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WolframAlpha - Get answers. Access expert knowledge. Wherever you are. Whenever you need it. Find out how much vitamin C is in a bowl of ice cream. Learn what European country has the fourth largest population of children. Compute solutions to difficult trig and calculus problems. Balance complex chemical equations. Discover what is overhead as you gaze up at the stars. Finally crack that crossword puzzle. Whoever you are and whatever you do, WolframAlpha delivers insight and understanding into any facet of your life.
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tipb.com:
WolframAlpha for iPad – app review
Intro: WolframAlpha is a computational knowledge engine on the web, and with their iPad application, you can perform calculations and look up information even easier. WolframAlpha is a universal application, so you pay once but receive the optimum experience on both your iPhone and iPad...
Final words: WolframAlpha is a very powerful application despite it’s inability to do anything offline. If you’re a student, scientist, or someone who enjoys discovering information, I recommend adding WolframAlpha to your collection of iPad applications.
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148apps.com:
Wolfram Alpha Review
Intro: Wolfram Alpha is a big deal in the scientific and mathematic community. The overall goal of Wolfram Alpha is to “make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone” with the aim to “collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything.” I would definitely recommend reading the about page of the site… it’s quite interesting...
Final words: I really can’t recommend Wolfram Alpha enough if you are often in the need for answers. Admittedly, the Wikipedia app does a pretty nice job of hunting down information, but if you want an app that can quickly show you the median home price, unemployment rate, and current weather of a certain city all while answering the most bizarre math problems out there, Wolfram Alpha is difficult to beat. While the initial price of $50 was a tough pill to swallow, the current $2 price tag should definitely palatable, even for the most thrifty app shoppers.
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macworld.com:
WolframAlpha Review - Mobile app offers dedicated access to Wolfram’s systematic knowledge computation
Intro: I started high school at a particularly difficult time for someone who would eventually grow up to be a gadget freak and mad scientist. By then, the slide rule had faded from the curriculum, the calculator was in its expensive infancy and the personal computer had yet to truly make the scene. Late in my senior year, my school bought a TRS-80. One of them. For the main office. To my great excitement I managed to talk someone there into letting me play with it. Alas, my privileges were abruptly curtailed after I saved a particularly frustrating BASIC program into a file with a colorful name. Who knew the guidance counsellor was was using it too? He suggested I consider creative writing classes at the local community college...
Final words: WolframAlpha is pricey but well done; it has the potential to be even more as the underlying technology of Alpha improves.
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theipadfan.com:
Review: WolframAlpha App
Intro: They are scattered throughout our society. That person who knows everything humanly possible ranging from Einstein’s life story to the perfect apple crumble recipe. Some of these people are annoying while others just leave you in awe. Well, this know-it-all has now come to the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch in the form of WolframAlpha!...
Final words: Overall, WolframAlpha presents an abundance of knowledge in a central location. It is easy to use and very accurate. At $1.99, this app is well worth the money spent.
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ipad-application-reviews.com:
iPad App Review: WolframAlpha
Intro: The idea of this iPad app is to make something that is not usually a simple thing into a simple thing. Wolfram Alpha is what is known as a computational knowledge engine on the web and you may have used it before yon your Mac or PC as this is available anywhere. Now, with more and more third parties creating iPad apps, Wolfram Alpha has got involved and has made this Wolfram Alpha iPad application. The idea of the application is to bring the knowledgebase that Wolfram Alpha provides to your iPad and make it even easier than ever before for you to find out information that you need to know...
Final words: Overall, this is a fantastic app if you are looking to learn something and even if you are not intentionally setting out to learn anything, if you have this app, then you will probably find yourself learning all the time and enjoying it too. The app is available in the app store for just $1.99 and we think it is well worth it.
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techpoweredmath.com:
Wolfram Alpha for iPad App Review
Intro: Not too long ago, I reviewed Mathematica 8 from a novice's perspective. About that time it started becoming clear that,Wolfram, maker of Mathematica, was starting to get interested in app development. Their first major app was an iOS version of Wolfram Alpha, available on both the iPhone and iPad as well as Android. If you've never heard of Wolfram Alpha, I suggest you start by check out the Wolfram Alpha site, which has been around for years. Essentially, it's a "computational search engine," meaning it can perform calculations like a graphing calculator or answer questions like "what's 2 apples plus one orange?" I recently plunked down my $1.99 so I could write a Wolfram Alpha review, using the iPad version throughout...
Final words: This is a really cool app. It's a great example of an app with serious utility for math and science students as well as plenty of fun features that will allow you to kill a few minutes will waiting in line. I've heard rumors that the original price was somewhere around $50 which would be a lot tougher to justify, but at $1.99 it's actually underpriced. It's easy to recommend because I feel like it's worth at least five times it's current price.
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maclife.com:
WolframAlpha for iPad Review
Intro: What is WolframAlpha? Think of it as a cross between a search engine and Wikipedia, though more intelligent and to the point than the former, while significantly more authoritative than the latter (though currently less robust than both)...
Final words: WolframAlpha won't replace Google or Wikipedia just yet, but it'll come in handy for a large number of quick-fix fact hunts.
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socialmode.com:
iPad’s Killer App? Wolfram|Alpha iPad.
Intro: Obviously I know a great deal about the Wolfram|Alpha platform… what it does today and what it could do in the near future and in the hands of great developers all over the world. I’m not shy in saying that computational knowledge available on mobile devices IS a very important development in computing. Understanding computable knowledge is the key to understanding why I believe mobile computable knowledge matters. Unfortunately it’s not the easiest of concepts to describe...
Final words: In an iPad world, natural language will sit back-seat to hands on manipulations. Wolfram|Alpha will really shine when people manipulate the visuals and the data display and the various short cuts. People’s interaction with browsers is almost all link or text based, so the language issues with Wolfram|Alpha and other systems are always major challenges. Now what will be interesting is how many popular browser services will be able to successfully move over to a touch interface. I don’t think that many will make it. A new type of services will have to crop up as iPad apps will not be simply add-ons to a web app, like they usually are for iPhone. These services will have to be great in handling direct manipulation, getting actual tasks accomplished and will need to be highly visual.
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