(updated Feb. 14) Smarty Ears puts SEVEN of their apps on SALE this week

Language AdventuresFebruary 14, 2013:  We have seen this app being used by several of our co-therapists at the clinic, and we are telling you that you must take advantage of today’s sale:  Language Adventures is now down from $24.99 to $14.99 only until February 16, 2013!  Work on an lot, and we mean A LOT of activities with your young clients:  categories, inferences, wh- questions, synonyms, antonyms, multiple meanings, etc.  We hope one day we get to have a chance to review this beautiful game-board format app.  Seriously, we watched our co-speech pathologists kids play with it, and we want in, too.

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Custom Boards

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 13, 2013:  Yesterday, Custom Boards Premium went up on SALE for $29.99 (down from $39.99).  Use Custom Boards Premium as a board and create augmentative-alternative communication activities for your kid clients.  This app boasts of over 11,000 built-in symbols from its Smarty Symbols library, and allows the user to add one’s own photos.  If you’ve been waiting for this app to go on sale, now’s the time to snatch it off the App Store!  Discounted price available only until February 16, 2013.

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Articulation Scenes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 12, 2013:  Could it be because Valentine’s day is near?  Smarty Ears is offering seven of the apps at severely reduced prices this week!  First up is Articulation Scenes for iPad:  from $29.99 now down to $19.99 until February 16, 2013.  Barbara Fernandes, the CEO of Smarty Ears, specified that “This is by far the best app we have ever developed!”  As with many of their apps, we guarantee that this is a good deal.

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 Keep checking back to this page for more sale announcements!

Apps on Sale (or gone FREE) for Better Speech and Hearing Month

It’s BSHM 2012! Time to sync and backup those iOS devices, move thousands of pictures into your external hard drive, delete unused apps and allot space for your favorite apps that have gone ON SALE! 

Note:  The prices and dates indicated below were obtained from app developer announcements, blogsites and from the App Store.  Prices may change without further notice, so we ask that you double-check the apps’ quoted prices before buying.

Tactus Therapy Solutions Apps (20% discount from May 4 to May 8, 2012)

Smarty Ears Apps (50% discount until May 9, 2012)

Super Duper Publications (from $5.99 to $1.99) :

Pocket SLP Apps (crazy low discounts until May 8, 2012!)
Virtual Speech Center (on sale until May 8, 2012)
Mobile Education Store (on sale until May 8, 2012)
Abitalk Mobile Education (on sale until 9:00 pm PST May 4, 2012)
Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language & Auditory Development                           (on sale until May 8, 2012)
And more!!
Apps with pending updates regarding their sale prices:

Keep checking back at this list as we update it with more useful apps that have gone on sale for you!

 

Therapy Apps on SALE in celebration of the World Autism Awareness Day on April 2

Heads up!  These apps are on SALE on April 2, World Autism Awareness Day!

We’ll be adding more to this list once we get information about other apps going on sale:

NOTE:  Discount availability varies across apps.  Some are on sale for April 2, others are discounted for the rest of April.

 

 

Prices Slashed:

Giveaways:

Discounted apps! Fire up your iOS device and grab these deals

 

The school year in the U.S. is just about to start and this is the perfect time to load up on apps that you can use at work!  We rarely get app discounts and freebies in the SpEd and speech-language therapy worlds, so grab the following apps as soon as you can.  NOTE:  Some apps have been by default free, but we all LOVE lists, so here it goes:

 

 

For a more complete list, go to the Technology in (Spl) Education site.  Happy downloading!

 

(Literally) Shoot Around You with 360 Panorama

It took the sudden rise of the Philippine football team Azkals in the sport and TJ Manotoc’s–@tjmanotoc on Twitter–impeccable sports reporting to bring to our attention the app 360 Panorama.  He uploaded on Twitter beautiful 360degree views of the football stadium (and the roaring fans) and it felt quite right to check this app out.

The current price alone was encouraging: $0.99 3.1 launch sale (for a limited time only), 66% off from the regular price.   Startup screen brings you directly to a curved grid which prompts you to point your iPhone’s camera to the starting point of your (future) panoramic masterpiece and click Start Capture start shooting automatically.  Point your iPhone’s camera to parts of the panorama you want completed (it would be an excellent idea if you stand/sit in one fixed point and just rotate your own self around until you complete your desired panorama range).

On the Settings page one can opt to view the panorama on a 360 view or stereographic view.  Tinker with the background andchoose whether you want it white or black.  I personally prefer black.  Better viewing experience.

What I like about this app:

  • automatic shooting: no need to click a shutter button each time you want to take the next picture. Point your device to another part of the scene and it ‘reveals’ on the screen that scene
  • automatic stitching: the most painful part of panoramic shooting is the stitching part… and this app saves you all that trouble
  • 360-degree photo review: swipe your results left to right and you see your panorama come to life near-3D
  • sharing options: one can choose to send the photo via email or upload on Twitter

What this app could benefit from:

  • $0.99 forever!

360 Panorama is simple, intuitive, and fun to use for every shooting project.  Gives one reason (and leaves one with absolutely no excuse) to go on several vacations and do panorama-tripping.

And since it was so unfortunate for me to have only discovered this recently after doing several trips, below is a panoramic shot of my workplace.  Not much.  Halong Bay in Vietnam would have been a better sample shot.

Price: $0.99
Weight: 1.1 MB
Updated: 18 December 2010
Version: 3.1
Compatible with: iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch (4th Gen), iPhone 4.  Needs iOS 4.0 up

Customer Ratings (iTunes): 4 out of 5 smileys

iSPeak App says: 4 out of 5 smileys

On SALE Until October 31, 2010! Quickoffice Mobile Connect Suite for iPhone & iPad

Who among us isn’t dependent on Microsoft Office for all our document, spreadsheet and presentation work?  And who among us hasn’t wished that we could bring our work with us and make assessment reports (shudder) or at least review a slide presentation on the go?

Few words on the Quickoffice Mobile Connect Suite for iPhone: indispensable, a worthy investment, and on SALE!  What can QO do for you?  You can, on the fly:

  • create a new MSOffice file, open and edit files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx)
  • email MSOffice files, view and open MSOffice attachments including file formats such as .pdf, .ppt, iWork, .html, .png, .jpg, .gif, .svg, .tif, .mp3, and the like)

But why the Mobile Connect Suite?  Why not the Quickoffice Mobile Suite, the one without the “Connect?” Ok, both versions can also allow file sharing via email and wifi.  I am however personally giving bigger thumbs up on the Connect version because of one word:

CLOUD

Yeah, they’re nice, big, and fluffy, and give us a heck lot of trouble during typhoon season.  What I mean is that the Connect version lets you store files in an online “storage service” for you to access anytime, anywhere.  You don’t have to email files to yourself for you to carry them and give yourself a headache scrolling through your emails.  Chuck your files in a cloud storage service (one of the best FREE ones out there is Dropbox) and access it anywhere in the world for as long as you have wifi or 3G service.

If you haven’t gotten QO yet, you may want to do so today.  Sale ends tomorrow!

Regular Price:  9.99

Sale Price: 6.99