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Quick Look: The Encyclopaedia Britannica App

    For some, it was a sad day when the Encyclopaedia Britannica printed its last volume. For others, it was an event that should have been filed under “F”, for “Finally!” The revered encyclopedia is still available, but in a much more portable form. It’s now an app, so instead of referencing a 32-volume, [...]

  This 3D atlas will inspire kids to browse and learn for hours at a time. Once you stop to think about it, the atlas is really the first book that should have made the transition to the iPad. They’re made for each other! Touch Press, the smart people behind The Elements, released Barefoot World [...]

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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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    Book app for the iPad illustrates the scientific explanations for age-old questions   The Magic of Reality by the renowned scientist and confirmed atheist Richard Dawkins is a beautifully presented book app aimed at offering genuine scientific explanations, alongside myth and legends, for 12 of the most important questions facing humanity. While outlining [...]

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    Optical Illusions 100+ is a highly entertaining app for the iPad that will get you thinking. You may have found yourself stumped looking at even an apparently normal picture. When shapes and figures get more complicated, you might have to focus harder to understand what you’re looking at. Well, with Optical Illusions 100+, [...]

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  Back in Time is a breathtaking animated book app for the iPad charting the entirety of history.     Landka has produced a visually stunning exploration of the history of Earth and our universe by using the simple analogy that time began 24 hours ago as represented by a traditional clock face. In this [...]

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    Geo Walk HD – 3D World Fact Book lets you travel the globe on your iPad and learn as you go.   Vito Technology has a track record in producing beautiful educational apps, and they’ve done it again with Geo Walk HD – 3D World Fact Book, a stunning concise encyclopedia that allows [...]

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    A library of quotes, maxims, aphorisms, and proverbs. How many times have you googled for quotes you wanted to use in an essay? An iPad app called Quotes Folderoffers a whole new level of convenience for all age groups, especially those who want to improve their writing. This app features a simple design [...]

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  Amazing new app brilliantly illustrates the environmental challenge we all face.   Al Gore – Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis is an interactive app for the iPad  in which former vice president and environmentalist Al Gore examines the causes of global warming and presents an array of insights and solutions [...]

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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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