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Talking Scientific Calculator  

  • Name: Talking Scientific Calculator
  • Platforms: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch 5G
  • Technology: Swift, Objective-C
Intro

A comprehensively featured calculator that has become a favourite among adults and high school students around the world.

Designed for a wide range of users, this calculator has large colourful buttons, optional high contrast, enhanced VoiceOver and unique to this calculator; the option to use speech for answers, buttons names and formulas!

Features Include
  • Can read answers, entered numbers and formulas aloud.
    1,234.56 is spoken as:
    • UK style: "One thousand, two hundred and thirty four point five six."
    • US style: "One thousand, two hundred thirty four point five six."
    • German style: "One thousand, two hundred, four and thirty point five six."

    2 + 3 x 5^2 is spoken as: "two plus three multiply five squared."
  • Built in recording studio and script. Requires only 5 minutes to record a new voice. Recordings can be transferred between devices using Bluetooth.
  • Two entry modes, Standard and Formula. Standard mode emulates traditional calculators. Formula mode takes care of the order of operations for you. You enter a mathematical expression, complete with operators and parentheses (brackets), tap the = button, and the expression is evaluated.
  • The entire app's feature set is accessible to VoiceOver users (using standard or touch typing input styles) and Switch Control users.
  • Unique to this app is an Enhanced VoiceOver Speech mode that pronounces large numbers and formula with natural language rather than one digit at a time.
  • Supports entry and display of Braille on supported Bluetooth devices (thanks to assistance from the Washington State School for the Blind.)
  • Numeric formatting of results: Max fraction digits (default), fixed fraction digits (useful for currency calculations), and max significant digits (useful for science and engineering lab work), plus international formatting.
  • Trigonometric, hyperbolic, logarithmic, permutations, combinations, factorial, powers, roots, percent and bit-wise operations, conversion between hexadecimal and decimal, random numbers.
  • Full support for fractions (simple and mixed), conversion to and from decimal, fraction reduction, and use of fractions with all operators.
  • Easy access to basic calculator functions, for those who rarely use scientific operations.
  • Paper log feature, designed particularly for classroom use. Calculations can be recorded with a timestamp to be viewed and emailed.
  • iPads get a user interface designed to make use of the large screen area, with Split-view and Slide-over support.
    iPhones and iPod Touches get a user interface designed for the smaller screen. This includes large, easy to read scientific buttons, accessed on a scrolling panel. All the features of the iPad version are included in the smaller design.
Customisable for each level of vision

Normal to low vision: Large, clear buttons with optional speech.

Low vision: High contrast display mode, with optional speech.

No vision / blind: VoiceOver reads the button names before they are activated and also calculation results. Entry and display on refreshable Braille devices. Switch control accessible.

Why record new voices?

Having your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch talk with your own voice, or that of a friend or tutor will make the calculator sound more natural to you. The calculator will speak with the accent you are used to hearing.

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Enhanced VoiceOver Demo
Tutorial - Basics
Tutorial - Fractions

Talking Calculator  

  • Name: Talking Calculator
  • Platforms: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch 5G
  • Technology: Swift, Objective-C
Intro

A comprehensively featured calculator that has quickly become a favourite among adults and primary schools around the world.

Designed for a wide range of users, this calculator has large colourful buttons, optional high contrast, full VoiceOver support, and unique to this calculator; the option to use speech for answers, button names and formulas!

Features Include
  • Can read answers, entered numbers and formulas aloud.
    1,234.56 is spoken as:
    • UK style: "One thousand, two hundred and thirty four point five six."
    • US style: "One thousand, two hundred thirty four point five six."
    • German style: "One thousand, two hundred, four and thirty point five six."

    2 + 3 x 5^2 is spoken as: "two plus three multiply five squared."
  • Two entry modes, Standard and Formula. Standard mode emulates traditional calculators. Formula mode takes care of the order of operations for you. You enter a mathematical expression, complete with operators and parentheses (brackets), tap the = button, and the expression is evaluated.
  • The entire app's feature set is accessible to VoiceOver users (using standard or touch typing input styles) and Switch Control users.
  • An enhanced VoiceOver Speech mode that pronounces large numbers and formula with natural language rather than one digit at a time.
  • Paper log feature, designed particularly for classroom use. Calculations can be recorded with a timestamp to be viewed and emailed.
  • iPads get a user interface designed to make use of the large screen area, with Split-view and Slide-over support.
    iPhones and iPod Touches get a user interface designed for the smaller screen. All the features of the iPad version are included in the smaller design.
  • International number formats.
  • Optional high contrast mode (black on yellow).
Customisable for each level of vision

Normal to low vision: Large, clear buttons with optional speech.

Low vision: High contrast display mode, with optional speech.

No vision / blind: VoiceOver reads the button names before they are activated and also calculation results. Switch control accessible.

Why record new voices?

Having your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch talk with your own voice, or that of a friend or tutor will make the calculator sound more natural to you. The calculator will speak with the accent you are used to hearing.

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Tutorial

Talking Statistics Calculator  

  • Name: Talking Statistics Calculator
  • Platforms: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch 5G
  • Technology: Xamarin
Intro

Designed for a wide range of users, this statistics calculator has large colourful buttons, optional high contrast, full VoiceOver support, and unique to this statistics calculator; the option to hear numbers spoken in natural voice.

This is a great companion to the Talking Scientific Calculator.

Features Include
  • Can read numbers aloud.
    1,234.56 is spoken as:
    • UK style: "One thousand, two hundred and thirty four point five six."
    • US style: "One thousand, two hundred thirty four point five six."
    • German style: "One thousand, two hundred, four and thirty point five six."

  • Built in recording studio and script. Requires only 5 minutes to record a new voice.
  • Allows users to enter and edit lists of numeric values in Data entry mode, and then switch to Statistics display mode to examine the statistics calculated from the entered values.
  • The entire app is accessible to VoiceOver and Switch Control users. Standard and touching-typing input styles are supported.
  • Hardware keyboards are automatically detected if connected and support faster numeric entry.
  • Numeric formatting of results: Max fraction digits (default), fixed fraction digits (useful for currency calculations), and max significant digits (useful for science and engineering lab work), plus international formatting.
  • Number formatting is configurable, with international numeric formats and control over the number of decimal fraction digits or the number of significant digits.
  • iPad Split-view and Slide-over supported.
  • Each statistic can be displayed, hidden or reordered to suit your needs.
Statistical functions:

Count,
Total,
Total Of Squares,
Product,
Maximum,
Minimum,
Range,
Mean,
Median,
Mode,
Root Mean Square,
Geometric Mean,
Lower quartile,
Upper quartile,
Variance,
Unbiased Sample Variance,
Population Standard Deviation,
Sample Standard Deviation.

Customisable for each level of vision

Normal to low vision: Large, clear buttons with optional speech.

Low vision: High contrast display mode, with optional speech.

No vision / blind: VoiceOver reads the button names before they are activated, plus numeric data and statistic calculation results.

Why record new voices?

Having your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch talk with your own voice, or that of a friend or tutor will make the calculator sound more natural to you. The calculator will speak with the accent you are used to hearing.

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Demo

Selfie - Sound Activated  

  • Name: Selfie - Sound Activated
  • Platforms: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch 5G
  • Technology: Xamarin
Intro

Take crisply focused photos of yourself, friends or landscapes with your camera resting on a stable shelf, like a tripod.

Enjoy the fun, creative freedom of having free hands while taking selfies. Use the front or rear camera.

Review your selfie photos, trashing the worst and moving the best to your Camera Roll or image-editing apps, like Photos.

You can also share your selfies with friends in a message, email, Tweet, Facebook post or AirDrop transfer.

  • The monkey is always positioned near the front camera lens. If you look at the monkey when creating a selfie, you will avoid taking photos where your eyes are looking the wrong way.
  • The monkey indicates when the app is listening or not listening.
  • After hearing your command, the monkey will count you in, then take your photo.

Tapping the monkey will cause him to switch between listening and not-listening.

Microphone sensitivity is automatically adjusted, based on background noise.

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Promo

Scrolling RPN Calculator  

  • Name: Scrolling RPN Calculator
  • Platforms: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch 5G
  • Technology: Xamarin
Intro

The only fully featured scientific RPN calculator with a modern iOS interface: Scroll through panels of operation-buttons with a swipe of your finger.

Scroll through numbers to review (and edit) your entries and calculation results. Share or transfer your results by emailing the stack.

The Scrolling Scientific Calculator gives you fast access to both basic and scientific operations with large buttons in both portrait and landscape orientations.

Features Include
  • Adding machine: What is the most common use for a calculator? Adding numbers, of course! Just enter the numbers, review them by scrolling, with a swipe of your finger, then hit the [total] button. No more entering numbers twice to check your calculation.
  • Statistics: Enter the numbers, review them by scrolling, with a swipe of your finger, then hit the [stats] button. The following statistics are added to the stack and labelled:
    Count,
    Total,
    Total Of Squares,
    Product,
    Maximum,
    Minimum,
    Range,
    Mean,
    Median,
    Mode,
    Root Mean Square,
    Geometric Mean,
    Variance,
    Unbiased Sample Variance,
    Population Standard Deviation,
    Sample Standard Deviation.
  • No awkward 80's style retro interface: Scroll through panels of large operation buttons by swiping left and right.
  • Operations include: total, count, mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation (population & sample), trigonometric, hyperbolic, logarithmic, powers, roots, inverse, factorial, percent, add, subtract, multiply, divide, etc.
  • Value formatting: Specify either the number of significant digits, or number of fraction digits after the decimal point. International number formats with group separator.
  • Display numbers as hexadecimal by simply scrolling to the hexadecimal panel.
  • Reverse Polish notation (RPN) operation.
The Scrolling RPN Calculator is ideal for:
  • Anyone who adds numbers together (e.g. receipt values.)
  • Anyone recording sample readings to find averages, variances and standard deviations.
  • Anyone who wants a scientific RPN calculator, and is looking for a modern, uncluttered interface ideal for their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
  • Kids (!) learning to add and subtract love entering the numbers and seeing them on the screen before they hit the + or - operation buttons. They can talk through the operation as it happens.

Note: This is an RPN calculator, so there is no "=" button. Proposed in the 1950s by Australian philosopher Charles L Hamblin, RPN is the way most people would actually calculate an expression in their head or on paper: "1 enter 2 enter +" instead of "1 + 2 =".

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Tutorial

Slide Night Pro  

  • Name: Slide Night Pro
  • Platforms: iPad & iPhone
  • Technology: Xamarin, SkiaSharp
Intro

Recreate the authentic retro experience of the humming carousel slide projector and the mechanical clickety-clack of slide transitions.

“Ah, it’s just like the old times: Looking at slides projected onto a screen with ya’ mates.”
-- Grandad

Organise your slide carousels (photo collections) and run your own slide night like a pro from your iPad or iPhone, either directly on your device or on the big screen via your Apple TV and Screen Sharing.

Before the digital age, "slide nights" meant a gathering of people sitting in the dark for a long time with the noisy projector in need of constant re-focussing and telling kids to "Quit it!" with their hand shadow puppetry. Relive this retro experience with modern convenience.

Features Include
  • Each transition includes the mechanical "push the current slide out and pull the next slide in" visuals and sounds.
  • Slides are displayed with authentic mechanical focus and lighting "issues"
  • Create Carousels (photo collections)
  • Add Slides from your Apple Photos collections
  • Reorder and remove Slides
  • Use auto-play or manual transitions
  • Allow or deny hand shadow puppets
Slideshow controls
  • Swipe left or right for next or previous slides
  • Swipe down to end the slideshow
  • Double-tap to toggle between pause and auto-play

Enjoy the experience yourself, or share the authentic experience with others!

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Intro

General Capabilities Mapper  

  • Name: General Capabilities Mapper
  • Platforms: iPad, Android Tablet
  • Technology: Xamarin
  • (Australia only)
Intro

An assessment and reporting tool to assist teachers and educators to map student's levels to the seven General Capabilities defined in the Australian Curriculum.

Reports (in .docx Word and .pdf formats) can be emailed, or opened directly in other iPad/tablet apps, such as Apple Pages or Microsoft Word.

Australian Curriculum General Capabilities
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Information and communication technology (ICT) capability
  • Critical and creative thinking
  • Personal and social capability
  • Ethical understanding
  • Intercultural understanding
Usage
  1. On first use, the General Capabilities are downloaded from the ACARA website, where they are made freely available. You enter your name and organisation.
  2. Create a record for a student's assessment.
  3. Move to the tabs representing the appropriate General Capabilities.
  4. Scroll through the capabilities, selecting levels by tapping. The description and examples for each level are displayed in scrolling boxes. Tap the header for the level that best describes the student's capability, then scroll to the next capability.
  5. Generate a report that includes details of the student's current levels, and the next level to be attained. Notes can be added.
  6. Export the report via Email or open in an another iPad/tablet app. iPads-only: send to an AirPrint printer.
  7. Open the report in your favourite editor, perhaps Apple Pages or Microsoft Word to add finishing touches.

The General Capabilities Mapper app transforms ACARA's General Capabilities PDF documents (freely available on the ACARA website) into an interactive tool for educators.

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Tutorial

Learning Areas Mapper  

  • Name: Learning Areas Mapper
  • Platforms: iPad
  • Technology: Xamarin
  • (Australia only)
Intro

An assessment and reporting tool to assist teachers and educators to map student's levels to the learning area subjects defined in the Australian Curriculum.

Reports (in .docx Word format) can be emailed or opened directly in other iPad apps, such as Apple Pages.

Australian Curriculum Learning Areas
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Humanities and Social Sciences (History, Geography, Economics and Business, Civics and Citizenship)
  • The Arts (Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music Visual Arts)
  • Technologies (Design and Technologies, Digital Technologies)
  • Health and Physical Education
Usage
  1. On first use, the Learning Areas are downloaded from the ACARA website, where they are made freely available. You enter your name and optionally link to your Dropbox account, which provides a convenient means of exporting reports.
  2. Create a record for a student's assessment.
  3. Move through the screens representing the appropriate learning area subjects.
  4. Scroll through the achievement standards, strands and sub-strands, selecting levels by tapping. The content descriptions for each level are displayed in scrolling boxes. Tap the header for the level that best describes the student's ability, then scroll to the next sub-strand.
  5. Generate a report that includes details of the student's current levels, and the next level to be attained. Notes can be added.
  6. Export the report via Email or to an iPad app.
  7. Open the report in your favourite editor, perhaps Pages on the iPad or Microsoft Word on a PC to add finishing touches.

The Learning Areas Mapper app transforms ACARA's Learning Areas (freely available on the ACARA website) into an interactive tool for educators.

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.edu Browser  

  • Name: edu Browser
  • Platforms: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
  • Technology: Objective-C
Intro

.edu Browser is the only app on the AppStore to solve the following problem:

You have responsible parents, or you are responsible parents that have set the restrictions on your student’s iOS device. Safari is disabled and there are no web-browsers available to you.

The problem is that without any browser, you can’t even visit your school’s own web-site or intranet. Many schools these days are providing calendars, forms, files and more via their intranet or web-site.

Features Include
  • .edu Browser gives access to .edu and .gov web-site URLs and blocks access to ALL other internet sites. It also gives access to intranet pages that are connected to the same local network as the iOS device. This includes school and work local networks but excludes the internet. This level of restriction allows the app to have a low, 9+ rating.
  • Create a list of bookmarked URLs for fast viewing. Web pages are displayed in full-screen view, with three buttons sitting in the bottom right hand corner: Refresh, Back and Bookmarks.
Further Details
  • .edu domains include URLs with country codes, for example, .edu.au
  • .gov domains include URLs with country codes, for example, .gov.au
  • Intranet URLs are of the format: {server} or {server}:{port}, for example, apollos:8080. The {server} name cannot contain '.' characters.
  • Supports both http:// and https:// connections.
  • Handles username / password authentication.
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Emerald Rush  

  • Name: Emerald Rush
  • Platforms: iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch 5G, Android, Mac, PC
  • Technology: C++, GameMaker Studio
Intro

Guide our hero through the gauntlet of abandoned mine levels, collecting emeralds, diamonds and other valuables.

The local township speaks (behind closed doors) of bug and alien infestations. Such rumors don't concern you, right? Surely aliens wouldn't come all the way to Earth just to hide underground? Of course not.

However, there are readings of elevated temperatures. Tectonic activity releasing hot lava into the mine is the official reason for the closure. Your heat-resistant jetpack suit will protect you, as long as you don't come in direct contact.

You'll also want to keep an eye out for those that have entered the mine ahead of you but not returned. Who knows, you might return both rich and a hero!

If only you could find the entrance on this dark and stormy night...

This is a re-imagining of the 80's classic genre of boulders and gems, introducing action, adventure, gravity, water & lava dynamics.

Game play: Behind each door, the green emeralds need to be collected before your jetpack runs out of fuel. Solve puzzles and avoid dangers in this beautiful and musical adventure.

Original music score, by Stewart Croser.

Replay-able: Subtle variations in the physics simulation means that each time you play, the experience is unique.

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Tutorial

Image Feature Counting  

  • Name: Image Feature Counting
  • Platforms: Web Browser (Chrome, Safari)
  • Technology: Angular 6, Typescript
  • Open Now
Intro

Load your own high resolution image, zoom in, and start counting features by marking them with mouse-clicks or screen-taps.

Great for celular biology or other sciences. Runs in your Chrome or Safari web browser.

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Privacy Policy  

  • All data entered into apps (including photos) is stored within the devices and not shared unless you choose to do so with in-app email or social media features.
    • i.e. Your data belongs to you, and we never see it. We have no interest in it, and no hard drives to store it.
  • Our apps do not capture the following information: address, date of birth, marital status, contact information, financial records nor credit information.
  • No names are collected or stored, with the exception of the General Capabilities Mapper and Learning Areas Mapper that capture names for assessment reports only.

Contact

For support and feature requests:

Email: info@adamcroser.com.au