There are two companion sites that are part of the edu.Mac.nation “network”. The first was just started a couple days ago and it is called “edu.Mac.nation App Spotlight“. The second is a site that I have been updating for much longer. “edu.Mac.bytes” is what I call it and I like to think of it as a place for little “bytes” of information. As I surf around online I find links, photos, videos, etc. that interest me and are semi-related to Apple and education. I hope to start posting a “digest” of the posts here once a week. If you are interested you can check out some of the links below or subscribe to the RSS feed over at edu.Mac.bytes…

“Taiko Drummaster” for iPhone played with sausages iPhone+sausage=Taiko drum by Gamjavas(태고의달인 맥스봉플레이) (via gamjavas ) also via Cult of Mac

Fresh Pics: Apple Logo Art : Some excellent decals here…

FREE APP A DAY : Every single day there is a new free application that is free only for that day. Most of them are games. Since the applications are free it doesn’t hurt to check them out!

oblong’s tamper system 1801011309 on Vimeo (via Vimeo ) Can you do this with your Smartboard?

Wired Magazine’s Digital Plans

Orange Fruit Batteries Power An iPhone (via SuperJOrange ) How many limes do you think you would need to do something similar to this? How about other fruits? I wonder who will be the first to replicate this same experiment with the iPad…

The “Tap Forms Database” app has a new update today. You can now “beam” database entries and forms via Wifi or Bluetooth. TextExpander Touch support has been included as well… I look forward to trying the new features out with some fellow teachers in my building. The form sharing will be very helpful.

Notepod+ helps you sketch your iPad ideas Any iPad app developers looking at this?

“We in the technology world can navel-gaze all we want, but if we want to actually sell things, we’ve got to figure out what real people want. Guess what? They don’t want technology, per se. They just want easy solutions to hard problems.” – Can Silicon Valley write software for the ‘normal’? | The Open Road – CNET News “Easy solutions to hard problems” sounds good to me…

“Someone asked me the other day, “Why would you want to build an iPad app when you could just use your website?” And I think what touch gives you is such a different way of accessing information as a user. It’s physically direct. You’re much more focused — you can literally touch a fact and get more information about it. So I think therefore you do want to actually work on something new. You don’t want to just think it’s a big space which you’re gonna access the browser — you want to…

“iPhone app developer Pinger’s line of texting apps have handled over one billion messages since they appeared in the App Store less than a year ago, the company announced today.” (via Texting App Textfree Has Handled Over A Billion Messages )

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