Leafsnap is a new iOS application that is the first in a series of electronic field guides being developed by researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and the Smithsonian Institution. This free mobile app uses visual recognition software to help identify tree species from photographs of their leaves. Leafsnap contains beautiful high-resolution images of leaves, […]
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Ok, apparently everyone thinks this app is the bomb. HuffPo likes it, New York Times and Edmunds.com both like it. It’s available for iPhone and other Smartphone users and it’s free. And if it’s free…it’s me. Whether it’s an auto emergency, a roadside breakdown, or just a small problem, RepairPal can help. The award-winning RepairPal
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Hands up! Who likes to start their morning with a coffee and a catchup of the daily news? In “the old days,” this meant grabbing the latest newspaper to read, but these days with all the digitised content out there, you’re no longer constrained to having to read a single source about a single subject.
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I’ve noticed there’s been a surge in the number of people reading the 2011 post about the Masters Tournament app for iPad, and that reminded me to check to see if there’s an update for this year’s tournament. The Official Masters Tournament app is free, and it again gives you access to CBS’s live simulcast
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If the popularity of Julie’s journalling posts is an indication, there are a lot of people interested in keeping journals. The Paper by FiftyThree app is definitely something you need to look at if you’re interested in journalling on your iPad. This app lets you combine drawings and handwritten text in Moleskine-like “notebooks”. You can
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We told you about some iPad games your cat could play, now Friskies is introducing a game you can play with your kitty. With the Friskies You vs. Cat iPad app, you flick the on-screen playing piece toward the goal. If Kitty catches it, she scores 10 points; if it goes in the goal, you
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On March 5th, Apple announced the download of their 25 billionth app from the App store. Evolving over about 4 years, the App store has more than 550,000 apps on offer in 123 countries to more than 315 million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users. The 25 billionth app downloaded ? Where’s My Water? downloaded by Chunli
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Scholastic Books have released reading app and ebookstore for children. The Storia app is available for Windows and for iPad, and it comes with five free ebooks and access to the Scholastic ebook store. Books have been carefully curated into age-appropriate groups, so you’ll know what’s right for your child. Storia has a built-in dictionary
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Winner of the Popular Science Best of Toy Fair 2102, TheO Ball from Physical Apps encases your smartphone in a large foam ball, and special apps allows players to have an entertaining movement-based experience, all while protecting your phone, the players and their surroundings. Current games are Bowling, Hot Potato and Interrogo a “socially interactive game”, and the games
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Yeah, yeah, we know we need at least thirty minutes of exercise a day, but come on, it’s just so boring. You know what would make it better? That’s right–Zombies! Zombies, Run! is an app for the iPhone/iPad/Android that casts you as a survivor in the zombie apocalypse. You become Runner 5, and it’s your
The Vera Wang on Weddings universal app for iOS devices gives you the tools you need to plan your wedding. With the app, you’ll be able to search for a wedding dress in the Vera Wang Bridal Collections, where you’ll also see the inspiration for the dress. Other features of the app lets you manage
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Each day Amazon offers a paid Android application for free through their Appstore. Normally you would visit the Appstore through the dedicated Amazon Appstore app. But even if you don’t have an Android smartphone or tablet (yet), you can still take advantage of Amazon’s Free App of the Day. You don’t need to visit Amazon’s
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We are receiving compensation for posting this review. A couple of days ago, we told you about the new Vonage Mobile apps for Android and iOS phones that let you make free texts or calls around the world to other Vonage Mobile users or paid calls to most any other number using VoIP. I’ve had
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Steve Holt did a popular review for Avid Studio (see the related posts for a link) last year, so I thought many of you might be interested to know that this software is now available as an iPad app. Avid Studio for iPad has “distilled the world’s leading film-editing technology into an easy-to-use app that
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The xPrintServer “leverages Lantronix‘ patented technologies, along with open industry standards to enable wireless printing to nearly any printer attached to a network.” You won’t be limited to only certain models from certain manufacturers, and you won’t have to buy any apps on your iPhone or iPad to print. You simply connect the Lantronix to
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We did a review of the Time Warner Cable app for iPad a while ago. With the app, you could watch select channels in your Time Warner Cable lineup on your iPad in any room of your house while you were connected to your home’s WiFi network. Now, the app has been updated into a
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With the Scribble Press app and an iPad, kids can now create and share their own books. Using the app’s 50 story templates, over 500 drawing tools (markers, stamps, multitude of colors), book layout tool, stickers collection, and their own photos, kids write and illustrate stories. Books are private unless you elect to share them
MultiFrame from Apalon is an easy to use iOS app, which will allow you to create photo collages with 2-4 images. It offers a variety of layouts and frame styles. Let’s take a look.
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With the Koder app, you’ll be able to create, edit, and modify PHP, CSS, Javascript, HTML/ xHTML, Perl, XML, Ruby, Python, and other programming files on your iPad. It has features like syntax highlighting, built-in snippet management, tabbed editing, preview manager, and more. They recently added Firebug support in the previewer (iOS 5 only) to
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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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