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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Eddie Haskel

July 30, 2010

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Getting two very favorable video reviews posted was the highlight of the week at The Daily App Show (ABC Shakedown and Let's Bead Friends) ...until.... we realized two of our apps were also being spotlighted by the Daily App Show right on their homepage! Anchors, keep being told we need anchors to get our name out there and get noticed... What are we? Creators of quality educational iphone apps. You might continue to wonder how we got involved in this fast paced, techno savvy industry.... And I did promise to tell.

Less than a year ago, it was late August, and a houseguest was out visiting again. An acquaintance of my son’s who was taking advantage of a free bed in the Hamptons. Why I didn’t pick up on the signs when this 21st century Eddie Haskel, (the disingenuous troublemaker on "Leave it to Beaver," who could turn on the charm when adults were around) came a second time, I’ll never know. Wish I could discuss this with June Cleaver.

So slick was he, and claiming to be in the iPhone app development business, he had me snowed. I’d been in possession of my very own iPhone for maybe a week and was bowled over with it’s magical features.

On my dining room table lay a set of student illustrated ABC cards used successfully as a highly effective, skill and drill method of teaching the alphabet to struggling learners in my classroom. Suddenly, my quaint plan of transforming this concept into a computer game was being turned upside down, inside out and into an iPhone app. All because this house guest had me pegged for ......

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