Word Pig iOS Game App Released for iPhone and iPad

Virginia Beach, Virginia – ZiggityZoom just announced the release of a new educational iOS game app WORD Pig for the iPhone and iPad. Word Pig is a fun and educational, early learning, spelling-based app for preschool and kindergarten children. Players can play two different levels, making 3 letter words, using the vowel”i”, or spelling the spoken three letter words. Animal stickers, with sounds, are awarded for every five correct words and then the kids can play with their animals in a farmyard setting. Verbal encouragements are spoken by the Pig as kids progress in the game.

Word Pig is the first of 5 apps in the Word Animals suite of apps. Each app in the suite will address three letter words using a different vowel. “These apps are perfect for helping kids with word recognition and formation and to practice spelling for beginning readers. It’s an app suited to the preschool classroom or for use at home,” said Kristin Fitch, CEO of ZiggityZoom.

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
* Requires iOS 4.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
WORD Pig 1.0 for iOS and iPad is Free and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category. Additional apps are in the pipeline for ZiggityZoom, including children’s book apps and educational apps. Their previously released app is the award-winning Feed the Monster game.

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ZiggityZoom is an internationally recognized creator of educational children’s games that are featured on their website. Copyright (C) 2012 ZiggityZoom. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Tiny Time Turns Your iPhone Into a Portable Baby Care Timer

Vancouver, Canada – Watermelon App Works is pleased to present Tiny Time: an app for parents, by parents. Tiny Time is an intuitive tool that allows you to easily keep track of baby’s naps, diaper changes, feedings (including left or right), and more. It comes equipped with a dimmed “night time” mode, and flash light feature for navigating in the dark.

Moms and dads in the market for a baby care timer can now track their baby’s activities without having to carry around yet another baby tool, for a fraction of the price. Tiny Time is a great example of how life can be made less complicated through the consolidation of tools onto the iPhone.

In addition to looking great, Tiny Time is also a breeze to use. Simply double tap the nap, diaper, or feeding icons, and Tiny Time tracks how long it’s been since each one. Double tap again and the timer will reset, or you can press and hold to stop it entirely. Swiping to the right to sets reminders for each timer, and a swipe left will let you enter a custom time to start from (in case you previously forgot to start the timer).

Tiny Time Features:
* 4 Count-up timers
* Reminder notifications
* Screen lock
* Dark theme
* Flashlight

“I was always carrying around my timer AND my phone,” stated Vanessa Prinz, mother of two. “So when I recently got an iPhone, I looked for an app that did what the timer does, and I was super excited to find yours. Thanks for making it!”

Tiny Time was made using Watermelon’s key guiding principles: Ease of Use, Attractive Design, Simplicity, and Functionality. It’s an app created to help parents make good decisions and maintain peace of mind around the timing and care of their baby.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, 3/4G iPod touch and iPad
* Requires iOS 5.0 or later
* 1.4 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Tiny Time 1.1.1 is $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Medical category.

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Located in Vancouver, Canada, Watermelon App Works was founded in 2011 by Michael Campsall, Michael Long and Tim Tucker. Although they were originally brought together by a half-baked plan to grow and sell watermelons, they eventually got into iOS development for one simple reason – to build cool things that make life easier. Watermelon’s apps are inspired by challenges that its owners and their friends face in daily life. All Material and Software (C) 2011-2012 Watermelon App Works, Inc. / All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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CookieCoo Dancing Star: Fun App for Kids Features Freebie

Seoul, Korea – ThinkCube’s CookieCoo Dancing Star is an educatational, entertaining app for youngsters that features sing-and-play along children’s songs accompanied by adorable cartoon dancers. Originally priced at $0.99, CookieCoo Dancing Star includes one free song pack, but ThinkCube has launched a special event that offers the app and additional song packs for free.

Each of the CookieCoo Dancing Star song packs is themed, allowing parents and kids to choose the songs they like the most, or the ones that concentrate on certain educational topics. For example, the free pack usually included is the “Body” theme pack: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes; Hokey Pokey; and This is the Way We Wash Our Face. Additional song packs are $0.99. But for a limited time, CookieCoo Dancing Star is offering its most popular song pack for no cost!

The “Animal” theme pack includes Mary Had a Little Lamb, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, and Baby Bumble Bee. Instead of the usual $0.99, the Animal themed song pack is now completely free! Just as with all of CookieCoo Dancing Stars songs, kids can choose their favorite instrument and a favorite CookieCoo Dancer to accompany their singing and gameplay. The three levels of difficulty (easy, medium, and hard) and the additional “Watch” mode make CookieCoo Dancing Star an upbeat hit for little ones of all ages.

CookieCoo Dancing Star is available for download now in the iTunes App Store for free, and comes with the “Body” theme song pack. Customers who download the Animal theme song pack during this special event will receive it for free!

Features:
* Child-friendly interface
* Watch mode for those who aren’t ready to play along yet
* Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty levels
* Friendly, positive feedback – no frustration
* Children choose from three different “instruments” to play each time they start a song
* Children can pick their favorite CookieCoo dancing star to dance and sing while they play, each time – five to choose from

Pricing and Availability:
CookieCoo Dancing Star is available for download now in the iTunes App Store for free (USD) and compatible with devices running iOS 3.1 or later.

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Woongjin Think Big is striving to create an education culture based on the principle of “Good Education, Great People.” Woongjin Think Big was established in 1980 as Woongjin Publications. Today, Woongjin Think Big is creating an ideal educational culture via the development of a wide range of educational publications for people of all ages, from infants to adults. It publishes study books, complete collections, single volumes, after-school learning materials, textbooks and online contents. Woongjin Think Big is also involved in the development of globalization centers such as the GEC and ICC. South Korea based apps marketing company appsasia has devoted itself to the successful promotion of iOS and Android applications for Korean app developers and publishers. The appsasia team is committed to excellence and strives to provide the best personalized services for their clients in the Korean App Store, International Marketplace and SK T-Store. Copyright (C) 2012 Woongjin Think Big. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Moms With Apps Developers Collaborate to Host App Bundle Giveaway

Parkland, Florida – iOS app developers from the Mom with Apps network are excited to announce a 7 app bundle giveaway. This is an amazing opportunity to get 7 of your favorite family-friendly iPhone and iPad apps for free. The giveaway will be hosted by Kid-Capsule, an app by Zen Labs, and will be open for a full week starting Friday May 18th, 2012 and ending Friday May 25th, 2012. The big winner will be announced right after the Moms with Apps – App Friday Facebook party on the 25th. Participants have multiple ways of gathering points throughout the week by submitting their entries through the Rafflecopter form.

The bundle includes something for everyone in the family:
* Kid-Capsule is a keepsake journal with a modern twist for families with children of any age. It’s a baby book, journal, photo album, video gallery, and scrapbook all rolled up into one beautiful app
* Rhyme-N-Time is an educational and fun rhyming words app that also allows the parents and child to keep track of their progress. Please help Jane and Blayne find words that rhyme in your spare time
* Is sibling conflict an issue in your home? A Royal Little Pest picture book app helps kids understand value of collaborative play
* Felt Board for the iPad is designed to resemble traditional felt boards and includes many themes and accessories to encourage open-ended imaginative play. Parents and teachers can use felt board along with children to reinforce learning and as a visual aid for storytelling
* Jellybean Tunes is a fun, creative, and colourful introduction to music. By interacting directly with notes on the musical staff, kids can unlock their inner Mozart and unleash their creativity through play, animated lessons, and composing their own songs
* Murky Reef – Science introduces kids to the science of coral reef, its creatures, interactions and of course, sharks
* With Kids Crosswords from Learning Touch, your child can start with beginning speller challenges, then hone their spelling skills as they learn to be master crossword puzzle solvers

Availability:
All apps are available exclusively through the Apple App Store.

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Moms With Apps is a collaborative group of family-friendly developers who work together to create and promote quality apps for kids and families. Copyright (C) 2012 Moms With Apps. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Know what you make per second? Find that out w/ Reach the Million

Saint-Cloud, France – Addictive Productions, an emerging mobile applications developer, is excited today to announce that Reach the Million – the studio’s visionary earnings, income, and instant personal net worth aggregation utility – is due to be released onto the App Store as soon as next week. Compatible with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, Reach the Million enables users to instantly synthesize their net worth, see how much money they earn every second, and where they’re at on the track to becoming bona fide Euro or Dollar millionaires! As helpful and enlightening from a financial perspective as it is entertaining, Reach the Million is to be available for download for free next week on the App Store in the Entertainment category.

Boasting a highly intuitive graphic interface, Reach the Million enables users to input and store their annual income, add in other money making sources such as investments and extra earnings, subtract any and all capital losses and instantly calculate how much they make in a given second, minute, or hour. Furthermore users can easily review how much money they’ve made in a specific timeframe.

Staying motivated to make the big bucks is a snap within the app too as users can compare their income and money making potential head to head with famous politicians, celebrities, business moguls, athletes and the like. They can see how they measure up against the most successful people in their fields and see how much they’ll need to make to compete with them! To boot, Reach the Million isn’t simply an entertaining finance tool, it’s an ostensibly social one too.

Users can share the earnings figures they synthesize in the app via Twitter, Facebook, and email to show their friends and family how much money they’re stacking up. Everyone knows the cliche that states “time is money”, but Reach the Million has the power to show you exactly how much money every bit of your time is worth, even down to the second. That said, don’t wait. Get Reach the Million, figure out how much you’re making, and keep yourself motivated to stay successful starting now!

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Founded in Saint-Cloud, France, Addictive Productions is a start up developer specialized in the mobile entertainment. Its main objective is to provide a new way of gaming closer the “Real” than “the Virtual world”. In addition to “Reach The Million” Addictive Prod will launch soon 2 new Apps which will be unique by the way of gaming: a new kind of Sail race and a Formule 1 simulator… big sensations to come! Copyright (C) 2012 Addictive Productions. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Pocket Watch, LLC. Releases ActivePrint 9 for iPad and iPhone

Beaumont, Texas – Since releasing ActivePrint on the popular Apple iOS platform, we have created a huge community of ActivePrint users who are interested in printing from their iPads and iPhones without being limited to a select few models of printers from just one brand. This community has been a great resource for developing the new ActivePrint 9!

With ActivePrint 9 we have continued our tradition of maintaining printing support for the widest variety of document types in the industry to the widest variety of printers. With ActivePrint 9 you can print almost any content on your iPad or iPhone. Document types that you can print with ActivePrint include all of your popular office document types such as word processor documents (including Word and Pages), spreadsheets (including Excel and Numbers), presentations (including PowerPoint and Keynote), PDF files, web pages, handwritten notes, and all of your popular image types.

Now with ActivePrint 9 you can print these document types whether they’re stored on your iPad or iPhone or in your cloud storage account (DropBox, Box, Microsoft SkyDrive). And you can print all your files to any printer whether it’s connected to a PC or it’s AirPrint enabled.

Here is the full list of features for ActivePrint 9:
* Print Files from DropBox, Box.net, and Microsoft SkyDrive
* Print Email Attachments
* Print Handwritten Notes
* Print Notes from the Notes App
* Print Photos from your photo album or your device’s camera
* Print text and images from other apps using your device’s clipboard
* Print multiple contacts from your address book
* Print web pages and files from the web
* Print to ANY Windows Compatible printer
* Print to AirPrint compatible printers
* Support for multiple copies, portrait/landscape printing, different quality of printing, and color or black & white printing

Device Requirements:
iPad: iOS 5.0 or newer
iPhone/iPod touch: iOS 5.0 or newer
3 MB of space

Other Requirements:
A printer connected to a Windows Vista/7 PC via USB/WiFi/Network
Or an AirPrint Enabled Printer
Or Ecamm’s Printopia on a Mac OSX desktop or Laptop

Pricing and Availability:
ActivePrint 9 is $3.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the Apple App Store in the Productivity category. ActivePrint Lite is also available in the AppStore for free as a way to try ActivePrint before you buy.

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Founded in 2002 as Pocket Watch Software by Charles Teel, our company launched what has continued to be our lead product, ActivePrint. Teel developed the idea of ActivePrint as a college student while at Texas A&M University after getting his first Pocket PC. In class, he would write pages and pages of notes on his Pocket PC but would have to manually copy those files to his desktop computer, and then print them one at a time. Frustrated, he looked for a software alternative to make this process simpler. However, the closest thing he could find would require another $400 of hardware and software, and even then it wouldn’t fully automate the process. So Teel set out to develop ActivePrint, the first and only mobile printing solution that gives users the ability to print right out of the box at an affordable price (even for college students). Pocket Watch Software continued to develop the ActivePrint technology to make it more effective. After reorganizing Pocket Watch Software to Pocket Watch, LLC. in 2007, we continue the legacy of making technology work for our customers. Copyright (C) 2002-2012, Pocket Watch, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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W1PPS combines all your peripheral cords and plugs in one device

Kenosha, Wisconsin – W1PPS is like a docking station for 15″ MacBook Pro laptops except that it has a 6ft tail coming from its single plug that allows you to hide all of your connections under or behind your desk eliminating all unsightly cables. In addition the W1PP features (4) extra USB ports and a “TRON” like light bar that glows when plugged in to the computer.

Designed by Veritas Forge a product design company in Kenosha Wisconsin. Veritas Forge has launched a Kickstarter Campaign in an effort to raise awareness and funding for the first production run of product due early September 2012. W1PPS’ upper hub, which is the part that plugs into the side of the computer, incorporates built-in plugs for Ethernet, FireWire, an external monitor, USB (that gets split four ways), mic/line in, and headphones/line out. Because the spacing of these plugs matches the spacing of the ports on the MacBook, the whole hub can be plugged in at once.

The upper hub also features readily-accessible USB and media card ports, along with a front-facing headphone jack. All of the necessary cords are combined into one rear-mounted fat cable, that runs to the bottom hub – this could be located on the floor, or somewhere else where space and clutter aren’t such big issues. That hub contains the ports that correspond to all of the plugs on the upper hub, and is what all of the peripherals are left permanently plugged into. The cable’s rubber sheath also has a molded slot along one side, which the computer’s MagSafe power cord can be pushed into.

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Headquartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Veritas Forge is a small product development firm founded by three partners. Founded by Jeff Flaningam and Gordon Crum, the partnership has merged extensive fabrication and prototyping experience with top-tier product design capability. In early 2012, an already valuable Osmar Aguilar was made partner. The company practices both industrial and mechanical design in various market sectors. We have helped hundreds of private inventors and businesses alike bring products to market, and now branching out with ideas of their own design. Copyright (C) 2012 Veritas Forge. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod, iPad and Macbook Pro are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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