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Quick Look: The Design Museum Collection for iPad

  We at SMATOOS love it when museums produce apps, and when we find an educational app that goes beyond ABC-123. Museum apps are a wonderful way to learn about something that’s not right in your backyard (read more about this in our post on virtual field trips), and we were excited to find this [...]

  iTunes is currently featuring some great apps for learning about, playing and creating music. We took a quick look to see what’s on offer. In the Music Appreciation category, featured apps include My First Classical Music app, Tap A Tune, ABC Music, and the entertaining-looking (and free) Monkey Drum. These are all aimed at [...]

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  This art app for the iPad provides a penetrating look into the life of Vincent Van Gogh   Van Gogh’s Dream is a fascinating book app inspired by the dying wish of the artist, bringing into truer focus the real Vincent Van Gogh while concentrating on the time the painter spent in the French [...]

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    This app gives you the largest canvas you could possibly need.   Shared Paper is an app in which you can create a presentation on an incredibly big canvas. It’s like a combination of MS Paint and PowerPoint, where the user can create presentations in a hassle-free manner. Anyone – students, teachers or [...]

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This app makes geometry exciting by adding music.   Soundrop is a simple music-composing app that combines geometry and music. With only lines and falling dots, anyone can compose a tune! It’s suitable for children learning basic geometry, as it entertains as well as educates, and everyone else will enjoy it for its own sake. [...]

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Image captured from HowStuffWorks Discovery’s How Stuff Works team provides an endless stream of useful info.   Can you avoid paying bank fees? When is the cheapest time to fly? How do tablets work? These are just some of the questions you get the answers for from a great new app developed by the Discovery [...]

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  Art Authority delivers a perfect simulation of a visit to your favorite art museum.   Art Authority for the iPad is an astonishing new media encyclopedia of art through the ages, capturing a collection of some 55,000 paintings and sculptures by more than 1,000 artists from ancient times to the contemporary era. Experiencing this [...]

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Biblion allows users to take their own unique journey through the records of the New York Public Library   When New York’s World Fair closed for the final time in 1940, its organizers presented their detailed records to the New York Public Library (NYPL) for safekeeping, and it’s a good thing for us they did [...]

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    Kids can create their own iPad books with this clever app Book Creator is an excellent idea: it’s an app that lets users create simple e-books on the iPad with minimum fuss and mess. Select photos or images from iPhoto or the internet, resize and adjust them, and enter text to create a [...]

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