Apple Lives on Sesame Street
“Lives on” might be a strong term, but there’s definitely some pop culture respect being paid in the latest Sesame short D is for Dance. I know I’ve raised my kids right when my four year old daughter calls me into the room and says, “Daddy! Big Bird has an iPod!”
5 (Free) iPhone Apps Every Parent Should Have
One of the best things we can do as tech-saavy parents is get our kids acclimated early to the wonders of a digital life. I’m not saying kids can’t be kids, but I think it’s pretty darned cool that my 4 year old is the only kid in her class who knows how to work an iPod Touch or bring up web-based games in Safari. At the end of the day, growing up around technology could really give kids a leg up when they get out into the real world. And so, with that in mind, MacApper is proud to suggest five free apps that every parent should share with their kids.
Schoolhouse Review: The App Every Student Should Have
If you’re a student: you need Schoolhouse. You’ll never miss another assignment again. Schoolhouse is the assignment planner you’ve always dreamed of. Separate your subjects, organize your studies, track your grades, and keep digital notes all from one easy-to-use app. You can find our review of a previous version of Schoolhouse here.
Tree Review: A New Kind of Outliner
Outlining is an important part of any education system, whether you’re a student or a teacher. This explains why there are so many outliners out there. And, for the most part, they look the same; they use indentations to show what hierarchy the item is in. And this system works great. It means you don’t have to learn much before trying a new outliner. Well, today I will tell you about an outliner that works a little bit differently from the rest. It’s called Tree, by Top of Tree.
Timeline 3D: Let Your Timelines Enter the Third Dimension
Back in December we mentioned an application called Timeline, from Bee Documents. Timeline is an application that allows you to create (you guessed it) timelines. The version of Timeline mentioned back in December was the 2D version, and today I would like to take a look at the 3D version.
At WWDC this past June, Timeline 3D was awarded runner up in “Best Mac OS X Leopard Application†at the Apple Design Awards ceremony. This should give you an idea of the quality of Timeline 3D. It is very similar to the 2D version, except for a few key differences (one of which I’m sure you have picked out).
Mental Case: Quick and Easy Flash Cards
Using flash cards is a great way to study for an exam, but sometimes they can be annoying to make. What if you just want to make a short note? Or one with a picture? With Mental Case you can easily create flash cards or short notes.
Mental Case has a very clean interface; the toolbar on top lets you create cases and notes and start viewing a slideshow, and a bar on the left lets you select your cases so you can edit your notes.
MacHeist Retail Bundle Unboxed
It’s here. Finally. You’ve heard the rumors, seen the video, now purchase the retail bundle. Available online for a limited period of time, the bundle contains 12 apps at a bargain price of just $49.
As usual, the MacHeist guys have done it again, with a bundle that consists of finance software, a word processor, an organizer as well as a handful of games for your Mac. Yea, lovely games.
Stellarium: A Planetarium for your Mac
With thousands of stars viewable to the naked eye, finding the Pleiades, or even figuring out what that bright star near the horizon is, takes a fair bit of research, unless you have a planetarium at your disposal. Until Apple unveils the iPlanetarium, I’m recommending Stellarium.
Open source app Stellarium is a planetarium for your Mac. Stellarium shows you the stars in a beautiful and fun to play with interface. The only thing that looks better is the real night sky.
ProfCast: Record and Publish Lectures as Podcasts
As businesses and schools move more and more into the digital age, presentations and lectures are more commonly being recorded and stored electronically for future use.
I personally attend many presentations at work where someone is at the back of the room with a video camera running to capture the presenter, his/her presentation on the overhead and the delivery that goes with it.
While this adds immense value for reuse of the presentation, the quality is often poor, and in many cases, the presentation itself is illegible. ProfCast, from Humble Daisy, is a great application for capturing live presentation content and audio in a format that can be easily published and distributed via a number of open channels.
ProfCast is able to record either PowerPoint or Keynote presentations in-time with the presenters audio.
AlphaBaby: Something for the Kids
You’ve got a shiny new mac, it cost a lot of your precious money, but it was worth it. You love it. Everything is perfect, until your son/daughter/little brother/little sister wants to use it.
You fear the worst. And for good reason. For kids, the logic is this: You press buttons, things change colors on the screen. Pretty. End of story. Solution: Press lots of buttons.
Trouble is, they’ll mess with your volume, eject your iPod, delete that important file on your desktop – even get overexcited and start banging on the keyboard repeatedly (ouch). That’s where AlphaBaby comes in. Fire up AlphaBaby, and let the 3-year-old in question bang away.
