Posts Tagged ‘app’

Second Screen Learning?

A phenomenon that can be classified as anything from multitasking to plain distraction is getting more popular as smartphones get smarter and tablet computers more ubiquitous: the use of the “second screen“. It is common now to have at least one person (if not everyone) in the living room watching as movie on TV while, [...]

GroceryiQ – Grocery Shopping at Your Fingertips

My wife and I installed the GroceryiQ app on our iPhones this past week. Perhaps one of the most useful apps I’ve ever installed. We have a centrally shared shopping list that gets updated dynamically across our iPhones. so, when we add or check off any items, it gets updated immediately for both of us. [...]

Create Web Apps for you Favorite Sites

Too much information out there to keep up with… What about creating your own Web Apps (browser-based applications) for your most visited websites? On Windows, use Mozilla’s Prism. Click “download Prism for Windows on the following page and follow the instructions. For Mac OSX, use Fluid, which works in a similar fashion to Prism but [...]

iPhone Educational Apps

A while back I thought of creating a blog to review only educational apps for the iPhone. Suddenly I noticed that not only did just a few developers try to create educational apps but also the quality of those that are there isn’t what you’d expect… So, I’m still considering reviewing a few iPhone apps [...]

The 3G iPhone as a More Versatile Mobile Platform

The new iPhone 3G is bound to take an incredible new step toward more freedom for the user. While the first versions of the mobile device (I’m hesitant to call it a phone) were pre-loaded with applications and wouldn’t let the users add more unless were willing to risk their device’s “health” to jail-break it [...]

Zembly – Facebook App Creator

[still a draft] As time goes by, things always become easier to create and use, especially in social media things happen fast. No coding, WYSISWYG is the future of things, making it easier for user-generated content to be, yes, generated. We see a vast array of WYSIWYG applications out there and many of them are [...]

iPhone official downloadable apps?

So many rumors around the new iPhone and the new iPhone software that are coming up soon. One of those interests me the most: the feature of downloading official applications to run natively on the iPhone. I am not talking about Web Apps which are basically web-based applications to which you link from your home [...]