NeverEndingSearch — @joycevalenza by Joyce Valenza. Product reviews, how-tos, deals and the latest tech news. iPhone and iPad apps news and reviews. Swipe this block to see more The fact you have an actual computer inside your iPhone means your regular calculator are pretty much obsolete nowadays.
What are the best app review sites for iOS? - Quora. iOS Apps. Best Apps for Teaching & Learning. Best Apps for Teaching & Learning. App Reviews - Kids Apps. Our 5th Grade Friends Set Off To Rewrite, Sing and Create A Nursery Rhyme Digital Story! Building A Character With Bloxels For Our Video Game....and Getting A Little Help First! When I got home last week there was something very special in my mail that I couldn't wait to try out with my 10-year old son Hagan and other students I know.
And of course to try it out myself! Kids Create Their Own Video Games With Bloxers...One Block At A Time. This week I had visited the wonderful elementary teachers librarians, teachers and administrators at Ramsey School District in New Jersey.
I shared stories of student voice to kick off the morning and then worked with several teacher librarians and teachers in the library focusing on using digital tools to inspire student voice. Yes, There Is a Difference Between 3D Touch and Force Touch. If you noticed Craig Federighi stumble over his explanation of 3D Touch while talking up the new iPhones by letting “Force Touch” slip out, you weren’t alone.
While the function arguably is the most noteworthy thing about the latest iPhone S cycle, plenty of people caught the naming change. But is it actually a change? According to Apple patents, there is another level of sensitivity of Force Touch that will be used in the new iPhones. Basically, these two technologies do the same things, but what you’ll see in the newest iPhones is an additional level of sensitivity. Google reportedly pushes back Android's answer to 3D Touch. Digital Magazines - Newsstand. Airbnb Wants Travelers to ‘Live Like a Local’ With Its App. SAN FRANCISCO — The home-sharing app Airbnb is pushing into local reviews and recommendations, putting it increasingly into competition with services like Lonely Planet, Yelp and local tourism websites.
The company, based in San Francisco, on Tuesday began offering Guidebooks, a feature that lets those who rent out their homes on Airbnb share information about their neighborhood’s best restaurants, bars and attractions, including local spots that might not be found on travel websites or guides, all in the Airbnb app. Guidebooks’ aim is to let people “live like a local,” Brian Chesky, the chief executive of Airbnb, said in an interview. People who use Airbnb previously had to leave the app to find local event and dining information using search engines, travel websites and local review services. But Airbnb’s new feature means people can now eschew Yelp, Facebook, Google and other sites that have all longed to control the connection between consumers and local businesses. Photo. Best third-party Apple Watch complications. One of the coolest features of watchOS 2 is custom third-party clock face complications: With custom complications, you can view upcoming flights or hotels, your next pill dosage, whether it's going to rain in a half-hour, or how long you've been working out.
(Better yet—you can virtually travel through time while checking this information with the flick of your watch's Digital Crown.) How to add third-party complications to your Apple Watch So what are the third-party apps with complications worth checking out? 6 Apple Watch third-party complications to try right now. The biggest update to Apple Watch, watchOS 2, has finally arrived.
Apple Watch wearers are can now take advantage of a host of fresh conveniences. 7 Great Third-Party Complications for the Apple Watch. Manfrotto KLYP+ Fisheye, Portrait 1.5x, and Wide Angle MOKLYP5S. iStabilizer smartMount Smartphone Tripod Adapter ISTTP03 B&H. Apogee Electronics MiC 96k USB Microphone for Mac MIC 96K-LO B&H. EdWeb.net - There's an App for That 2015. EdWeb.net - There's an App for that 2014. EdWebet68 - 50 Apps in 60 minutes - Google Slides. You Mean I Don’t Have to Show Up? The Promise of Telemedicine. Photo Aside from whatever a visit to the doctor costs you in money, it also costs you in time.
A lot of it. End to end, the travel and waiting time for a doctor’s appointment can take several hours — often disrupting work or school. Only 17 percent of it — 20 minutes, on average — is spent actually seeing the doctor, according to a study by the University of Pittsburgh physician Kristin Ray and colleagues at the Harvard Medical School and the RAND Corporation. In a year, Americans spend 2.4 billion hours making doctor visits. For certain kinds of health care, there is a better way. Telemedicine holds the promise of giving some of our time back. Some insurers are embracing it. Half its visits are virtual, and its C.E.O. reported that 80 percent of its dermatology cases involving are resolved by digital communication. Down to Lunch Founders Pursue Less-Traveled Path to App Success.
As thousands of app developers have discovered, attention spans are short, especially among the college and high school students that Down to Lunch is targeting.
Dozens of competitors are vying to help people organize spontaneous gatherings, including Hangster, Shortnotice, Down to Hang and a Google app called Who’s Down. And a lot of things can go wrong on the road to becoming the next Snapchat. Down to Lunch’s servers went down last week after hitting limits imposed by their cloud computing provider, forcing the start-up to devise a work-around. A human error derailed sign-ups for six hours on Monday. In addition to typical start-up problems — lack of sleep, inadequate staffing, technical malfunctions — Mr. Photo.