Just days before Apple’s recent educational announcement, one toymaker was busily demonstrating the AppCrayon classroom stylus to a conference of California’s Kindergarten teachers. The reaction was overwhelmingly positive and the verdict was clear. Teachers want a stylus. This was not entirely surprising for the folks at DANO Toys who designed the AppCrayon with input from professional educators and beta-tested it in classrooms across the globe for almost a year.”By pairing a stylus with letter-writing, drawing, note-taking and other apps, DANO Toys has found a way to meld the new, forward-thinking iPad education program with traditional educational methods,” says DANO Toys Education Director Chelsea Monahan. “Despite using a touchscreen device, students are still able to hold a pencil-like stylus to develop the motor skills that are necessary for printing, cursive and drawing.” (more…)

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AppCrayon iPad StylusGarners Teacher Approval for Pre-writing Skills

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Cinderella – Nosy Crow animated picture book Developer: Nosy Crow Limited Price: $7.99 Download from the App Store User Ratings: Independent children’s app publisher Nosy Crow is pleased to announce that its Cinderella app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch has won the Publishing Innovation Award for Best Juvenile App .The Publishing Innovation Awards recognize excellent publishers and authors, encourage new thinking, and improve the reading experience in the digital age. The awards were created by Digital Book World, organizers of the Digital Book World Conference and Expo, in response to a need for best-in-class designations. (more…)

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Nosy Crows Cinderella App Wins Publishing Innovation Award

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Stitcher Radio Developer: Stitcher, Inc. Price: free Download from the App Store User Ratings: Stitcher Radio is an extremely useful free app for anyone who want to keep current on news and events. Voted one of the top 5 news apps by Apple in 2011, Stitcher turns your iPhone or iPad into a custom radio station by streaming your personalized selection of podcasts, live broadcasts, and on-demand content from more than 5000 sources — including many of the top programs from NPR, BBC, CNN, Fox and others. It’s a handy tool to have to access to, especially if you frequently travel where there is no direct Internet connection or traditional radio available.One of the great things about Stitcher Radio is that it’s really free — not masquerading as free with subscription fees lurking in the fine print. Simply install the app and after a short registration (using your email or Facebook Connect) to start listening. Not sure where to tune in first? Pick a few topics and Stitcher will suggest programs you might be interested in.  (more…)

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Soonr Scribble Developer: Soonr, Inc. Price: $3.99 Download from the App Store User Ratings: Soonr Scribble, the integrated annotation and cloud services app by Soonr, Inc. , will make its iOS debut at Macworld this week. Scribble boosts team productivity by making it possible to do freehand annotation on any document type and collaborate seamlessly through the cloud. The app works on devices running Apple iOS, including iPhones and iPads.”The iPad is quickly becoming an integral part of day-to-day business, as people are choosing it as their primary mobile device,” said Martin Frid-Nielsen, co-founder and CEO of Soonr. “Scribble makes iPads even more convenient by letting you mark-up files and instantly share your notes, simply by writing on the screen and saving your document in the cloud.”Soonr has boosted productivity in over 80,000 businesses globally by eliminating the inefficiencies associated with accessing and sharing documents. Soonr makes files available across all of a team’s computers and mobile devices through its secure cloud service, which syncs content across teams. (more…)

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ReSporter Football Developer: Head First Communications Limited Price: $0.99 Download from the App Store User Ratings: Head First , iOS developer and creator of the popular Super Twario , is pleased to release ReSporter: Football , an iPhone app with real time access to the social media accounts of the top athletes in American Football — without having to sign up for or search through social media sites.Did you know that 11 new accounts are created on Twitter every second? No wonder new users find themselves lost in the maze of who to follow; it’s a struggle to know who is genuine and connect with people of similar interests. Even power users, who use specialized programs to filter or sort the stream of data, often feel the need to cut out the chatter so they can focus.ReSporter: Football is the simplest way for football fans to filter out the nonsense and find the most interesting information. The app shows users what American football players are saying right now on social media; it’s perfect for events like the Super Bowl. (more…)

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Catch Up on Superbowl Gossip Through the Footballers Who Make It

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Smash Cops is a brilliant idea. It’s based on those thousands of police pursuit-type TV shows that feature nothing but the cops chasing down a suspect, all shot from a police helicopter.  They’re trash of the highest order, but compelling and exciting trash nonetheless.  Making a game using that exact formula is inspired, and Smash

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Rover Developer: iSWiFTER Learn Inc Price: free Download from the App Store User Ratings: iSwifter Learn, Inc., the creators of Rover for Education, the iPad app that streams Flash-based online learning classroom content from leading content providers such as Discovery Education, Funbrain and Mathletics, today announced new features and milestones for its free iPad app.Rover for Education now enables teachers to automatically communicate with school IT administrators to ensure the school’s firewall is properly configured and meets the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). Rover’s firewall features also remain compliant with the school’s policies even when the student uses Rover from home.  (more…)

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Classroom iPads Become Digital Flash-Based Textbooks with Rover Web Browser

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Skype for iPad Developer: Skype Software S.a.r.l. Price: free Download from the App Store User Ratings: A few years ago, I offered English lessons via Skype to anyone wanting to improve their conversational skills. I spoke to a wide range of people, including a student from Japan, a businessmen from India and a mom in Spain. It was a lot of fun and it would have been extremely expensive had I not had Skype . Now, I use it as a business communication tool via my iPad as one of my clients has an office in Germany and another likes to use it for video conference calls.When I first met the women who would become my wife, we “Skyped” almost daily as we were living three hours apart in the beginning. Sure, we could have just used our cell numbers, but being able to make that face-to-face contact was essential to keeping an extra level of emotional connection going between visits. The fact that it was free just made it even easier to use.  (more…)

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Skype for iPad Still Offering Same Great Service As the Original

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NoteLedge Developer: Kdan Mobile Software LTD Price: $0.99 Download from the App Store User Ratings: Last week Kdan Mobile released a major update to its top-rated iPad note-taking app with a goal to further enrich its users’ note-taking experience. With the newly provided features, users can now use the patented Navigator gadget to magnify the selected area up to 5x for detailed, closed-up editing. Moreover, this update allows users to crop the desired contents in any shape with the newly-introduced freeform selection feature within the Navigator.Kdan Mobile has demonstrated commitment to user satisfaction by responding to their feedback. This is evident from the latest update of NoteLedge that gives its users the ability to change the fonts, colors, and sizes used in the typing mode according to their liking. NoteLedge has taken its cue from Kdan’s family member, Animation Desk, by incorporating its stroke technology to offer users four additional brushes to make the note-taking experience more interesting and realistic. (more…)

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NoteLedge Enriches the Note-Taking Experience on iPad with Major Update

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Poster Developer: Steve Harris Price: $19.99 Download from the App Store User Ratings: Reinvented Software released Poster 1.2 for Mac OS X today. Poster is an app for posting photos and videos to Flickr, SmugMug and Facebook. Version 1.2 includes an updated user interface design, improvements when posting to Facebook and SmugMug and the ability to export faces from iPhoto and Aperture.Poster is a Mac OS X app for uploading photos and videos to photo sharing sites, featuring a sleek design to make posting photos and videos a truly enjoyable experience. In version 1.2, it’s now possible to post videos to Facebook pages and use friend lists for privacy, upload to SmugMug’s SmugVault, create and use categories and subcategories on SmugMug and export faces from iPhoto and Aperture via Poster’s export plug-ins, which are available as a separate download. (more…)

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