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This post is a bit late, but quite a few of my iPhone programs have been updated in the past week or so. Times Tables, Learn Time, Learn Time Lite, and Roman Quiz have all received a number of fixes and improvements.
My favourite change is the animated menu that I added to Learn Time and Learn Time Lite. The user is still presented with a table view from which they choose the starting level, but there is an animated fish swimming from side to side.
I will be releasing a new version of Times Tables soon that will allow the highscores and unlocked tables to be reset — useful if you are trying out the program and want to delete your highscores before giving it to your children.
In the following video you can see some of the new features of LearnTime. There is a new mode called “free play” that allows the child to play with the clock and see what time it is. I have also tried to make the program more appealing by adding sounds and animations on the game menus. I have a couple more things that I would like to add but I will add these in hopefully the next version. I do plan on adding another couple of themes so if you have any requests please contact me at kumo@kumo.it.
As always there is a demo version of LearnTime (LearnTime Lite) that allows you to try out the first two levels (essentially the hours and 15 minute intervals) and this is also available on the app store.
After a couple of months of development the new version of Times Tables for the iPhone and iPod Touch is now available in the app store. This version contains a lot of changes and new additions and has things that will be of interest to children and also to parents.
For the children there are highscores, sound effects, quick quizes, and perhaps more importantly a competition mode. For the parents there are multiple levels of difficulty for each of the tables, progression tracking of the tables and questions, and there are different types of quizes that provide timed and non-timed tests.
For more information see the Times Tables page here.
A minor update to Learn Time for the iPhone and iPod Touch is now available in the app store. In the previous version the 5th level was missing from the home screen and so the only way to get to it was to finish the 4th level first. This version also adds email and website links.
In the next version I plan on adding sound effects and hopefully also a different type of quiz.
The latest version of Roman Numerals has been approved and should be available on the app store. This version adds a must requested method for clearing the inputted numbers in one go and extends the Arabic to Roman numerals converter to generate larger numbers in an archaic format, for example, 1661 can be represented as (I) I) CLXI.
To use this new format just select the 2002 -> MMII tab and press the bottom left button with the ((I)) I)) symbol.
A new version of Learn Time for the iPhone and iPod Touch is available on the app store. This version adds more animations and also allows the starting level to be chosen. New levels are made available as the child progresses so that the harder levels are only available once the simpler questions have been answered correctly. More details can be found here.
Update: this version is now available. See this post for more details.
As promised, I am working on a new version of Roman Numerals. My main aims for this version are:
There are multiple ways of writing larger numbers and I hope to be able to incorporate these into the future versions of the Roman Numerals program. For now I am focusing on the use of brackets (they are the letter C and the reverse letter C) to multiply the numbers, so that (I) is equivalent to 1,000, ((I)) is equivalent to 10,000, I)) is equivalent to 5,000, etc. The following screenshots show some examples of these:
