Education

Bookmark

Posted September 14, 2009 - 8:39pm by Marc Peter
BM1Developer: DockMarket LLC
Category: Books
Version: 1.0
Release Date: September 5, 2009
Size: 1.7 MB
Price: $2.99
Rating: 10/10

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I was a little skeptical about audiobooks on my iPhone when the first apps were coming out with full length books. However, just like I now use my iPhone as a primary print news source, now I also use my phone for entertainment reading and audio book listening. There were some crucial features missing from the iPhone as an audio device that Bookmark has addressed and provided perfectly.

Serious readers get physical with their books. We turn down pages to refer to later, take notes in the margins, put page-mark stickies on with labels on them and do various other things that mar forever the physical state of our reading materials. Bookmark allows iPhone readers to do all of these things to any piece of audio literature that you keep on your iPhone.

Kid Book

Posted September 1, 2009 - 1:43pm by Marc Peter
KidBook1Developer: Stolen Lunch
Category: Education
Version: 1.0.0
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Size: 5.6 MB
Price: $2.99
Rating: 9/10

Birdhouse

The iPod Touch has been lurking in the background for a while now. As people have been micro-focusing on iPhone app stats, iPod Touch users have secretly become the big spenders in the App Store, especially on games and child related educational apps. My daughter for one, actually fires up the Touch and hits math flash cards - for fun! Kid Book is the first app to offer something with some educational value to the really little ones. This is a great one for iPod Touch owners, or for iPhone-using parents on the go.

Distant Suns

Posted August 8, 2009 - 6:09pm by Marc Peter
DS1
Developer: Mike Smithwick
Category: Education
Version: 1.3.1
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Size: 8.2 MB
Price: $0.99
Rating 10/10

Birdhouse

The apps available in the App Store have come a long, long (or far, far) way from the fart and beer apps that we used to use to show off the superiority of the iPhone over all other phones. Distant Suns is a great example of how seriously sophisticated applications have been brought to the world of the iPhone.

Distant suns has been around a long time, it was first available on desktop machines in 1987, so the data base it draws from has been polished to perfection. I'm completely blown away by how cool Distant Suns for iPhone is and by how much of an annoying geek I have become as soon as the sun goes down on a clear night. Want to know what's up there right now? No? Well you're getting it anyways. I'm going to name every visible star, constellation, planet, nebula, meteor shower, all billions and billions of 'em- faster than you can say "Look, I can see Uranus!". Why? Because I can.