iPhone/iPad
iBooks / iBooks Author (for Mac) | Free
As the key feature in Apple’s recent education event, iBooks 2 with textbooks as well as iBooks Author aim to be a game changer in the publishing world. Apple’s latest update of the iBooks app features a slew of new features especially for iPad users, including embedded video and interactivity, slick new animation effects, and automated flashcard creation. Not only can you read textbooks, but now you can easily create your own with the new iBooks author app for Mac. This is a obvious clue that Apple is trying to do for textbooks what they have already done for digital music, offering publishers an easy way to get their interactive content into ebook form and on sale, and I must say they have done quite an impressive job. In short, iBooks 2 is amazing, and I wish I was back in school. You can download it yourself from the App Store now.
Android
Where’s My Water? | $0.99
Where’s My Water? is a challenging physics-based puzzler complete with top-notch graphics, Multi-Touch controls, and a sensational soundtrack. As top dog in the Android Market’s ‘Top-Paid’ category, this Disney app gives you all you could want for .99 cents. To be successful in you efforts to help Swampy take his bath, you need to be clever and keep an eye out for al sorts of algae, toxic oozes, triggers, and traps. While some of it’s 140 levels are quite challenging, this game is definitely one for all ages, except for maybe those with slower reflexes. Download it today in the Android market
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iPhone/iPad
Tiny Tower | Free
As the 2011 Apple ‘Game of the Year’ this app hardly needs an introduction, and was therefore a shoe-in for our inaugural choice of iPhone App of the Week. For those who aren’t familiar, Tiny Tower lets players create a residential and commercial tower and control the lives of its inhabitants, known in the game as “bitizens.” With its elegant use of pixilated graphics style, easy to use interface, and seamless Game Center integration, this app is truly addictive. Whether an iPhone / iPad / or iPod touch this free app is a must download from iTunes.
Android
Dropbox | Free
If you do not yet have a Dropbox account…get one! Dropbox is a quick and easy way to keep all your files from one computer organized on all of your devices. Here’s a quick intro video for those who are’t familiar. If you need a little more convincing that this newly revamped app for android will definitely do the trick. With its new bulk uploading, file renaming and sharing tools it’s even easier to keep you files organized on any android device. The fact that its free makes this app a must download for all Android users.
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Taylor’s interest in understanding how everything works, gives him the unique perspective of working on projects from every point of view. While the Adobe Creative Suite is where he will always find myself most comfortable, he is also a certified Mobile Applications Developer (on the Appcelerator Titanium Platform) with experience in developing on almost every mobile platform. Pushing the pixels while also writing the code, to make any product look and feel the way it should.
