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Daily iPhone App: 7 Little Words for Kids is a well-made word game for youngsters

by Mike Schramm (Mar 11th, 2013)

I'm a big fan of 7 Little Words, a word game that's different from the rest, in that you need to simply figure out vocabulary clues and match up syllables rather than playing Scrabble yet again or lining up letters. Now, the app's creator has returned with a version for children called ...

Airturn is a Bluetooth-enabled music page turner for iPad

by Mike Schramm (Feb 1st, 2013)

We heard about the Airturn when it first released a few years ago, and the company is here at Macworld/iWorld 2013 this week in San Francisco, showing off both the older two-pedal unit, and the brand new four-pedal unit you can see above. That piece in the middle of each unit is a Bluetooth ...

Pocket announces digital publishing partnership with Matter

by Mike Schramm (Dec 3rd, 2012)

Just last week we mentioned that Pocket, formerly known as Read It Later, was growing its little empire of features and various apps, but hadn't yet landed on a solid monetary plan. Well here that comes now: Pocket has announced a partnership with a Kickstarter-funded digital publisher called ...

Pocket for Mac gets a big update, better Twitter, Facebook, and Evernote support

by Mike Schramm (Nov 27th, 2012)

Pocket used to be called Read It Later, and it actually did fairly well under that branding, as I remember. But the app was revamped to Pocket a little while ago, and since then, has been growing a little empire of apps designed to save content on one device, and pass it around to any number of ...

Brøderbund's Living Books return for iPad via Wanderful

by Michael Rose (Oct 8th, 2012)

Some of you may not remember the early 1990s. Heck, some of you probably weren't born yet in the early 1990s. But for Mac users of a certain vintage, it was an exciting time. The growing popularity of CD-ROM drives paired with Mac II-series machines (did the IIci really cost over $6,200 at ...

Reading Rainbow app coming tonight, will be subscription-based (updated)

by Mike Schramm (Jun 19th, 2012)

If you're right around my age (a couple years past 30), you'll probably also have fond memories of watching Levar Burton's Reading Rainbow program on PBS all those years ago. Burton, in addition with his work on Star Trek, has remained a pretty well-known figure for both Trekkies and those in ...

Comixology hits 65 million downloads, lands exclusive Marvel digital deal

by Mike Schramm (May 8th, 2012)

We've posted about Comixology's domination of comic book content on iOS before -- it's certainly not the only app that lets you read and even buy comic books, but it's by far the most popular, and keeps getting even more so. The company has just announced that it's reached 65 million downloads ...

Daily iPad App: The Little Girl Who Could Fly is a delightful interactive book for children

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 19th, 2012)

Today we are stepping outside our typical app reviews for the iPad and looking at an interactive book. Because of their interactive elements, these titles stray over into the app category. This particular title, The Little Girl Who Could Fly from YellowPixie, is an animated, illustrated ...

Google Play Books updated with new bookmarks, text selection

by Mike Schramm (Apr 17th, 2012)

Google's Google Play Books market isn't just for Android devices. There's also an iOS app available to read content purchased on that market, and it's just been updated with some new features. Bookmarks let you place a bookmark by touching the top right corner. You can also highlight and even ...

Macworld says the new iPad's screen is underrated

by Chris Rawson (Mar 30th, 2012)

"Is that the new one?" one of my workmates asked of the iPad sitting on my desk in its upright dock. "Yep," I said, and showed him the screen. He played around with it for a few seconds and said, "Huh. It doesn't look all that different, does it?" "Are you kidding?" I said, and grabbed my ...

Scholastic releases iPad e-reader app for kids

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 9th, 2012)

According to PaidContent, Scholastic brought its catalog of children's books to the iPad. The recently updated Storia app taps into Scholastic's ebook store which boasts of over 1,000 children's titles. The titles in the bookstore are organized by grade level, reading level, age and ...

Readability eliminates the fluff and lets you read: our chat with Rich Ziade

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 1st, 2012)

Readability is now in the iOS App Store, ready to change how you read the web. We were able to get a preview copy and have been playing with app for a few days. It's a universal app that lets you browse articles without the clutter of ads, superfluous links and redundant images. For those who use ...

Holiday Gift Guide: iPad apps for the home

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 15th, 2011)

Welcome to TUAW's 2011 Holiday Gift Guide! We're here to help you choose the best gifts this holiday season, and once you've received your gifts we'll tell you what apps and accessories we think are best for your new Apple gear. Stay tuned every weekday from now until the end of the year for ...

IDW releasing comics for iBooks

by Mike Schramm (Sep 7th, 2011)

Most of the comic books released on the iPad and iPhone have been inside of special apps (many of which are run by ComiXology, actually), but here's another option. Comic book publisher IDW is set to release some graphic novels and comic books through iBooks, meaning that you can buy them right ...

Daily iPad App: PDF Expert

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 7th, 2011)

We've covered PDF Expert a bit before, but this week they rolled out a 3.0 update that greatly enhances the functionality in the app. When the iPad debuted, one of the first apps to rocket to the top of the charts was GoodReader, and with good reason: it was a better PDF reader than Apple's ...