Apple has now joined a host of merchants in removing the Confederate flag from its platform – in its case, the iTunes App Store. Several app developers are now reporting that their Civil War games – which featured imagery of flag as part of their game’s historical context – have been pulled from the App Store.Apple’s move to ban these games follows similar…
Qwiki: Qwiki for iPad, like their website, is like a visual Wikipedia. Which is to say it's a super pretty way to learn stuff. How so? Instead of delivering information in text and hyperlinks, Qwiki provides a narrative to the topics you search for with an audio commentary and relevant visuals. But! It ain't perfect. The voice that narrates each Qwiki is robotic and if you watch enough Qwiki entries, you'll notice that they're terribly formulaic. And though every presentation is super purrty, it only...
History geeks everywhere will likely salivate over History Channel's new Civil War iPad app, which lets you relive each day of the 19th century American war. Updated once daily, you can read news blasts from the front lines, stay updated on casualty counts, get inside the head of Lincoln, view interactive battle maps and do other things that no potential mate will be attracted to. And if, at any point, you attempt to romanticize these olden days as more appealing than our modern times, you're definitely...
