Top 5 Mother’s Day Apps for Your Beloved Mommy

Mothers are great and special women. They look after their families; they may still have to work; and they always have to suffer heavy life pressure. May 12 will be Mother’s Day 2013, do you have any ideas to celebrate it with your beloved mom? Well, if your mom has an iOS device, you can help her install some warm and lovely apps for Mother’s day. If you're the mom, just take a break and try these apps for relaxation.

No.1 Cleverbug Cards App

• Price: Free
• Rated: 4+
• Requirements: Optimized for iPhone 5. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
• Introduction: It’s not for your mom’s iOS device but for yours! With this Cleverbug app, you're free to send personalized Mother’s Day eCards to your mom via email, SMS or twitter. It can also print high quality cards and deliver it to your mom, no matter where she lives in the world!
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No.2 Naturespace: Relax Meditate Escape Sleep

• Price: Free
• Rated: 4+
• Requirements: Optimized for iPhone 5. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.
• Introduction: Modern mothers have to suffer pressures from families and jobs, which make them difficult to relax. Naturespace is a good app for people to unwind. Put on the headphones and close your eyes, listen to the nature’s sound with 3D effects. Taking a 5 minute vacation to a Hawaiian morning sunrise, or an extended stay underneath a powerful thunderstorm, this app provides the brain with the sense of openness and vastness.
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No.3 Gilt on the Go

• Price: Free
• Rated: 4+
• Requirements: Optimized for iPhone 5. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
• Introduction: If your mom loves fashion stuff, you should introduce this app to her. Gilt offers discounts up to 60% on fashion and luxury brands. You can also get real-time alters, exclusive offers and other sales on the app.
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No.4 ScrapPad – Mother’s Day Photo Journal (iPad)

• Price: Free
• Rated: 4+
• Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
• Introduction: ScrapPad is a real-time photo journal creator for iPad. With the Mother’s Day theme, you can touch, drag, pull, plop and pinch your layout with your fingers, create a beautiful scrapbook album and share it with your mom!
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No.5 Flower Garden - Grow Flowers and Send Bouquets

• Price: $2.99
• Rated: 4+
• Requirements: Optimized for iPhone 5. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
• Introduction: Sending a flower bouquet as Mother’s Day gift? Then you may have to pay inordinate amounts for it. What’s more, real flowers have very short duration and will droop in a few days. How about sending e-flowers instead? Flower Garden is a lovely app for all moms. You can plant seeds, care for the plants, watch the flowers bloom and create bouquets to share with your mom via email. It’s an environmental and money saving way to make her happy.
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Top 5 Free App Recommendation Sites for Your iPhone and iPad

How many applications are installed on your smartphones or tablets? A recent research indicates that there are only 15 apps daily used by average users. So it’s not reasonable for installing hundreds of apps on your gadget especially when some of those are paid ones. To help you save much money, here I’ve found 5 free app recommendation sites for iOS devices. If you’re an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch user, you can simply find many useful limited free apps and totally free apps here.

Free App a Day

Free App a Day is an app promotion based site with more than 160 thousand fans on Facebook. This site offers a free iPhone app (usually a game) every day. Sometimes it will have free utility apps recommendation.

AppShopper

Appshopper is an app recommendation site that shows both paid and free apps with reviews for sponsored apps. It provides filters to help you find what you really need. The listings show you all of the latest and most popular free apps, noting ones with price drops in the description.

FreeNew

Established in 2010, FreeNew is a platform for all developers to submit apps and for users to free download. Besides iPhone and iPad apps, the site also provides free apps/software for Android, Windows Phone and even Windows 8 platforms.

FreeAppAlert

Free App Alert shows you a list of paid iPhone apps that just became free. A special feature of the site is that, rather than clicking through each app link to see the screenshots, you can just move your mouse on the thumbnail to see an enlarged screenshot next to each app.

AppRevels

AppRevels is a new born app recommendation site. Besides free and price-cut apps for iOS, the site also shows top rankings of music, movies and (free/paid) books. Moreover, a professional Windows based tool named iTransfer is also introduced to help users transfer files among their iOS devices, iTunes and PC.

Most of the free iPhone apps I usually use are found on the sites mentioned above. How about you? Still searching something free on the app store? If you have any other frequently used free app sites, please feel free to share them with everyone:)

Top 5 Video Sharing Apps for Your iPhone

Hey dude. How do you usually share personal videos online with friends? When you’re on a desktop/laptop, you can simply upload videos to YouTube and share them to every SNS site as you like. And how about the situation when you’re on the go with an iPhone/iPad/iPod touch? Or should I say how to share short videos with your mobile devices?

Today I've found some iOS apps for video sharing, especially for short videos that less than 30 seconds in length. Install one of the apps on your device, you can easily shoot videos, edit them with filters/soundtracks as well as share your masterpieces with friends!

No.1 Vine
Price: Free
Rated: 17+
Requirements: Optimized for iPhone 5. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Introduction: Vine is a new short video sharing app produced by Twitter. It allows users to capture and share short looping videos up to 6 seconds long. Videos could be posted on Vine, then share to Twitter and Facebook. Users are also able to find follow and interact with people.

No.2 Viddy
Price: Free
Rated: 12+
Requirements: Optimized for iPhone 5. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Introduction: Viddy is like a video version of Instagram. With advanced camera, filter and special effects, turn everyday moments into perfect 15-second movies on your iPhone. Then share it with your Viddy community and upload them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and YouTube.

No.3 Socialcam
Price: Free
Rated: 12+
Requirements: Optimized for iPhone 5. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Introduction: Socialcam is another way to capture, share and view videos on iPhone. Different from Viddy, video length and storage on Socialcam are unlimited. Moreover, videos are stored in the cloud, users can watch them on any smartphone, computer or tablet.

No.4 Facebook Poke
Price: Free
Rated: 4+
Requirements: Optimized for iPhone 5. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Introduction: Firstly I was ready to recommend Snapchat, a more popular sharing app, but this one only supports photo sharing. So let’s talk about Poke instead. Poke is brought to you by Facebook. This app helps you poke your friends to share fun moments, include a message, a photo or a video. You can choose how long they can see your content.

No.5 VJAM
Price: Free
Rated: 9+
Requirements: Optimized for iPhone 5. Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Introduction: VJAM's free app adds a soundtrack to your 30 second video clip (paid version for any length video). It’s the only video app that uses auto-editing to tailor your selected soundtrack to perfectly match your video’s length - with cutting edge patent-pending tech to get professional results. Choose from 11 free themes, which combines perfectly paired image filters and soundtracks, to better capture the mood of the moment.

How Can I Share My iPad Music with My Friend's iPod?

It seems apple's iOS devices are almost must-have for Americans, many people enjoy listening to music with their iDevices anytime and anywhere. People usually purchased music on iTunes store, play them on mobile devices or iTunes.

Here comes a question: If I purchases a song and love it very much, how can I share the music from iPad with my friend's iPod without letting him purchase it again? Somebody may ask: "Can't you just transfer the music from your iPad to your friend's iPod?"

As apple's strict copyright protection policy, it's legally not allowed to do the trick. But technically, we do have some tools to deal with this problem. For instance, to transfer files between 2 iPods, we can use SharePod. As to the iPad to iPod music transference issue, here's also a solution: iPad Music Transfer. With the help of this tool, it's easy to back the iPad music up and transfer it to friend's iPod, no matter if the music is purchased or not.

Step 1 Connect my iPad to computer
Download and install iPad Music Transfer. When the iPad is connected to computer, launch the program.

Connect iPad to computer, launch iPad Music Transfer

Step 2 Select iPad music
Click the device name on the left, choose Music option from the Library drop-down menu. Songs that stored on iPad can be shown on the right list.

Choose music files from iPad's Music library

Step 3 Backup iPad music
Right-click on a song that I want to share and then choose My Computer or iTunes from the Transfer to menu. As a matter of fact, I can backup purchased music simply by clicking "Transfer purchases" on iTunes. If the music is non-purchased, I have to use this 3rd party iPad Music Transfer tool. Here I choose to backup music to the iTunes library.

Backup music to computer or iTunes library

Music file transferred to iTunes library

Step 4 Connect my friend's iPod to computer
Disconnect the iPad from computer. Hook up my friend's iPod instead.

Connect iPod to computer, launch iPad Music Transfer

Step 5 Transfer music to my friend's iPod
Select Music option from the iTunes library. Right-click on the music file and choose Transfer to device name. The song can be easily transferred to my friend's iPod in a second.

Transfer music from iTunes library to iPod

How to Transfer Music among iPhone, iPad and iPod?

How to transfer media files among iPhone, iPad and iPod?

How many iOS devices do you or your family have? Based on a news report from CNET, it's said apple's iPhone snags its highest US market share at 53.3%. Another report from Apple Insider also claimed that iPad series hit 78.86% of the total tablet market.

Tablet market share in the US and Canada

From the data above, we know that apple's products are usually first choice for the US customers. So it's quite frequent for users to transfer stuff, especially media files like music, movies among different iOS devices. I've always seen questions about transference on twitter, Yahoo answers and some forums. For instance, one asked "how can I transfer music from iPad to iPod".

Well, there should be several situations. If both devices use same apple ID, it would be an easy task to do the transference: Plug one's iPad in computer, launch iTunes and choose "transfer purchases". The music and other purchased stuff can be transfer to iTunes library easily. Then hook the iPod to comp, select what one needs from iTunes library and sync with the iPod. Done.

So what if the two iOS devices use different apple ID? And what if the user wanna transfer non-purchased music from iPad to iPod? Any solutions to solve these problems? The answer is absolutely YES.

To transfer non-purchased media files among iPhone, iPad and iPod, you can use a professional tool named Leawo iTransfer. It's the combination of an iPod Transfer, iPhone Transfer and iPad Transfer. It is just what you are looking for. Then how does this program work? Let's have a look.

Setp 1: Connect iPad to computer
Download, install and launch Leawo iTransfer, then connect your iPad to computer. Storage information can be shown on the interface.

Leawo iTransfer interface

Step 2: Select files and transfer
Click the device name tab on the left side bar, choose "Music" option from the Library drop-down menu. All the music files are listed on the right. Right-click the file to choose transfer it to computer hard disk or iTunes library. 

Music Library on iPad

Transfer music from iPad to iTunes

Now you can see this music file successfully backed up to computer's iTunes Library.

iTunes Library

Step 3: Transfer music to iPod
Connect the iPod to iTunes. Click iTunes Library and choose Music option. Right-click the music file you want and then select "Transfer to iPod". The file can be transfer to iPod immediately.

Connect iPod to computer

Transfer music from iTunes Library to iPod

The above process is how to transfer music from iPad to iPod with iTransfer tool. The two devices are in different apple IDs. There's no need to authorize computer or sync with iTunes. Therefore, I can share media files, such as songs, movies, books, apps, ringtones, to any of my friends who also own iOS devices. I can do this easily, so can you!



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