Read it Later: One reading List Wherever You Are

Read it Late is a free iPad & iPhone bookmarking tool. You can also use it at your deskop computer on any browser.

Here are some features that make this app one of my favourites:

• Save videos, articles or pretty much anything you find interesting to your Read It Later queue.
• Content can be saved from your browser or from over 300 apps like Twitter, Zite, Flipboard and Pulse
• When you’re ready, view saved content on any of your devices. You don’t even need an internet connection.

You can download this app here: http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/read-it-later-free/id309597402?mt=8

or visit the official site for a broswer plug in: http://readitlaterlist.com/

3 Amazing Apps for Creating your Own Flashcards on iOS

Flashcards are effective for children of really any age. However one of the areas they are most often used is in the early years of school. They are generally thought an excellent way to improve phonics and spelling abilities.  Here are some excellent mobile apps for iPad & iPhone:

Flashcards+ (free) is one of the most popular flashcard app. It was designed in association with Harvard University faculty and students. Flashcards+ is an optimized way to learn and retain new information. It allows you to easily create and study flashcards without the hassle of having to buy and write on actual notes. 


http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/flashcards+/id408490162?mt=8






 Here are some screenshots of this app:

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Flashcardlet is a free, easy to use studying application with material from any class or standardazed test. You can also create and share your own. It is the best way to study on any iOS device.

http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/flashcards*/id403199818?mt=8












Here are also some screenshots from Flashcardlet:

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        Flashcards (1.59E) is designed to make it easy for you to create your own flashcards on iphone. It is simple to generate sets of your own flashcards. You can add texts, pictures or even audio.  


http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/flashcards/id290008445?mt=8       

                              

6 Free Siri-Like Apps for your Android

6The new brilliant Siri voice recognition assistant has made a significant move on the way we use our smartphones. (iphone 4S users - at least). As a technology admirer, I was really excited to have something so hi-tech in my hands. I remember the first time I said hello to this phone and it said hello back. I was so thrilled and excited. What was the first thing that crossed my mind? It is a great way to practice speaking! The fact that this software ''speaks'' only English and you can ask questions to it such as '' What is the population of China?'' or ''What is the capital city of Greece?'' and it anwers you back it is a great opportunity to practice your English speaking skills alone, without feeling afraid of making mistakes or somoene is listening and he will judge. What is more, if you say something wrong you can ask again and again. Plus, it is motivating because you expect to get an answer. Of course, I checked my theory to one of my students. He is 12 years old and he is A2 level. I described him how Siri works and we made a list of some questions to ask her. We started asking Siri and ,surprisingly, when our questions were over, he was making his own spontaneous questions. It was really motivating for both of us! He had fun and I fullfilled my objectives of the lesson plan.

Nevertheless, you cannot buy a new phone just because you do not have Siri. Most smartphones users own iPhones or Android Phones. If you are an Android user here are some apps that are Siri-like that you can use:

Skyvi (Free) knows about everything from Local Businesses to Food Nutrition! It makes witty remarks and even tells jokes. It has a social side, letting you access Facebook and Twitter using voice.

   Vlingo (Free) is your very own Virtual Assistant. Simply speak to Vlingo and it will help you get more done, faster and easier than before. Try saying "Text John; What's up?" or "find italian restaurants" or even "update Facebook; Vlingo rocks!" Download to learn everything Vlingo can do for you. 

iris. (Free)makes your phone talk on topics ranging from Mozart to stock prices.

Something that started out as a tongue-in-cheek reply to iPhone's Siri, iris. has grown much bigger than being just a Siri clone.

Just ask iris. what you want to know. Right from asking how to cope up with your breakup to movie recommendations and questions on science, culture, history etc.

Speaktoit Assistant (Free) is a virtual buddy for your Android device that uses natural language technology to answer questions, find information, launch apps and connect you with various web services, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Evernote, and many others.

Alice - Voice Control App. (Free) Control your mobile with your voice. Alice is your personal assistant. Alice can assist you to do things quick and easy. Currently supported languages are German and English. Requirements: Google voice search (available in android market for free).

Ask any question using your own voice, Andy will know the answer! Ask any question in your own voice, Andy will know the answer! Andy for Android (Siri for Android) is a voice controlled access to encyclopedic information on a vast array of topics. Ask any question!  It can be anything. Andy covers culture and the arts, biographies and persons, geography and places, society and social sciences, history and events, natural and physical sciences, technology and applied science, religion and belief systems, health, mathematics and logic, philosophy and many other topics.

Wiki This Way: 4 Tools for Accessing Wikipedia on your iPhone or iPad

Wikipedia can be a really useful reference tool. Here are some great apps that for reading wikipedia articles on your mobile device:



iWiki (1.59E) & iWiki HD (2.39E). Experience Wikipedia beautiful on your iPhone or iPad, accessing Wikipedia becomes quick and easy with powerful set of features and perfectly aprimized articles for  reading on your mobile device.

iWiki: http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/iwiki/id298139569?mt=8
iWiki HD: http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/iwiki-hd/id364886908?mt=8

Wikipanion - Free. Accessing Wikipedia has never been faster and easier than with Wikipanion, designed for easy, search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. Streamline your browsing with history grouped by visit date, and bookmarking that not only bookmarks individual entries, but individual sections within an entry. Featuring intelligent features such as:

- Table of contents browser that knows where you are in the page

- Multiple search methods including Smart completion with entry preview, Google searching and a full text Wikipedia search

- Dual language searching and language switching (hiding languages you don't care about)

- Bookmark, including bookmarking individual sections of pages

- History, grouped by last visit date

- Full in-page searching

- Wiktionary dictionary term looking without leaving the current page

- Table based category browsing

- Interactive font resizing

- Image saving to the Photo library

- Ogg vorbis audio playback for dictionary pronunciations and other audio content available on Wikipedia

- Contextual knowledge for sending links to specific sections in a Wikipedia entry

- Easily turn on automatic focusing of the search field on launch

http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/wikipanion/id288349436?mt=8

Wiki Offline Lite - Free. This is the lite version of wiki offline. Whereas the full version includes 10.000.000 full-length articles, this ''lite'' version contains 1,000 most popular Wikipedea articles so you can get a feel for the application before  you buy it. Unfortunately, the full version costs about 8 euros. It's a little pricey but it is really useful if you do not have all the internet connection. 

http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app//id392583941?mt=8

Wiki Offline (1.59E) & Wiki Offline HD (2.39E). Wiki Offline lets you access the top thousands pages on Wikipedia, with full pictures, graphics, and convenient layout --- all without a network connection.

It's perfect for airplanes, iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad users away from Wi-Fi, and people concerned about battery life.

http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/wiki-offline-hd/id369987941?mt=8

5 Great Tools for Doing your Next Presentation with Your iPad

Here are some useful apps that will help you make your next presentations. The most apps are free to download and really easy to use. 

Keynote - 7,99 E is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, it makes creating a world-class presentation - complete with animated charts and transitions - as simple as touching and tapping. Use full-screen view to present right on your i- mobile device or use video mirroring o present it on an HDTV, and preview your slides and notes on your device using presenter dispay. Keynote works with iCloud, so your presentation stay up to date across all your iOS devices - automatically.

                                         http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/keynote/id361285480?mt=8

Keynote Remote - 0.79 E lets you control a Keynote presentation on your Mac, iPad, iPhone or iPod touch from another iPhone or iPod in the room. While you present, view your your current slide and presenter notes in portrait, or the current slide and next slide in landscape. Swipe forward to advance and swipe back to  return to the previous slide.  Keynote works with your Wi-Fi network, so you can control your presentation from anywhere in the room. Keynote remote can use Wi-Fi or Bluetooth when connecting to your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/keynote-remote/id300719251?mt=8

  Prezi Viewer - Free. Show your prezi on the fly! Go to prezi.com, create a prezi, download to your iPad and show it anytime, anywhere. Drag to pan and pinch to zoom in or out of topics, just like you do in any map apps.

 http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/prezi-viewer/id407759942?mt=8

Slideshark - Free. With slideshark you can view and show PowerPoint presentations on your iPad.  Key Features: -play PowerPoint files on your iPad - Preserves animations, fonts, graphics, and colours - Simply tap and swipe to advance animations and slides - Connect to a TV or a VGA - projector to present to large audiences (iPad 2 users)

http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/slideshark-powerpoint-presentations/id471369684?mt=8

MobileSlides - Free. The complete solution to your presentation needs. Mobile Slides is a presentation tool that goes whenever you do. It provides playback control, Q&A session archiving and quick web publishing functions. Any computer platform with Flash Player installed can participate anytime, anywhere in the presentation provided by any iOS device that has Mobile Slides installed on it. Of course, you can use a VGA Adapter and export the slides ino a projector directly. 

For iPhone: Designed as a ''Presentation Remote Control'', it emphasizes on single-hand operation and control of the presentation flow.

For iPad: With more screen real-estate, we are able to use the ''Presentation Control Panel'' as the main design concept. It is designed in a way that relevant informationis all present on the sreen so you are in control of the presentation flow.

http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/mobile-slides/id408502525?mt=8

Create your own interactive books apps with iPad - Free

Here is another great and free app to create an interactive book as an application for iPad. You can create really spectacular books with animations, interactive buttons, music etc. and then publish it on your iPad, share it via email or even publish it on Application Store. It is a little hard to use but when you learn some tips about this app you can really create marvellous books. I have seen that this application can do and I was speechless.

Demibooks Composer is the world's first iPad - based authoring software for creating interactive books. If you're an author, illustrator, designer or publisher, and you've got a story to tell - then this app is for you.

Create your own book apps with realistic physics, animation, images, text, sounds, movies and visual effects.

You can download the user's guide in a pdf here: http://demibooks.com/composerhelp/ComposerUserGuide.pdf

You can download the free app here: 

http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/demibooks-composer/id462838680?mt=8

or scan this code to get the link:

Creare your own textbook for ibooks from your iPad

After Apple's recent anouncement about the new interactive textbooks and ibooks Author application for Mac there was a huge wave of excitement in the field of education. However, there was a little dissapointment  that the new textbooks can be created only by a mac device. I have done a reaserch how can I make my own textbook with my ipad as I do not own a Mac computer. I have found a brilliant app that allows me or my students create an ibook textbook from ipad and publish it on ipad, share it via mail, open it with Dropbox or Evernote. It costs 3.99 E but I consider this app really worth downloading. You can add pictures, change the paper's colour, add your own voice by recording and many other exciting features. 

                                       The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. Read them in iBooks, send them to your friends, or submit them to the iBookstore. Ideal for children’s picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and the list goes on.

•  Quickly add pictures from the Photos app, or grab them from the web, then move and resize them with your fingers.
•  Edit text using the onscreen keyboard, and apply rich formatting to make it look great.
•  Choose from all of the iPad's fonts - over 50 to use.
• Record and import speech and music.
•  Layout your book exactly as you want it with guidelines and snap positioning.
•  A quick tap and you're reading your book in iBooks!
•  Send your books to your friends over email, to iTunes on your computer, over Dropbox, or to a WebDav server.
•  With your books created using the international ePub standard you know they will be readable now and in the future.
•  Support for iBooks’ fixed layout format, including double page images and soundtracks. Please note that fixed layout iBooks are not ideal for long texts such as novels.
•  Includes a Getting Started tutorial plus online support articles at www.redjumper.net/bookcreator
• Upcoming free upgrades will add many more features to Book Creator including video.

---- The app description mentions that you can publish the book on ibooks store but I have not found this option yet.  ------

You can download this app here:

http://itunes.apple.com/gr/app/book-creator-for-ipad/id442378070?mt=8

or you can scan this qr code: