Quotes Folder is a simple app that provides more than 65,000 quotes, maxims, and aphorisms from a variety of notable people like Emily Dickinson, W.C. Fields, Gandhi, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Dorothy Parker, J.D. Salinger, and hundreds more.
The main screen of the app always displays a random quote, and you can tap the randomize button at the bottom of the screen to fetch a new random quote.
Yesterday was Alfred E. Neuman’s 56th birthday. The old man is still making fun of our most and least favorite pop culture icons and to celebrate his special day, DC Entertainment launched MAD Magazine (Cheap!) for the iPad.
This may be the biggest April Fool’s joke ever to be played on the iPad. Your Apple tablet will never be the same again.
The app is a basic magazine subscription app. It is free to download but not free to read.
Whether you’re the sort of brainiac who easily gets the concept behind the fourth dimension or, perhaps, are still trying to wrap your head around the abstract mathematical concept, this new app is a great way to spend more time on the subject.
The fourth dimension is a concept that applies the rules of vectors and coordinate geometry to a space comprising, obviously, four dimensions. It’s a heady idea–one you might not fully understand even after spending considerable time with this app–but you’ll likely have fun trying.
I’m not going to lie: the first thought that popped into my head when I started to peruse the Instamatch app was “what a waste of time.’
Then I spent an hour happily playing with it. Waste of time, indeed. Instamatch is memory concentration game that integrates with the Instagram, the popular iPhone app, to create a card-matching memory game.
It works like this: Pick a game mode that either chooses from a pre-selected set of photos or from your own Instagram photos. (The game is not officially associated with the photo-sharing app, by the way). The goal is to match as many pairs of photos as possible–as quickly as possible.
Designed to help teach your children shapes, colors and counting, PLAY123 is truly a fun and interactive learning actity app. I have the good fortune to be able to test-drive a number of apps designed for children, but few are anywhere near as fantastic as this one. When you can hand your iPad over to your 3 year old and they can immediately navigate through it and try all of the activities without any guidance from you, it is a testament to a well-designed and engaging interface.
This app takes the task of learning about shapes, colors and numbers a step further than any other recognition and reptition style app out there.
PaperDesk is not a new app. In fact, it was one of the first note taking applications in the App Store. The development team behind the intuitive and feature-rich just released an update to the popular app that adds rich text formatting (RTF), automatic Dropbox syncing, and Retina display support.
I’ve never really felt like I needed a note taking application. For the most part, the native Notes app that comes with the iPad is good enough for me. However, this app is so simple to use that it seems silly not to take advantage of the additional features that comes with it.
Most business people and tech savvy individuals have at least heard of LogMeIn, Many use it on a regular basis. The remote computer access service is always on top of technology and making sure that users can connect to their computers from anywhere with any device. The company has just updated their Pro service to include high-definition streaming of video from a Mac to any PC or iOS device. Now, you can watch all of those ripped episodes of American Horror without having to load them onto your iPad.
There are so many digital clocks available that learning to tell time on an analog time piece may seem as antiquated to children as the Palmer Method for learning manuscript, yet at the moment most schools still want children to learn both these skills.
Whether reading an analog (or analogue for our UK readers) clock face will go the way of Latin verb declension and Roman numerals remains to be seen, so for now kids who want to make this task more fun can use Monster Time, a universal edu-app that gussies up this otherwise monotonous task.
Loud Crow‘s PopOut! The Tale of Benjamin Bunny is a worthy follow-up to the developer’s well-received take on Peter Rabbit. Peter and Benjamin Bunny are cousins — the blue-coated rabbit even makes an appearance in this tale — so Peter’s fans will want to meet Benjamin as well.
This inventive universal book app retells Beatrice Potter’s classic story for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. As the story of Benjamin unfolds, readers can tug virtual tabs, grab onions that leap from the screen, yet the author’s original illustrations and typeface are preserved.
Did you ever borrow a book-in-a-bag from the public library? The bag usually included a paperback picture book and a way to listen to the story, like a cassette tape, CD or (for those truly aged readers) a 7″ record. Sunday in Kyoto by Canadian developer The Secret Mountain recreates the nostalgia of an audio picture book while taking advantage of current iPad technology.
Sunday in Kyoto for iPad was adapted from a musical storybook of the same name. The app melds music composed by Gilles Vigneault with Stéphane Jorisch’s carefully rendered illustrations.
Photo apps are a dime-a-dozen–it seems there’s a new fancy camera tool out every time you check the App store. There are also a million-and-one organizing tools–apps to help you edit, file and keep track of all those priceless family photos and artsy endeavors.
My Photo Book is the latest app to add to that latter category and although it doesn’t boast as many bells-and-whistles as other photo organization apps, it’s still a fun way to keep track of your pictures by framing pics and placing them in flip-book-styled photo albums.
The iPad’s ability to bring information to the user in an easy-to-consume form has revolutionized personal tech. While gaming and social media apps top many user’s lists, the iPad also excels as a tool for cultural exploration. There are a number of art appreciation apps that bring great works of art to our fingertips. While many apps (i.e. Overdamped) focus on a particular artist, and others such as Art Authority act as an ad-hoc art survey course, Macsoftex’ National Gallery, London zeroes in on the works housed in the museum after which it is named.
The National Gallery of London focuses on Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries, as does the corresponding iOS app. This approach gives the user a feel for what it would be like to take a trip to the gallery without the pricey transatlantic flight.
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Children’s Picture Dictionary, from Selectsoft, is a great visual companion for kids who are working on budding vocabularies. The app presents a series of words and pictures, which children can then tap to hear the word pronounced.
Kids can either search for a word that they are curious about, or browse by letter and flip through page after page of words and their accompanying pictures.
Yesterday All Things D broke the news that Zynga bought Draw Something developer OMGPOP for $180 million, plus an additional $30 million in “employee retention payments.” The acquisition speaks to game’s rapid ascension; it’s an unqualified success. Draw Something has topped both Apple’s free and paid game charts, with about 250,000 people playing the game each day.
Chances are that if you aren’t playing Draw Something already that you will be. The game combines Words With Friends-style social game play with the old school fun of Pictionary.
Listening to music is usually the first way that children learn to enjoy and appreciate music, but the next step involves teaching them about the instruments themselves. A Jazzy Day – Music Education Book for Kids helps children learn about instruments and bands with a feature-rich app that employs learning, games and an interactive book.
Every so often an app blows me away, and A Jazzy Day was successful at doing just that. Featuring a cast of characters all played by cats and kittens, this app is every bit as entertaining and delightful as it is educational.
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