The term clean energy refers to creating electricity from sources that are renewable or that create little or no pollution during production. The activities within the application facilitate scientific inquiry on renewable energy topics by way of interactive experiences that leverage the iPad functionality. Hawaii is used as a portal to all information and activities in part because the application development team resides in Hawaii and in part because the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative’s goal is one of the most ambitious in the United States to date: 70% Clean Energy by 2030.

The application starts with a fully touchable view of all the islands in Hawaii. It allows students to see what types of clean energy including biomass, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar, and wind are available on each island. A detailed description for each energy type is available. Students can explore and learn about the energy mix and the legend of each island. Touchable icons show all the types of clean energy and their general locations with each providing detailed information on the energy site. Where available, photos, videos, and web links are included. Additionally, two activities and links to related projects are shown. The first activity is always tied to the specific type of energy. The second is randomly selected to make it more exciting for the students.

Seven unique activities are included to inspire STEM exploration and inquiry: 1) Tap into the heat of the earth to generate power (Geothermal Plant), 2) Use agricultural byproducts to generate power (Electric Biomass), 3) Build a custom wind farm (Wind Farm), 4) Generate electricity from stream flow (Stream Hydro Power), 5) Tilt your iPad to the sun as if it were a photovoltaic (PV) solar panel (Solar Panel Tilt), 6) Discover how one PV system can perform around the world (Peak Sun Hours), 7) Build a PV solar farm (Cloud Challenge).

For five of the activities, students have the ability to use the scientific inquiry process to pose a question; develop a hypothesis; identify control, independent, and dependent variables; formulate a conclusion, and then pose further questions. For these activities, students can collect up to ten data points, by changing several variables. The data along with the student’s scientific inquiry answers can be emailed to a teacher or sent to an iPad compatible printer. For one of the activities, a 40 watt photovoltaic (PV) solar cell is simulated and the students are asked to figure out the best way to position the panel for their geographic location and for selected locations around the world. For the last activity, students are quizzed on peak sun hours and power output for a typical 3.5 KW PV home solar system for locations around the world.

Device Requirements:
* Compatible with iPad
* Requires iOS 4.2 or later
* 17 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Clean Energy Hawaii STEM 1.0 is $4.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category and in the Educational Games category. Clean Energy Hawaii STEM is also available from Apple under their App Store Volume Purchase Program for educational institutions. Additionally, through March 31, 2011 qualified teachers in Hawaii schools can receive a single complimentary copy of the application by contacting Ms. Diana Papini Warren, Women in Technology Project Manager.

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Founded in 2008 and located in Maui Hawaii, NSC Partners LLC is a privately held company that innovates by developing mobile, web, and database software applications for education, healthcare, business, and sports. Its Partners have deep expertise in business, strategy, management, technology, software, litigation, finance, accounting, tax, healthcare, and medicine. Copyright (C) 2011 NSC Partners LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Tilt to Live, currently enjoyed by more than half a million users, is an arcade shooter with a unique combat system. Rather than endlessly firing at enemies, players must evade them long enough to reach one of nine unlockable weapon orbs. All of this action is controlled exclusively by responsive, customizable tilt controls. The game’s scope has been expanded over time to include 4 gametypes, plus an additional turret weapon and gametype with purchase of the Viva la Turret expansion.

In Viva la Coop, the two-player version of Viva la Turret, two local players must work together to survive an endless barrage of enemies for as long as possible, racking up as many points as they can. One player operates a minigun turret, giving himself and his defenseless teammate some breathing room. The other player is in charge of collecting multiplier jewels left behind by defeated enemies.

Viva la Coop marks the fourth major expansion since Tilt to Live’s February 2010 release on the App Store, and celebrates the game’s one year anniversary. It will be ported to Tilt to Live HD, the game’s iPad counterpart, this March.

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Based in Montgomery, Alabama, One Man Left Studios is a game development studio for the iDevice platforms. Tilt to Live for the iPhone, currently enjoyed by a half million users, and Tilt to Live HD for the iPad. Copyright (C) 2011 One Man Left Studios. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Bord unique features:
* Realistic chalk – Create drawings using six colors and three thicknesses of realistic chalk. You can even draw with 10 fingers at once
* Realistic sponge – The sponge will clean drawings leaving subtle chalk traces. To completely erase your drawing, just shake the device
* Playback drawing – Your saved drawings can be loaded with playback in the realtime or with different speeds
* Email & Facebook – Send your drawings via e-mail and make your grandma happy! Post your works directly on Facebook

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.0 or later
* Universal Application
* 8.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Bord 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category. For more informations or promo codes for app review please contact us directly.

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Pixle are talented and skilled dots from Poland. We are making cool designs for mobile devices, websites and corporate identity. Copyright (C) 2011 Pixle. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

“The new printer can be used in a number of situations, a high-end boutique that wants to enhance their customer service by equipping sales associates with the ability to print receipts and eliminate lines, to the municipal parking clerk that wants to increase their accuracy rate by taking a high resolution picture with their Apple device and printing the violation with detail on the spot,” comments, Martin Ochsenfeld, Sales Manager, GeBE Elektronik.

Ideal for Parking Violation Management, Medical Technology, Public Transportation, Mobile Payment, Restaurants and more, the GeBE-FLASH(R) for iOS offers unparallel printing freedom. The economical printer features an elegant black housing and comfortable handling with straightforward App for managing printing from an Apple device. GeBE-FLASH prints graphics, barcodes and text clear and quickly on 58mm wide paper. The optional belt holster contains the unit when both hands are needed.

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GeBE Elektronik und Feinwerktechnik GmbH has been a recognized manufacturer of professional output devices for decades. Due to a reliable system for quality assurance (DIN EN 9001:2008 certificated) and many years of experience in manufacturing, GeBE has created a large customer base for small and medium sized order quantities. With cleverly structured modular systems, solutions can be realized fast, easily, and cost-effectively for our customers. GeBE supplies the components as well as complete devices, particularly thermal printers, controllers, and accessories. Copyright (C) 2011 GeBE Elektronik und Feinwerktechnik GmbH. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Nachos! is a new product offering from Essare LLC. The Essare developers have created the game as a fun learning tool for children age four to twelve. Of course, the kids’ parents can play, too.

Players start out with a Nachos! bank account, which has a starting balance of two hundred and fifty nacho bucks. With that money, players can purchase an assortment of fun platters, as well as classic or unusual ingredients such as cookies or bananas. The idea is to make a batch of nachos so good that they can be sold for profit, or eaten by the chef. If a batch is eaten quickly and neatly enough, the cook will still make a bit of money.

Kids will have a lot of fun with this application while, at the same time, learn a bit about how business and profit works.

These are some of the features offered in Nachos!
* Really fun and easy to use
* Designed for kids 4-12 and their parents
* Game starts with 250 nacho bucks and can be reset when spent
* Lots of ingredient and platter options for unique creations
* Sell or eat nachos for nacho buck profits
* 14 achievement rewards for great results
* Game Center usage is optional
* New ingredients will be added

There are fourteen achievement rewards in Nachos! Players can earn an achievement by doing a really good job with their nacho creations. The rewards can be tracked with or without using the app’s Game Center, which also displays number of player batches and high bank account balance.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.2 or later
* 28.7 MB

Pricing and Availability
Nachos! 1.2.2 is only $0.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Entertainment category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.

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Essare LLC is based in Minnesota, but has a worldwide reach. The company publishes applications and games for a number of mobile devices, including iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and BlackBerry. Essare was selected as a 2010 Regional winner in the BlackBerry annual app contest. Copyright (C) 2011 Mobile-App-Marketing-Makeover. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

This child oriented application represents a perfect catalyst for children to nurture their artistic abilities. 3D Coloring Book: Winter gives kids of all ages much greater freedom to explore art and personal expression than do other conventional coloring apps. Meanwhile, a variety season specific pre-drawn 3D outlines reminiscent of winter are available for coloring. These helpful coloring guides include everything from vistas the North Pole to cute cartoon Reindeer characters, among many others. As an added bonus, these clear outlines ensure that even the most inexperienced of children can effectively create fluid illustrations. As users color in various portions of 3D Coloring Book’s canvas, changing hues and shading effects are automatically added to create a realistic three dimensional appearance.

With a remarkably diverse set of useful features, 3D Coloring Book: Winter will engage children’s imagination’s throughout this winter and well into the future, helping them create vivid winter themed illustrations that are uniquely theirs. The app gives users the ability to add pre-designed themes and afterwards even allows users to insert some animation to their newly drawn winter characters. Furthermore, keeping finished art is simple with 3D Coloring Book: Winter as artwork can be saved directly within the application itself. The newest addition to ComboApp’s 3D Coloring Book series of children’s apps to become available for the iPhone and iPod touch, 3D Coloring Book for Kids: Winter offers both the creative power and usability to provide kids with an endless source of artistic entertainment while encouraging their creative development as well.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.0 or later
* 7.3 MB

Pricing and Availability:
3D Coloring Book for Kids: Winter 1.0 is $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category.

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Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, ComboApp is emerging mobile application marketing/ PR Agency focused on utilizing effective web based promotion to raise awareness and drive sales of newly released apps. The organization also maintains an active mobile application publishing arm, focusing on providing consumers with the highest quality mobile learning resources currently available on the mobile marketplace. (C) 2011 ComboApp Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

* skEdit
skEdit is an all purpose Text/HTML editor includes features to assist in the editing of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, ASP, Ruby/Rails, SQL, ActionScript and ColdFusion. skEdit offers powerful search and replace on single and multiple files, with regular expressions, Tidy integration and much more.

* Yummy FTP
Yummy FTP is an FTP and SFTP client application for the Apple Macintosh, built as native Mac OS X software from the ground up, with the goal of providing a reliable, powerful, yet easy to use file transfer utility. Since itaEuro(TM)s release, Yummy FTP has gained a reputation for being the fastest, most reliable, and most flexible FTP client available.

* Involer
Involer makes invoicing easy intuitive and fun. With a sleek user interface and super easy functionalty, Involer is the best solution for creating, and managing invoicing and billing on your Mac.

* Better Link Tester (BLT)
Better Link Tester (BLT) is a Macintosh OS X based Website link testing application. A link checking application is used to make sure that every link on your site actually points somewhere and doesn’t show the dreaded 404 error. It is a great way to make sure that your site give your customers the best experience, so that they will want to come back again and again.

* Stor
Stor is a MySQL editor that gives a spreadsheet-like interface over your databases and makes data entry easier than ever before.
Stor allows simple editing of MySQL data, on your local machine, or on a remote server (Stor supports SSH tunnelling).

* Simon
The essential site monitoring tool for Mac OS X, and Dejal’s flagship product. It checks servers for changes or failures, and notifies you via email, sound, speech, or other means. You can use it to track updated sites, and to alert you when an important server goes down or recovers. It can be used to monitor your own website and servers, track posts and new comments on your or friends’ blogs, check for web mail, get notifications of updates to favorite news and entertainment websites, keep an eye on auctions, communicate with arbitrary servers, and many other uses.

Pricing and Availability:
The Web Development Toolkit 2.0 is available immediately from the BundlesForMac website for a price of $29.99 (USD) until March 3, 2011.

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BundlesForMac was started in 2010 as a partnership between NothingButMac and ShakeOnIt to fill a need in the Mac Application Bundle space. Our goal is to provide bundles for targeted groups and fill those bundles with good and useful applications. And of course it all comes at a fantastic price. Copyright (C) 2011 BundlesForMac. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Dustin and Maylissa Luby, owners of Jolly Books, commented recently, “All of our stories are written in rhyme and have a comical story line. Good Rhyme is important to emergent literacy and learning to read because it teaches children about the language. Rhyming helps children learn about word families such as let, met, pet, wet, and get. Rhyming also teaches children the sound of the language. Other important skills include phonological awareness, the ability to notice and work with the sounds in language. Rhymes help children with phonemic awareness, which is the knowledge that phonemes are the smallest units of sounds that make up words. This awareness leads to reading and writing success.” These views are confirmed by those of the two most influential linguists known: Ferdinand de Saussure’s concept of “relations of difference,” and Noam Chomsky’s theory of “universal grammar.”

Pet Shop Boy is fun from beginning to end. There are no telltale clues that any lessons are being taught, moral, linguistic, or otherwise. Children and adults will enjoy the book for the story, characters, voices, and dramatic conflict that produces humor. The rhyming is unforced, and the dialogue and narrative both flow naturally. Readers have the ability to set various features on/off: automatic page turning, music and effects, and reading the text aloud.

Feature Highlights:
* Colorful, animated, ebook made especially for the iPad
* Optional features include: read text aloud, musical accompaniment, and automatic page turning
* Over 50 touchable elements including animation, voices and sound effects
* A boy is in search of a pet to call his own with each one having its own comical punch line
* Rhyming text helps children learn about words, sounds, and meaning
* A delightful story with each character speaking in their own voice
* Pets sound on touch helping younger readers identify different animals

Mr. and Mrs. Luby have stated, “Jolly Books are creative recordings of experiences we all face through our childhood years. This humorous collection is not only exciting for children to read but they spark young readers’ imaginations. Off-the-wall story lines combined with everyday situations yield such comical conclusions that words sometimes fall off the page. Dynamic illustrations partnered with ‘Childish’ writing suggest it is not a descriptive word, but a language all its own. Our love for laughs and unforgettable memories provide us with material to bring children genuine laughter which reveals their innocence. We enjoy helping other parents share the precious moments that we share with our children and help to imprint joy on their hearts. We find it a tremendous honor to speak into children’s lives with a new style and delivery for this generation and those to come. The heart of Jolly Books is to reassure each child that anything is possible.”

Device Requirements:
* iPad compatible
* iOS 3.2 or later (iOS 4 tested)
* 31.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Petshop Boy 1.0 is $2.99 (USD) and available worldwide through the App Store in the Books category. Review copies are available upon request.

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Founded in 2008, Jolly Books, LLC is a partnership between the husband and wife team of Dustin and Maylissa Luby of Virginia Beach, Virginia. The company is currently developing an iPad-based curriculum for schools, and collaborates with writers interested in children’s literature and textbooks. Copyright (C) 2011 Jolly Books. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod, and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Cryptoku’s theme draws from the world of Unix and computer hacking, and the green-on-black graphics suggest an old green-screen computer terminal. The premise: you’re hacking into a computer system, and each level is a numeric pass code. White key numbers (set by the system) give you a starting point for solving the puzzle. Green boxes are ciphers that you have to solve yourself. As you place numbers into the grid, their color changes to indicate whether they’re correct (green), one digit off (yellow), or wrong (red).

As you solve levels and get further into the system, the challenges get harder:
* Some falling numbers count backwards … or skip digits
* /tmp numbers fade away
* Rotating keys change out their solution with another number in the grid
* Viruses infect neighboring numbers

Cryptoku has a color-blind mode, so players that have trouble distinguishing the red/green/yellow color changes can play by symbol rather than color.

Cryptoku is available in both lite and full versions. The full version has two game types:
* Crypto, which is longer and suitable for all skill levels
* Hack, a sudden-death game that starts tougher and can end much quicker

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later (iOS 4.0 Tested)
* 13.8 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Cryptoku 1.1 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. The full version also features Game Center leaderboards for both Crypto and Hack games.

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Lightsphere LLC, founded in 2010 by J. Kira Hamilton, creates games and apps for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Lightsphere LLC. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Feature Highlights:
* The first Tower Defense game with a story for the iPhone
* Three playable characters with unique spires and personalities
* 5 maps, 13 enemies, 11 spires, 3 difficulty levels, 3 game modes
* Hand-crafted artwork, sound and music
* Voice acted cut-scenes
* Story mode for RPG enthusiasts
* Gauntlet mode for Strategy fans
* Survival mode for Action lovers

This game features an extensive plot told through the perspectives of three young sorcerers. Voice acting and dialog allow the player to experience the action along side the story. In addition to an epic story, Spires comes with two additional modes: Gauntlet and Survival. Gauntlet is a puzzle mode designed to test the most hardened of strategists, and Survival is an action-heavy mode that challenges you to last as long as you can against an endless horde. Both of these modes take advantage of Apple Game Center to allow you to challenge your friends.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later (iOS 4.0 Tested)
* 94.0 MB

Pricing and Availability:
Spires 1.0 is only $0.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Games category. Spires HD will be released shortly with enhanced graphics for Retina iOS devices.

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Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Prophetic Sky was founded by Nicholas Elliott (CTO and Vice President) and Evan Moran (CEO and President), two former Microsoft Software Engineers with combined experience in enterprise software, parallel data processing, and high-availability web services. Copyright (C) 2011 Prophetic Sky, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.