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≡ Category: Apple, iPad, iPhone, Stanford | ≅ 4 Comments
Back in 2009, Stanford University started recording lectures given in its iPhone Application Development course and then placing them on iTunes, making them free for anyone to view. The course hit a million downloads in a matter of weeks, and now, two years later, here’s where we stand. The course remains the most popular item on [...]
≡ Category: Apple, iPhone, Technology | ≅ Leave a Comment
No more top hat and handkerchief. Marco Tempest uses iPods and iPhones to create magic for the 21st century. He calls himself a techno-illusionist. “I explore the borders between technology and magic,” says Tempest, “between what’s incredibly real and incredibly not.” Originally from Switzerland, Tempest now lives in New York City. He was featured in the [...]
≡ Category: iPhone, MIT, Online Courses | ≅ 2 Comments
Last week, MIT OpenCourseWare officially released its LectureHall iPhone app. Put simply, the free app gives you mobile access to MIT video lectures. It even lets you download lectures straight to your phone (handy for times when you may not have connectivity). Another plus: the LectureHall iPhone app adds a social dimension to the learning experience. [...]
≡ Category: Apple, iPad, iPhone, Stanford | ≅ 15 Comments
Looking to design apps for the iPhone or iPad? Stanford University now has a course online that will help you do just that. Simply called Developing Apps for iOS, the course features 20 video lectures (the last installment was uploaded just this week) and, somewhat fittingly, they’re all available on Apple’s iTunesU. Paul Hegarty teaches the course, and he assumes [...]
≡ Category: History, iPad, iPhone | ≅ Leave a Comment
The new Fotopedia Heritage app for the iPhone and iPad lets the world come to you. (Download here.) Drawing on 20,000 curated photos taken by thousands of photographers from the Fotopedia community, this FREE app lets you visit (at least virtually) 890 UNESCO World Heritage sites. In a matter of minutes, you can move from Notre Dame [...]
≡ Category: iPhone, Media, Technology | ≅ 4 Comments
Today’s ruling is bound to get a lot of buzz, but probably for the wrong reasons. According to new rules set forth by The Library of Congress (which oversees the Copyright Office), iPhone owners can now legally “jailbreak” their device and download software that Apple/AT&T disapproves of. That will get the headlines. But we shouldn’t lose sight [...]
≡ Category: Film, iPad, iPhone | ≅ 1 Comment
A quick heads up: Today the National Film Board of Canada released a free iPad app (download it here), providing users free access to thousands of documentaries, animated films and trailers. All films (including some in 3-D) can be streamed over Wi-Fi and 3G wireless networks. And you can even download and watch a film offline [...]
≡ Category: iPhone, Philosophy | ≅ Leave a Comment
AskPhilosophers puts real philosophers at the service of the general public. Have a big, lofty question that only a professional philosopher can tackle? They’ll answer it on the web. And now on the iPhone. This new, free app (designed by Amherst College) lets you access their Q&A archive on the go. While waiting in line for [...]
≡ Category: Apple, iPhone, Literature, Poetry | ≅ Leave a Comment
Writing in The Guardian, Victor Keegan, a longtime journalist and poet, talks about his new iPhone app, City Poems. The newly released app will run you $2.99 on iTunes, which makes it less than open, I know. (Have you seen our free app, by the way?) But it’s admittedly a pretty nice concept for the cultural [...]
≡ Category: Apple, iPhone, Stanford | ≅ 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 [...]
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