The New York Times Knowledge Network announced the release of “Learning English With The New York Times”, a new app for the iPhone and iPod Touch designed for intermediate to advanced English learners to improve reading and listening skills, and to learn new vocabulary.

“The New York Times newspaper has always been an integral part of helping individuals learn English,” said Felice Nudelman, executive director, education, The New York Times Company. “The iPhone app is an ideal educational tool for English learners and an innovative way to reach this new audience.”

The application is available for a one-time cost of $5.99 and comes with 12 lesson plans based on famous or historical articles from The New York Times. Each lesson plan includes: Vocabulary Flashcards; Article Reading Task; Audio for Articles and Key Words (for pronunciation development); Comprehension Task; Three Vocabulary Review Tasks; and A World Bank Dictionary (with translation in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Spanish).

Teacher Calculator is a simple tool which is designed for educators by an educator to save time grading papers. It only does one thing, but it does it well.

After specifying the number of questions on your assignment, Teacher Calculator will let you quickly lookup or enter the number of questions a student got right or wrong and show you the student’s percentage score. It is easy to use, fast, and it leaves more time to focus on kids!

A few weeks ago, ratemyprofessors.com finally decided to jump on the app bandwagon. This is great news for college students all around, as the app, like the website, will feature over 10 million reviews and comments for more than 1 million professors at 6,000+ schools within and beyond US borders. Now students can have this useful information in the palm of their hands when signing up for classes, talking with fellow students, or figuring out if a class is worth staying in — without having to rely on computer access. Students hold the grade book now, and at only $0.99, this app is certainly A-worthy.

Test your knowledge of the human body! This game is perfect for anyone who wants to learn about the human body or brush up on their knowledge. For only $0.99, You can choose to practice, or jump right into the game. The first image is that of the human torso, organs, muscle, and all! The name of a body part appears on the top of the screen, and you have to touch that part of the body on the screen before time runs out! Faster correct responses result in higher points… but you must get more than 50% correct in order to move onto the next level!
The 28 levels cover the respiratory, digestive, audio, and visual systems, along with any and all bones, organs, tissues, muscles, veins, and arteries!

This game is a blast! If you are at all fascinated with the way he human body works, Speed Anatomy is a must!
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Forget memorizing lists of words and translations, learn the French language intuitively and naturally using the proven image association method!

The TripSpeak learning tool simulates immersion by helping the user associate words with images and concepts rather than direct translations. This natural method makes learning a language faster, more effective and fun! Read the rest of this entry »

FingeringChart gives musicians fingerings for 8 instruments with a swipe. This app is the essential fingering reference for beginning and advanced musicians.

Basic and alternate fingerings for:

· Flute
· Clarinet
· Saxophone
· Trumpet
· Single French Horn
· Double French Horn
· Trombone
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First of all congratulations everybody that the wait and hype is finally over. All of us at iPhoneApplicationList.com are very excited about the new device. We see a lot of opinions in the press that it looks like “overgrown giant iPhone” or that there are no new features on the iPad compared to iPhone.

I do not think so! The tremendous difference  is exactly in the screen size, content (movies, newspapers, books) made for big screen and WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT — APPS for big screen! Developers, just think about the opportunity of developing and using new innovative interfaces with huge multi-touch OLED beauty! This is a new platform even if it looks same as iPhone and huge challenge to get your applications right and discover all the new use cases of the device.

Do not get mislead. We are going to see a success of iPad.