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Tag: iPhone

[Education] Have an old iPhone or iPod Touch? Donate them!

Educational application developer Steve Glinberg is a friend of edu.Mac.nation and the creator of KidCalc, 123 Color Talking Coloring Book, and 123 World Geography Coloring Book. He also has created “HD” versions of 123 Color and 123 World Geography for the iPad. Steve recently launched a wonderful donation program for iPhones and iPod Touches. Below is information [...]

[iPhone App] PBS Kids Mobile: “Super Why!” for iPhone/iPod Touch Just Released

Super Why! from PBS Kids PBS is known for wonderful television programs for children. Classics such as “Sesame Street” and “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” share airtime with newer shows such as “Caillou” and “Sid the Science Kid“. A PBS show that my son loves is “Super Why!“. The adventures that the “Super Readers” go on include [...]

“App Spotlight”- Week #1- Taskpaper, World Factbook, KidCalc, Convert, Pastebot, Preschool Connect the Dots, and Learn Sight Words

One app a day… 7 days a week. The “App Spotlight” features one iPhone/iPod touch application a day that has been selected because we think that it rocks or because a reader of edu.Mac.nation (You!) thinks that it rocks. The picks stretch across many different categories. Here are the last 7 apps spotlighted on edu.Mac.nation [...]

[iTunes] “Apps For Kids”: Featured Items in iTunes This Week

Starting this morning you should see a button toward the top of your iPhone/iPod Touch App Store “New” Featured Apps section that says, “Apps for Kids”. Pictured above is a screenshot I took of the button. Apple has compiled a set of applications that they believe are great for kids. There seems to be a [...]

[iPhone App] “Downloads” App: A Sample Use Case

“Downloads”- Browse, Download, View and Share Files One of my favorite applications is “Downloads- Browse, Download, View and Share Files!” by Hian Zin Jong. The ability to download PDF’s, MP3′s, DMG’s, etc is a feature not built into Mobile Safari. With this application you can easy gain access to the downloading a specific file via [...]

[App Update] Quickoffice adds Google Docs, Dropbox, and Box.net Support for iPhone/iPod Touch

(Click image above to head to the App Store) For iPhone and iPod Touch users there are plenty of applications in the App Store that allow for creating and storing document files. Some allow only for storing files locally, with some you can access files through desktop software (Documents 2 Go), and up until recently [...]