Use Genius To Have Apple App Store Recommend Apps For You

With over 150k apps in Apple App Store, finding apps that suit your needs could sometime prove to be one tough task. Most of the time, we simply rely on Top App (free, paid or grossing), featured apps or just using search function to search for app.

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But that’s not really helpful if you’re looking for apps that share similar purpose, let’s say education and learning apps that we’re currently shop for to fill up Luqman’s iPod Touch. Using search function or browsing the category is quite helpful, but have you tried Genius function? It is one function overlooked by many new app store user (including us, although we have been using Apps Store for one year plus).

Genius is one function under Featured tab, and the name implied it’s quite a genius feature. It comes very handy if you’re looking for related apps, or apps with the same functionality. So basically, Genius works by recommending apps, based on apps already installed in your iPod/iPhone.

But the suggestion, is not 100% accurate. For instance, how in the world did it suggest Dictionary app based on Ladybug Tree Shapes, shape learning games for kids? Something flawed in the algo?

Nevertheless, it is still one of the best ways looking for suitable apps, especially for new and not highly rated applications, which is still wonderfully useful.

Genius, can be accessed from under Featured tab. As Genius will access the information about your apps from iTunes, you need to accept Genius’s T&C before you can proceed and use this function.

9 Iphone Learning Apps for Kids

Apps Store, a place for iPhone/iPod users to find and download applications such as games, tools, now offers learning tools for your little ones. I remember when I first got my iPhone, there was only a few categories of the apps and back then, the learning applications for little ones is not available just yet.

By now, the awareness for the benefits to have such a learning tool application has made iPhone/iPod even a wonderful tool to share with our small ones (especially to keep our son occupied so that we can feed him with ease hehe).

Here are some of his favorites :

1. Baby phone – Baby phone app is a simple app, replicating the phone keypad menu and comes with the number’s pronunciation as you type the keypad.
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2. Ladybug Ladybug – One of my son’s favorite app, it is a song about a ladybug that flies from one part of human body to another, to provide useful information to kids about human body, and where there are.
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3. Baby Piano (Lite Version) – This is piano for kids with 2 sounds mode. There is ‘do re mi’ sound (not complete in lite version) as well as animal sound. The piano can be played manually, or you can record the sounds and then play it later.
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4. My First ABC – App to learn ABC using flash cards, where each alphabets will have a sample item beginning with that alphabet, along with their pronunciation.
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5. Funny Flash - Teach ABC using flash card where the images transformed to its first alphabet. However, the free version comes with only 3 alphabets, you can get all the letters when buying its full version.

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6. Color Me Lite – Application for coloring pictures, with the color selection provided at the bottom of images. Tap a color, and tap a part of the image and the color will fill up the selection. The finished colored images can also be exported to Photo Library.
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7. Learning Pad – All in one app which teaches ABC, 123, Animals, and Colors. Pronounces the alphabet/number/animal/colors upon touch. Animal pad also lets out the animal’s sound apart from its name.

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8. ABC’s free – Teach ABC from A to Z, with letter’s pronunciation and notes playing upon selection.
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9. Kidzongs Lite – App comprising of ABC song and 3 little monkeys song. You can choose to either sing the song with lyrics, or only the song to let kids sing the lyrics.

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And those listed up there, are free of charge (lite version) icon smile 9 Iphone Learning Apps for Kids but of course, some of the app’s functions are limited. For eg, the baby piano of lite version doesn’t have the highest pitch keypad of ‘Do’. But you can buy the full version to get their full features.

ProSwitcher Enable Multitasking in Iphone

You now have another reason to jailbreak your iPhone to have one of iPhone’s most wanted feature .. none other than multitasking. Available only in Cydia, one app called ProSwitcher can turn your iPhone to be a multitasking device in a blink of seconds.. free of charge.

Running behind ProSwitcher is another app called Backgrounder which is actually the main engine. Backgrounder has its own setting that you can modify although you can leave the default setting intact. It lest you specify which apps to be enabled/disabled from being run on the background, toggle backgrounding via Home or power button and etc.

Some say it is Palm WebOS style (though I never use WebOS before). To enable app to keep running in background, press home (the default control button) for few seconds, until ‘Backgrounding Enabled’ message appear on your phone screen.

To toggle between apps running in background, click on the ProSwitcher icon (in order to run it) which displays all apps in that state. Browse and just tap any application that you want to bring to the foreground. There are small dots at the bottom of the screen to indicate how many apps are currently running in background.

I have it run for couple of days, and it simply turn the iPhone to be more productive tool. A must have app!

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