Expand Your Vocabulary With These Free Apps for Apple Devices

February 3, 2015 by francis

Building an expansive vocabulary is beneficial to people in just about any profession. An expansive vocabulary helps you to better communicate thoughts and feelings, and it prevents embarrassment from using a word incorrectly. These helpful apps for your Apple device offer fun, convenient ways to learn new words, even when you’re on the go.

Dictionary.com
The popular online dictionary website offers an app that features a comprehensive dictionary and thesaurus for looking up unknown words. In addition to its most basic features, the app has a Word of the Day section that displays a new word and its definition every time you log on. Check the app each morning and you’ll improve your vocabulary in no time.

VocabDailyFree
This free app is dedicated to helping users improve their vocabularies through definitions, usage examples and even a recording of the pronunciation for various words every day. If you’re a history buff, you’ll also love the opportunities to learn about the history of each word. Vocab Daily’s simple black and white interface is so easy to use that you can even learn new words while multitasking and doing other things.

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Listen to Podcasts on Your Mobile Device with These Apps

January 21, 2014 by francis

Podcasts are an interesting, informative way to pass the time while driving or commuting to work, and they’ve also become extremely portable because of the large number of ways to listen to them. These three apps will make finding your favorite podcasts even easier than ever before.

Stitcher
Stitcher is an app that contains over 20,000 radio shows and podcasts. By downloading this app on your iPhone, Android, or iPad, you’ll have full access to the latest episodes of all of the most popular podcasts without even downloading or syncing with your computer.

PRX Public Radio Player
The Public Radio Player app is one of the simplest ways of streaming shows and podcasts from public radio stations like NPR, PRX, PRI, and APM. The app is available completely free of charge, and it even allows you to listen offline when you’re not in an area with Internet service.

Swell
Swell is an innovative streaming app that learns which subjects you’re interested in, and provides content based on those preferences. With the goal of providing only content that you want to listen to, Swell delivers podcasts and news radio shows that you might enjoy from sources like NPR, PRI, This American Life, and Comedy Bang Bang.