5 top Apps to help you plan the perfect Valentine’s Day treat!

Valentine’s Day is almost here……are you ready??!

If not, fear not, Mama Loves Tech is here to help you out! Here is our Valentine’s Day Count-down to romance boys!

1. +2 days before – announce your romantic date and tell her to get her Louboutins dusted down for a night on the town, using Red Stamp!

Create personalised cards from your iphone, ipod or ipad and get them delivered ahead of the big day. ” Darling, please be ready for 7pm on {       } for a romantic night out. Wear your highest heels and your lovely smile!”

Use Red Stamp to text her a personalised reminder!

2. +1  day before – run her a bubble bath and let her soak in the bath listening to her favourite music to match her mood using Moodagent

Remember the bubble bath. a bath is just not much fun without some foam. “Honey, I’ve run a lovely bubble bath for you. Come and relax for a while before our big night out tomorrow!”

Use Moodagent to set the scene!

3. The morning of the big day, shower her with red roses using this florist app – Florist App

“I love you” – red roses say it all!

4. Take her out for a romantic meal and get the low-down on the way there on the best food on the menu using Food Spotting

“Let’s have a lovely romantic meal together”.

5. Head home and play Truth or Dare!

Have a great Valentine’s Day!

Coolest App of The Week – Scribble Press

Scribble Press

Rated: 4+

Price: £2.49

Compatible with: iPad

Developer: Scribble Press Inc.

Scribble Press is a virtual book shop  in which kids draw, write and animate their own ebooks.

                      

Scribble Press features hundreds of great drawing and writing tools with dozens of templates and also features a store where kids can buy story packs for 99p to help them get started.

                                             

Once they’ve finished  Scribble Press includes an option to let them share their creations in the public gallery for people to read, download and rate. They can also order a printed copy of their book which is available to most addresses around the world.

                                             

This is why Mama Loves Tech!

To find out more about this app click here.

Follow Scribble Press on Facebook and Twitter.

Coolest App of The Week – Maily

Maily

Rated: 4+

Price: Free

Compatible with: iPad

Developer: Goodnews.is

Maily is a child friendly App which teaches children as young as four . This App allows children to take photos of themselves, write and paint then email their creations to their friends and family.

                              

Maily hosts a range of ways to customise there creations such as text tools, background templates and paint brushes.

                  

Theres also no need for parents to worry about what their kids are sending or who there talking to because Maily features a ‘Parents Dashboard’ which let’s them supervise emails and manage contacts.

                   

This is why Mama Loves Tech!

To find out more about this app click here.

Follow Maily on Facebook and Twitter.

Coolest App of The Week – Faces iMake

Faces iMake

Rated: 4+

Price: £1.49

Compatible with: iPad

Developer: iMagine Machine in conjunction with artist Hanoch Piven

Faces iMake is a new creative App for kids which let’s them create their own unique characters using every day objects including buttons, string and food.

                                 

Faces iMake includes an interesting feature called Faceworld which let’s the user create a face and then upload it so anyone else in the world can download it, customise it and it will appear next to yours when they upload it, encouraging interaction between users.

                                              

This App also offers a unique soundtrack while creating your character so theres never any chance of getting bored. This is a great App for children who like to play with their food but without the mess.

                                        

This is why Mama Loves Tech!

To find out more about this app click here.

Follow Faces iMake on Facebook and Twitter.

Coolest App of The Week – FarFaria

FarFaria

Rated: 4+

Price: Free to download then £2.49 a month

Developer: Intuary Inc.

FarFaria is a much loved children’s App which will help children of a young age to get into reading in a new and interactive way. The books included are not only some of the old favourites a lot of parents will remember but they’ve added in some new books from lesser known authors which the kids will fall in love with.

                        

A great feature of this App is that you will never run out of stories because five new stories will be added every week, so the fun never ends. Of course the stories aren’t all fictional, Intuary Inc. will include an educational book every two weeks.

                       

Don’t worry if you aren’t always there to read to your kid because with every book comes a ‘Read with me’ feature, which will read the book to them even when they are offline.

                              

We love this and will definitely be playing with this over the Christmas holidays!

This is why Mama Loves Tech!

Coolest App of The Week – Foldify

Foldify

Rated: 9+

Price: £1.49

Developer: Pixle

Foldify is a new App which let’s you create colourful and imaginative 3D cut outs straight from your iPad. This App really is a great tool for those who have kids and want to teach them about being creative.

The website says it all: “Create 3D figures on iPad. Then print and fold them from paper.”

                        

When you’ve completed your design you don’t have to worry about wasting paper to see your finished product because you can preview the your artwork in 3D.

                       

One of the greatest features of this App are the templates, which are pre-made shapes such as car and facial features, which are great for those that maybe not know where or how to start.

                         

Once you’ve created your cut out you can then share it on Facebook or Twitter, or you can email it to your friends.

We can’t wait to try it out on the kids! We will post next week our attempts at creating some Flodify 3-D images!!