App Review: myHomework

Price: Free

Developed By:Rodrigo Neri

Developers Site:www.rigoneri.com

myHomework is a simple and easy to use iPhone/iPod Touch application that allows you to keep track of your homework, classes, projects, and tests while interacting with a really cool user interface. I am going to go in-depth of this application. It is free so why not test it out? Especially if your a High School or College student this app is a must for you.

Review:

OK so when you first open up the app you get a notepad background with credits to the developer of the application. Right after it finishes loading the page peels to the top left corner and your on your main myHomework page by default which is the Homework List. There are 3 total sticky tabs on the bottom of the notepad that consist of:

• Homework List(Yellow Sticky)
• Classes(Green Sticky)
• Settings(Blue Sticky)

On the top right of the notepad of both the Homework list and classes pages consists of a "Add +" button. Tap it and then another paper graphic and a paper clip. Now this is your form to add new homework/classes. The forms for the New Homework submissions gives you these form items:

• *Title- Which is obviously needed in order to add it to your notepad.
• Class- To attach a class name that the homework originates from.
• Type- Is it a project, test or just homework?
• *Due Date- Again needed to submit. Lets you know when its due.
• Notes- Very useful if your teacher/professor gives certain instructions for assignment.

Once your finished filling in your assignment you then go ahead and tap the green Confirm button or if you decided for some reason to not add it then go ahead and tap the Cancel button. Pretty straight forward and very easy to do.

Overall Thoughts:

This is by far the best application that I have come across under the Education category in the app store. The design is amazing and fits well into the concept of the application itself. It acts as a to-do list but for people who are in school/college. Overall this is a great application and recommended getting it since its free, and if your in school/college. This app gets a 9/10 for the fact that there could have been more things implemented to this app to make it better. The app is very small and there isn't much too it which some might say makes it better. An idea that was floating around in my head while messing around with this app was that it could use a Category option to where you could sort all of homework, projects, tests etc.

Read the full review here. The review is very long and I didn't want to take up the whole front page of the social blog here.  Hope you enjoyed my review.  And I will be back with more design and review posts for the Social Blog.

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My Top 5 App Store Picks

In front of me, now, is my iPod Touch. On it, the Top Five applications, paid and free, that I am about to recommend to you people!

1. - Backgrounds [FREE] - Backgrounds is a great app in which to get free images and backgrounds for your iPhone or iPod Touch. It has a great user interface including multiple options to browse with as well as sorting options. This makes finding great backgrounds fast, easy and fun.

2. - Arcade Hoops [$1.99] - Arcade Hoops is a fun and addictive game that challenges you to make as many shots as possible. It has two modes: Classic and Progressive. The only difference: the shooting length "progresses" during gameplay making it a fun and challenging way to see how amny shots you can make. PLUS you can share your scores online around the world and compete against millions of other online players to get to number in the rankings.

3. - Pocket God [$1.99] - Pocket God is a great app that has come SUCH a long way. After a numerous amount of updates, it became one of the top selling apps in the entire store. In Pocket God, you are the "God" of an island filled with little villagers. You can torture them in any way imaginable or just play around! See what you can do with Pocket God in the app store.

4. - Trace [FREE] - Not all the best apps cost money. Trace is an amazing strategy game that has a simple objective: get the little stick man to the other side of the screen. However, you must draw your way through this exciting adventure. With hundreds of levels, this game will keep you playing for a long time without getting bored a single bit.

5. - Yo Mama - [FREE] - Yo Mama is one of my personal favorites because I'm not the best at making my own jokes. For those of you like me, you know that we all just steal other peoples jokes! Yo Mama is the best app for tons of hilarious Yo Mama jokes for you to use. Who's the funny guy now?

Other good apps:

BeeJive IM - [$15.99]

Enigmo - [$1.99]

Super Monkey Ball - [$9.99]

Grand Lite - [Free]

Urban Spoon - [Free]

Band - [$9.99]

Arcade Bowling - [$1.99]

Why Choose The iPhone?

There are so many pros and cons with apple's iPhone but here are four reasons you should consider buying:

The Touch Screen
The beautiful touch screen is probably the main reason I chose the iPhone over so many other smart phones on the market. It's display is not only smooth to the touch, but incredibly responsive. Other devices feature touch computability, but lack a glass touch display which makes the device much less responsive. The iPhone's touch screen is also heat sensitive which I noticed was a small, but great feature when I compared the iPhone to the Voyager and Dare. Why you might ask? Because the Voyager AND Dare can automatically unlock themselves in your pocket from loose change or pens touching the screen or lock button. The phone then calls people, goes on thewebor downloads something without the user's permission.

The App Store
While other phones like the Storm (by BlackBerry) and other smart phones running Windows Mobile do have a store for purchasing and downloading applications for the device remotely, Apple obviously tops their stores by far. The App store not only reaches a wide variety ofusers, from teens to adults, but offers applications that take complete advantage of the phones other hardware and software.

The iTunes Store
Purchasing music on the go is something that has been offered with mobile phones for quite some time now. However, none of them offered purchasing from the #1 music provider world-wide until now. With the iPhone, you can purchase any some from the iTunes store with just a tap of your finger. Even though it has a different layout, it still has all the functionality of buying from yourdesktop. I mainly found the store useful when my friends and were hanging out possibly at dinner or watching football and there was music playing. With the iTunes Store app, and after asking someone what the song was, I could buy the song straight from my device and not worry about writing it down or forgetting it later.

The Price
Finally, the pricing. I will admit, just for all those haters of the iPhone out there that the original price of $600 was outrageous. However, now that its merely $199, the pricing is no different between say the iPhone and a BlackBerry Storm. The plan is expensive just like any other smart phone's plan would be. However, unlike other phones, the iPhone has built-in WifiNetworking. So, whenever you're in a Wifi zone, you can save a little money on your phone bill while other smart phones can't.


Just a few reasons why YOU should choose iPhone.