Educational - Latest Releases

Nov 05, 2012 - Today AssistiveWare and Acapela Group announced the release of Infovox iVox 3.1, which brings the first four genuine, natural-sounding children's voices to Mac OS X. In addition, the update adds three new male voices. These voices work with any Mac application. Besides adding new voices, Infovox iVox 3.1 also fixes an issue with characters with diacritical marks. Words that contain accents will now be pronounced correctly in any foreign language.

Oct 10, 2012 - Sprightly Software introduces Participants 1.1, a first of its kind attendance taking app for Mac makes it easier than ever to record attendance. Perfect for teachers, business people, group organizers, or anyone that needs to take attendance. Participants keeps a history of attendees for individual events and a history of events for each participant, letting users quickly check a participant's history. Version 1.1 includes improved print handling, and many other bug fixes and new features.

Sep 28, 2012 - ScreenCastsOnline released SCOtutor for Mountain Lion, a new video tutorial app. OSX Mountain Lion is the latest OS from Apple and SCOtutor for Mountain Lion takes you through the basics in a simple, easy to follow, logical structure. Whether new to the Mac or an experienced Mac users, Don McAllister shows how to get the most out of Apple's new Operating System by following this new study guide, packed with over 2 hours of HD video tutorials, organised into 30 easily digestible lessons.

Sep 25, 2012 - Preschool University today introduces SOUND BEGINNINGS 1.0 for Mac OS X, the 4th in their series of educational apps that help young children learn to read. Utilizing proven Montessori principles, SOUND BEGINNINGS helps build strong phonics skills and helps develop foundational reading skills. Six learning games offer practice using the sounds and not the names of the letters, and lowercase instead of uppercase letters at the beginning, middle, and end of words.

Aug 09, 2012 - Following extensive research into language students' needs, Ultralingua releases a new online dictionary, verb tool, and grammar reference for Spanish, French, German, Italian, and more. With 15 years of experience making premier dictionary software, Ultralingua is launching a completely redesigned online reference service this week. Accessible for free, it includes all of the reference materials language students need, no matter which educational program they follow.

Aug 02, 2012 - After finding critical and popular success on the iTunes App Store, InterAction Education is bringing it's unique learning app Math Evolve to a wider audience around the world. In addition to iOS, Parents and teachers can now download this award-winning educational app for Mac OSX, Windows, and all Android phones and tablets. Math Evolve is an innovative learning tool for children ages 6-14 that combines math practice with video game elements to make math more fun and engaging for students.

Jul 03, 2012 - Regular Berry Software, a Seattle based developer, announces Algebra Touch 1.0 for OSX. Algebra Touch is an educational app for OSX and iOS for learning and practicing algebra. Algebra Touch features 21 interactive lesson topics and the ability to create your own problems. The app incorporates an equation editor with iCloud sync so that users may create their own sets of problems and access those problems across all of their devices automatically.

Jun 21, 2012 - Sprightly Software today introduces Participants 1.0, a first of its kind attendance taking app for Mac makes it easier than ever to record attendance. Perfect for teachers, business people, group organizers, or anyone that needs to take attendance, Participants keeps a history of attendees for individual events and a history of events for each participant, letting users quickly check a participant's history. Users can import people from their address book, assign them to groups, and more.

May 16, 2012 - Interactive learning company Mindshapes is pleased to announce the launch of Magic Town, the first virtual world based on picture book characters. With content licensed from top publishers, Magic Town provides young children with a single destination for high quality, animated and interactive stories. At launch, Magic Town has 70 popular picture book titles, including more than 20 free stories. There will be 10-15 new titles added each month.