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Zoom Stay connected wherever you go with ZOOM Cloud Meetings. Start or join a 100-person meeting with crystal-clear, face-toface video, high quality screen sharing, and instant messaging – for free! Award winning Zoom brings video conferencing, online meetings and group messaging into one easy-to-use application. Free

Disney+ Disney+ gives you access to movies and TV series from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and more. From the Lion King, to new originals like The Mandalorian, there’s something for everyone. 7-day free trial then $8.99 per month

AFL Fantasy Join the craze and have a crack at AFL Fantasy. You can play both ‘Classic’ and ‘Draft’ on the one account, manage your team and create and join leagues. Invite your mates to play for the fully interactive experience. Free

Forest: Stay focused Looking to ignore your phone, stay in the moment and actually talk to your friends? If you want to temporarily put down your phone and focus on what’s more important in real life, you can plant a seed in the Forest. As time goes by, this seed will gradually grow into a tree. However, if you cannot resist the temptation of using your phone and leave the app, your tree will wither. Free , $2.99

Brush Teeth with The Wiggles Australian Unity and The Wiggles have developed a tooth brushing app to assist parents and their kids with the daily task of tooth brushing. In a dentist-approved song, kids can perform the morning and night task with the assistance of The Wiggles. Get your Wiggle on! Free

Pocket God You’re the island god - it’s up to you whether you choose to be benevolent or vengeful. Pocket God contains multiple locations with many hilarious scenarios, exciting mini-games and hidden secrets for you to uncover. You have the power! $1.49

Puffin Web Browser Puffin Web Browser is a fast browser for mobile devices. It speeds up browsing by shifting the workload from the resource-limited devices to the cloud servers, and resource-demanding webpages can run fast on your phones or tablets. All traffic is encrypted, a protection from nearby hackers. Free , $7.99

Blinkest: Nonfiction Books Boost your knowledge and discover new perspectives to become a smarter you. Get the key insights from more than 3000 bestselling non-fiction books that cover leadership, history, psychology and much more. There’s an offline mode when Wi-Fi is unavailable and you can send books to your Kindle or other reader devices. Free

Hairy Maclary Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy is now available as an interactive digital book with AUSLAN sign language in addition to the kooky narration by David Tennant. Includes all your favourites characters including Scarface Claw and Slinky Malinki. $4.59 , $5.99

Cisco Meet anywhere, anytime. Enjoy a rich meeting experience with integrated audio, high-quality video and content sharing on the go. Join and present from any meeting, event, or training session with hands-free voice commands with Google Assistant and Google Home Hub. There’s also seamless joining directly from your calendar or customizable widget. Free

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13 Minutes to the Moon This site offers epic stories of NASA’s missions to the Moon and is now in its second podcast season. Season 1 tells the story of the 1969 Apollo 11 lunar landing by unpicking exactly what was going on in the 13 minutes just before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon. Amazing interviews with real astronauts and ground crews with exceptional narration. Dramatic musical score by Hans Zimmer. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2

Australian of the Year Award Each year our nation celebrates the achievements and contributions of eminent Australians through the Australian of the Year Awards by profiling leading citizens who are role models for us all. Got someone in mind for 2021? Everyone has the opportunity to recognise any Australian who makes them proud. australianoftheyear.org.au

Diply Diply is a social news and entertainment community that creates cheeky, useful, and informative content across a vast array of channels and topics with the goal of making your day a little less bland. Super cute stuff here. hello.diply.com

Oz Bargain OzBargain is a community of online shoppers in Australia. This is the place where bargains are shared. Register an account, submit a new bargain, vote for deals you like or dislike and away you go! ozbargain.com.au

Imgur This one is great for those of you who like to browse or submit images to a shared online platform. Imgur has a history of playing pranks on its users. The first prank was the ‘Catification’ feature, which allowed users to automatically add cats to any image with one click. Meow! imgur.com