Top 20 iPod Touch & iPhone apps

Here's my list of my top twenty apps (All on the iTunes Store for download - some free, some not):

1. Mail

Great for checking mail anywhere, anytime. Awesome preview of attachments (no saving :-( ). My favourite way to blog.


2. Safari

The best Mobile Web experience around!


3. NetNewsWire

For keeping up with all my RSS Feeds.


4. Fring

Instant Messaging extraordinaire!, also includes Skype, Gmail notifier, and Twitter posts.


5. Twitterriffic

Finally Twitter makes sense ;-)
Includes GPS and Photo microblogging to Twitter.


6. YouTube App

Search, bookmark, email, blob-out to YouTube Videos on the awesomely viewable screen!


7. Google App

Shortcut to Googles Mobile Web Services - formatted for iPhone.


8. Shozu

A social Media-blogging hub!


9. Google Earth

Cool maps! Zoom in on your house!


10. FourTrack

Ditch the cassette recorder - record your musical masterpieces in multitrack using FourTrack.


11. Caravan

Easy Mac & PC file-sharing with iPhone.


12. Bible reader

Carry a searchable Bible everywhere!


13. Path Tracker

Track your movements over Google Maps and savethe path - could be a great car-rally or treasure hunt tool!


14. Mobile Fotos

Flickr on your iPhone.


15. Band

Create some musical inspiration - WOW!


16. Comic Touch

Annotate your pics.


17. DecibelMeter

How load is that music???


18. iProRecorder

Record a voice note or audio PODCast.


19. Voice4Fun

Edit your audio recordings on the iPhone


20. Speedtest

Test how fast your internet connection is - is Telecom/Vodafone ripping you off???

Beached Whale

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVHZwI8pcA

Sent from my iPhone

Billy Joel Concert

Stage - waiting to start!

iPhone Music Video

Rap Music Video recorded entirely on iPhone using Jailbroken iPhone and Cycorda app.

I used Cycorder to shoot everything. This app rocks, but you can only use it if your phone is jailbroken, so go out and jailbreak your iPhone - you will thank me later. After Effects was used to edit the video because Final Cut didn’t like the resolution and frame rate that came out of Cycorder. I particularly like the look of the footage when it gets all warpy because the sensor can’t keep up with the motion. It kind of has this retro/film/stopmotion feel.

See the authors Blog

YouTube video HERE

MLearning the new (fun) frontier

http://wimba.netspot.com.au:80/wimba/player?action=display&rid=1-1226988860644&mid=87-1228211062495

Podcast interview after my presentation at Ascilite2008.

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Nokia N97 Demo - the great Fondle Video

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-elt8MN3I

The N97 looks great, but it looks like the user interface is not as
slick or intuitive as the iPhone, and appears to require multiple
touches to achieve actions? Will have to try one out - can't wait
until June July09 :-)
This of course gives Apple time to introduce the iPhone v3 before
then! Here's hoping! Competition is great!!!

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Nokia N97 Demo

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O2Li74EYew

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Nokia N97 - Nseries with touch and QWERTY

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8590_Nokia_N97-Nseries_with_QWERTY_.php

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mLearning - Using mobile technologies to develop new ways of teaching and learning

mLearning - Using mobile technologies to develop new ways of teaching and learning

http://mlearning.uow.edu.au/


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University of Woolongong mlearning project, a series of 6 week long mlearning trials using Palm Treo680 smartphones and iPods, funded by Australian govt.

Critique: short-term projects with unoptimum choices of technology!

Publishing affordances of mlearning - but will results be coloured by the projects limitations?!

See Ascilite2008 papers of the various case studies. Herrington et al. The study was supported by a team of 12 staff - wow! 12 people doing what I have been doing all on my own at Unitec!

Networked Student

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA

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Auzzie PrePaid Mobile Broadband

'3' have a PrePaid mobile broadband data 'account' option - I'm using this while in Melbourne for ASCILITE2008!

Cost is $10 for the SIM card, $29/month for 2GB data

This is pretty good value & no long term contract required!

AND you can use your own 3G Modem - I'm using a NZ Vodafone 3G Expresscard Modem with the '3" SIM. Only downside is some of the activation process requires the '3' modem software, and it's a pain having to remove cookies to get beyond the 'activation' page each connection :-(

Ascilite2008 Conference

Subway Mobile!

The ubiquitous nature of mobile connectivity is illustrated by the availability of a Subway Express downloadable application for mobile phones for ordering subway sammies from anywhere anytime - as well as "learner generated contexts" we also now have "consumer generated eating" ;-)

Cost = 20c per order - as the application forwards your order as a txt message.

Download yours HERE

Blackberry Storm 9500

The Blackberry Storm 9500 touch-screen smartphone has been getting some good reviews, including from Mac users! e.g:
MacWorld review

The Storm has a couple of features that give it an edge over the iPhone in specifications,

• Cut and Paste


• Higher resolution camera: 3.2MP


• Video recording

However, it BIG limitation is the lack of WiFi!!! WiFi has become a BASIC feature of smartphones, and is critical in educational settings as WiFi provides cost-effective (FREE) access to the Internet on campus for students, whereas the 3G only Storm will cost $$$ for EVERYTHING the students do! :-(

Blackberry are still in a business users mode!

WOA - electronic musicians - SLOrk and "iBand"!!!

Check out this amazing 'band' - all using iPhone/iPod touch music applications to form a band! They have some great videos and audio samples on their website - awesome!

iBand

iPhone Drumming demo:





iBand performance:

SLOrk

Currently highlighted on Apples website is SLOrk - the Stanford Laptop Orchestra!

http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/slork/





http://slork.stanford.edu/

Mourning the End of the Mobile Projects

Students mourn the return of their smartphones at the end of mobile learning projects at Unitec 2008!



Mourning the N95



“This is what I am left with!


It cannot…


Take Photos


Email


Check the wind


Make videos


Be my friend


Tell me where Ennismore Rd is


Or how to get there


Take more photos


Do other internet things


Film this


Be my calendar,


Reminder,


Or memory


(I have a bad memory)


The screen on this is tiny


There is no -


Sports tracker


Bouncy ball


Keyboard


VOX


Location Tag


YouTube


Plus all the rest


I miss my N95


Everything else


Doesn’t


Cut


It”

Mobile Learning Reflections

A series of student reflections on some of the Mobile Learning Trials at Unitec 2008.

Diploma Contemporary Music - iPod/iPhones

Bachelor Product Design (Year2) N95

Bachelor Product Design (Year1) iPhones

Diploma Landscape Design - Sonyericsson P1i

Txttools

Txttools is an SMS (short message service, or text messaging) solution for organizations, including education. There are two main ways to use txttools:

1. Web interface at http://www.txttools.co.uk


2. LMS plugins for Blackboard or Moodle

Features:

• Create groups


• Integration with user profiles in Moodle or Blackboard - i.e. txttools plugin recognises groups, and mobile phone numbers in user profiles.


• Database of sent and received txt messages


• Statistics monitoring - showing sent/received status of messages for each user.


• Automated actions via administrator defined keywords


• Automatic registration of users by txting a keyword to a dedicated txttools number


• Cost confidence - cost = annual license fee, not per message.

Below is the Web Management interface for Txttools:

Moodle Txttools plugins screenshots:

Fring on iPhone

Another free IM client for the iPhone/iPod touch. I've used Fring for a while on a range of Symbian based phones (they also have a Java version) - it's unique feature is the support for Skype over Wifi on the iPhone/iPod touch (Fring supports Skype over 3G in its other versions in addition to WiFi). Fring can be a bit flakey - being a bit of a memory hog, and requires a good signal to logon. However I prefer Fring's interface to that of Palringo or AIM. Previously I have used IM+ on UIQ, which I thought the interface was really nice, however IM+ seems to have logon issues with MSN servers now :-(

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iProrecorder for iPhone

Finally a decent audio recorder for the iPhone!