e-Ideas of the Week
App of the Week
Rainsounds
Having trouble sleeping? Need to relax and unwind? The free app Rain Sounds is here to help! Great for background noise for activities such as yoga or even just to help you fall asleep, Rain Sounds has high quality and beautiful sounds to choose from.
It is easy to use and you can even edit the sounds to add music, animals, or a crackling fire - the ambiance of a rainy night or a cosy camp all within the confines of your bubble.
Toontastic
With Toontastic 3D you can draw, animate, and narrate your own cartoons. Just move your characters around on-screen, tell your story, and Toontastic records your voice and animations and stores it on your device as a 3D video. Toontastic is a powerful and playful way to create interstellar adventures, breaking news reports, video game designs, family photo albums, or anything else you might imagine!
Free Download, no ads or in-app purchases.
Podcasts of the Week
Abc Conversations
Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may, or may not, have heard about — someone who has seen and done amazing things.
No such thing as a fish
No Such Thing as a Fish is a weekly British podcast series produced and presented by the researchers behind the BBC Two panel game QI. In it each of the researchers, collectively known as "The QI Elves", present their favourite fact that they have come across that week
Websites of the Week
Viva Magazine
Viva is the cultural barometer people turn to each week to discover the very best in fashion, beauty, food, wine and design.
The magazine has a weekly readership of over 241,000* people and comes in The New Zealand Herald every Wednesday.
NZ Life and Leisure Magazine
NZ Life & Leisure weren’t able to print their most recent edition due to the lockdown so they have created a digital edition that’s available to everyone for a limited time.
Google Art & Culture: Collections
You may not be able to visit art galleries during lockdown but you can still enjoy browsing your favourite artist at home through Google Art & Culture.
It has collections of 500 museums and art galleries around the world at your fingertips!