space Duel!
• Ringo
• Screw The Dealer
• Cash Machine
• Outnumbered
• iHurt
• Dragon Eye
• iType2Go
• Tap-Fu
• Rogueship
• Hi, How are you
• 3D Wizard Wand

Which apps are you planning to get from this bundle? Smiles and Crayon Ball seem most interesting to me!

- Jeshyr

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Sure you can save to favourites, you can view all on the map, you can email the details to a friend and such like, all you’d expect it too. It’s not in the App store just yet, but there is now a demo video on YouTube.

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The as per usual the Skype application will allows free calls between Skype users but will charge for calls made to other numbers.

According to PC Pro “The iPhone version of Skype will allow customers to use their existing iPhone address book, rather than requiring them to duplicate. It will also allow customers to take a picture of themselves to use as their avatar.”

But there a few features missing such as video calling, SMS, and conference calling. But we here at iTalk Magazine think that this is a huge step forward and are eagerly looking forward to the release.

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We could tell you more, or we could hit you up with a video:

The download link is not active (at time of writing) but here is a link to Tapulous’ download page where the link will become availableGrab your own copy of Tap Tap Revenge 2 here.

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Using the new features of HTML 5, Google are creating a really cool web app based solution for mail. HTML 5 includes in its specification app cache and database support. Now I don’t fully understand that as HTML by nature is markup, but anyhoo Google and the W3C know more about this than me.

So how does it work? Our mates over at iPhoneBuzz put together this video, take a look:

Pretty nifty ey!

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