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3 Fantastic and Mostly Free Toddler Games for the iPhone

3 Fantastic Free Toddler Games for iPhone | 40Tech

All but the last are free!

If you have kids from one to four and have an iPhone, you will want to take a look at the games below. They are great for simple play, as well as educational tools to help stimulate your child’s development in everything from numbers, letters, and shapes, to critical thinking, motor skills, reading, and imagination. Your curious child will gain some serious satisfaction from being able to play with mommy or daddy’s toy, either alone or with you, and you will be able to instill in them an early respect for your expensive technology (of which we all find more of in our lives these days). Except the last one, all of the iPhone toddler games in the list are free, and offer hours of educational entertainment for your budding baby!

Hit the jump for some great (mostly free) toddler games for the iPhone!

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Community Chat on Wednesday – Come Join Us!

On Wednesday evening, at 9 PM, U.S. Eastern time (6 PM Pacific, 1:00 AM GMT), we are having our first ever community chat.  Check out this post for details, and to sign up.  The chat will last between 30 and 60 minutes.  If you want to talk tech, please join us!


Do You Trust Facebook?

 

The rest of the world doesn’t seem to care, but the tech community is afire concerning Facebook’s privacy problems, and its seeming disregard for its users in its pursuit of the almighty dollar (or Euro, or whatever).  Leo Laporte, patron saint of the Internet, has deactivated all of his Facebook accounts, crediting this post from Jason Calacanis with convincing him.

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Never Buy Expensive HDMI Cables – Buy Lots Of Cheap Ones and Still Come Out Ahead

Never Buy Expensive HDMI Cables | 40Tech If you haven’t already heard, or discovered for yourself: Monster cables are a rip off — especially when it comes to the world of high definition digital cables. Salespeople at your local electronics store (and Monster itself) will do their best to convince you that, to get optimal video and audio quality out of your new hi-def system or video card, you need that top of the line, $150 6-foot hdmi cable. What most probably won’t tell you is that the store gets a much higher profit (and salespeople get more commission) on your expensive cable purchase than they do from your new LCD TV or Playstation 3. What they also won’t tell you is that you will get the exact  same results from a $10-$20 HDMI cable that you will from it’s super-expensive counterpart.

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Join Us For the First Ever 40Tech Community Chat – Wednesday, May 19, 2010

 40Tech community chat

Do you like to talk about tech, but feel like you’re stranded on an island?  Guess what – you’re NOT alone.  We here at 40Tech love to talk about tech, and we’re sure many of you in the community do as well.  So, we’re setting up our first ever 40Tech community chat.  Will it be huge?  Will it flop?  Who knows, but we’re going to have fun in the process.  Read on for the details.

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