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One of my Facebook follower asked me to blog about how I prepare the solids for my girl when I posted pictures of my kids' meals on my Facebook page. So here it goes the tutorial for Carrots Corn & Green Peas Puree:

** Personal Note: Take the amount of Carrots, Corn & Green Peas you wanted and steam them for about 10-15 minutes or until the veggies are soft (I gauged using the carrots). After that, blend to the consistency you wanted and serve or store in freezer.

When I prepared this for Ben 2 years ago, I actually peeled off the skins of the green peas after steaming! Am not sure whether it's good to do that or not but I'm not doing this anymore with Alyson now... too lazy and tiring to do this I guess!

Hope the above tutorial helps! Feel free to ask questions or share your feedback/experiences!

I have previously reviewed OrganiDoc HD, so when I received a pitch from the same company to review another app of theirs, I thought, "Why not? After all, the previous app was darn good!" Anyway, my review as below...

* Title: xDownload - Super tools for file download
* Price: $2.99
* Category: Utilities
* Updated: May 10, 2012
*Version: 1.7.3
* Size: 18.0 MB
* Language: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
* Seller: Wei Zhang
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later. 

Description from the product page:

" xDownload – Grab and manage pictures, files right from your iPhone! Hand-tied by Safari to download files? xDownload is your solution! xDownload is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for pulling all you want on the web into a background-downloading queue on your iPhone. Download when you have WiFi access and enjoy them uninterruptedly. Play, manage and transfer downloaded files with ease, right from your phone.

 xDownload’s powerful features :
* Unlike Safari, press-hold to download file, picture or even the whole webpage archive, using the browser provided by xDownload.
* Just tap the link or button as you do on PC, xDownload will automatically prompt you to download when it is a downloadable file.
* Downloads are queued in the background as you continue on browsing. Stop/Start downloads at your control.
* Multiple simultaneous downloads.
* FLASH videos are automatically converted to mp4 after downloading for instant viewing on iPhone.
* Use xDownload as your “other browser”, password-protected, so that your browsing history, bookmarks and downloaded files are safely separated from Safari.
* Easily switch from Safari to xDownload with the automatic URL caching.
* Plays virtually all file formats supported on iPhone, with thumbnail/preview capabilities. Use xDownload as your other jukebox/player.
* Easily manage downloaded files -- rename, move, create subfolders, unzip ZIP/RAR files, email, transfer to PC, etc.
* Various useful features include search engine integration, auto finishing-up URL, history tracking, bookmark, SSL and authentication support, download bandwidth setting and download control using WiFi only."

What's good?

* I love that I am able to download YouTube videos and watch it offline! Yay! No more freaking out when our Internet connection is down! This feature is particularly useful when we were travelling up north for our recent family trip and there's no 3G connection on certain areas.

* I like the super easy process to download a file or image! Simply load the webpage with the file or image you want to download, tap on the object (file or image) for few seconds and select the download option!

* The cool thing is you can download more than 1 file or image, the app simply queues up the file(s) and image(s) and while the app downloads your file(s) or image(s), you can continue to browse or watch your videos or files!

Room for Improvement?

* I think it would be great to have a version for iPad as the current layout is for iPhone. Of course, I can always tap the 2X view to enlarge it but it will make the words blur.

* There are some YouTube videos on dedicated channels which I can't seem to download correctly. It kept download another video instead of the one I wanted.

* There are some rare incidents where the app exits by itself.

To sum up my review, this is a very useful utility app as it enables me to download files and pictures immediately while I am browsing the Internet.

You can purchase the "xDownload" app from the iTunes App Store.

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I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code by the sponsor to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"

As a SAHM, I often heard from my friends who joke about using their vehicles to earn money as well while they are driving around, going from one place to another. There's also the idea being mentioned amongst friends and ex-colleagues about making use of our own car to fetch other children in the same neighbourhood as well since we have to drive them to school and places anyway.

Other than chauffeuring children around, do you know that we can also earn some side income by doing courier jobs such as delivering/picking up parcels, documents, equipments, everything! Of course the bigger the vehicle you have, the more items you can allow to deliver or ship along!

I came across this website that offers services to all parties: the carriers, the brokers and the shippers. The amazing thing with this company is it allows you as the carrier to search and connect to both customer and brokered loads, then negotiate and manage the brokers and shippers online and also get payment fast.

Now isn't that amazing to be able to fully utilise your vehicle to earn money since you are going to use it anyway?

If only they implement this in my country. Now imagine one day when my kids are ready to go to school and I have to chauffeur them around, why not do so and earn some side income as well right? Awesome...!

What are your thoughts about this concept?

** Disclosure: This is a sponsored post. All thoughts, opinions and words are 100 % my own.