edu.Mac.nation App Spotlight

TED “Enjoy inspiring and edifying talks from the...

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0400

TED

“Enjoy inspiring and edifying talks from the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conferences on your iPhone or iPod Touch. This application integrates multiple information feeds from TED into an unique user experience on the iPhone.

FEATURES

Watch and listen to the latest videos and audio published by TED

Search their vast collection of content on your iPhone

Bookmark your favorite talks to share with others or enjoy later”

via TED

Classics FEATURES • An intuitive and elegantly designed...

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0400

Classics

FEATURES

• An intuitive and elegantly designed reading experience with realistic 3D page flips that track to your finger. You can even drag a bit to take a peek at the next page, or finish reading a sentence as you start turning!

• Flick up and down in your virtual bookcase to view your collection, tap a book to open, and tap and hold to drag and sort your books

• Tap the table of contents button on the top right for quick navigation between chapters

• View how far you are in a book at a glance with a subtle progress display integrated into the top bar

• Classics automatically remembers your place with a satin bookmark when exiting the app or book

• Options to toggle ‘page flip’ animation to a more minimal ‘slide’, and to turn the page flip sound off and on can be found in your iPhone’s settings application”

via Classics

There are a ton of great classic books contained in this application.

Classics FEATURES • An intuitive and elegantly designed...

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0400

Classics

FEATURES

• An intuitive and elegantly designed reading experience with realistic 3D page flips that track to your finger. You can even drag a bit to take a peek at the next page, or finish reading a sentence as you start turning!

• Flick up and down in your virtual bookcase to view your collection, tap a book to open, and tap and hold to drag and sort your books

• Tap the table of contents button on the top right for quick navigation between chapters

• View how far you are in a book at a glance with a subtle progress display integrated into the top bar

• Classics automatically remembers your place with a satin bookmark when exiting the app or book

• Options to toggle ‘page flip’ animation to a more minimal ‘slide’, and to turn the page flip sound off and on can be found in your iPhone’s settings application”

There are a ton of great classic books contained in this application.

NASA App “The first official NASA App invites you to...

Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0400

NASA App

“The first official NASA App invites you to discover a wealth of NASA information right on your iPhone or iPod Touch. The NASA App collects, customizes and delivers an extensive selection of dynamically updated information, images and videos from various online NASA sources in a convenient mobile package.”

via NASA.gov

Sky Voyager “SkyGazer and SkyVoyager are easy-to-use...

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0400

Sky Voyager

“SkyGazer and SkyVoyager are easy-to-use but powerful planetarium programs for the iPhone and iPod Touch. SkyGazer is the intro version, designed for beginners, and SkyVoyager is the “Pro” version for advanced users.

SkyVoyager includes an optional Expansion Pack with 2.5 million stars, and more than 300 color deep sky object images, dramatically increasing the realism and usefulness of your sky charts.

If you have an iPhone 3G S with a compass, SkyGazer and SkyVoyager can show you the sky in same the direction that you’re holding your phone. You can identify stars and planets by holding your phone next to them, and you can find any object in the sky by following an arrow that points in its direction.”

(via Carina Software)

Sky Voyager was the Macworld 2010 Best of Show Winner.

Note2Self Note2Self is an audio recorder and voice note...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:30:00 -0500

Note2Self

Note2Self is an audio recorder and voice note sharing solution. Bring it up to your ear and start talking. Bring it back down in front of you and the recording stops and is saved or emailed automatically.

Automatic recordings using the accelerometer by bringing the phone to your ear, turning it upside down or shaking You must be vertically straight and the phone is positioned with the bottom at your mouth and top at the ear. You can also turn the phone face down on a table to start recording. If the accelerometer fails to reliably start recording, quit and relaunch Note2Self.

Share your notes via email our our WiFi Server on your desktop (Mac, PC, Linux)

Location Tracking of your notes

Manual and Automatic Pause based on level

Powerful Organization Abilities

Beautifully designed to make sending email the easiest of any other app on the iPhone

Play, Pause, Seek notes

Pause Recordings

Record Audio in Compressed and Uncompressed formats

Add Text Notes

Easy to use and great to look at

I am amazed that this app is still free. I use it to quickly send myself audio notes. The automatic phone-to-ear recording is just like the voice search feature in the Google Mobile App.

DinoMixer Designed to please dinosaur fans of all ages,...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0500

DinoMixer

Designed to please dinosaur fans of all ages, DinoMixer lets you mix and match dinosaur heads, bodies and tails to make your own crazy mixed-up dinosaurs!

DinoMixer 1.8 features detailed, colorful images of 14 different dinosaurs:

Allosaurus

Apatosaurus

Carnotaurus

Coelophysis

Edmontosaurus

Gallimimus

Pachycephalosaurus

Parasaurolophus

Spinosaurus

Stegosaurus

Triceratops

Troodon

Tyrannosaurus

Euoplocephalus (New!)

Swipe up an down to spin through the dinosaur heads, bodies and tails. Mixed and matched, there are thousands of crazy combinations!

Match all three parts of the same dinosaur and the dinosaur name pops up.

Click the arrow and you get 3 pages of information about each dinosaur, how big they were, how long ago they lived, where the dinosaur’s fossils were found and background information on what makes the dinosaur interesting and different, along with fossil location maps and size comparison images!

via DinoMixer

Dragon Search “Dragon Search is the Fast, Accurate and...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:10:00 -0500

Dragon Search

“Dragon Search is the Fast, Accurate and Smart way to search online content on your iPhone™ using your voice.

Simply speak your search queries and get simultaneous results from a variety of top websites and content sources including:

Google™ (or Yahoo!™, Bing™, depending on your default settings)

YouTube™

Twitter™ Search

iTunes™

Wikipedia®

The innovative Dragon Search Carousel allows you to quickly access results from multiple sources, and is a one-stop shop for all of your search needs, even when you are “Hands-Busy””

via Dragon Mobile Apps

This app certainly is fast, easy to use, and free! The Dragon voice-to-text feature is simply the best in the App Store.

Instapaper Pro “Save web pages for later offline...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:00:00 -0500

Instapaper Pro

“Save web pages for later offline reading, optimized for readability on your iPhone or iPod touch’s screen. Featured by Apple and critically acclaimed by top blogs, newspapers, and magazines!

Great for long articles and blog posts that you find during the day and would like to read, but don’t have the time when you find them. Save with Instapaper, then read later when you’re commuting, in a meeting, or waiting in line.

Browse the Editor’s Picks for more stories to read when you haven’t had time to find any.

PRO FEATURES:

Folders

Automatic updates

Save your position

Dictionary lookups

Tilt scrolling, pagination

Adjustable fonts and text sizes

Dark mode for night reading

Send to Tumblr and Twitter”

via Instapaper

Two words: Tilt Scrolling

I wish every reader/RSS/e-book application had tilt scrolling.

AutoStitch “AutoStitch is the only app that can...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:19:31 -0500

AutoStitch

“AutoStitch is the only app that can stitch images in any order or arrangement, including vertical, horizontal, or mixed arrangements. It produces much higher resolution images than other panorama apps: up to 5 megapixels on the iPhone 3G or the original iPhone and up to 20 megapixels on the iPhone 3GS.”

via Cloudburst Research

I have tried some of the other panorama apps in the App Store and I find this one to be the best. It is super easy to snap shot after shot and “stitch” the final product together in AutoStitch. There is no need to worry about aligning images. The work is all done for you.

Enso-Dot “Enso•Dot is an elegant logic puzzle that engages both...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500

Enso-Dot

“Enso•Dot is an elegant logic puzzle that engages both your fingers and intuition. The object is simple–connect the dots using one continuous loop while following the given pattern. Every puzzle provides an opportunity to develop new approaches and new strategies.”

via Kieffer Brothers

This is what I call a “thinking game”.

1Password “Now every iPhone and iPod touch owner can...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500

1Password

“Now every iPhone and iPod touch owner can experience the peace of mind of secure, safe web browsing that Mac users have known for years! Do you use the same password every time you create a new web site account because it would be impossible to remember them all if you didn’t, choosing convenience over safety? No longer do you have to make this difficult choice! 1Password secures your most private data without inconveniencing you. It not only creates and saves as many different passwords as you’d like, but it restores them as well, at your command.”

via Agile Web Solutions

I keep this application in sync with the copy of 1Password that I have on my Macbook. It makes storing and referencing logins easy and secure.

Pocket Informant “Pocket Informant is a fully redesigned from...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:00:00 -0500

Pocket Informant

“Pocket Informant is a fully redesigned from the ground up calendaring and GTD®-based tasks solution for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Our purpose is to integrate best-of-class calendaring with best-of-class tasks together into one great solution. Version 1.20 makes major improvements in almost every area of the application and we know that we are far from done. Version 1.21 is now available and contains French/German Localizations, many new grouping modes (including Context/Project), redesigned search, Tags, Outlook Sync, and many bug fixes.”

via Web Information Solutions

I use this application for my school Google Calendar as well as the todo lists that I create using the online service “Toodledo”. I feel that the calendar features are much better than the calendar app that comes with the iPhone. There is a lot of room for customization and there is a free version that you can try out.

eduTecher “eduTecher puts the best web tools and reviews...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:00:00 -0500

eduTecher

“eduTecher puts the best web tools and reviews of educational websites right in the palm of your hand. Use this app to access great content for all subject areas, watch eduTecherTV webisodes, share links with colleagues or students via Email and Twitter, and more.”

via eduTecher

Tumblr The Tumblr application is a fantastic free application...

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:00:00 -0500

Tumblr

The Tumblr application is a fantastic free application that you can use to post text, photos, quotes, links, audio, and video to Tumblr. I use Tumblr for this website as well as bytes.edumacnation.com. You can also read other Tumblr blogs that you “follow” right in the dashboard section. Tumblr, along with this application, are perfect for mobile blogging!

Remote Tap RemoteTap 4 is a “Mac Style” remote desktop...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:00:00 -0500

Remote Tap

RemoteTap 4 is a “Mac Style” remote desktop management solution for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It introduces several first and only features for any VNC-like application.

via Remote Tap

With Remote Tap you can control your Mac from anywhere in your house or office. I use it to monitor downloads, check for files on my desktop, as well as shut my computer down from the comfort of my living room. It is easy to set-up and quite affordable when compared to other remote desktop applications in the App Store.

*Update: I learned about this app from @mamante’s post on “VNC and the Mac” at the Apple Learning Interchange.

NPR News This application is great for accessing some of your...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:00:00 -0500

NPR News

This application is great for accessing some of your favorite NPR shows as well as reading some of the latest headlines…

Shape Builder “Shape Builder educates and entertains your...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:00:00 -0500

Shape Builder

“Shape Builder educates and entertains your little one with easy to move shapes that snap into place on top of siloutte puzzles. Each puzzle has 5 to 10 pieces and after positioning all of the pieces, the real image is revealed along with a professional voice recording of the word spoken by Jill Dews, a licensed speech therapist. Shape Builder encourages cognitive thinking and fine motor skills plus exposes young minds to new music instruments, animals, produce, objects and the alphabet in a fun and engaging format with LOTS of sound effects!”

via Touch Screen Preschool Games

Here is a video of the application in action…

Melodica This is a fun and entertaining musical application. ...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:33:00 -0500

Melodica

This is a fun and entertaining musical application. Check it out in action…

Proloquo2Go http://www.proloquo2go.com/ “Proloquo2Go™ is a...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:00:00 -0500

Proloquo2Go

http://www.proloquo2go.com/

“Proloquo2Go™ is a new product from AssistiveWare that provides a full-featured communication solution for people who have difficulty speaking. It brings natural sounding text-to-speech voices, up-to-date symbols, powerful automatic conjugations, a default vocabulary of over 7000 items, full expandability and extreme ease of use to the iPhone and iPod touch.”

via Proloquo2Go

Check out this informative video…