App+of+the+Day

=**This is a collection of Apps started in 2012.**=

Free "Tall Tweets will help you write tweets that are longer than 140 characters. The tool will slice and publish your "long tweet" into smaller chunks of 140 characters or you can even publish the entire messages as an image. Your Twitter followers will be able to read the entire message in their timeline itself."
 * September 4, 2013 - Tall Tweets **

Free with upgrade plan "An online program that gives you the animation tools you'll need to immediately begin creating your own proffesional-looking animated explainer videos and animated presentations."
 * August 28, 2013 - PowToon **

Free "A completely free online tool that allows you to learn a new language. It is scientifically proven to be more effective than university-level language instruction, and provides a game-based approach that is fun and engaging! You can choose from English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese and move through different levels to accomplish your individual language learning goals." TeachBytes
 * August 8, 2013 - Duolingo **

Free Tellagami is a fun, new way to share animated messages. Customize your character. Change its mood or outfit. Record your voice or add dialogue. Then share your Gami.
 * August 1, 2013 - Tellagami **

Free "The app allows you to create drawings using just your finger on your iPad's screen. In the free version of the app (the version that I tried) you can create up to 50 scenes in each of your projects. In each scene you can include as little or as much as you want to draw on the canvas. There are a few different brush and pencil effects that you can use in your drawings. The opacity of the colors you choose can be altered too. When you have completed drawing all of your scenes hit the play button to watch your animation unfold. If you're happy with your animation you can export it to YouTube." Review by Richard Byrne
 * July 31, 2013 - Animation Desk Lite **

Free This app is fun for both children and adults. Test your powers of observation by finding common shapes hidden inside of other shapes. Unlock new levels by successfully completing a lower level. Hard to describe how it works, but if you like puzzles, I think you'll like this app.
 * June 6, 2012 - Little Things **

Free I've always loved origami, but sometimes it's hard to follow the instructions in books. This app gives animated instructions for each figure. You can stop the animation, back it up, restart, play again, etc. Much easier to follow than most origami books. An in-app purchase ($.99) upgrades the app with more figures, but I found the figures in the free app to be better than the paid ones. Free figures include bumblebee, dragonfly, cicadas, butterfly, crab, various birds, and more.
 * June 5, 2012 - Origami Instructions **

Free Use your finger to guide the lightning bug as he zooms among the flowers and other bugs. Catch lumens and dandelions for more power and life, avoid hitting things that drain your light, especially water. Cute game, more challenging than you might think, though I'd bet the kids will be better at it than adults. Contains 15 levels to keep you busy for a while.
 * June 4, 2012 - Light the Night **

Free Just like the PBS website we've used at the elementary schools! This app teaches letter recognition, beginning letter sounds and rhyming words. Kid approved as a fun activity.
 * May 31, 2012 - Monkey Match **

Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For those of you who got addicted to the Gift Stack online game back in December, try the Topbox app. While the boxes are brown instead of brightly colored, the game is the same. Stack the boxes and don't let them fall! For those who've never tried Gift Stack, here's the website: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.akidsheart.com/holidays/christms/giftstack.html__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Be careful, this game is totally addictive!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 30, 2012 - TopBox **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Based on the PBS documentary "The War of 1812" as well as the companion book on battlefields and historic sites. This app will help you explore the actual grounds and forts where each battle was fought. Battlefields, monuments and other historic sites are pictured and described in detail giving the user a virtual tour. Excellent classroom resource and a great aid for history buffs.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 29, 2012 - The War of 1812 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The program uses virtual manipulatives to teach young children basic addition. The program starts with an addend of 1 or 2 and students work their way up to 8 and 9 by successfully completing each level. Each student has a separate sign in so multiple students can use one device. The first activity in level one is a tutorial on how to use the app and the virtual manipulatives. Great for kindergartners and first graders having trouble with their math facts.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 23, 2012 - Kindergarten Addition **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">As you travel this summer, you may be driving in other states, states where you are unfamiliar with their distracted driving laws. Every state has their own laws regarding cell phones, texting, even eating/drinking in the car. This app provides information, state by state, on laws regarding cell phone use and texting. The laws are broken down by category into all drivers, novice drivers, and bus drivers. Of course, make sure you keep the app updated and, if in doubt, check with the state police or local law enforcement.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 22, 2012 - Distracted! **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This app has won numerous awards including the New York Times App of the Week and Apple Staff Favorite! Tell the app what type of car you drive. Then when you have an auto emergency, roadside breakdown, or routine repairs, RepairPal tells you the right price to pay, finds you a great mechanic in your area and tracks all your auto repairs for future reference. Enable location services for this app to get the full benefit of all its features.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 21, 2012 - RepairPal **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The best virtual jigsaw puzzle app I've found so far. It looks deceptively simple - the maximum number of pieces is 30 and the pieces are all square, but the images are tricky and present a nice challenge especially on an iPhone. (Try the ladybug on the orange leaf.) Solving puzzles on an iPad was much bigger due to the larger image size. There are 3 levels of difficulty, but I couldn't get any but the first one to work. The higher levels give you puzzles with more pieces. Once a piece is in the correct spot, it locks in place just like pieces lock together in a real jigsaw. I try to solve them without looking again at the completed image just to make it more challenging, but if you want a reference photo, tap compare.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 16, 2012 - Q Puzzle **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A cute app that teaches young children letter recognition and the alphabet. Options include just lowercase, just uppercase or both upper and lower; song format or spoken letters, whole or partial alphabet. (Both upper and lower case letters are shown, but which one is highlighted is the option.)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 15, 2012 - English Alphabet Rap **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The name of the app publisher is Useless Creations and that says a lot, but this app is still a lot of fun. It only works on iPhone or iPad 2 or later. Install the app and launch it. Select Dragon Detector and hold your phone or iPad in the air. If you aim it at the ground you won't find any dragons - dragons like to fly. Watch out for the fire breathing dragons! Virtual Dragon Toy gives you control over your very own dragon.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 14, 2012 - Virtual Dragon **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A fun way to learn about musical notes and how to play the guitar. The app starts with the basic notes A - G. Using a game format, players become familiar with the letters. Then the app introduces Sharp notes and again uses a game format to teach that B and E don't have a #. Each level gives the player more knowledge about music notes/scales. After mastering the basic notes, the app moves into finger positions for each note on a guitar. Great way to learn!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 11, 2012 - Tab Warrior **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Interactive guide to the Periodic Table with narrated text. Explore the Periodic Table, Play the Essential Elements game, or watch the show Hunting the Elements. Very educational, but also very entertaining. Great for students and teachers or anyone else wanting to learn more about the elements. Published by WGBH Educational Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in conjunction with PBS.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 10, 2012 - NOVA Elements **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An excellent app by WHRO, the public broadcasting station in the Tidewater area. Step back in time and become an explorer of the New World. Earn the gold you need to build ships, buy provisions, and hire crew. The decisions you make will impact your success or failure. Choose your captain wisely - his choices on the journey may cause your mission to fail. Excellent challenge involving problem-solving skills and historical knowledge.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 9, 2012 - European Explorations **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Play against the clock or another player and the clock both. Or pair up with a friend and play as a team against the clock. The Earth is under attack from bad weather and aliens. You can save the earth by making sets of rhyming words., prefixes, suffixes, homophones, etc. Each word list has numerous sets of words (3 words per set). Find all the sets before time runs out and the aliens attack. Contains over 800 vocabulary words. Created by McGraw-Hill book publishers.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 8, 2012 - Bluster! **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(separate versions for iPhone and iPad) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Covers a multitude of different languages. Type in your text or copy and paste from a website. Select your beginning language and your end language and tap translate! Not sure what the language is? This app even has a feature to detect what the language is for you. The free versions do have some small ads on the bottom of the screen. You can upgrade to the paid iPhone version for $1.99.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 7, 2012 - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**iTranslate**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You'll need an Internet connection to use this app, but it gives you access to 100+ of how-to articles on a wide range of topics. Search by specific topic or browse one of seven categories. Save articles in your Favorites for future reading. New articles are constantly being added, so if you can't find what you want the first time check back later. Email articles or post them on Facebook or Twitter with in-app options.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 4, 2012 - eHow **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An easy way to make and share great looking how-to guides. Search the guides created by others or make one of your own to share with friends, family or everyone. There are a variety of categories from cooking to home/car repair to playtime for the kids. In-app tools allow you to post to Facebook or Twitter or share via a website.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 3, 2012 - Snapguide **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Adam Curry evaluates apps and each day posts a video demonstrating the app. An archive of past featured apps is also available. This app is an interesting way of learning about new apps, what they do and how to use them.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">May 1, 2012 - The Big App Show **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$4.99 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This app is amazing!! Without syncing, using a private WiFi network, you can transfer files such as Word, PDF, Excel, MP3, etc to your iPad or iPhone. Even better, you can actually open them and work with them. Transfer a PDF to your iPad, open it and use the annotation tools to annotate, mark-up or highlight right on the document. The app saves the annotated copy which can be sent back to your computer via your private WiFi network. Setting up the private WiFi network took about 10 minutes and some careful reading, but this app provides very detail and easy to follow directions for everything you could possibly need to use the app and all of its features.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April 30, 2012 - Goodreader **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This isn't really an app in the traditional sense. It's actually a collection of lesson plans for fun classroom games, most of which require no materials or preparation. Good if you have a few minutes in between activities, or need to give students a quick break, etc. Detailed directions are provided for each activity as well as information on appropriate grade level, suggested class size, if the activity is ESL useful, materials needed, higher order thinking level, etc. The Search function is a bit unwieldy. You must select both a category and a grade level. So if you want to find everything for grades 6+, you'll have to check in each category.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April 27, 2012 - Classroom Games **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Similar to Triazzle puzzles. You have triangles, each side a different color. Arrange the triangles in a set shape so that common colors touch. One solution possible per puzzle. Challenging and frustrating, but lots of fun.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April 26, 2012 - TryAngulate **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spin the wheel to try and collect 2 or more balls the same color. Press the collect button to earn points. Careful, if the spoke of the wheel fills up game over! Fun game for all ages!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April 25, 2012 - Aztec Magic Ball **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$6.99 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mind mapping made easy and fun. If you've ever used and like the program Inspiration, then you will like SimpleMind+. You start with a topic bubble and then expand from there. Each set of bubbles can be color-coded and expanded to another subset which can be expanded to another subset and so on. I use it to organize my house projects room by room. Purchase SimpleMind Desktop (Euro 23.99), and you can upload your mind maps to your PC or Mac and change as needed. New mind maps and changes to old mind maps made on the computer are uploaded to your iPad with automatic syncing through the cloud. (SimpleMind Desktop is not necessary to use the free app.)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April 24, 2012 - SimpleMind+ **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">SimpleMind for iPad **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This app will make you think! Players have a grid with 9 numbers, 1-9. Using clues they must put the numbers in the correct spot. Clues may be simple: the 9 is in a corner; or complex: the bottom middle is half of the top left. Points are awarded based on how quickly you solve the game, how many moves it took you, how many clues you had to use, and if you used the Cheat feature. Challenging but not so frustrating that you want to quit playing.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April 23, 2012 - NineStein **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Produced by Clemson University, these three apps are excellent. Each app takes you on a virtual tour of the ecosystem using maps, photographs, videos, written descriptions and information on real-world locations. Links to locations you can visit in person, with information on lodging, etc, are also included. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Example: The Salt Marsh map includes 15 different 'sites' to explore. I selected #1 on the map. This took me to a description of the Salt Scrub Thicket which includes a photograph, video. and links to additional information and pictures of common flora and fauna living in the salt scrub thicket - yaupon, groundsel tree, red cedar, wax myrtle and painted buntings.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April 18 - 20 - **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Salt Marsh Virtual Field Trip **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Swamp Forest Virtual Field Trip **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Cove Forest Virtual Field Trip **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$.99 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For people who are more comfortable with Google or don't care for Apple's Safari web browser, WebSwurf is a Google search app. Search for images, places, news, etc just like the options for a Google search on your PC. Hint: to return to the main Google page or a previous page, swipe your finger to the right across the screen. A faint left arrow will appear indicating that you are going back a page.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April 17, 2012 - WebSwurf **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Addictive, fun, challenging all describe this game. You are a bird living in a forest. You must fly through the trees and other obstacles to find food (coins) and escape the deadly falcons. Tilt your iPad or iPhone to control the bird's flight. Whoops, you flew right into that tree branch. Splat!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April 16, 2012 - Forest Birds **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Looking for an educational trip to take during Spring Break? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Even non-Civil War buffs will enjoy these apps and the tours presented. All three apps are produced by the Civil War Trust and contain an incredible amount of information on the Civil War and the location of each of these major battles. Each app features 2 or more tours of the battlefield which should be downloaded BEFORE you go. (Cell phone coverage is spotty and you are going to suck up your data plan limits if you try and download on site.) Photographs both from the Civil War and present, recordings, videos, and text all provide a virtual tour of the battlefields and an understanding of the important elements that influenced the outcome of the battle. Also included are battle resources, maps both historical and current, battle overviews, chronologies, life during the Civil War, key facts, quizzes and much more.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April 4 - 6, 2012 - **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bull Run Battle App **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fredericksburg Battle App **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gettysburg Battle App **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This app provides a wealth of information on places to visit and things to do in North Carolina. You can search by region or category, example: Beaches and Beach Towns. Download the free 'Tour' for more specific tours and places to visit. No charge for any downloads. I downloaded Beaches and Beach Towns which gave information on 29 locations. Each location had a picture, address, contact info and website, if available, as well as a brief description. Select the Map option to see where each location is. Tap the pins on the map if you want to know what it is and to go to the info page for that location. Zoom in and out on the maps for more or less detail.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April 3, 2012 - Travel NC **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thinking about a trip yet? If not, this app may inspire you. Type in the name of a city. Look at all of the free tour guides available and download the ones that interest you. I'm thinking about spending a few days in Savannah. Guides included a Self-Guided Walking Tour (9 tours featuring historic houses and churches, museums and art galleries, family entertainment, live music, specialty shops...); Real Pirates of Savannah (1 tour featuring ships, historic buildings related to sea trade, museums...); and Nightlife and Live Music Tour (self explanatory :-) ). Over 470 cities worldwide are covered in this app. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You can also search by a larger region. Type Virginia in the search box and 7 tours of Arlington, 10 tours of Richmond, 1 Civil War History Tour of Richmond and 8 tours of Virginia Beach are available. The Richmond's Civil War History Tour even includes audio narration. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Upgraded versions of tour guides, which include turn-by-turn walking directions between points of interest, are available at a modest cost (under $5 each).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">April 2, 2012 - City Maps and Walks **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The official travel guide for VA. Select a category like museums or nature and look for locations to visit. Or select a city and then look for points of interest near-by including dining, accommodations, museums, sports, history and heritage, water activities and nature. Entries appear to be very up-to-date and contain detailed information, color photos, links to external websites when available, and a map showing the location. You can print the map so you don't get lost.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 30, 2012 - Virginia is for Lovers **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another great travel companion. Put in your starting point and your final destination and submit. It takes a while to load, but you will get a map showing hundreds of points of interest to check out during your trip. Great for a day-long road trip or a lazy weekend away. I put in my house and Virginia Beach and received 776 places of interest along the route, marked on a map of the journey. Select the LIST option if you don't need the map and just want to see what they've found for you. Places include expected places such as restaurants, museums, wineries, antiques, and hotels and less expected items such as massages and hair salons. Refine your search by selecting specific categories and subcategories - from amateur sport teams in Active Life to women's clothing in Shopping and everything in-between.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 29, 2012 - On Our Way! **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This app contains detailed street maps for Washington DC. You can enlarge them, move them around to other areas of the city, search for addresses and add them as a 'pin' to your map so they are easy to find later. Even if you have a GPS, sometimes it's nice to be able to see where you are going on a map and traditional road maps aren't always easy to handle in a car - they are big and are never folded to the place you need. These maps are very detailed. Even the different animal houses at the National Zoo are marked and labeled!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 28, 2012 - Washington DC Street Offline Map **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There are numerous apps that function as unit converters. This is the best one I've found. Easy to use, easy to read. First, select what you wish to convert - acceleration, area, currency, density, energy, force, length, pressure, shoe size, speed, temperature, volume, weight - are just some of the options. Once you've selected your category, select the original unit such as gram or carat (weight) on the left spinner and select the unit you wish to convert to on the right spinner - similar to how a slot machine works. Type in the original number and the conversion appears on the right side. Erase the first entry and type in a new number and the right side automatically updates.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 27, 2012 - Vapssky Unit Converter **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free for a limited time <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Set up an account for each child. Inform the child what behavior earns marbles and what behavior will cause them to lose marbles. Set up their rewards. Since you can use your iPhone or iPad to keep track of behavior the child sees the consequences much more quickly. No more, "I'm going to take a star off your chart when we get home!" when they misbehave in the store. You can whip out your phone and say - "You've just lost 3 of your marbles." The child gets immediate, concrete feedback. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Can be used in the classroom, too.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 26, 2012 - iBehave **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$.99 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPaintTunes is NOT your ordinary drawing app.There are 24 colored pencils, each one corresponds to a different note which is played as you draw. You can record your painting and combine up to five different instruments on a single recording. Each color is labeled with a letter note, allowing anybody to play scales, songs and melodies, without having to learn sheet music. Worth the $.99 to purchase.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 23, 2012 - iPaintTunes **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free for a limited time, regular $4.99 (there is also a 'lite' version for free if you miss this deal) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create your own flashcard quizzes or import from sites such as Quizlet.com. Share your sets with others. Great way to study, review, quiz your kids, etc. Don't miss out on the free Pro version.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 22, 2012 - A+Flashcards Pro **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students can practice their computation skills - addition, subtraction, multiplication - playing timed, against the clock, ultimate or just untimed practice. Difficulty level can be set to Easy, Medium, or Hard. Scores are given at the end. (Program does not tell the student they've input a wrong answer during the game.)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 21, 2012 - Maths! **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You don't need a Twitter account to use this app. Select your location on the US map and get a list of politicians that use Twitter and access to their recent Tweets. Find out what our elected officials are up to, what bills they are supporting, local appearances, and even who they picked to win the NCAA! Great for a civics or US Government class, too.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 20, 2012 - Civic Tweet **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Great if you, like me, have more than one cat to keep track of. Record their vaccinations, medications, vet visits, health issues, and more. Lately I feel like I should just move in with my vet I'm there so often. This app helps me keep track of who goes when or gets what medicine and how often.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 19, 2012 - Catnote **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you do any word processing on your iPad you will love this app. Symbols for temperature, science, math and more are available for your wp using this app. Some examples: cube root, fractions, musical notes, degrees C and F, set notation, Greek letters..... All you do is tap to copy and then paste wherever you need to.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 16, 2012 - Character Pad **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A virtual Mars planet with terrain features. Tap a terrain feature and learn more about the craters, channels and mountains of the 'Red Planet.' Links to external websites provided for each location for those who want to learn even more. Click on the index for a complete list of Mars geography highlights. Here's a sample from the Eberswalde Crater: Everswalde is a 65-kilometer diameter crater which contains the well-preserved remains of a delta, as in a river delta, that was most likely formed by water flowing into a lake inside the crater. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Basic information for Martian terrain features is from the International Astronomical Union's Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature published by the US Geological Survey.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 15, 2012 - Mars Globe **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This free app has so much to offer, especially compared to the paid bird apps that cost $19.95 or more! Beautiful color drawings of over 160 different bird species are provided along with a recording of the song, range maps, habitats, food sources, nesting, and more. Additional sections of the app provide information on selecting a bird feeder and bird feed to attract the birds you want in your yard as well as plantings to enhance your yard's 'bird appeal,' Cornell University eBird Database, and life lists. I especially enjoyed hearing the songs and calls of the the different birds. which are actual recordings not computer generated. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Want more birds? The full app, Peterson Bird of North America, contains information on over 800 species and includes information from 8 different Peterson Field Guide books. Not bad for only $14.99! Winner of the 2011 Best Outdoors App Ever Award.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 14, 2012 - **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Peterson Feeder Birds of North Americ**a

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simple word searches suitable for children. Smaller grid, shorter words and word lists make this a good game for younger children. That each round has a time limit, and the time decreases with each level, makes it more challenging for older children. Total of 20 levels.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 13, 2012 - KidsWordfind **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be prepared to be frustrated! The numerical equivalent of the Rubric's Cube, this app will challenge you. Each row and column must contain one of each number. But, like the Rubric's Cube, you have to rotate the rows and columns to get the number you want. Got one number where you want it? Nope, because it moves when you try and 'fix' the next number. Not for the easily frustrated.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 12, 2012 - Slider **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Talk and your iPad or iPhone will turn your verbal input into typed documents which you can edit, email, share, etc. Add Dragon Microphone, also free, to round out the services offered with this great app. You can also buy a copy for your computer, but why spend the money - prices range from $50 to $125 depending on which platform you use. Think of how many apps you can get for that!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 8, 2012 - Dragon Dictation **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Select your country, state, city and then a specific newspaper to read the latest issue. Countries around the world are represented. All the newspapers I checked were identical to the actual paper in appearance. You do need an Internet connection, of course. Create a list of favorite newspapers for easier access in the future. Save specific articles to read when you are off-line. Email articles or share them via Facebook or Twitter. Lots of ways to use this one in the classroom!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 7, 2012 - Newspapers **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Virtual version of the stacking game where you try to remove blocks without the stack falling over. Can play Classic (single player), Pass 'n' Play (two players), or Online with an Internet connection. Just as tricky and challenging as the real game!!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 6, 2012 - Jenga **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is an awesome app even if you don't use Behr paints. Two features make this an app to have if you do any home decorating - 1. Color match: select a photo on your iPad or iPhone. Touch any area of the photo and the app will display three paints that come closest to the color in the photo. 2. Once you've selected some colors you like, use the preview feature to see how the colors look in a room or on a house exterior. Unlike the PC version, the mobile version doesn't appear to let you upload your own photos, but they have a great selection of rooms you can use to get an idea how your colors will look. Save or share your final room. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(I'm hoping they'll add more exteriors - not as much selection as interiors.)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 1, 2012 - ColorSmart by Behr **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Video tutorials: Learn more about CPR or refresh your memory if it's been a while since you took the class. This is not a substitute for a certified CPR class, but it is a good resource if you have any questions or need to jar your memory.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 29, 2012 - Code Red **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Information, images and videos from the Hubble satellite. The images are beautiful and the videos interesting - for example, a recent video on the discovery of a cluster of galaxies beyond Perseus.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 28, 2012 - Hubble **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free for basic service <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">$4.99/month for Plus service <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sign up for the free service at <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://desktop.onlive.com/go/signup__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Then go to the app store and download the free app OnLive Desktop. There's also an OnLive Viewer, but that's different. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Open the app and sign into OnLive. Suddenly your iPad looks like a Windows computer! 'Why do we want that?' you Apple lovers ask. Well, first of all, you now have free copies of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2010. Also, you now have Adobe Reader for all those PDF files. Plus, your Internet browsing speed will skyrocket using Internet Explorer which is also provided. Double-tap to open Word and it's the real thing. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Plus account provides the ability to watch any Flash Video using a full-featured Flash browser, Cloud file access and more.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 23-24, 2012 - OnLive Desktop **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Indiana Jones style action game. Use your finger to turn and jump, tilt the iPad to move side to side. The game starts easy with helpful arrows and hints telling you when to swipe or tilt. That quickly changes and you are on your own. Fun game for kids and adults. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I've only played the beginning levels because I keep falling into the swamp. Sigh........ But I imagine the levels keep getting harder.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 22, 2012 - Temple Run **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design your own custom radio station. Give Pandora a song or artist you like and they will stream similar music. Tailor the list even more by voting thumbs up or down. Thumbs down and Pandora deletes it from the playlist and stops playing similar songs. Thumbs up and it stays on the playlist and more songs like it are played. You need Internet access, of course, and if using your 3G this can run up your data usage quickly. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Christmas, when I had the family over, I used my iPhone and Pandora to play holiday music all day. Since I have a wireless network this cost me nothing. The family really enjoyed the music. Note: I set up the 'station' the day before so I could select appropriate music and not have to worry about it on Christmas Day. Pandora remembers your stations so you can access them again and again.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 21, 2012 - Pandora **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Select a letter of the alphabet and get a word of the day beginning with that letter as well as bonus words (up to 9 bonus words). Options include definitions, adding word to a word bank and looking up in Wikipedia. I know, we don't want to encourage that, but I like the rest of the app. Examples from today's words: K: kingdom, karma, kitty, keel, knocker. N: netting, nicotine, needlessly, navigational. Words change everytime you start the app. Hint: If using this with children, always preview the words before they look at the screen. Words are not always Disney level and include nude, nudist, kinky, abortion, etc. I never saw any words that I wouldn't expect to see in a newspaper, but I still recommend caution especially if you work with children younger than high school.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 15, 2012 - LearnAWord **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a virtual scratch board app. Remember those - Black ink or crayon on a bright colored background and you scratched a design revealing the color underneath. This has a number of different backgrounds as well as symbols (snowflakes, cupcakes, flowers, etc.) that can be added to your picture. You can also use the symbols to add black back to the design. Kids will love it, and frankly, this adult loves it too. It's just fun!
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 14, 2012 - Magic Marker **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This app has gorgeous historical maps ranging from 4th Century Roman Empire, Waterloo, NATO 1970, Population Density 1918, to Omaha Beach in WWII. Use the maps for your own information, help your children with their homework or display in your classroom (hook an iPad or iPhone up to a projector).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 13, 2012 - History: Maps of the World **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">AbleMath is a full featured scientific and graphing calculator. Features include: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Custom keyboard for easy data entry. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Create custom variables and store values in memory. A great feature of expensive graphing calculators. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Normal, Scientific and Engineering notation and Fixed or Floating decimal points. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Radian and Degree modes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Plot functional, parametric and polar equations. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Add an unlimited number of equations. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Add names and notes to your equations and variables. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Multi-touch support. Pan and zoom a graph with ease. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Includes a scientific calculator. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Graph functional inequalities. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">......and much more.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 6, 2012 - Able Math Calculator **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learn to play the piano on your iPad. Show one or two life size sets of piano keys. Rotate one set and play piano with a friend. Move the display to reveal different parts of the keyboard. Make the keyboard larger or smaller. Keys are labeled with notes to help budding pianists, but experienced piano players can turn off this option. The sound is amazing realistic.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 3-4, 2012 - Virtuoso Piano Free 3 **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This app is wonderful. It has some basic and some not so basic recipes all of which can be made in 15 minutes. I can't wait to try the Chicken Foster with coconut rum, bananas and amaretto or the Bourbon Street Rib-Eye. OK, not all of them contain alcoholic beverages and the alcohol is cooked out, but they do sound tasty. My only complaint with the app, which lists recipes alphabetically, is that they stop at N. I'm hoping that future updates will add recipes all the way through to the end of the alphabet.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 2, 2012 - 15 Min Meals **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This app allows you to split your iPad screen into 2 or 3 windows. You can open notes in one window and browse the Internet in another - great for students conducting research. Or open Internet pages in two windows and compare prices on products sold by different websites. You can make the webpages bigger so the print is easier to read, but you will have to move the page from side to side to see all content on a page. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Choices for windows are blank, browswer, music library, notes. In other words, you can't use play WordWarp in one window while browsing the Internet in another, but it's still a very useful tool.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 1, 2012 - MyMultiView **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lite free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Full version $1.99 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If you like Angry Birds you might like Slingshot Safari. But if you fail the animals don't laugh at you - they charge, trample and maul. Even the free version has multiple levels and will keep you busy. Warning: may not be suitable for younger children due to gore scenes when animals attack.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 31, 2012 - Slingshot Safari HD for iPad or Slingshot Safari for iPhone **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone free <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">iPad $1.99 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Contains a mosaic of more than 1000 images from the Museum's archive, woven together to create a striking image of the world's most famous dinosaur, The T-Rex. Each interactive photo includes info about where the fossil was found and who discovered it. Post notes on photos and read other user's comments on dinosaurs and science. In the Stories section, read about the science and personalities behind the Museum's world-renowned fossil collection. Explore the history of fossil collecting and the Dinosaurs that roamed the Earth in seventeen detailed stories.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 27, 2012 - Dinosaurs: The American Museum of Natural History Collection **