This is a class designed to go over popular apps for Apple, Android, and Kindle Fire devices. Almost all the apps are free, at the time of publication.

1. 60 Apps in 60 Minutes
Cherry Hill Public Library
Melissa Brisbin

2. Image Credit: http://tiny.cc/h9t7kw
There are a lot of apps!
• App Store: Over 1.25 million (Oct 2013)
• Google Play: Over 1.5 million (July 2013)
• Amazon’s App Store: Over 100,000 (Dec 2013)

3. • It is an abbreviation for application. Software
designed to run on mobile devices.
• They run on a smart phone or tablet.
• Apps can be technically limited by device.
• There are several markets available to download
apps, such as Apple’s App Store, Google Play
(Android), or Windows Phone’s Windows
Marketplace. It is all based on the device being
used.
What are apps?
Information Credit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/guides/what-are-apps

4. • Native Apps: Designed to run on a device’s
specific operating system, such as iOS
(ObjectiveC) or Android (Java)
• Web Apps: Browser applications that can run on
a web-capable device. Websites that are mobile
friendly.
• Universal Apps: Designed to run on both
phones and tablets, i.e. Angry Birds vs Angry
Birds HD
• Container Apps: Apps that are free to
download, and contain limited free content, but
also have in-app
Native vs Web apps

5. Freemium?
Free + Premium
Apps that are free but have paid options to add levels
or in-game perks
98% of May 2014’s revenue
90% of revenue from gaming apps!
Informational Credit: http://mashable.com/2014/06/26/freemium-apps-google-play/

6. How much do developers make?
That’s an average of revenue per app ($0.01-
$0.02/per download) multiplied by the average of
overall downloads
Average cost for
an app: $0.99
Informational Credit: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tristanlouis/2013/08/10/how-much-do-average-apps-make/

7. All Apps Are FREE, unless otherwise noted!
App Information

8. How to find an app

9. Apple Awards for 2013
Image and Information Credit: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Apple-announces-best-iPhone-iPad-apps-and-games-of-2012_id37678

10. Apple Awards for 2013
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Image & Informational Credits: http://mashable.com/2013/12/17/top-iphone-apps-2013/

11. Apple App of the Year 2013
Apple’s 2013 App of the Year!
Learn French, Spanish, Italian,
English Portuguese and
German for free
Turns learning a new language
into a fun and interactive game!
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Duolingo

12. Android Top Games & Apps of 2013
•Knights & Dragons (Free)
•Most addictive game
•The Hobbit: Kingdoms (Free)
•Movies by Flixster (Free)
•Best app for booking/buying
•Ingress (Free) Top Game
•NewsHog: Google News &
Weather (Free)
Winner of 2013 Google Play
Player’s Choice Award
• Bejeweled Blitz (Free)
• Duolingo: Learn Language (Free)
• YouTube (Free)
•Best Google App
• Samurai Siege (Free)
•Favorite Game
• SwiftKey Keyboard ($3.99)

13. Travel
Image Credits https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-wi-fi-finder/id307217005?mt=8 .
WiFi Finder
By JiWire
• 650,000 locations in 144
countries
• Locates free and paid for
spots
• Download locations offline to
retrieve later
• Uses your GPS location to
find places closest to you

14. • Over 70 million+ users
• Receive ETA for your
destinations
• Community-generated
live maps with real-
time traffic updates
while driving with app
open
• Voice generated
directions
• Users can report traffic
delays, accidents, road
alerts, hazardous
driving, or police
activity
Travel
Image and Informational Credits: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/waze-social-gps-maps-traffic/id323229106?mt=8
Waze

15. Travel
Hipmunk
Image & Informational Credit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hipmunk-hotels-flights/id419950680?mt=8
• 50 Best Travel Apps by
Time
• Book hotel and flights
• Use the Agony sort: look at
durations, layovers and cost
• Read Tripadvisor reviews

16. Travel
Smart Ride
Image & Informational Credit : http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smart-ride/id389471914?mt=8
• One of time.com’s
“Best iPhone App” 2012
• Find real-time bus and train
arrivals/departures from
around the world
• Share itinerary with others
• Find transit routes near you
•Supports NJ PATH, PATCO,
NJ TRASNIT

17. Travel
Weather
Underground
• Over 33,000+ local weather
stations
• Crowdsourced up-to-date
information
• Includes weather forecast
around the world
• Interactive maps
• Sky Reports: us to see if
what you’re seeing is
accurate. Report
inconsistencies
• Free Push notifications for
severe weatherImage & Informational Credit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weather-underground/id486154808?mt=8

18. Travel
16
Image and Informational Credit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo!-weather/id628677149?mt=8
Yahoo!
Weather
Winner of the Apple Design Award
2013
Interactive Maps
Sunrise/Sunset times
Photos that match your time of day
in your location
Enable alerts for your location

19. Dining
Foodspotting
Image & Informational Credit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foodspotting/id350727118?mt=8
• Enable geo-location to find
restaurants in your area
• Take pictures of dishes to
share with others
• Use guides to find compiled
restaurant reviews
• Like others’ photos and
combine with social networks

20. • Discover restaurants
based on location,
hours of operation,
price, and cuisine, i.e.
Chinese or pizza
• Use the Shake option
to find a place to dine
based on cuisine,
location, or price
• Results listed by
positive rankings and
include restaurant info
and social networking
outlets
• Make reservations
Dining
Urbanspoon
Image and Informational Credit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/urbanspoon/id284708449?mt=8

21. Dining
OpenTable
Image & Informational Credit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opentable/id296581815?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D2
• Find restaurants with pictures others
have taken by using geo location
• Find a place to dine and make a
reservation
• Restaurant reviews, price ratings, and
mapping
• Filter your results based on time, price,
points, cuisine, and/or location
• Keep track of places where you have
dined
• Receive redeemable points for future
dining

22. Dining
Image Credit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/great-food-nearby-ness/id454869181?mt=8
• App Store Best of
2012”/Editor's Choice in 2013
• Personalized restaurant
recommendations
• App learns the places you like,
don’t like as you rate and save
• Similar to Netflix or Pandora,
but for dining
• 6.5 million reviews by users
Ness

23. Dining
Image & Informational credit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/locavore/id306140158?mt=8
Locavore
• Find farmer’s markets and
farms in your area based on your
location
• Link to addresses and phone
numbers and link to a business’
profile page
• Maps and directions included
• Discover what fruits and
vegetables are in season right
now
• Seasonable recipes
• Link to FB

24. Dining
Fooducatecontainer app
Image and Information Credits: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fooducate.nutritionapp&hl=en; https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fooducate-healthy-food-diet/id398436747?mt=8
• Best iPhone Health & Fitness
App; 1st Prize by US Surgeon
General Healthy App
Challenge
• Scan a barcode to learn
about the good and bad of a
product, along with receiving
healthier alternatives
• Decipher labels, such as true
serving sizes or contentious
food colorings
• Create shopping lists
• Submit new products to be
evaluated

25. • Allrecipes: 1,000s of recipes—Also available for Kindle Tablets
• Real Simple Recipes: Search by ingredients and cooking time,
i.e. 20, 30, or 40 minutes, available for Kindle
Tablets
• Whole Foods: Recipes by dietary requirements, shopping lists,
etc
• Zagat: 30,000 rated restaurants, 100+ filters, such as cost and
score, write criticisms of restaurants
• Food Network: Video clips, chef biographies, programming
schedules, featured recipes, available for Kindle Tablets
• BigOven: Best Recipe App 2012 & 2011, 250k recipes, share
recipes and social networking, available for Kindle Tablets
Additonal Food Apps
* Information credit: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone-apps/5-iphone-food-apps.htm; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/12/the-best-food-apps-
becaus_n_1769904.html#slide=1366894

26. Drink
Cor.kz
• $1.99* June 2014
• One of Times “Top 50
iPhone Apps” 2012
•Search over 1.5 million wines
• Discover wines based on
region
• Keep tracks of wines you
have liked in your “cellar”
• Includes a reference guide
to terminology, regions, and
facts about wine
•6.5 million reviews

27. Drink
Mixology™
Drink Recipescontainer app
Image Credit: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mixology-drink-recipes-free/id320926534?mt=8
• Find recipes for over 8,000
drink recipes and more than
1,000 ingredients
• Sort by category: Martinis,
Non-Alcoholic, etc
• Type in what you have and it
will find you a drink to create
• Metric/Imperial units
• Share your finds on FB,
Twitter, etc

28. • Discover and rate
beers
• Enable geo-location
to find
bars/restaurants
with your favorite
brews available
• Learns what you
like and
recommends based
on your preferences
• Win prizes for free
beer
• Connect with social
networks
Drink
Image and Informational Credits: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pintley-beer-recommendations/id389982681?mt=8
Pintley Beer
Recommendations

29. • Free radio that allows
you to customize
personal stations—up
to 100
• Create stations based
on artist, song, genre,
composer, etc
• Rank songs with a
thumbs up or down
• Free version will have
advertisements
Music
Pandora Radio
Image and Information Credits: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pandora-radio/id284035177?mt=8

30. • Millions of songs
including new albums
• Stream online or off
• Create playlists and
share with FB friends
• Sync your account
across devices
• No ads
Music
Image and Information Credits: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spotify/id324684580?mt=8
Spotify
$9.99/
month

31. • Android Only!
(gMusic, is a 3rd-
party app
available to
Apple users)
• Cloud-based
Storage with up
to 20,000 songs
stored for free
• Listen to
favorites offline
• Share music with
Google + friends
Music
Google Play
Music $5.99/month
Image and Information Credits: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.music&hl=en

32. ● Identify a song, over the radio or
in a store, a few seconds
● Can display lyrics to songs—
Lyric Play
● Save a 30 second preview
● Link to stores to purchase and
discover artist information, tour
dates, etc
● Includes information about TV
shows
● Link to videos on YouTube
Music
Shazam
Image and information Credits: http://www.wix.com/html5/websites_400?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=bi_Wix_Eng^wix&experiment_id=Wix^p&gclid=CK-
lm5vbrrQCFcef4AodNysAtQ

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Music
Swell • One of Time’s Best
iPhone Apps 2013
• Swell Radio
personalizes audio
news and information
• Unlimited streaming
audio from iTunes,
NPR, ABC, ESPN,
BBC, CBC, TED
• Listen to certain topics
• Search for programs

34. Productivity
Evernote
Image Credit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8
•Apple Design Award 2013
•Improve productivity by
creating notes (text, voice, or
audio), to-do lists, photos,
etc.
• Sync notes across devices.
• Share files. Email files.
Share files with FB or Twitter
friends.

35. Productivity
• Create boards
to manage tasks
• Invite others to
work on boards
• Save work to
the cloud so all
devices are
synced
• Include
photos/videos
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Trello

36. • Free cloud-storage,
beginning at 2 GB
and up to 18 GB,
for files, videos,
photos, music, etc
• Pro account begins
at $9.99/month for
100 GB
• Share files
• Login to your
account from
anywhere
Productivity
Dropbox
Image and Informational Credits: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dropbox.android&hl=en

37. Productivity
• Create to do lists
that syncs
across all your
devices and PCs
via Dropbox
• Keep lists in
simple txt format
• View how long
tasks took to
complete
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Todo.txt Touch
$1.99

38. Productivity
• iCloud or Gmail
• Push
notifications for
Gmail
• Add more than
one Gmail
account
• Snooze,
choose a date
to read, etc
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Mailbox

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• Edit documents/sheets
• Upload photos
• Pin files so they are
available offline
• Sharing
• Store on the cloud
Productivity
Google
Drive

40. Productivity
Flipboard
Image credit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flipboard.app&hl=en
•Create a personal magazine with
sources you choose such as
news, social, or blog sites
(articles, video, pictures, audio)
• Launched 2.0 in April 2013—
allows bookmarklet from browser
to add content; share content with
friends or keep private
• Organize content by topic by
live tiles
• Full screen photo layout
• Can include FB and Twitter
updates, Instagram, and
YouTube

41. Productivity
Image credit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zite-personalized-magazine/id419752338?mt=8
• Create a personal
magazine
• Find new sites based on
interests
•Uses over 40,000 topics
• Rate sites with a thumbs-
up or a thumbs-down
•Pulls information from
articles, magazines,
authors, newspapers,
videos, and blogs
Zite

42. • Time’s Best
iPhone App of
2013
• App Store’s Best
of 2012
• Keep a list of from
your browser or
app of content you
discover and want
to read later
• Save articles from
a browser or from
over 300 apps,
including Twitter,
Flipboard, Zite, etc
Productivity
Pocket
Image and Informational Credits: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-formerly-read-it-later/id309601447?mt=8

43. Productivity
Mint.com
Personal
Finance
App Store Hall of Fame 2013
CNN Money: Best Apps to
Manage Your Money 2013
• Over 13 million users
• Connect to bank and credit
accounts
• View where you are
spending money and where to
save
• Automatically organizes
transactions, such as deposits
and purchases
Image and Informational Credits: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mint.com-personal-finance/id300238550?mt=8

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• Turn your iPhone into a
scanner
• Scan multiple pages
• Free version scans
items into PDFs
• Share scans: email,
text messages, print, or
email yourself
Productivity
JotNot

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• Help admins manage
the page
• Post updates and
photos
• Respond to
comments
• View your Page
Insights
• Enable push
notifications on your
Page’s activity
Productivity
Facebook Page
Manager

46. • Store your loyalty
cards and use
your phone, both
barcoded or
unbarcoded
• Have your cards
backed up on a
cloud
• Receive coupons
and review
weekly flyers
• Connect to store
information
Productivity
Key Ring
Image and Informational Credits: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/key-ring-reward-cards/id372547556?mt=8

47. Productivity
• 5 Best iPhone Apps of
2013
• Link you FB, Twitter, and
LinkedIn
• Email: Google Gmail
and contacts; Microsoft
Exchange, Outlook,
OWA, Yahoo! Mail,
iCloud, AOL, IMAP
• Keep tract of your
contacts, posts, tweets,
to build a stronger social
presence
• Tracking: social
mentions; note taking,
lists
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Cloze
Image and Informational Credit https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cloze-inbox-for-twitter-facebook/id596927802?mt=8

48. • Time lapse,
stop motion
app
• Portrait or
landscape
mode
• Editing tools
• Unlimited
recording
length
Photography
iMotion HD
Image and Informational Credits: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android

49. • Create short,
looping videos ( 6
seconds)
• Share videos on
FB and Twitter
• Find and follow
people
• Explore trending
videos, hashtags,
Editors’ picks, etc
Photography
Vine
Image and Informational Credit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.vine.android&hl=en

50. • High resolution
pictures
• 360 degree
ability for indoor
and outdoor
photos
• Works with
landscape a
portrait layouts
• Post to
FB/Twitter/emai
l
• Each pic is
GPS tagged
Photography
360 Panorama
$0.99
Image and Informational Credits: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/panorama-360-camera/id399394507?mt=8

51. • Add text and
artwork to your
photos
• Edit your photos
• Use custom fonts
or use your own
• Share via email,
text message,
Twitter,
Facebook,
Instagram,
Pinterest, Path,
and more. You
can even send it
as a postcard.
Photography
Image and Informational Credits: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixable-your-photo-inbox-for/id428933568?mt=8
Open
$1.99

52. • Use autocorrect
to adjust color
and exposure
• Tune Image;
Adjust Contrast,
White Balance,
or Ambiance for
depth and
vibrancy
• Lots of filters
and frames
• Share photos on
Google +
Photography
Snapseed
Image and informational Credits: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niksoftware.snapseed&hl=en

53. • Purchase or borrow
thousands of books
• Sync across
devices to have
24/7 access
• Enjoy
enhancements such
as automatic
bookmarking,
dictionaries,
adjustable text size,
etc
• Look for eBooks
that include
dynamic features
Library-Related
Reading
Apps

54. 50
Reading: Library
Ziniocontainer app
• Borrow digital
magazines with your
library card
• 14 titles
• Keep issues for as long
as you like
•Back issues available

55. • Top 20 grossing iPad
app of 2011, 2012, and
2013
• Over 40,000 titles and
600 are free
• Same day as print
releases
• Marvel, DC Comics,
Image Comics, IDW,
Disney, etc
• Also includes, Dilbert,
The Simpsons, The
Green Hornet, Diary of
a Wimpy Kid . . .
• Connect with local
comic retailers to
purchase “Buy in Print”
Reading
comiXologyContainer app
Image and Informational Credit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comics/id303491945?mt=8

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Bookmyne
Library-Related
• Access the catalog
• Manage your
account
• Find suggested
reads
• Create bookshelves
of items to check out
later
• Search by barcode

57. • Store: passwords,
PINs, Images, fininacial
info, contracts, etc.
• All data is sent over
https. AES-256 and
RSA-2048 encryption
• Highly secure storage
for up to 50 passwords
• 10 MB of free
document storage
• Setup a beneficiary to
your accounts and
passwords in case
something happens to
you
Security
Securesafe
Image and Informational Credits: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/securesafe/id359102857?mt=8

58. • Locate any Apple product: iPod
Touch, iPhone, iPad, or Mac
• Uses Apple Maps to locate your
device, including driving
directions
• Remotely wipe your device or
lock it
• Lost Mode includes the ability to
create a 4-digit passcode and a
contact phone number
• Login into
https://www.icloud.com/ from a
PC to access your contacts,
pictures and calendar
Security
Image and Informational Credits: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/find-my-iphone/id376101648?mt=8
Find My
iPhone

59. • PC Mag’s “Editor's Choice”;
TechCrunch “Top 10 Best
Free Apps”
• 45 million users
• Detect and remove viruses
that can be hidden in apps
• Uses Google Maps to locate
device
• Remotely lock, wipe, or
send a signal to your phone
to sound an alarm to find
your device
• Use a PC to login and have
a backup copy of contacts,
pics, etc
Security
Lookout
Security &
Antivirus
Image and Informational Credits: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lookout&feature=search_result

60. • Play
against
opponents
with over
150,000
questions
and 280
topics.
• Topics
include:
music,
games, TV
shows,
books,
movies,
science
geography,
etc
Entertainment
Quizup

61. Entertainment
• Play one or more
opponents
• 18 Themed Decks:
• Celebrities
• Movies
• Animals
• Accents
• Characters, etc
• Hold your phone to your
head and try and guess
the term your opponent is
acting out
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Heads Up!
$0.99
Image and Informational Credit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/heads-up!/id623592465?mt=8

62. Entertainment
• Apple Design
Award 2013
• “Follow Billy as
he tries to find
redemption from
his uncertain
past. Chase your
destiny on the
high seas and
embark on a
heroic quest for
glory and gills.”
• Retro Gaming
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Ridiculous Fishing-
A Tale of Redemption
$2.99
Image and Informational Credit: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/events/awards/

63. Entertainment
2013 Apple Design Award Winner
2013 App of the Year Runner Up
In-depth stories of
endangered species
3D interactive globe
Origami of each animal
Fun facts and trivia
HD Photos and videos
58
WWF
Together
Image and Informational Credit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wwf-together/id581920331?mt=8

64. Entertainment
• Part store, part wishlist,
part magazine discovery
tool
• Crowd-sourced/curated
catalog
57
Fancy

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Entertainment
Ingress • Top game of 2013
Google Player’s Choice
Awards
• Best Android strategy
game
• Move through the real
world with your device
and discover the hidden
world around as you as
you play this game
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticproject.ingress

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• App Store Best of 2013
• Digg scours the internet
to bring you the latest
breaking stories,
including social media,
blogs, status
updates,photos, videos,
etc
• Save stories to Pocket
• Share stories on FB,
Twitter, email, or text
• Follow your favor tire
bloggers, writers, etc
Entertainment

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Entertainment
• See anything serious or
entertaining
• Customize your feed with
the topics you want, or
the ones you don’t want
to see
• See what the trending
stories are on Facebook
and Twitter
• Easy to share stories and
photos

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• Unlimited number of
tabs
• Sync your passwords,
bookmarks, omnibus
data across devices
• Use Incognito to
browse the internet
privately
• Navigation all within
the same box
• Voice search
Google
Chrome

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• Tabbed browser
• Share informational
easily to social
networks
• Sync across
devices: favorites,
bookmarks, etc
Dolphin Browser

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• Visually curated your
interests
• Decorative and party
ideas, fashion, DYI,
fitness, recipes,
crafting, etc
• Search my category,
keyboard, or another
Pinterest user
• Secret boards
• See how your pins
are trending
Pinterest

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• 259 million worldwide
members
• Grow your network
with professional
insights and content.
• Network with other
Linkin professionals
• Search for people,
jobs, and companies
• Read latest news
LinkedIn

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• Accepted credit cards on your
device: American Express,
Visa, MasterCard and
Discover
• HOW IT WORKS
• 1. Download Square
Register.
• 2. Sign up and request your
free Square Reader.
• 3. Plug in your Square
Reader and start taking
payments.
• 2.75% PER SWIPE
• Swipe $100, see $97.25 in
your bank account. Accept
Visa, MasterCard, Discover,
and American Express at the
same rate
Square Register

73. Venable, Melissa. (2012). Top 25Library
Apps for the iPad. OnlineCollege.org.
Retrieved from:
http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/03/0
/top-25-library-apps-for-the-ipad/
Credits:

74. Thank you!!!!!
Melissa Brisbin
Mvrisbin@chplnj.org
(856)903-1243
www.chplnj.org