Apps

GE Mood Cam App Lets You Try Redecorating Your Room With Light

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Lighting is a very important part of your room.  Not only does the style of the lamps matter, but the number of lamps and the brightness and color of the lights can completely change the feel and usability of your room.  The GE Mood Cam app for iPhone/iPod touch lets you snap a picture of

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SlovoEd Bilingual Dictionary Apps for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad

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My daughter is starting high school this year.  She’ll be taking French, and she needs a bilingual dictionary.  We’re getting her a Langenscheidt French/English paper book to use at school, but I wondered if there was a dictionary for her iPad as well.  I wanted an app instead of just an ebook, because I was

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Emerald Chronometer App for iPhone

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Emerald Sequoia LLC makes some wonderful clock apps for iPhone and iPad.  Earlier, I told you about the Emerald Observatory app for iPad.  Today it’s the Chronometer app for iPhone/iPod touch.  The Chronometer app is an alarm clock/stopwatch/interval timer with date/day/month/year information.  What sets this app apart from other similar apps is the appearance:  all

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A New Way to Read People Magazine – on Your iPad

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Recently, Dave Rees told us about reading magazines on the iPad using the Zinio app for iPad.  The Zinio app is sort of a librarian to manage your “e-magazine” subscriptions that you purchase through the Zinio service.  The People magazine app for iPad manages only the People magazine issues.  You can buy individual issues as

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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia 2010 for iPhone, touch, and iPad

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The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia 2010 app for iOS 3.0 or later is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and the iPad.  No internet connection is required to access the more than 25,000 unique articles and 2,700 colorful images and maps.  You can save links to favorite articles, see a history of your last 100 searches, view

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This Gives New Meaning to “You Are Here” – Wikihood for iPad

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The Wikihood app that you may know for iPhone has been updated for iPad.  The iPad version contains extra information and makes best use of the iPad’s bigger screen.  With Wikihood for iPad you can learn about your area – museums, historical sites, parks, recreation sites, things and places that other people find of most importance

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Play the Guitar on Your iPad – or the Banjo, or Ukulele, or…

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The Six Strings App for iPad lets you strum an electric or acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, or ukulele, or play drum pads or a steel drum.  You choose from a variety of chord settings for the stringed instruments or you can “play” individual strings – the strings even vibrate when you “strum” them.  There are

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An OS X screensaver for iPhone and iPad App freaks

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Are you obsessed with iOS4 apps? There’s a wallpaper for that. At least there is if you’re an OS X user. It’s called AppWall and it’s a free screensaverthat shows an ever changing full screen of app icons. I’m not sure if the changing icons represent newly added apps to the appstore, frequently accessed apps

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Make Public Speaking Easier with the Prompster App for iPad

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Prompster eliminates the needs for cue cards, flash cards, notes, and scripts.  It’s a teleprompter app for the iPad that is the perfect tool for practicing or delivering business presentations, lectures, or any type of public presentation or performance.  You can easily set or quickly change the font size and the scrolling speed, quickly move

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Top 100 Free Apps for Your Phone 2010

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PCMag.com has compiled a great list of the top 100 free apps for your phone. They have individual lists for the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile, WebOS and Symbian. Each list contains a screenshot and a short blurb about the app. These lists will come in very handy for a new smartphone user or anyone

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Blackstone “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” iPhone Audiobook App Review

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Blackstone Audio, Inc. offered The Gadgeteer the chance to review one of their Folium-enhanced audiobook apps for the iPhone.  Blackstone is the largest independent audiobook publisher in the US.  They have joined with Folium Partners to produce Folium enhancedAudio™ audiobook apps for iPhone.  I was given the chance to review their Adventures of Huckleberry Finn audiobook.

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Bright Bright App is a Virtual Lite-Brite Game for the iPad

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Did you have a Lite-Brite when you were growing up?  I didn’t, but I wanted one.  Here’s my chance to have one on my iPad (requires iOS 3.2 or later).  The Bright Bright app for iPad lets you draw pictures with little “pegs”.  You can use stencils or draw freehand, and you can save an

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