Learnlift
LearnLift has made their presence known in the educational community as a
leader in the teachings of specific subjects such as language, anatomy,
and artwork. Their unique learning system was developed by the European
psychologist Sebastian Leitner and is based on algorithms. This system
enables users to retain information for the long-term rather than
short-term by specifically testing you on the subjects you don't know well
more frequently than the subjects that you are familiar with. Now you can
learn any time you have a free moment: waiting in line, on the subway, or
while traveling with LearnLift's new apps priced anywhere between $1.99
and $19.99.
1000 Famous Paintings by Memory Lifter
Museums are often the only places you can go to see rare and beautiful
paintings. Now with "1,000 Famous Paintings" in the LearnLift series you
can take the museum with you, viewing the masterworks anytime while
learning their titles as well as the artists who created them. Spanning
several different epochs including Baroque, Art Nouveau, Romanticism, and
Impressionism, see the paintings in slideshow mode to familiarize yourself
or use the "Learn Now!" option and test your knowledge by seeing the
painting and typing in the correct artist, choosing between 2-4 multiple
choice answers, or typing the title of the painting shown. Your record of
right and wrong answers is always available, so start now...you'll be able
to tell your Manets from your Monets in no time.
Price: $19.99
English/German Bundle
This language learning application acts like a German to English
dictionary, but is so much easier than flipping pages in a book. With
on the go convenience, view 1,000 flashcards of English and German
vocabulary words with corresponding images behind them in 10 different
levels of difficulty. Users can even hear native speakers converse in
example sentences to practice their own pronunciation. With LearnLift's
standard learning options, users can pick between multiple choice with
2-4 choices (depending on preference and optional "tricky
distractions"), or try image recognition, listening comprehension, and
sentences. With all the words you learn you can sprechen sie deutsch-or
pick up more English-quickly and easily. Check your progress with
stored statistics of how many right and wrong answers you get during
each learning session. This app is a perfect travel companion and a
great way to broaden your knowledge base and learn the basics of both
languages. Vergnugen!
Price: $19.99
ECOcalFor the earth mother in all of us comes a calendar application that makes every day an interactive nature lesson full of beautiful colors and pictures. As time passes in real life, see the transformation from season to season on your phone as plants and animals are introduced within screenshots reminiscent of pop-up storybooks. Tidbits like how river otters like to slide through mud on the riverbanks and how all butterfly eggs have a hole in them to allow fertilization make you feel like you're back in science class-in a good way! Simply scroll though the months and touch the various images to learn something about our planet and its inhabitants that you may not have known before.
Price: $3.99
Viximo
Known for their application's popularity on the social scene, Viximo just came out with three more fun ways to pass the time: Voodoo Doll Revenge, Farm Piano, and PixelFish. Running the gamut from calming and relaxing to a little on the dark side each app has a different audience, but they're all the quality we expect from Viximo.
Voodoo Doll Revenge
Ever get so mad that you feel the need to physically injure someone? A
safe-and jail free-way to get that aggression out is Viximo's "Voodoo
Doll Revenge." Sneak a picture of your victim's face with your iPhone's
camera or use a photo already in your photo library to create a custom
voodoo doll in either female or male form. Then, get your juju on: set
your doll on fire, poke it with pins, or tear it to pieces, just like
you'd do to its human counterpart if it weren't illegal! Once
demolished, you can share the aftermath of your aggression via TwitPic
to Twitter or email it to your friends-or, if they're really unlucky,
your enemies. We're not legal experts, but that may be harassment...
Price: $1.99
Farm Piano
This app delivers exactly what you expect: a keyboard that makes animal
noises. The eight key mini piano is set on a farm and lets you choose
between a pig, cow, sheep or duck to perform your musical masterpieces.
Once a key is hit, you'll hear the note squealed, mooed, baaed, or
quacked out...fun for kids and the easily entertained of any age! For a
very low price, this app offers hours of unlimited entertainment, but if
you want to try it before you buy it download Farm Animal Lite, which
includes the same keyboard but limits your animal choice to the duck.
Price: $0.99
PixelFish
An aquarium on the go, PixelFish allows users to customize their own
relaxing marine getaway by virtually creating their own fish tank.
Customizable to the extreme, users can choose from crab, blowfish,
clownfish, and shark to populate their aquarium and may decorate it with
treasure chests and clams with pearls among other things. You'll be
able to hear the bubbles with special sound effects for a realistic
quality. You can also change your aquarium from day to night mode
depending on your (or your fish's) mood. In typical Viximo fashion, you
can share your creation with your friends and family via email or
TwitPic to Twitter.
Price: $0.99
BentoUsers fell in love with Filemaker Inc.'s Bento in its original desktop form. Now this admired personal database system is available anytime you need it with the Bento application for the iPhone or iPod touch. The portable organization app comes with twenty-five pre-designed templates for inputting your day-to-day data including recipes, to-do lists, expenses, diet logs, notes, and contacts, to name a few. Your data can be stored in a variety of ways within each template, depending on whether photos, video clips, text, web sites, or addresses suit your needs best. Because Bento integrates with your other iPhone apps, your data can cross over; for instance, you can call a phone number stored in your contacts in Bento by simply tapping the number. The app can function by itself or work seamlessly with Bento 2.0v4 for Mac (desktop software), allowing synchronization in a variety of languages as long as there is a Wi-Fi connection.
Price: $4.99
AT&T NavigatorTraveling to a new place can be a very intimidating thing, especially if you are directionally challenged. We at MacTribe are big fans of using the Maps app that came with the iPhone to get directions, or the free app AroundMe to check out new things in the area but often times we wish these apps could do more. Our prayers have once again been answered with the AT&T Navigator powered by telenav. This app is simply incredible, offering users the best of all available technologies within one program. The main screen displays a list of four options to choose from: Drive To, Search, Maps & Traffic, and Tools & Extras. Drive To will allow you to type an address, look up a business, airport, or intersection that you'd like to drive to while displaying a map with your route and giving you audio commands in a typical GPS format. You can even choose which type of route you'd like to use, with choices between the fastest, traffic optimized and street and highway preferences. Once on your voice commanded route you're able to search for waypoints throughout your trip like gas stations, parking lots, shopping malls, and practically anything else you can think of. The Search option will allow you to choose from a list of places you may need, like coffee shops, movie theaters, banks, hotels, or the invaluable gas by price, which lists all of the nearby gas stations according to the lowest gas prices based on the grade that you need. This comprehensive app is much more thorough and specific than other navigational apps out there and is truly a must-have for travelers.
Price: Free to download with a $9.99 per month subscription fee on AT&T bill
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iPad Costs
iSuppli Corp., which generally waits until it can actually get the new Apple product to estimate its production cost, has decided to forgo hands on examination in the case of the iPad. They have--from just looking at it, it's amazing--decided the base model only costs $219.35 for Apple to produce. According to AppleInsider the base model won't make Apple anywhere near as much profit as the 32 GB model with 3G wireless priced at $729...that one reportedly costs only $287.15 to produce.
That's some profit! No wonder Apple execs have said they'd stay nimble on pricing! With demand for the iPad under scrutiny and this week's news that the "Take Picture" hint was removed from the Address Book app in the iPad simulator even we are starting to wonder if it's not worth waiting for the 2nd generation.
Trust us, it's painful to say.
Google Challenges the Internet
"Think Big" indeed. This time, Google is setting its sights on the very way we transmit information and asking people from around the country to nominate their city or state to be included in an ultra-high speed open internet network of Google's building. Set to include anywhere from 50,000 to 500,000 people, this network will boast 1GB per second fiber optic connections that Google reps are hoping will bolster developer creativity, test new ways to build the infrastructure and challenge internet service providers to band together to create a better internet instead of shunning change to maintain their bottom lines.
This is huge news, and we hope our city is on the receiving end of the new interwebs...here's the official Google Blog if you want to read it all in detail or submit your community.
Dogs on Twitter
From the country that's given us karate and karaoke comes the newest iPhone app: that's right, Japan's Index Corp. has announced the release of "Bowlingual," the dog emotion translator. Latest in a long line of technological advances, this app (to be released this summer) analyzes Fido's bark and puts it into one of six categories, like "needy." Or "happy." Then it adds a caption based on the emotion and allows you to snap a photo of your pooch in its current mood; as if that weren't enough it can modify that photo to enlarge your pet's eyes...oh...so cute.
Seriously, the app is set to sell for $5 and will post your pet's barks to Twitter. Silly? Yes. Fun? Probably!!
Will you let your dog speak his mind? Tell us here.
