Apple iOS app

Are you a leaf peeper?  Do you plan vacations and weekend trips with the sole purpose of gawking at the colorful fall foliage?  If you do, the Leaf Peeper app from Yankee Magazine can help you find the best fall displays.  The app lets you make foliage reports, called Peeps, about the conditions in your [...]

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This application caught my eye because there are four nurses in my family.  The Pocket Body (Musculoskeletal) application was developed by Pocket Anatomy in association with a leading National University of Ireland Medical School.  It features a fully anatomically-correct human figure with nine layers of musculoskeletal, neurovascular, and internal organ visual content and 30,000 words [...]

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This year, you won’t have to wait to find A Charlie Brown Christmas on television – you can have it as an interactive pop-up book on your Android or iOS phone or tablet.  Loud Crow Interactive has created an interactive version of this Christmas classic that’s complete with scenes and dialog from the original program [...]

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The Yahoo! Messenger app for iOS has been updated to allow you to make voice and video calls to anyone in your contacts list.  You can call them on their iPad, mobile device, or PC for free, or make low-cost international calls with Yahoo! Phone Out to landline or cellular phones.  You can make video [...]

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I love Rush – the Canadian rock group, that is – and I was surprised to see that they have an app in the iTunes store.  With Rush Time Machine, you can get news, tour itinerary and ticket information, and information about places to stay near concert venues.  The Gear section lets you explore the [...]

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