Wednesday, September 23, 2009

LeapFrog is afraid of beer

Really! The educational company LeapFrog is afraid of beer! I was trying to figure out why neither of us could enter Cale's name in Karston's new Leapster2 (he played with Nadia's in July and picked it up easily). Finally I found the answer from the company, and the example was very helpful ... can't have ALEX because it contains ALE, so that explains why we can't have CALE too. Their workaround works, too. And it got me out of the endless loop of the doggone thing asking me to enter a profile name but not accepting it! We were sure it was a bug, but it really is a "child protection feature" *argh*! In their defense, they are using "a popular third-party filter" and they did document the problem. Another non-bug: you can only delete a name when all three name slots are filled.

Karston's been playing with it for less than a day so far, but he loves it. (And he loved Nadia's all that weekend.) I think it's a flexible (since spanning ages 4-8 covers a lot of changes), expandable (SD slot) learning toy.

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