App Smart: Digital Guardians That Help Ease the Fears of Parents

A few apps aim to teach bar tricks with a minimum of props and are perfect rainy-day apps for parents and children, as well as barroom regulars.

WebMD Baby, available only on Apple devices for now, is arguably more practical and useful than many of the other apps for parents combined.

How to ensure that your child does not run up unexpected bills while playing games on your Apple or Android device.

Offensive material is easily found with apps that come installed on most mobile devices or can be downloaded, but there are ways parents can limit this.

The year 2012 marks a coming-of-age for physical devices that are designed for a connected world. Created with digital at their core, these products are not “digitally enhanced” or merely gadgets for Dad on Father’s Day (although some could be).

In fact Professor Nick Chater shows in the first of a weekly six-part series called The Human Zoo on BBC Radio Four that neither sex are very good at doing more than one thing at a time. The Warwick Business School professor reveals that when doing something routine and well-practised humans can do two things at once, like driving and talking. But when anything non-routine is introduced then multi-tasking is just not possible for the human mind.

Twitter just revamped its mobile apps with a heavy emphasis on search. Essentially, it's now easier to search, and results for Twitter accounts to follow are mixed in with relevant tweets—you no longer have to decide in advance what kind of search you're doing.