Tagged: App

Free iOS app with National Geographic

 

National Geographic Traveler launches a beautiful new travel app – Apps. National Geographic has some of the most beautiful photography and accurate writing. It is amazing how they manage to do this year after year. What a well-managed brand.

Top 10 iPad Financial Apps

Top 10 iPad Financial Apps. This is a well done web page that has some interesting information about Apps that might help you manage your finances.  They reached out to me if it might be a good fit and I believe it is.  I am getting no benefits from sharing this information.

10.6.6 killed all Apple Apps

Recycle

Apple – Support – Discussions – 10.6.6 killed all Apple Apps ….  Fixed by the combo update.  After an upgrade from one system version to another, if anything happens unusual, reapplying the combo download update can often solve the issue.

 

Apps not downloading today

Downloading Nancy
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Turns out that Hank Driskill figured it out.  Do this.

A combination of ALL of those seems to have kicked it back into working mode.

I removed my account settings from the store… turned off wireless… reset the phone… re-entered my account settings… then tried downloading one of the smaller ones and it worked! Turned wireless back on, hit update for the rest, and they all downloaded…

I had done all of the sub-permutations before (reset + 3G, reset + account settings, account settings + 3G), but somehow all of them together shook it out of whatever bad state it was in.

Thanks for the help!!!

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Apps not downloading today. : ….

 

A review of the Scopus iPhone App (via the Undergraduate Science Librarian)

What else can you do when you need to search thousands of scholarly journals and you need the information now? Its a free app, but requires registering an account.

A review of the Scopus iPhone App A little while ago I downloaded the new iPhone app from Scopus, called Scopus Alert Lite.  I have finally had a chance to explore it. The app is free, although your institution will need a subscription to Scopus in order for you to use it.  Theoretically, you should be able to register using yo … Read More

via the Undergraduate Science Librarian

UMass Amherst researchers develop Gulf spill iPhone app – The Green Blog – A Boston Globe blog on living Green in Boston

UMass Amherst researchers develop Gulf spill iPhone app – The Green Blog – A Boston Globe blog on living Green in Boston.  If you live near the oil spill you can use this app to let rescue organizations aware of animals in distress.  I wish the BP employees had to work on this spill for the next six months.  This is free.

My New(ish) Favorite iPhone App (via Michellenaomi81′s Blog)

New application to make your photos look vintage. Isn’t this going backwards?

My New(ish) Favorite iPhone App If you have an iPhone you should definitely buy the hipstimatic application, especially if you like taking pictures with your phone. It is so much fun and gives your pictures a retro feel. Here are just some shots I've taken using the application and the various lenses and film that you can get with it. The initial application is $1.99 and then you can purchase more lenses and film. So much fun! … Read More

via Michellenaomi81's Blog

Quickoffice is Now Available for the iPad

If you don’t find the Apple apps to help you be productive enough perhaps Quickoffice will do the job.  It also has some nice connections in Google Docs, MobileMe and other online document storage/sync utilities.  It costs $9.99 and might do the job for you.