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A very handy app for adding titles/captions directly on a photo, either plain text or in color, rotated, fancy font, etc. Thi is iPhone and iPad, but check out what might be available for other smart mobile devices. Use for vocabulary self-quizzes shared on social media or among classmates, and for project-based learning.

"if you use iBooks on Ipad or iphone than you also highlight some important text while reading ,and you wondered how good it can be to extract only highlighted part of that book which you want to revise in future …" Looks a little complex at first blush, but seems to work.

You can now use a third-party app to mirror your iPad/iPhone on a computer (Mac or Windows). This app is now called Reflector, however. Check it out at http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/. Play your presentations without a projector.

"With the growing popularity of internet access to mobile devices like the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, monitoring internet activity isn't so easy as plopping the computer in the living room and keeping a watchful constant eye over young shoulders. Now, the internet is mobile. It's small enough to fit in a pocket and that makes parental monitoring an even bigger challenge. "Fortunately, the tech world has heard the rally cries of concerned parents and a number of kid-safe browsers are available to allow your child internet access in a safe manner. By no means is everything on the internet dirty, filthy, vulgar or dangerous. Much of the content on the web is educational, informative, fun and smart. With these kid safe browsers, you'll be able to help keep your kids on the right side of the cyber tracks."

Conversation English is an iPhone/iTunes app where people can view a short video of a dialogue and do exercises. If your students are crazy about their smart phones, this would be a good way to get them to practice.

Play your presentations without an Apple TV, through any Mac or Windows computer, from your iPad or iPhone.

This transfer software will help you get your older Mac (up to 10.6) in touch with your iPhone, iPod, and/or iPad. Download the app to your desktop computer, install, and plug in your mobile device.

A very useful how-to if you are tired of carrying around your laptop and want to spend your spare time to get everything running conveniently. One important tip involves using your iPhone as a laser pointer so that you can walk around the room while presenting.

This cross-platform app -- iPhone and Android -- lets students create their own games and instructional programs. Free for teachers and students, you need to sign up for an account, but you can work on a computer to create the HTML5. Learning games can be dreary, but creating them can be very interesting for students. The frontpage shows middle school learners working away, so this might be good even for younger learners.

A blog, My Languages, describing apps for the iPod/iPhone specifically for language teaching and learning.

These are divided by subject matter, and each has a short description, so it's not as daunting a list as appears at first glance. Take some time to explore the content areas, many of which are useful for language learners, such as Daily Haiku. There will be many apps with comparable features/functions for Droid-based smartphones and tablets also.

This is a beautiful blog (mashable.com) that has a very smart viewer for examining the apps it talks about. These include iMovie for iPhone and iPad, and an Android comparable; Vyclone, which lets you mash up video from up to 4 different smart phones taken at the same location (using your GPS locator); Lapse It to crate time-lapse videos, etc. Way more than just special FX tools here.

"Here are the top five iPad apps that can serve as PowerPoint alternatives." If you are a Mac addict, there are some juicy apps here. And most will work on iMac as well as iPhone and iPad.

A Scrabble-like game for learning Pinyin (Chinese in Western alphabet/letters). For computer or iPad; soon for iPhone and Android.

This is an app that can be used on most any device with a Web browser, including iPhones and Android phones. Supports images, audio, video, and scientifi markup via LaTeX.

This is a great creative app for iPhone or Android to create up 1-hr-long videos for YouTube. Your students can make shorter videos on their mobiles, then upload and splice them together.

A tool to let you pack images together with little marks to show where they "link" on a main photo page. Include text and video. An interesting tool to pack a lot of information behind one significant image for digital storytelling. For iPhone with Android coming soon, as of this writing.

"A few years ago, all I had to do to keep my kids safe online was set up the family computer in a well-trafficked room and walk by every so often. Now, my daughters are 12 and 14, and each has her own iPhone. Their online lives are lived in WhatsApp, Facebook comments, texts, and occasional emails. They regularly interact with kids I've never met. While they're (probably) smart enough not to reveal information to strangers they've never met, my daughters are at risk for cyberbullying (both being bullied and being bullies), overexposure on social networks, and even sexual solicitation. " Some good cyber rules to keep kids from destroying their own lives.

Convert Online FLV Youtube Videos direct to PC, iPod, PSP, iPhone, mp3, mp4 and mobile. Enter the video link from the provider, then click the >Catch! button, which displays the links to different types of video.

Not exactly mind-blowing, but very useful. Users claim they also (mostly) work in OS 7.0.