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August 27, 2010 · 3 comments

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American Museum of Natural History’s Explorer iPhone App

August 19, 2010 · 3 comments

While in New York earlier this month, my mom and I visited the American Museum of Natural History.

We checked out the bird and mammal dioramas, the Hall of Minerals and Hall of Gems where we admired the Star of India which is the world’s largest star sapphire, and the fossil halls where the highlight of my visit was a view of a T-Rex as first discovered on an expedition sponsored by the museum in 1902.

As impressive as the museum exhibits were, we were even more impressed by the museum’s free iPhone app.

The American Museum of Natural History Explorer app provided an incredibly easy to use directory of all the popular items on display, halls, food, shops, restaurants, and exits and it provides turn by turn directions within the museum from wherever you are to wherever you want to go. The app made it so easy for us to get from the Hall of Gems to T-Rex even though they’re at nearly opposite corners of the building.

The app also comes with several built in tours to guide you through popular exhibits. There’s a Dino tour, an Earth and Space tour, and 3 different lengths of Highlights or Night at the Museum tours. We already had a good idea of what exhibits we wanted to hit so we didn’t do any of the tours but had we not known exactly what we wanted to see, I think one of the Highlights tours would have been perfect for us.

The other fabulous thing about the museum is that they provided amazingly simple to access and reliable free wi-fi to support the use of their Explorer app.

The bar has been set high and within the next few years every world class museum is going to need an app this good.

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Link Love: Pantone Palettes, Two Headed Dragons, and more

July 30, 2010 · 4 comments

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Apple’s Free iPhone 4 Case Program

July 23, 2010 · 2 comments

Speck Pixel Skin for iPhone 4Apple’s free iPhone 4 case program is in full swing now. Anyone who purchases an iPhone 4 before September 30, 2010 is eligible for a free case.

I already have my Agent 18 Flowervest and it is far cuter than any of the strictly black cases you can get from Apple’s program but I’m requesting my free case anyway so I have a backup just in case anything happens to my current case.

To request your case, you’ll need to download the Apple Case Program app (easy to find by searching for “iphone case” in the App Store app) to your iPhone 4. Once you launch the app you’ll be asked to sign in to your iTunes account. This is a very easy way for Apple to confirm that you are in fact an iPhone 4 owner.

Then you’re presented with several options for black cases for your iPhone 4. I’m getting and recommending to my family and to you the Speck Pixel Skin HD case. I like this case because it’s rubberized which means it will absorb some of the impact if you drop your phone and your front and back glass will be less likely to break. I had a yellow Speck Pixel Skin for my iPhone 3G but since it wasn’t as cute as my Agent 18 Flowervest for my iPhone 3G, I gave it to a friend.

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Link Love: The Guild, The Sesame Street Vampire Theory, and more

July 16, 2010 · 5 comments

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