“Clockwork Brain” is a fun, free app for iDevices. Sprocket, the robot, gives easy instructions for each of the mini-games that come in the free version. Included are: ★ Scrolling Silhouettes: Trains Visual/Spatial Ability ★ Anagrams: Trains Language Processing ★ Missing Tiles: Trains Arithmetic ★ Chase the Numbers: Trains Memory ★ Size Matters (Unlockable Bonus): … Read more
My holiday series of “Gifts for the Gifted” concludes today with a post on apps that you might want to pre-load on that new iDevice you’re about to set under the tree. This is, by no means, an exhaustive list. New apps are released weekly, of course, and there are quite a few older apps … Read more
On Monday, I posted a couple of holiday cards that I made using Aurasma Studio. If you follow the instructions on my post, then you can view “augmented reality” versions of the cards. I promised that I would give instructions for making the cards shortly. These are NOT the instructions 🙂 I found that getting … Read more
Shadow Move is a free app that I hate. I should probably confess that the apps that I hate are usually the ones that challenge me the most – quite often demanding some kind of spatial acuity that I seem to lack. Also in this category are the apps that become addictive, that I stay … Read more
Factory Balls is a bewitchingly challenging Flash game that I found out about on “Technology Rocks. Seriously.” You have to drag the white Christmas ornaments to the appropriate tools that surround the tree to recreate the colors on the sample ornament. Each level becomes increasingly difficult, as you have to learn how to layer the … Read more