GeoGebra for Windows 8, iOS, and Android

This fall GeoGebra released new apps for Android, iPad, and Windows 8. All three of the apps include the graphing and modeling tools availa...

Two Touch Screen Windows 8 Laptop Reviews

I don't often do reviews of devices (I have done a few over the years), but at this time of year a lot of students and their parents are...

iStoryBooks - Narrated Children's Stories on Windows 8

iStoryBooks is a service that I reviewed a couple of years ago when it launched on iOS and Android. Now it's available as a Windows 8 a...

ActiveNote - Organized Sticky Notes & Reminders

ActiveNote is a free Windows 8 application that brings organization to sticky notes. ActiveNote organizes your sticky notes into three colu...

Music Maker Jam - Music Creation on Windows 8

Music Maker Jam is a free Windows 8 app for creating music tracks to download and use in multimedia projects. Music Maker Jam provides four...

Three Minutes to Understanding Windows 8 Shortcuts

Every week I hear from people about their struggles to get accustomed to Windows 8. And I struggled a bit with the first day or two that I u...

Reading RSS Feeds on Windows 8

In my on-going efforts to explore alternatives to Google Reader and familiarize myself with Windows 8 applications I recently tried using Bi...

Cinelab - Simple Video Editing for Windows 8

Cinelab is a free Windows 8 app for quickly editing videos on your computer or Windows 8 phone. You can trim the start and end times of you...

Pin-a-note - Sticky Notes for Your Windows 8 Start Screen

The more I use Windows 8 the more I get the hang of the shortcuts and the utility of the start screen. This morning I added a new utility to...

Watch Pandas and More on the National Zoo App

For the last two weeks I've been trying to use Windows 8 as much as possible. I'm using a Lenovo Yoga 13 to try a bunch of Windows 8...

8 Handy Windows 8 Shortcuts

Learning to navigate a new operating system on a computer can be a stressful experience for a lot people. Fortunately, whenever a new operat...

myHomework Helps Students Keep Track of Assignments

myHomework is a free app that students can use on the web on iPads, on  iPhones, on Android devices, and on Windows 8 devices to keep track...