There are quite a few iOS productivity apps with handwriting recognition functionality available, for example Notes Plus, iWriteWords for kids, or (indirectly) Evernote. But recognizing handwritten text isn’t trivial, which is why a new app called 7notes (iPad: free, $8.99 premium/iPhone: free, $4.99 premium) focuses almost entirely on this problem – and does the job really well.
The 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. Safety Photo+Video (iTunes) Previously $1.99, now 99¢. Safety Photo+Video for iOS allows you to keep your sensitive media safe on your iOS device. Taking the pain out of hiding private media, it even allows you to capture private videos and images from within the app, as well as upload and/or download your private media from your PC to your iOS device via your web...
The 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. SkySafari 3 Plus (iTunes) Previously$14.99, now $9.99. SkySafari 3 Plus for iOS allows you to view approximately 2.5 million stars along with 31,000 objects in our Solar System. Using NASA spacecraft imagery, SkySafari 3 Plus allows you to view the major planets and moons ofthe solar system, along with over 4,000 asteroids, comets, and more all with their real-time...
If you have little ones excited about the forthcoming holiday season, try these handy iOS Christmas apps. Each of the five offers a different way to count down to...
See which apps your kids will love this week.
SAdults shouldn't have all the fun. This week's set of iPad apps includes something for the kids as well as a beloved, improved toy all your very own....
With the release of iOS 7 comes a new look and feel for the operating system, and with only tweaks and changes having arrived since its first introduction back in 2007, it couldn’t come a minute too soon....
Are kids these days really as hopeless and self-absorbed as we claim? Perhaps not. The next wave of tech extraordinaires seem to get younger and younger, and the app-creating students mentioned here are just the tip of the iceberg. See also: Kids Code the Darndest Things: 10 Amazing Youth Innovators Check out the apps below from impressive, pint-sized developers, who’ve accomplished much more before high school than most people more than twice their age.
More than 20% of the U.S. population is dyslexic, yet stigma often prevents dyslexic people from seeking help. These apps are designed to help dyslexic students learn.
A new mobile application called Snapsolve, launching today, is offering a way for students to receive help with their homework, just by snapping a photo of the problem at hand. However, unlike automated tools like the clever PhotoMath app, for example, Snapsolve connects students with a tutor who then responds directly with customized answers and explanations.The app is the latest…
For a limited time, a whole bunch of iPhone and iPad apps will have bonus green-themed content.
Parents may think they understand what it's like to be a teenager today, but they've never experienced their teen's technological life first hand. Until now. The Love is...
If you're feeling a little guilty over that new iPad preorder, you could try convincing yourself you'll use it for something positive. The Khan Academy may be of assistance there, as it's just released an iPad app that makes over 2,700 educational videos available for free. The videos are all in Salman Khan's trademark low-tech style, involving Wacom tablet doodles and simple, conversational explanations to help you get to grips with a whole range of topics from computer science to the history of art....
The 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. Scany (iTunes) Previously $5.99, now 99¢. Scany for iOS provides detailed information about your network and all connected devices, along with features like Whois look up for websites and wake on LAN. Get it for 99¢. (via Apps-aholic) iOS iOS
We know parents are sharing their smartphones and tablets with their kids, some as young as two years old! Good thing there are high quality educatio…
When San Diego public school officials decided to distribute 26,000 iPads to students this year, they were lucky: They already had a big pile of money....
Get your pen and pencil out for this week's math-centered top apps for kids.
Origami, the new family-focused product from Y Combinator-backed mobile social network Everyme, has now arrived after nearly a year of development. A spin-off of sorts, Origami takes some of the original inspiration behind Everyme – that people are looking for new ways to share outside of larger, more open social networks like Facebook – and tweaks the formula to address the needs of parents and…
Kidaptive, the company behind a suite of children's apps for iPad which combine entertaining videos and games with a curriculum focused on kindergarten readiness, has raised an additional $10.1 million in Series B funding in a round led by Formation 8, with participation from A round lead Menlo Ventures, along with Stanford's StartX Fund, NewSchools Venture Fund and Prana Studios, an animation and…
The Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. If Rooster works as intended, you'll never have an excuse not to read a book again. Plympton, a digital publishing startup with a focus on serialized fiction, unveiled a new iPhone app on Monday called Rooster, which curates suggestions for books to read and then pushes the book out to users in timed installments.
Code School, the online learning destination that grew out of founder Gregg Pollack’s longtime efforts in creating and sharing technical content with a developer audience, has now made the leap to mobile. With the new iOS application, developers can watch Code School’s over 300 instructional videos covering JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Ruby, iOS and Git as well as other popular…
With its origins at NeXT, Big Nerd Ranch is one of the more respected iOS app development companies in the world. At a recent coding retreat put on by BNR, I survived seven days of the most intensive programming instruction of my life, and lived to write about it.
