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Kids and Keyboards

January 6th, 2008 · No Comments

There are few applications in which hitting random ihafsd; keys leads to anything good, so I put together Zookeys for my daughter Medina (2 yrs). She always wants to play with my computer, and now, with Zookeys, she can (because of the vast amount of large images, Zookeys is about 12 MB). Pressing any letter key will produce a short sound and the image of an animal the name of which starts with that letter. All images are web finds. My daughter is scared of S, P and for some reason G.

Note: The U image refers to the German “Uhu” for Owl, and the X is dedicated to the Xenops. Unlike other games, this one requires a parent to know the names of the animals. The thing to do is to ask you child to find the Goose, for example, or my favorite one, the Raccoon. The child then can search the keys until he or she hits the R for Raccoon. If you have any suggestions to improve the game let me know.

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