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≡ Category: Apple, Stanford, iPhone | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last year, Stanford University gave iPhone owners around the world a boost when it released a free iPhone App Development course (find it on iTunes). Millions have since downloaded the lectures, and many new iPhone apps have been created as a result. (Partly thanks to this course, we developed our own Free iPhone App that [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Literature, Most Popular, e-books, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
Today, we’re rolling out a sizable collection of Free eBooks, most of them classics, that features major works written by James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Nietzsche and others. (We have even thrown in a little Paulo Coelho.) You’ll find 100+ free ebooks in total, and you can download the texts to your computer, smart phone (iPhone, [...]
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During the lazy days of summer, we quietly launched a new, free iPhone app. Now summer is fading, people are getting back to work, students back to school, and it’s time to get the word out. This app takes our intelligent media collections and let’s you listen to them on the go. Once you download [...]
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It’s not often that The New Yorker does the gadget review. But here we have one – Nicholson Baker breaking down the Kindle. The upshot? He’s not a big fan. Why? Let me give you some of the money quotes. And also note the iPhone/iPod Touch recommendations at the end (where I added some useful links):
“The [...]
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A quick heads up. We’ve now started rolling out our new iPhone app. It will let you listen to audiobooks, university courses, foreign language lessons, and other intelligent content on the iPhone. The app is free. And so is the content. So there’s nothing to lose by checking it out.
We’ve designed it so that all media [...]
≡ Category: Art, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
This caught my attention today:
“The National Gallery is the first ever gallery to make its paintings accessible through a downloadable iPhone application, making it possible to take a mini tour of the Gallery anywhere in the world.
The Gallery, in partnership with Antenna Audio and Apple Inc., has designed a new application for iPhones and iTouch [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Apple, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
Apple announced a new line of products this morning. Most will focus on the new, speedier iPhone. But what caught my eye is the Iceberg e-book reader that will bring 1,000,000 books to the iPhone. This will include, according to Engadget, 500 bestsellers, 50 major magazines and about 170 daily papers, plus textbooks by Houghton Mifflin, Harcourt and [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Audio Books, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
The iPhone just got a bit smarter. Thanks to this new, free app, you can listen to 1800 free audio books on your Apple device. The app lets you listen to public domain audio books from the great Librivox (whose works, read by volunteers, also appear in our Free Audio Books collection). The ad-supported software is straightforward [...]
≡ Category: Literature, iPhone | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last week, we flagged for you a list called the 100 Best iPhone Apps for Serious Self-Learners. What the list missed is another nice app that puts the complete works of Shakespeare on your iPhone. And, the best part, it’s all free. As you’ll see, the app comes with some handy functionality: you can search the text [...]
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With a little luck, we’re going to be bringing you an Open Culture iPhone app in the next couple of months. In the meantime, here’s a handy list of iPhone apps for “serious self-learners.” Let me give you a quick sample of the apps you’ll find highlighted here: Aristotle’s complete works, The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Lonely [...]
≡ Category: Apple, Stanford, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
A quick heads up: Stanford has just launched a free software development course for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The lectures will be rolled out on iTunes first, and eventually they will be posted on YouTube as well. You can get the first lecture on iTunes here. This 10 week computer science course is officially [...]
≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, e-books, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
Just a quick fyi that Amazon has released a free app on iTunes that lets you download Amazon ebooks to the iPhone. This means that you don’t necessarily have to buy a Kindle in order to purchase & read ebooks from the largest vendor of ebooks– although I find the Kindle reader to be considerably [...]
≡ Category: Media, iPhone | ≅ Leave a Comment
Here’s a quick fyi for iPhone users: The Public Radio Tuner, a free app available on iTunes, gives you (free) access to hundreds of public radio streams from across the US. Released in late January, the Tuner brings together feeds from NPR, American Public Media, and PRI, among others. This is a handy way to [...]
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Since the release of the iPhone App Store, numerous sources have commented on the potential of educational apps. While these apps can’t compete with the general popularity of gaming and leisure apps, there are a number of educational apps that mobile learners will find handy.
Top Free Apps
Open Culture: Our iPhone app gives you free mobile [...]
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