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"It's easy to forget that apps can not only keep you in, they can get you out. With the onset of summer, I decided to get out of the house and let App Synergy guide me. I had two things in my favor as I prepared for this article: a gorgeous day and an excellent excuse. It was my good friend's birthday and I planned for us to spend some time in Old Town Alexandria. Here are some apps that helped maximize our experience; they may come in handy as you plan your own outing."

"If you've been interested in learning how to develop apps for the iPhone and iPad, this may be the best chance yet. Based on Stanford's Fall 2011 iOS development course, the new offering from Stanford gets social and lets you work on assignments with the rest of the enrolled class. "

"Guided Access, or what we to call "Kid Mode", is a fantastic addition to iOS that lets you lock an iPhone or iPad into a single app. Well, great when it works as it's intended, but it appears there's a pretty frustrating bug that makes the feature work a little too well once it's enabled in iOS 6 with some apps: triple-clicking the Home button doesn't summon anything and you're stuck in an app! This leaves you unable to leave Guided Access mode, but here's a workaround to get out of it until the bug is resolved:"

A fantastic list of apps for iPads in edu. On this page, we are showcasing Apple Apps which can help educators with teaching and learning activities, as recommended by various educators within the #UKEdchat forum. You can easily sort the columns by clicking the arrows by each heading. Are we missing an iPad app which you use a lot in school? Please let us know in the comments box at the foot of the page, or via @UKEdchat on twitter, facebook, or Google+.

"First, let me thank you for entrusting me with teaching your children, honoring the amazing individuals they are, and helping them discover the confident and empowered young people they can be. Providing a rich and engaging environment for your children to learn in is my utmost concern, but Iately I have had to acknowledge that the young people I see every day do much of the learning that is important to them when they leave the parking lot and head home from school. Thus, I am writing to solicit your help."

Here's a snapguide for how to create a QR code to an ibook. This would let you put a link in a slide or on a page that would immediately take one to an ibook. (You can do this for kindle books too but would just use the URL as you can't buy inside the Kindle app on the ipad because Amazon and Apple couldn't come to terms on Apple's cut. You can just go to the Amazon webpage for the kindle and when it opens in safari, a person can buy and download from there.)

New iphone app released June 7, 2010-allows you to zoom, edit, save and share photos "Camera+ …the ultimate photo app By tap tap tap Description SPECIAL INTRO PRICING $2.99 BUY NOW BEFORE THE PRICE GOES UP! ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Take your photography to a whole new level! Whether you're a seasoned photographer or someone who's barely touched a camera before, Camera+ will make you love taking photos with your iPhone. Everybody has a creative side… Camera+ will help bring that creativity out in you, all with a fun, innovative, and beautiful design. ★ No more blurry shots… Use the stabilizer to steady your camera and get the sharpest pics you can. ★ Highest quality zoom… Camera+ has a 5× digital zoom that simply blows away the competition in terms of quality. ★ Put an end to crooked pics… Use the grid to line up your shots and eliminate unsightly angled photos. ★ Innovative Lightbox helps you easily manage your new photos and avoid junking-up your camera roll… All the pics you take in Camera+ go in the Lightbox where you can quickly and easily skim through them and rid bad shots. You save only the photos you're satisfied with so that your camera roll stays neat and clean. And here's where the power of Camera+ really shines because we've included some of the most powerful image editing available on your iPhone so that you can get some unbelievably good looking photos. ★ Scene modes and flash… Most modern digital cameras all have scene modes to help you get the best photos for your particular situation. And why shouldn't your iPhone have this great feature? Well, with Camera+, you get to choose from several scene modes including Backlit, Sunset, Night, Portrait, Beach, and many more. If you just want great looking shots with the least amount of fuss, just tap Auto and watch your lifeless pics come alive. And for the times when your photos came out too dark, we hav

I'm so excited to have an iphone app that let's me zoom with my 3G camera! Just downloaded this and it's amazing! Special intro pricing is $2.99. Love it!!

iPhone Configuration Utility (IPCU) lets you easily create, maintain, encrypt, and install configuration profiles, track and install provisioning profiles and authorized applications, and capture device information including console logs. Recommended for those managing devices running iOS 4.0 or later. Configuration profiles are XML files that contain device security policies, VPN configuration information, Wi-Fi settings, APN settings, Exchange account settings, mail settings, and certificates that permit iPhone and iPod touch to work with your enterprise systems.

Lets you use an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad as if it were in disk mode.

lets you create pdf forms and fill in pdf forms

"KitchenPad Timer is a fantastic help when cooking as it lets you set separate timers, both count-down and count-up, for each burner on the stove"

" Well, enter TagDiskHD+, the only iPad app that lets you quickly save YouTube videos directly to your iPad with no iTunes sync - and without the resolution limits of a Keepvid upload to Dropbox."

 reQall is a voice-enabled memory aid that seamlessly integrates your mobile phone, email, text messaging and IM into a powerful organizer, reminder system and productivity assistant. reQall lets you capture your ideas, tasks and commitments before you forget, and it proactively keeps you well-prepared and memory-strong.

Dictionary.com, part of the Ask.com network, has launched a free iPhone app that delivers lets you look up definitions and synonyms from Dictionary.com ...

"How many times have you been in a meeting or a conference and just wanted to jot down an ideas or sketch. You don't want to become totally distracted by typing reams but you do want to record it so it doesn't get lost. The following apps allow you to do just that. You can write with your finger or use a stylus if that is more comfortable. These apps will let you record, organise and then share these musings. Great for your classroom or students as well. "

"We're Mr. Mitchell's 5th grade class at Badger Road Elementary in North Pole, Alaska, for the 2011 - 2012 school year. We're using iPads for teaching and learning again this year. Here's what we've learned so far. Subscribe to our blog and let us know what you think!"

"Customizing iPad Sounds and Alerts Do you wish that you could turn off the keyboard clicks, the slide to unlock sound, or just change the alert you get for incoming email? Well, you can! All this and more can be changed in your iPad's settings. Check it out! Settings > General > Sounds"

"One of the first things about the iPad that caught people's attention was the touch screen, and it goes without saying that some of the first apps to start taking advantage of that touch screen were handwriting/note taking apps. Apps that let you write, draw, sketch--and sometimes type-notes on your iPad. Something that combined technology with the age-old practice of scribbling notes on paper."