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Month: August, 2009

[App Review] Volunteer-o-Matic: Need a hand?

(Click the image above to go to the Volunteer-o-Matic iTunes page) We are truly becoming a paperless world and the Volunteer-O-Matic (iTunes Link) application helps this transition! Keep on reading to see what Volunteer-O-Matic does, how it works, and a few ways I believe a teacher can use it in the classroom…

[iPhone] How about 5 more on the list?: “Ten essential back-to-school iPhone apps”- Macworld

photo credit: arquera Macworld has put together an excellent list of “back-to-school” applications for high school and college students… Ten essential back-to-school iPhone apps | Software | iPhone Central | Macworld “The iPhone already comes loaded with some built-in apps that might appeal to students—Voice Memos for recording lectures, Calendar for keeping tabs on class [...]

[Developers] “Free Outreach Program” - IEAR.org

If you are an application developer I suggest you take a look at this… I Education Apps Review – I Education Apps Review – Free Outreach Program - IEAR.org: “We are trying to increase the knowledge base on what is available for educators by using IPhones / Touch / IPod and other forms of mobile learning [...]

[Rumor] I Hope This Is True: “Netflix Streaming Coming To The iPhone”- Techcrunch

photo credit: Ross Catrow I am a big fan of Netflix streaming. All of the unlimited Netflix plans (starting at $8.99 a month) include the streaming service “anytime, anywhere” for a subset of the overall Netflix DVD catalogue. There are plenty of movies and documentaries that my wife and I have watched on a whim [...]

[Software]- “85 Useful Free Mac Apps for Designers”- UsingMac.com

UsingMac.com has compiled an excellent list of free Mac applications for designers… 85 Useful Free Mac Apps for Designers “With many applications emerging one after another, it’s not really difficult to find free apps out of the net. Perhaps, those free applications are suitable for us compared to commercial ones. Knowing there are quite a [...]

[Software] Snow Leopard: Are you pre-ordering?

Amazon has started to take pre-orders for the soon to be released (September?) Snow Leopard operating system. Yesterday I went ahead and pre-ordered the family pack for our Macs at home. Below are links to the Amazon pages, along with edu.Mac.nation affiliate codes, to pre-order if you are interested. To learn more about Snow Leopard [...]