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Emily is a freelance writer who loves discovering new apps whenever she can pry the iPad away from her children or husband. You can contact her via Twitter: @whatwentwrite

Students Stay Organized with Projectbook – iPad App Review

By | August 24, 2012 | No comment yet
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There are two types of app shoppers: those who own all the note taking apps in existence in hopes of finding “the one” and those who still scribble reminders on the back of a receipt with a broken pencil. With its flexible, yet structured UI, Projectbook has the potential to appeal to both groups. Productivity apps are a crowded field — check out our weekly app list for some great apps to stay organized in college — but Projectbook, billed as a one-stop-shop for note taking, drawing, and outlining definitely merits consideration.

I’m usually skeptical of get-things-done apps, particularly after the advent of iCloud sync for Apple’s Calendar and Reminders.  Productivity apps also tend to sacrifice user experience in favor of nearly endless options, but fortunately Projectbook doesn’t fall into this trap.
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Her Interactive Brings Nancy Drew to iOS – A Kickstarter Project

By | August 22, 2012 | No comment yet
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Nancy Drew remains every girl’s favorite teen sleuth. After creating a successful line of Nancy Drew games for the Mac and PC, Her Interactive wants to bring Carolyn Keene’s heroine to the iPad, and they’ve turned to Kickstarter to do it.

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Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Goes Digital – iPad App Review

By | August 21, 2012 | No comment yet
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Back to school means back to the business of classes, part-time jobs, and after-school activities. The Not Your Mother’s cookbook franchise hopes to make that process a little easier with Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker for iPad.

Created in concert with digital cookbook developer CulinartMedia, this iPad recipe app wants to help you get dinner on the table whether you have a an entire family to feed or just a bunch of hungry roommates.

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Seven Poets and the Assassin’s Secret: Week One Wrap-up

By | August 20, 2012 | 2 comments
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Even though the Olympics are a distant memory to many (it has been a whole week, after all), a new serial iPad novel began, just as the Olympics ended. Seven Poets and the Assassin’s Secret kicks off during the closing ceremony of the London games. In the Seven Poets‘ universe there is something much bigger than a Spice Girls reunion afoot — a terrorist group called the Hand of Peace blows up the stadium, and kidnaps 10 IOC members with their spouse and children. In case you’re late to the game, catch a recap (with spoilers) of the action-packed first week with Seven Poets after the break.
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Learn About Flying Fauna with Audubon Birds and Butterflies — iPad App Review

By | August 11, 2012 | No comment yet
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For iPad owners who love being outside, but aren’t that into sports, bird and butterfly watching apps provide a way to engage with the natural world, usually without breaking a sweat.

Working in conjunction with the Audubon Society, Green Mountain Digital created Audubon Birds and Butterflies, a universal app, to help iOS users recognize and track the birds and butterflies we see.
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Organize and Plan with Garden Plan Pro — iPad App Review

By | August 10, 2012 | No comment yet
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While it may seem counterintuitive to be thinking about next year’s garden now, when it’s peak tomato season in many parts of the US, it actually makes a lot of sense to plan a garden while you can still see the good, bad, and the ugly results from this year’s efforts.

Garden Plan Pro for iPad aims to help a vegetable gardener stay organized and get better results from all that sowing, weeding, watering, and (hopefully) harvesting.

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Rounds: Franklin Frog Teaches Biology Basics to the Preschool Set — iPad App Review

By | August 10, 2012 | No comment yet
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“Earthworms are really tasty,” according to Franklin frog, the star of Rounds: Franklin Frog. This universal kid’s edu-app is the first in a planned series of non-fiction apps that British developer Nosy Crow has created for three to six-year-old children.

Readers will find all of Nosy Crow’s usual style and clarity as they learn about the lifecycle of a frog. Before the story begins the main screen lets readers choose between read-and-play mode or read-to-self mode.

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Get Ready as Seven Poets and the Assassin’s Secret, a Real-time Serial Novel, Comes to the iPad

By | August 9, 2012 | No comment yet
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In the fictional world of Seven Poets and the Assassin’s Secret, the UK’s worst fears come true as a terrorist attack devastates London during the Olympics. As the story unfolds readers will follow seven surviving children as they make their way through a world that has changed forever. The app’s concept is as intriguing as it is unusual, comprising three areas: the chapters, the broadside, and the challenges. American developer Edmund Pevensey partnered with the Brits at Inkle who brought us the amazing Frankenstein app earlier in the year (PadGadget= 4.5 stars) to create this serial novel for the iPad.
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Improve the iPad Speaker with Soundbender — An Approved Kickstarter Project

By | August 7, 2012 | No comment yet
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Does listening to music through your iPad’s tiny speaker make you wish you could hear just a little bit better? What’s that, you say? You’ll have to speak up into my ear horn.

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Got Olympic Fever? Get Curly’s Pocket Guide to Sports — iPad App Review

By | August 7, 2012 | No comment yet
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The Olympics offers viewers a chance to watch sports that most of us rarely see. Whether a child is intrigued by archery or velodrome, Curly’s Pocket Guide to Sports feeds her curiosity.

Constructed like a digital deck of cards by British developer WilsonFletcher, this universal app is offers a UI that is simple, yet so inviting that kids and adults will want to read all about each of the 74 included sports. Curly’s Pocket Guide packs an impressive amount of information into a very small space.
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