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"KinderTown is a newly launched app store for parents which offers a curated collection of kid-friendly applications. What makes the store unique is that it only includes apps which have been deemed to have "substantial educational value" for kids three to six years old. In order to evaluate the apps' quality, each app is first reviewed by early childhood educators, then tested by parents and kids before admission."

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nMolecules is an application for viewing three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers. You can rotate the molecules by moving your finger across the display, zoom in or out by using two-finger pinch gestures, or pan the molecule by moving two fingers across the screen at once. Double-tapping on the display lets you switch visualization modes.\n\nNew molecules can be downloaded from the RCSB Protein Data Bank (http://www.rcsb.org/pdb), an international repository of biological molecules and their 3-D structures. Molecules can be downloaded directly to your iPhone or iPod touch and stored there for later viewing.\n\nCustom molecular structures can also be downloaded to the device from any publicly available web server. The location of these structures can either be manually specified in the application or custom URLs can be clicked on within Safari or Mail on the device. For more details, please visit our website.\n\nMolecules is a BSD-licensed open source project.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nMolecules is an application for viewing three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers. You can rotate the molecules by moving your finger across the display, zoom in or out by using two-finger pinch gestures, or pan the molecule by moving two fingers across the screen at once. Double-tapping on the display lets you switch visualization modes.\n\nNew molecules can be downloaded from the RCSB Protein Data Bank (http://www.rcsb.org/pdb), an international repository of biological molecules and their 3-D structures. Molecules can be downloaded directly to your iPhone or iPod touch and stored there for later viewing.\n\nCustom molecular structures can also be downloaded to the device from any publicly available web server. The location of these structures can either be manually specified in the application or custom URLs can be clicked on within Safari or Mail on the device. For more details, please visit our website."

APPLE DESIGN AWARD WINNER 2011! One of only 50 apps in the App Store Hall of Fame, Pulse is a beautiful application that makes reading news fun and engaging. Pulse takes your favorite websites and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. Tap on an article to see a clean and elegant view of the news story. Save stories for reading later across all platforms or sync them with Instapaper, Read it Later and Evernote. Sharing a story via Facebook, Twitter and email is as easy as two taps.

In this post, we'll take a closer look at the Creative Book Builder app for iPhone and iPad. Created by Tiger Ng, this app is currently selling for $3.99 in the iTunes Store.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n3D SOLAR SYSTEM: play with the 3D model by moving around the Solar System. Zoom in, zoom out, investigate it from different angles. You can observe not only the current position of planets in our solar system but also learn their position at a definite period of time in the past or in the future! For this use Time Machine feature.\n\nFLY to the PLANET: having chosen a planet from a far, tap an image of a "rocket" to fly straight to the planet. Enjoy a beautiful and realistic image of a planet!\n\nREAD INFO about the planet: by tapping the "i" button you learn general info about the planet, its name, its mass, radius, distance to the sun, internal structure with the picture and science missions.\n\nTIME MACHINE: click on the clock icon and date and time will be displayed. Slide your finger on the scale and the sky will start moving accordingly. Touch year, month and time and change them depending on what you want to see, the display will adapt accordingly to show you how planets were aligned at that time.\n\nMOONS of DIFFERENT PLANETS: select a planet like Earth, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars or Urano and observe how many moons they have and their track around the planet. Select one of the moons and learn.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nLearn something different each day with the free BrainPOP Featured Movie App for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch! After watching BrainPOP's daily animated movie, you can test your new knowledge with an interactive quiz.\n\n\nBrainPOP's award-winning educational resources are used by millions of students in thousands of schools across the U.S. and worldwide.\n\nOur topics cover Science, Math, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health - everything from Carnivorous Plants to Abraham Lincoln! All movies are captioned, making it easy to read along.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nGrammar Up was designed to replicate questions with a business focus commonly found in the popular TOEIC (TM) English proficiency test.\nGrammar Up can help learners to improve their grammar, word selection and vocabulary.\nCustom timer setting can assist learners to improve response times under exam time constraints.\nResearch suggests that kids and adults learn most quickly when playing learning games with real-time error-feedback.\nGrammar Up provides learners with an opportunity to improve strategies for grammar success. "

for iPad on the iTunes App Store\niAnnotate is both an elegant PDF reader and a powerful annotation tool that finally lets you work with your PDFs. You can open documents from email, sign and send out contracts, enter notes for edits, sketch diagrams, copy text, and add highlights or underline with the drag of a finger!\n\nUnlike other apps that only let users draw on top of a PDF, iAnnotate fully integrates its annotations directly into the PDF such that they will be available to any standard PDF readers like Adobe Reader or Preview. You can transfer PDFs via email, iTunes sync or even clicking any PDF web link in the integrated web browser. Marking up and emailing it right back out couldn't be easier!\n\nThe intuitive drag and drop interface offers customizable toolbar locations, and an easy to access contextual menu makes it possible to work with the toolbars completely hidden. You can search your entire library for documents containing any keyword, view which documents are "new", "unread", "recently viewed", or "annotated", and tabbed browsing makes it easy to work on several documents simultaneously.

for iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nDraw Free for iPad rocks!\n\nSketch, Doodle, Draw On Top Of Pictures, Erase, Share on Twitter and Email.\n

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\nIdea Sketch lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa. You can use Idea Sketch for anything, such as brainstorming new ideas, illustrating concepts, making lists and outlines, planning presentations, creating organizational charts, and more!\n\nShare Your Ideas\n\nDiagrams can be saved to the Photos app, which are then synced to your desktop computer. You can also copy-and-paste diagrams and outlines into any other app on your iPhone. You can even upload diagrams to your Facebook account!\n\nEasy-to-Use\n\nIdea Sketch is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. You'll be creating and editing diagrams and outlines right away.\n\nNo Drawing Required\n\nJust enter your text and move the shapes around, Idea Sketch handles all the drawing.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store AccelaStudy is the award-winning language education software that helps you understand and pronounce words in the shortest possible time. Learn new French words quickly, easily, and permanently with AccelaStudy.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store TED Mobile allows you to watch the latest TED videos based on Themes, Talks and Tags.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nmyHomework is a simple and easy to use iPhone application that allows you to keep track of your homework, classes, projects and tests while interacting with a really cool design. myHomework's design tends to resemble our day to day notebook, the sections are separated by colorful "sticky pads" that marks the page.\n\nYou can quickly enter your class schedule and use it to differ between homework assignments. myHomework will also notify you when you have late and upcoming assignments by numbering them on your application icon. Late assignments will be marked in red, next day upcoming assignments will be marked in orange, and all other upcoming assignments will be marked in blue. So you can easily identify which homework you definitely need to look into.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nStack the States makes learning about the 50 states fun! Watch the states actually come to life in this colorful and dynamic game!\n\nAs you learn state capitals, shapes, geographic locations and more, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated states anywhere on the screen. Carefully build a stack of states that reaches the checkered line to win each level.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nContinue your Rosetta Stone TOTALe™ experience away from your computer with Rosetta Stone TOTALe Mobile Companion™, exclusively for Rosetta Stone TOTALe customers. This unique application enhances language learning with Rosetta Stone TOTALe by incorporating our innovative speech-recognition technology, so you can practice your speaking skills wherever you take your iPhone® or iPod Touch® mobile device.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nOriginally developed as a suplement for the iCaramba Spanish Course, this audio dictionary is now available for all.\n\nInstead of cramming every Spanish word there is into this dictionary, it focuses on the 500(*) words you're most likely to use and adds audio to every one of them. It is thus an excellent travel-companion.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nThis guide is an attempt to systematically build up the grammatical structures that make up the Japanese language in a way that makes sense in Japanese. It may not be a practical tool for quickly learning immediately useful Japanese phrases (for example, common phrases for travel). However, it will logically create grammatical building blocks that will result in a solid grammatical foundation. For those of you who have learned Japanese from textbooks, you may see some big differences in how the material is ordered and presented. This is because this guide does not seek to forcibly create artificial ties between English and Japanese by presenting the material in a way that makes sense in English. Instead, examples with translations will show how ideas are expressed in Japanese resulting in simpler explanations that are easier to understand.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nGlow Coloring is the first doodle app that allows you to scan in images that you can color in or trace. With Glow Coloring, you can adjust brush pattern, brush size, and color. When you are done drawing your masterpiece, you can save it to your camera roll or email it directly from the app.

For iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store\n\nThe Museum of Modern Art in New York is home to the world's finest collection of modern and contemporary art. Now you can carry MoMA with you wherever you go. Use the MoMA App to find out about current exhibitions, plan a visit, browse or search tens of thousands of works in the collection, take multimedia tours, or learn about artists and art terms. Take a photo through MoMA Snaps and send it to a friend, or choose your playlist to create a soundtrack for your MoMA visit.\n\nMoMA is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. Dedicated as we are to the conversation between the past and the present, the established and the experimental, our mission is to help you understand and enjoy the art of our time.