Momento - Diary Ap for iPhone

Going on a journey or just want to keep a diary?  Momento might be a good solution: Capture, import, browse, read, protect (lock your diary).  In moments, it can add all the facebook, Flickr and tweets you ever posted.  See the YALSA blog for more ways teens and teen librarians can use the application.

Education Applications for iPhone and Mobile Devices

Today, I received a request for a list of the top education apps for iPhones. Talk about tech trends -- last year's explosion of mobile apps will be nothing compared with this year's. iPhone started it all -- today, there are 100,000 iPhone apps. Other mobile devices (Blackberries, Palms, smartphones, netbooks, etc) also have mobile apps.

To some extent, I have covered library/educational mobile apps on 2CoolTools. See
- top 10 list of categories of mobile applications
- Mobile Learning
- API - applications for libraries
- Mobile devices

I didn't have a specific list of most popular education apps, but the question made me look and find some sites that review education apps:

• http://www.iear.org/iear/author/iear
• http://iphone-apps.toptenreviews.com/education/
• http://www.eduinreview.com/blog/2009/05/8-must-have-education-apps-for-iphone/
• http://www.apple.com/search/?q=education&sec=iphone (almost 5,000 education apps)
  

CES - Consumer Electronics Show 2010

Good to hear that the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was more upbeat than last year. Apple no longer does trade shows, but in anticipation of Apple's planned end-of-January announcement, lots of vendors showcased tablet PCs. Top three products that got media attention were tablets and netbooks, 3D TVs, and e-book readers. See Wildstom's summary and LATimes item on e-book Readers. See FLICKR slideshow for a glimpse at all the gadgets, games, and guys (99% male audience). CNET editors announced its "Best of CES" (Panasonic 3D plasma TV and Intel Wireless). Local California company Sling Media made some big announcements -- Slingbox is a TV streaming device that allows consumers watch their home TV from all sorts of devices, from anywhere.

CES reported its 2010 Top Trends:

1. Year of the App - 2009 was only the beginning!
2. iPhone vs Palm - 2010 will see more mobile announcements
   
3. Green is the new black - Sustainable planet
4. Software - Windows 7
   

Education products and applications were addressed in several forums, including "Living in Digital Times"and HigherEd Tech Summit, but the news media focused mostly on consumer gadgets.

APIs for Libraries

SIRSI/DYNIX's Stephen Abrams has collected a list of useful applications (APIs) for libraries, listing them in his Stephen's Lighthouse Blog.