My App Smart column this week was about a subject very close to home: Finding apps. Specifically it concerns the type of app that helps you to discover the best, or perhaps cheapest, among the hundreds of thousands of other apps out there for your device.
One of the simplest and most useful app-finder apps I’ve used for a long time is Apps Gone Free, free on iOS.
App Smart Extra: App Finders – NYTimes.com
23 October 2012
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Pressing Play’s The Thing: Publisher Uses Apple’s iBooks Author Tool To Build iPad Editions Of Shakespeare | TechCrunch
4 October 2012Sourcebooks, a U.S. book publisher, has used Apple’s iBooks Author tool to launch iPad editions of three Shakespeare plays on Apple’s iBooks 2 store. The iBooks include extra content focused on the history of each play’s performance — including photos, videos and audio clips of readings from various actors, along with study-friendly staples such as glossary resources, note-taking and highlighting features.
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New e-book export feature enabled on Wikipedia — Wikimedia blog
19 September 2012We’re happy to announce that a new EPUB export feature has been enabled on English Wikipedia. You can use it to collate your personal collection of Wikipedia articles and generate free ebooks. These can be read on a broad range of devices, like mobile phones, tablets and e-ink based e-book readers.
via New e-book export feature enabled on Wikipedia — Wikimedia blog.
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Get Google and iOS Living Together in Perfect Harmony
18 September 2012No matter what kind of phone you use, a lot of us are pretty dependent on Google for organizing our lives. Luckily, you can actually get Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Voice, and other services working great with iOS—it just takes a little bit of setup…
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Taking the iPad’s Measure
13 September 2012This article reviews recent research initiatives and studies that have set out to assess the impact of the iPad on teaching and learning.
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AT&T and FaceTime
20 August 2012AT&T wont charge extra to use Apples FaceTime over cellular networks as previously reported, but theres still a catch: Subscribers will need a new Mobile Share plan to use the video chat service on the network.
Mobile Share is a new type of wireless plan that AT&T will launch on August 23. It allows users to share a single bucket of data across multiple phones, tablets and hotspots, and includes unlimited talk and text. We’ve got all the details at iOS Central.
[Source: MacWorld]
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App Store – NOAA Hi-Def Radar
2 August 2012Simple yet powerful app for viewing real-time animated weather radar images in vivid color on a highly responsive interactive map, with higher resolution images than any other radar app in the appstore.
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Top iOS Scanning Apps
17 July 2012The $7 Scanner Pro is my overall winner, but not by a huge margin. The $2 Doc Scan Pro and the $2 Genius Scan+ weren’t far behind.
[Source: MacWorld]
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How the iPad helps scientists do their jobs
17 July 2012Tablet changes the way scientists design experiments, record results, and read journals.
[Source: MacWorld]
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NXP’s new audio chip pumps up the volume for mobile device speakers — Engadget
17 July 2012Dutch company NXP — best known for it’s NFC solutions — introduced a new audio chip today that’s set to significantly improve the sound quality of the micro-speakers commonly built into mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
via NXP’s new audio chip pumps up the volume for mobile device speakers — Engadget.
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