Turns Your iPad Into a Jukebox

Ion’s Speaker Dock Turns Your iPad Into a Jukebox

Want to give your next party a classic rock-and-roll vibe?
The Ion Jukebox Dock iPad Speaker is a speaker dock with an authentic tabletop jukebox look and feel.

The miniature jukebox is 12 x 8 x 1.2-inches, so it’s sized perfectly to be used on a table or corner of your living room. Encased in a wood cabinet, while docked your iPad is surrounded by neon lights that give the set up an even more authentic look.

The dock works in tandem with your favorite jukebox app (or just iTunes) to play tracks while simultaneously charging your iPad, and displays cover art for those tunes on the front so party goers can see what track is currently playing.
Check out the Ion Jukebox Dock iPad Speaker in the video above.
The $99 dock is available now from Amazon
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‘Angry Birds Star Wars’ Arrives Nov. 8

After teasing a hooded character with a lightsaber in a GIF on Tumblr last week, Rovio Entertainment unmasked the mystery figure Monday in a promo video for Angry Birds Star Wars.

“May the birds be with you,” Rovio says in the video’s description (watch below).
Angry Birds Star Wars will be available to download on Android and iOS on Nov. 8. For now, the Angry Birds Tumblr page lets you choose your destiny: “I’m on the Porkside” or “Rebel Without a Squawk.”

Gmail App for Android Features

Gmail is set to release long-awaited updates to its Android app, including pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-delete.

Website Android Police unveiled an unreleased version of the app on its blog. A video shows the client running Android 4.1., indicating that it doesn’t only work with the latest, upcoming OS (Android 4.2).
The pinch-to-zoom feature lets users zoom in on (and out of) their emails, simply by pinching the screen. With the swipe-to-delete option, users can choose to delete or archive their emails with a swipe gesture, the blog says.

On a less exciting note, users can now also report a message as phishing. Check out the video above for more.

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11 Free Educational iPhone & iPad Apps Used By Real Teachers in the Classroom

With the advent of the school year, teachers who have access to mobile technology are scrambling to find the best education apps for the iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone. Educators use apps for everything from communicating with students to inspiring creativity to dissecting virtual frogs. Luckily, we have lots of educators (including Apple Distinguished Educators) on Appolicious who share their lists of the best education apps for elementary, middle school, junior high, and high school.


These are the education apps most listed by educators on Appolicious.

1. 3D Brain (iPad, iPhone. Free)

Reviewed by educator lmorris: “This is a great learning tool for any student. It shows and describes all the parts of the brain.”
Subject/Grade: Science (Biology). 4-12.

2. BrainPOP Featured Movie (iPad, iPhone. Free)

BrainPop movies teach kids different each day in a variety of subjects, and include quizzes.
Subject/Grade: Language Arts, Math, Science. Social Studies. K-12.

3. Early Jamestown (iPad. Free)

Reviewed by educator lmorris: “This app is a chapter from an interactive textbook series [of the early days of the Jamestown settlement]. At the end of the chapter, they give review questions. The chapters are written to keep student interest and the pictures are great.”
Subject/Grade: Social Studies. 3-6.

4. Edmodo (iPhone, iPad. Free)

Reviewed by 9th grade teacher justatitch: “We have an iPad pilot program at my school and this app is the most commonly used app for sharing stuff. It's easy to use and great for sharing documents and other information. I love it!”
Subject/Grade: Classroom Management. 8-12.

5. History:Maps of the World (iPad, iPhone. Free)

Lots of different maps including ancient maps. Can be displayed on VGA.
Subject/Grade: Social Studies. 4-12.

6. Mad Libs (iPhone. Free)

Great for reviewing parts of speech while creating a silly story.

Subject/Grade: Language Arts. 1-5.

7. NASA App (iPhone. Free)

NASA’s official app has space images and videos, a calendar of their missions, a and a launch schedule. You can also tap on satellites and learn about how and why they were launched into space. Inspiring to future astronauts!
Subject/Grade: Science (Astronomy). K-12.

8. Number Line (iPhone. Free)

This game has you put fractions, decimals, and percentages in order. Great for kids new to these concepts.
Subject/Grade: Math. 2-8.

9. Professor Garfield Cyberbullying (iPad, Free)

Teach kids anti-bullying messages and strategies for dealing with cyberbullies with the help of Garfield and friends.
Subject/Grade: Internet Safety. 3-6.

10. Project Noah (iPhone. Free)

Spot and document flora and fauna in your local area.
Subject/Grade: Science (Biology, Botany, Ecology). 2-12.

11. StoryKit (iPhone. Free)

Students can create their very own storybook with this app by adding text and images.
Subject/Grade: Language Arts. K-12.

Refference: http://www.appolicious.com/

‘Mindblown Life’ iOS Game Aims to Teach Teens Financial Skills

The average student finishes college thousands of dollars in debt and graduates into a world where even the most qualified candidates struggle to land a decent job. Most young adults give little thought to their credit scores or retirement savings, and longterm financial planning is nothing but an afterthought.

But can a mobile game make money management more relevant to youth before they did themselves too deep a hole? That’s what Mindblown Labs, the startup behind the in-development game Mindblown Life, thinks.

The iOS game will have players navigate a series of life-simulating tasks and adventures while interacting with other friends in the game. Balancing work and personal lives while trying not to go virtually bankrupt is meant to teach kids applicable skills such as the financial cost of a bad relationship or the effect of two fancy Starbucks drinks each day on future retirement funds.

A Kickstarter campaign to fund the project is off to a fast start, already raising two-thirds of a $60,000 target goal with with nearly three weeks left to go. Mindblown Labs cofounder Tracy Moore says the game can play an important role for young adults emerging into a dramatically different economy than the one that existed just several years ago.

“We’re at an unsustainable point in financial literacy,” he told Mashable in an interview. “If we don’t do something now, the tomorrow that exists will be dramatically different from the one we imagined and the one we want.”

Mindblown Labs went with a mobile-based approach for Mindblown Life in an effort to reach and become relevant to a younger generation that increasingly accesses the web via smartphone and spends less time on laptops or desktop computers.

The company is involved in aiming to equip younger generations for the future in more ways, too. Moore and two other Mindblown Labs labs members help lead the Hidden Genius Project, a mentorship program that aims to get young black males involved in tech startup entrepreneurship, design and engineering.

Judging by the Kickstarter campaign’s success so far, Mindblown Life shouldn’t be able to see how effective it can before long. But Moore says his startup hopes funding doesn’t dry up at $60,000 because it would love to apply extra cash to some “stretch goals” that would add more features and push the game out sooner.

Does Mindblown Life sound like a Kickstarter you would support? You can check it out here, and let us know what you think in the comments.

An article from Mashable.com