The days are gone when a doctor walked into a patient's room and grabbed the paper chart at the end of his bed to check his medical history. iPads and tablet computing...
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5 Useful iPad Apps for Doctors, Patients and Med Students 0
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Reading Rainbow comes back to life in the form of a brand new iPad app 0
June 19th at 3:21pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsToday at a press conference in NYC, LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow, Star Trek and Roots fame, is announcing that Reading Rainbow will soon arrive on the iPad as a full-blow app….
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Daily App Deals: Get Graphs for iOS for Free in Today’s App Deals 0
March 20th at 9:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Graphs (iTunes) Previously 99¢, now Free. Graphs for iOS helps you to learn more than you ever wanted to know about various types of graphs. Whether you want to learn more about bar graphs, pie charts, or another flavor of graph entirely, you are able to do so via easy to use tutorials and exams. Your understanding of graphs will be expanded with Graphs, our App Deal...
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DailyArt: One Piece of Art, Direct to Your Phone 0
August 30th at 2:45pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsI can’t lay claim to the world’s greatest art aficionado title, but I’m no culturally bereft Luddite either, which is why apps such as this can really serve a purpose….
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iOS App Your kids will love Toca Band, but you might not 0
September 20th at 5:30am / Macworld / 0 opinionsToca Boca makes awesome apps for kids. They’re not games so much as toys—digital toys that exist only on the iPad or iPhone’s screens—but real toys nonetheless. In fact, Toca Boca is the only company that really makes me question whether the limits I set on my kids’ iOS screen time are fair; these apps rely on active play....
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10 Must-Have Apps for Dog Owners 2
March 14th at 7:06pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsYour dog is your best, most loyal friend, and you want to make sure he's getting the best care he can get. As technology addresses real-life needs more and more each day, companies and non-profits are creating apps to make sure every Fido, Spot and Princess receives the attention he or she deserves. SEE ALSO: 8 High-Tech Accessories for Your Pet We've compiled 10 of the best apps for dogs in the gallery above.
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10 Apps for Enjoying the Great Outdoors 2
May 25th at 10:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWhen you think about enjoying the great outdoors, embracing the natural world and soaking up all of the sun's vitamin D, technology doesn't really enter the picture, does it? But using tech and being outside don't have to be mutually exclusive. There are plenty of mobile apps to help you connect with nature, rather than keeping you glued to your virtual life.
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High School Athlete Site beRecruited Secretly Acquired Last Year By Raine Group For $17M-$22M 0
October 18th at 11:28am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsbeRecruited, the "LinkedIn for high school athletes" looking to be recruited by college teams, was secretly acquired by private equity firm The Raine Group, sources tell me and beRecruited now verifies. Sources with knowledge of the deal confirm Raine paid between $17 million and $22 million for beRecruited because of its growth momentum and lucrative premium features.
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Tocomail Debuts An Email Service Designed For Kids 1
February 12th at 9:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsTocomail, a new iPhone and iPad application launching today, aims to be kids’ first email service. The app was designed not only with children in mind, but also in collaboration with kids who provided input as Tocomail’s early adopters. But more importantly, Tocomail offers parental controls that allow mom and/or dad to designate who the child is able to email using Tocomail, and who…
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Led By Pixar Alum, ToyTalk Launches Its First Paid Kids App, Begins To License Tech 0
September 27th at 1:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsToyTalk, the makers of kids entertainment applications for iPad, has just released its first paid application with the launch of a character-driven touch and play app called SpeakaLegend. But the team may have even bigger news on the way in the form of licensing deals for its speech recognition tech with some of the best-known children’s brands, we hear.This startup is a fascinating…
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Follow NASA's historic mission to Pluto with the New Horizons app on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch 0
July 14th at 10:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsNASA's New Horizons space probe is set to begin transmitting the first ever high-resolution images of Pluto back to earth later today, and you can follow the exciting progress on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch with the official New Horizons app.
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iTunes U expands cloud support, new Google app turns Live Photos into GIFs 0
June 7th at 11:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple on Tuesday released an important update to its iTunes U iOS app, adding features like a cloud-capable document picker. Google meanwhile debuted Motion Stills, an iPhone app that creates unusual GIFs based on Live Photos.
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Back to School: 15 Essential iOS Apps for Students 2
August 17th at 8:06pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsForget Sharpies and highlighters, the new back to school essentials this fall are apps for your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. While cellphones used to be classroom...
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The Best iPhone Apps 5
October 30th at 3:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThere's an ocean of apps out there. Whether you just got your iPhone and are feeling adrift or you're a salty old dog seeing what you might've missed, here are the absolutely essential apps. Twitter: Twitter thankfully didn't make too many changes when they gobbled up the already-great Tweetie 2 from Atebits—same clean interface, same Tweet swiping, and the same it-feels-so-good pull to refresh mechanism. Free. Facebook: The new, panel-based interface takes a little getting used to, but once you're...
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Daily App Deals: Get Remoter: Remote Desktop (VNC) for iOS for 50% Off in Today’s App Deals 0
February 9th at 10:30pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsThe Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. Remoter: Remote Desktop (VNC) (iTunes) Previously $1.99, now 99¢. Remoter: Remote Desktop (VNC) is not our favorite VNC client for the iPhone as we like Screens best. However, we have featured Remoter before and noted that it's feature-rich and dead simple to set up. It is compatible with Mac Screen Sharing, UltraVNC for Windows, and LInux VNC servers. There is also...
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Actress Marlee Matlin Teaches You Sign Language With New App 0
October 15th at 2:55pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsAward-winning deaf actress Marlee Matlin, has partnered with MEDL Mobile for the release of Marlee Signs, an app that teaches users the fundamentals of American Sign...
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Top 5 Kids Apps: Best Games 0
December 30th at 9:55pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWe've rounded up the best kid's games that were included in our weekly Top 5 Kids Apps this year.
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Explore This 3D, Neon Map of the Internet Right From Your Phone 0
March 17th at 5:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsRight now, as you read this, you are cruising through a mind-numbingly complex pathway of wires and cables that shoots bits of data from point-to-point around the globe. And Peer 1's Map of the Internet lets you see what it looks like...as a neon disco map....
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The Most Important Book on Color Theory Is Now an iPad App 0
August 3rd at 2:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsIf you are at all interested in design or art, enlighten yourself with one of the most important books on color ever written. It's called The Interaction of Color, and now you can experience it on your iPad....
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Duolingo’s iPhone app update includes a language coach, in-game currency 0
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With $5M In New Funding, Tinybop Releases “Plants”, Its Second Educational App For Kids 0
May 23rd at 8:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsChildren’s app-maker Tinybop is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding.The round was first revealed in a regulatory filing last fall, but the company didn’t confirm the news or share details about the investment until now — partly tying into this week’s launch of its second app, Plants.The company’s first release, The Human Body, came out…
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Freemium games dominate App Store list of most downloaded, highest grossing apps for 2014 3
December 24th at 2:31am / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsApple on Tuesday released its annual "Best of 2014" list for the App Store's most-downloaded and highest-grossing titles, revealing so-called "freemium" games as the year's biggest money-makers.
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This app preserves your grandparents' memories in the Library of Congress 1
November 24th at 6:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsWhile many will encourage their family members to put down their phones during the Thanksgiving holidays, one group is hoping you'll use your smartphone to spend some quality time with the older generation.
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10 Fantastic Children's Book Apps for iOS 0
June 11th at 12:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsSummer vacation is here! While the long hiatus is a welcome break for kids, the time off has also been proven to cause “brain drain” and undo as much as several months of...