5 Best Free Android Apps for Kids

Having a great number of apps is good thing and a bad thing. The huge numbers of apps at App Store or Android Market means that there probably have the apps you want, but on the other hand, it can be a tedious and frustrating process to find it out.

Smartphone or tablets may be the privileges of adults or teenagers, but absolutely not the apps. There are thousands of educations apps available at Android Market, which is helpful to develop the kids’ brains.

Here is a collection of 5 top free Android apps for kids, hope your kids like them.

1. AniWorld Lite

AniWorld Lite is fun game to teach kids the names of different animals and gives them a chance to feed and pet them in an interactive enjoyable fun way. Your kid would love this free fun game and by this fun game will learn more about animals and their habitat.

2. HomeWork

HomeWork helps kids to manage their time more effectively. Using this free app they can schedule homework and lessons, set reminders, plan for exam revision, and keep track of their homework and Timetable.

3. iStory Books

Free story books that read itself to your little ones. It is embedded with free story books that have voice-over, pictures and alternative languages. When the developers have published new books, they will appear automatically in the app. It is a simple but sweet app that’s good for entertaining the kids.

4. Ant Smasher

Ant Smasher is a free app kids and adults can enjoy with vicarious murderous intent. Smash the ants with your finger and don't smash the bees. Addictive fun for kids aged four and up, and ideal for building their reflexes.

5. Kids Connect the Dots

Connect the dots to reveal a beautiful picture. The free version offers 25 different pictures to be created by your kids. Kids are required to connect the numbers in the right order like the traditional number game, in order to make pictures. The app is designed to make the KG kids learn the numbers and counting in ascending order while playing the colorful drawing game.

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How to Add Captions to Photo Album in PowerPoint 2010

If you have made a Christmas Photo slideshow using PowerPoint 2010 before, you should have noticed that although it is perfect to see each photo on one slide, you cannot send them to back as background picture or add captions to them.

You can place captions under the pictures in your PowerPoint photo album.
PowerPoint initially places the picture filename in the caption, but you can edit it and change to your own. To add captions to your photo album follow these steps:

Step 1: Open PowerPoint 2010, and click “Insert” tab on the ribbon → “Photo Album”.

Step 2: In the pop up window, click Insert picture from “File/Disk” → browse for the photos on your computer → and click “Insert”.

Step 3: Change the picture layout. In the “Picture layout” drop-down list, choose “1 picture”.

Step 4: Check the “Captions below All Pictures” box → and click “Create”.

Now, all of your photos will have a line for captions below the pictures and you can edit them.

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3 Ways to Publish Your PowerPoint Presentations to Facebook

Just imagine that your PowerPoint presentation be liked by thousands of people online. It’s not a dream with the help of Facebook, the most popular social network of the world. Everyday millions of messages have been liked and shared here and there. However, PowerPoint formats are not supported by most of the websites. So are 3 ways for you to choose and publish your PowerPoint presentation on Facebook freely.

Method 1: Slideshare application

Facebook has an application called “Slideshare” which allows you to upload PowerPoint Facebook directly, but the animations, transitions, music and video clips will be removed. Login Facebook, and search "Slideshare", and add it in your application area. Click "Upload" to upload your PowerPoint to Facebook. Then share and post it on the wall so that your friends will watch it.

Method 2: Google Docs

You may have heard that Google Docs enables you to create, view and edit your presentation in the cloud, which means you don’t have to install any software on your computer. With Internet connection to Google Docs, you can handle these works anywhere you can. Google Docs also allow you to upload and share your presentations made in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Sign in (or sign up) to Google Docs; click on “Files” → “Upload”, locate the file you want to upload, remember to check “Convert documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and drawings to the corresponding Google Docs formats” box and click on “Start Upload” button to upload your PowerPoint file to Google Docs.

Click the triangle button of the “Share” tab on the top right of the main page → choose “Share” so you can set the PowerPoint to be viewed by yourself or the selected people.

Now, pay attention, click “Publish/Embed” to make the presentation available to anyone on the Internet and Google Docs will offer you the embed code for you to use on your blog. Copy the URL and publish on Facebook so that people can view your PowerPoint presentation.

Method 3: Save PowerPoint as video for Facebook

Why save PowerPoint as video? It is the only way for now to preserve all the original PowerPoint elements and effects after publishing on Facebook. Moyea PPT to Video Converter makes it easy to convert PPT, PPS, PPTX, PPSX, etc. to popular video formats in 3 steps.

First, add PowerPoint to this program.

Then, choose the output video format as AVI, FLV, MPEG, MOV or WMV that Facebook supports.

Finally, convert the PowerPoint to Facebook video conversion with all elements retained.

Then, you can then upload the video to Facebook directly.

With these 3 methods, there should be no problem for you to publish your PowerPoint presentations on Facebook.

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Embed Online YouTube Video Into PowerPoint 2010

If you have read my previous blog on how to embed video in PowerPoint 2007, you should have learnt the way to embed any video formats to PowerPoint 2007 from both local drive and online. This function can be seen in PowerPoint 2010 too. Get the “Developer” tab on ribbon by right click anywhere on the ribbon → choose “Customize the Ribbon” → check the “Developer” in the pop up window.

PowerPoint 2010 also added another easier way to embed online YouTube video – insert the embed code. Follow the brief steps and try yourself.

Go to www.youtube.com and choose YouTube video you like. Click “Share” → “Embed” → check “Use old embed code” box → and then copy the embed code in the text box.

Open your PowerPoint 2010, and click “Insert” → “Video” → “Video from Web Site”.

Paste the embed code into the pop-up window and click “Insert”.

Then you will see the online YouTube video has been inserted into PowerPoint 2010.

Note: You have to switch to the “PowerPoint Show” mode so that you can play the video like on YouTube.

If you like, you can also make a YouTube video yourself using PowerPoint, click here to view the tutorial.

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How to Put Pictures onto Google Docs PowerPoint

You know, the most popular presentation tool is Microsoft PowerPoint. It is strong but has many shortages, like incompatibility between different versions, not work on different operating systems, trouble when transfer to another computer, etc. As the “Cloud Era” comes, Google Docs gives you more conveniences for it can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection. You can create document, presentation and spreadsheet on Google Docs, which are the counterparts of Word, PowerPoint and Excel for Microsoft Office.

Besides, you can Upload Microsoft PowerPoint file to Google Docs. If you have a PowerPoint slideshow with images and text – because sound and video will be removed, you can have a try. What should be mentioned is that there is a 10MB limit on the size of file you can upload.


Sign in (or sign up) to Google Docs; click on “Files” → “Upload”, locate the file you want to upload, remember to check “Convert documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and drawings to the corresponding Google Docs formats” box and click on “Start Upload” button. If you don’t check the box, the PowerPoint won’t be editable on Google Docs.

Very soon your PowerPoint presentation will be converted to an editable Google Docs presentation with a link placed Google Docs Home Page. Now you can open the PowerPoint presentation on Google Docs and edit the text and images. Google Docs only support adding online YouTube videos, click “Insert” → “Video” and select a YouTube video from the pop-up window.

Click “Insert” → “Image” so that you can put pictures onto Google Docs PowerPoint from local drive or online URL.

The purpose of uploading your PowerPoint presentation to Google Docs is to make your presentations available for anyone to view. The default setting is “Private”. Click the triangle button of the “Share” tab on the top right of the main page. Choose “Share” so you can set the PowerPoint to be viewed by yourself or the selected people.

Click “Publish/Embed” to make the presentation available to anyone on the Internet and Google Docs will offer you the embed code for you to use on your blog.

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3 Ways to View PowerPoint on Kindle Fire

The Amazon Kindle Fire is really the biggest hit in tablet market in 2011 besides the iPad 2 with the sub-$200 price. Cheap but with powerful performances, it comes along with Amazon's vast universe of entertainment, e-books and shopping services. Running on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, it is equipped with a 7-inch IPS-LCD touch screen (1024 x 600), TI OMAP4 dual-core 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM, 8GB internal memory, Micro USB 2.0 and WiFi.

Although it has perfect performance on movies, apps, music and games, there is one thing Kindle Fire cannot do initially – view PowerPoint on Kindle Fire.

However, there are about 3 alternative ways for you to choose, to play PowerPoint on Kindle Fire.

Method 1: Android Microsoft Office Apps

Although Microsoft itself doesn’t develop Microsoft Office for Android platform, some other companies created Office Apps for Android. After you have installed the apps, you can open the PowerPoint file on Kindle Fire. These apps are trying to imitate the functions of Microsoft Office, but far from enough, so the animations, transitions, music or video clips may not show properly on your Kindle Fire. Famous Android Office Apps: Documents to Go, ThinkFree Office, Quick Office, etc.

Method 2: View PowerPoint on Kindle Fire as images

Kindle Fire has native support for image like JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc. So you can export your PowerPoint slides as images and then transfer to Kindle Fire for viewing. You may have noticed that the dynamic PowerPoint effects will be removed when saving PowerPoint as image. So this method is suitable for those plain document PowerPoint presentations. For those multi-media PowerPoint presentations, the best way is saving PowerPoint as video.

Method 3: Play PowerPoint on Kindle Fire as video

Watching movie is one of the main functions of Kindle Fire, so if you can save PowerPoint to video, Kindle Fire can play it. Moyea PPT to Video Converter can help you convert PPT, PPS, PPTX and PPXT, etc. to Kindle Fire compatible video formats with all the original PowerPoint elements and effects preserved intact. All you need to do is 3 steps: Import PowerPoint files; Setup output video format and Start conversion.

After the conversion is completed, you can not only easily watch PowerPoint on Kindle Fire, but also share on YouTube, Facebook, and view on other portable devices like iPad, iPhone, Galaxy Tab, etc.

If you have Kindle Fire in your hand, why not try these ways to view your PowerPoint presentations on Kindle Fire. I’m sure there must be one method which is right for you.

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How to Use Different themes in One PowerPoint File

Usually when we create a PowerPoint slideshow, we would use a certain PowerPoint theme. We can get it by creating by ourselves, choose from the default themes, or important from other PowerPoint templates or PowerPoint file.

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Today I see this question, how to use different themes in one PowerPoint file. I have tried in my PowerPoint 2010 and find out it is rather easy actually. But I still like to share coz there are always someone who don’t know.

Open your PowerPoint 2010 file and you will see all the slides are using the same theme.

Select the slide (or Press “Ctrl” for multiple slides) and click “Design” tab on the ribbon. You will see “Themes” group below.

Choose one default theme you like, remember just move your mouse over and stay on it. Don’t click your mouse, or the theme will be applied to all slides.

While your mouse is on that theme, Right Click and the options will pop up. Choose “Apply to Selected Slides”.

Now only the selected slides will change to the new theme. In this way you can use different themes in one PowerPoint file.

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