Blackberry Playbook

Today the new Blackberry Playbook comes out.  With a lack of apps and no built in email or calendar ( you have to sync with your Blackberry phone to get them) I do not think the iPad is safe.  What do you think?

Free iPad Apps

This is all over the tech blogs and I did put them on that 20 iPads we have at school.

There are several iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch apps from Everyday Mathematics a part of McGraw-Hill.  The lists that I have seen way that there are 10 apps that are available but I could only find 9 of them.   They are FREE from April 13-16 during the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Conference. After April 13 they will go back to being $1.99 each.  Once at the apps store I just looked up Everyday Mathematics and the 9 apps I could find came right up!

- Addition Top-it
- Subtraction Top-it
- Beat the Computer
- Name that Number
- Equivalent Fractions
- Tric-Trac
- Monster Squeeze
- Baseball Multiplication 1-6 Facts
- Baseball Multiplication 1-12 Facts (I could not find this one)
- Divisibility Dash

Look how far we have come.

NPR's Blog The Picture Show has a photo history up right now called On Apple's Birthday, A Brief History Of Computing check it out.

Congratulations it's an iPad 2!

 

Today Steve Jobs gave us the first look at the iPad2. It will join the Apple family on March 11th.  It has two cameras, HD video, and it is two times faster. Check out the Apple iPad2 page. There are lots of videos and photos. If you don't think you want an iPad you will after you watch the iPad2 Video. I know what I want for my birthday!