I never thought I’d be writing a list of alternatives to Cram…but it’s happening, lol. If you are a student out there looking for an alternative solution to the now discontinued Cram for Mac or Cram for iPhone I have provided some suitable suggestions below. Quite frankly, only one of them have Cram’s multiple-choice testing feature, so if you are looking for that I don’t have many great solutions for that at the time (although I’m sure someone will have a great suggestion in the comments that I can later add to this post).

As for flashcard study apps, there are plenty out there and here are some of the best.

Mac:

Mental Case (Mac, iPhone & iPad) – Mental Case is probably the closest in quality to Cram. Although it doesn’t have the multiple choice testing mode they have a unique study case option that could work for some of you Crammers out there. Mental Case isn’t the most efficient app to work with, but what Mental Case offers that Cram didn’t have is a iPad app, so now those looking to study on the iPad can do so.

Study – This study app looks good and is easier to use than Mental Case. Even though it’s easier to use, it doesn’t have iPhone and iPad counterparts. If you just study on your Mac or only looking for a Mac study app this could be the one.

StarQuiz – This app is really geared toward teachers not really self learners, but this doesn’t mean you can’t be your own teacher . StarQuiz allows you to create a quiz and share with your students which means it uploads your self made test to the Internet…sigh. It’s really the only option for those preparing for a multiple-choice test. StarQuiz is another app that doesn’t have a mobile counterpart, but again everyone doesn’t own both a Mac and mobile Apple device.

iFlash – iFlash is an old standby. Really solid, really simple…maybe even a bit too simple. This app is nice, but it’s up to the user and what they need out of their study app if they will appreciate the true simplicity of the app or not.

iOS (iPhone and/or iPad)

FlashCards Deluxe – Has multiple choice option!!!! Also has Quizlet, Flashcardexchange, slideshows, custom text, and a lot more features. This is probably a true solution for those coming from Cram iPhone.

FlashCards – Multiple import options, text, audio, images, and more make this app a complete flash card solution for those seeking a flash card solution only.

Flashcards++ – Private and public sets with Quizlet, Dropbox imports, text to speech, smart study, and the typical flash card app features.

iFlipr Flashcards - No longer being updated like Cram, but is a solid alternative. Was brought back from not being sold because of popular demand. Spreadsheet import, offline study like Cram, smart learning algorithm.

Looking for other apps to help you study, take notes and more, check out this great list of student apps for the iPhone or apps for students on the Mac.

It would be great to leave college debt free. Putting these apps to work can help a college student leave with a degree and no loans to repay. Most of the apps are designed to help college students find discounts, but others can be used to track expenses and keep the student from falling into the debt hole before their financial journey has even begun.

Budget Buster was designed to give you that added edge when it comes to tracking finances. Start with a particular amount of money, and the BudgetBuster will let you know how much you have spent and how much you have left before the wallet is empty. Life in college can be a bit hectic on the best of days. Having a tool that will track your money can make life just a little easier. Knowing what is going out can give a student the edge needed to leave college debt free.

DinnerSpinner provides detailed instructions for creating meals from the pantry and on your time schedule. The app lets you choose how much time you want to spend on your meal and also what ingredients you want to put into the creation. You can also save your favorite recipes so that you have them with you at all times. Cooking meals at home can be a great way to save money and keep the finances in the black.

Chegg helps college students find amazing deals on textbook rentals. Paying college tuition is an expected expense, but facing that first bill for books can be downright shocking. This app allows college students to find the books they need by scanning in the bar code on the book or just searching by title, author or ISBN. The cost of books never goes down. Buying used books can be a cost saving alternative, but being able to rent books saves you the hassle of trying to re-sell them when the class is up (although there Chegg helps make that a little less painful). Renting will also be even more cost effective in the end.

UrbanSpoon gives culinary challenged students another way to save money on meals. The dials allow you to select a location to eat based on a number of different factors, including the average price of meals. Food can be one of the top expenses for college students. Finding different ways to save on that major expense can give college students an edge for leaving school debt free.

Pennies is another great budgeting app that makes tracking expenses as easy as touching the screen. You can also see what your top expenses are and get an estimate on what you are spending each day. The categories are set, so you will have to find a way to make them work. All in all, any tool that makes it easier to know your finances will give you a better chance of walking away from college debt free.

Getting a college education will be an expensive endeavor. The challenges that you face in school will be worth the effort. It will be made even more enjoyable if you can walk away with a degree and nothing to owe for it.

The best way to stay in the black financially is to always bring in more than you spend. Finding that financial balance in collage may require that you take on a job or find extra funding through scholarships. No matter how the bills get paid, you will be more likely to leave college debt free if you watch the spending and look for easy ways to cut your expenses.

Nicole Rodgers has been blogging about technology for 3 years; she currently writes about phone applications and how qr code can be implemented into companies marketing strategies.

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It feels like cell phones have been around forever, but the truth is they only began to become truly widespread around a decade ago. Cell phones have really come far since then – instead of being bulky pieces of plastic with bad reception, now we have sleek, sexy, tiny little things that are nearly as powerful as full size computers but can fit into your pocket.

Cell phones have advanced to a whole new level with the advent of the smartphone. Phones really can do everything now. New apps appear nearly every single day, each one attempting to make our lives just a little bit cooler or easier. There are apps for just about anything, including your car.

Here are five of the top iPhone apps for student drivers:

Carticipate – Carticipate is a free application that you can download from the iTunes store. It’s a rideshare program designed to promote carpooling. It’s a great app for people who are interested in reducing their carbon footprint and/or saving money. People using this app can search for other people interested in carpooling in their area. This app isn’t restricted to users in the United States – it can also be used in other countries around the world. This is perfect for students commuting to and from school.

iGasUp – iGasUp is a program available for iPhone users for $2.99. This app will allow you to search for nearby gas stations and compare gas prices, allowing you to find the cheapest gas no matter where you are. There are over 110,000 gas stations on the iGasUp network. iGasUp constantly updates itself to provide you with the latest prices and provides maps to help you get to the gas station of your choice.

Trapster – Trapster is a brilliant app that is designed to help you avoid speed traps, police hang outs, speed cameras and stop lights equipped with cameras. Trapster can pull up a map of the area you’re driving in and show you where are the known speed traps are. While you’re driving, you can set Trapster up to issue a voice warning when you’re getting close to a speed trap or camera equipped stop light. Instead of buying yourself an illegal radar detection device, download Trapster instead.

TripAlyzer – This is an interesting app available for $5.99 for people who want to analyze their driving habits, become more efficient in driving and see what their carbon footprint looks like. TripAlyzer uses the same technology as GPS system and is able to track your driving habits and offer suggestions on how to more efficiently utilize your fuel. The app can tell you how much money it cost for each trip you take in your car.

Dynolicious – Silly name, but really awesome app for drivers interested in testing their driving skills and finding out exactly what their vehicle is capable of. This app isn’t cheap at $12.99, but if you want a full range of performance data this app is perfect. It can track things like elapsed times and trap speeds, lateral g-forces, breaking g-forces and horsepower.

Trevor Stuart is currently a student at UBC in Vancouver. He writes for a Canadian car insurance website called CompleteInsurance.ca.

We have put together a list of apps that will do a great job of keeping your mind off of studying, so can get back to the books refreshed and ready to learn.

Flying Hamster

There is nothing more suitable for a study break than a flying hamster and a cow with milk shooting udders. Yeah that’s right! You get a cute flying hamster armed with various weapons, that has only one goal and it’s to save your girl! Nothing can top that.

Boredom Breaker

Even though we know you love studying and you find it absolutely exhilarating and not even close to boring, we thought we would through this app in a just a bonus! Boredom Breaker keeps your mind off the books for a second and gives you over a thousand ideas on how to entertain yourself. The app suggests everything from flying a kite to base jumping so even if you may not have the time to quickly go base jump, there is something else that will certainly keep you entertained.

PhotoSpeak

Take a study break and create a 3D Avatar of yourself. Photo Speak takes a photo you already have of yourself and lets you add voice to your avatar, make a movie, and add glasses and other goofy things. The best part is that you can send out your creation to friends on FaceBook or YouTube – which would clearly indicate you are on a study break.

They Need To Be Fed

This game will keep your mind off of studying and on feeding little monsters – who said taking a study break wouldn’t involve a little work? This game is simple, just work your way through 7 worlds and 50 levels and feed the monsters while you earn achievements, staying out of danger, and collecting diamonds.

Comimix

Love comics? Perfect, this app will be your savior during your study break. Comimix pulls in a variety of popular comic titles and allows you to read them all on your iPhone. With Comimix you can save some of the strips to your iPhone, send them to FaceBook so your study buddies can be distracted as well, and find other comics to browse.

When you are done with your study break remember to get right back to work and use a flash card app like Cram to get help you ace your test.

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We are looking for your feedback and would love to reward you for it. We have a few questions to ask you guys and would LOVE to get you guys to complete this short survey to share your opinions about Cram.

Oh, did I mention that you will have a change to win a $15 iTunes gift card? So here is the link below, have fun with this and give us all the info you’ve been dying to share with us. All completed entries COMPLETELY entered by December 11th, 2010 will have a chance at grabbing the gift card. The winner will be chosen at random.

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Btw…please know if you need help we are always here to help via our F.A.Q. page (FAQ Cram for Mac | Cram for iPhone ) or via support ticket (Support Ticket).

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I have compiled a list of my favorite little unknown apps/utilities that are secretly installed and waiting for you to use on your Mac. Check them out .

1. Grapher

Grapher is an app that’s name obviously gives it’s main functionality away – it’s a graphing app. This app is super helpful to those that need to frequently graph 2D and 3D graphs from equations, for example students. It’s actually fairly easy to use, you just open the app, select which graph type you want to make, which are categorized by 2D or 3D graphs, and enter your equation. The app will graph for you after entry. Super simple, looks good, and works!

2. Grab

Grab is essentially the app that takes the place of using screen capture shortcuts. You can open Grab when you want to take screen shots and need a few more options besides the typical screen capture shortcuts. Grab on your Mac also gives you the option of taking a timed screen shot. This is perfect to use if you want to take a snapshot of an action performed on your Mac.

3. Disk Utility

Disk Utility is one of your more versatile apps on your Mac, as it’s capable of performing a number of disk-related functions. With Disk Utility you can burn and erase CD and DVDs, burn .ISO files as DVD, and create DMGs. There are a number of functions Disk Utility can perform, to read about more of them read http://kb.iu.edu/data/aoxp.html .

4. VoiceOver Utility

You may feel as if the name gives away the apps function, but it doesn’t really. The Mac VoiceOver Utility helps those that are blind or have poor vision use their Macs. VoiceOver is simply a screen reader, it reads the text that appears on the screen through your Mac speakers – perfect for those that are dyslexic as well.

To learn more about how to use VoiceOver Utility: Apple VoiceOver

Remember, you can find all of these apps by searching for them in Spotlight using the shortcut ( ⌘-Space bar ) or just by clicking at the top right corner of your screen. You can also access these apps by opening the Utilities folder on your Mac. So which “secret” app/utility was your favorite find? Which one did you already know about, use, and love? Let us know.

Nowadays the primary concern of all students is maintaining financial security. The good news is that there are many iPhone applications to help you students save money easily. Students today want to use smarter phones that provide much more than calling and messaging gadgets. With so many options in the market there are few that are meant to help those students who want to keep a tab on their debt.

A list of some of the best ones, are as follows.

1. Mint: This iPhone app is for you if you are a serious budgeter and if you like to keep track of your finances whenever and wherever. It connects you with your bank accounts and credit cards. This data is presented to you in the form of colorful charts that make understanding your finances easier. It also helps show you where exactly your money is going. Mint is free and helps students manage budgets, analyze their spending habits and also, track transactions while they are on the go. The app also alerts you when your balances are low. Having the Mint application is like having your own financial advisor at the tip of your fingers, always at your beck and call. It becomes easier to save money if you have with such a helpful app always with you.

2. Stanza: This app is the iPhone’s premier e-reader. It allows you to have access to about 40,000 books and is free. You as a student would definitely be benefited by this service as books are something students spend a lot on, which helps save a lot of money.

3. Graphing calculator: This app simply provides you with a graphing calculator. It has got all the features of an expensive calculator and is very easy to use. You can even use it to take a screen shot of a graph and you don’t need to spend a huge amount actually buying a graphing calculator.

4. Amazon Mobile: When you go grocery shopping or buying any stationary items you sometimes need to check if you could get a cheaper option. This app helps you check the prices of many items instantly helping you save by locating cheaper options.

All these apps help you save money and also help you stay out of debt.

Author Bio: Jason Holmes is a regular writer with Debt Consolidation Care and is also a contributory writer with other financial sites. His expertise is woven around various aspects of the industry and with his e-books he tries to impart to people the different situations and simple solutions to get out of difficult situations.

I have something on my computer that I would like to save or take a picture of, how do I do this on my Mac?

Answer:

Well this is commonly referred to as taking screenshot or screen capture and there are a few easy ways to do this on your Mac. There are the following shortcuts:

Shortcuts for Screen Captures:

• Command+Shift+3 – Takes a screen capture of your entire screen. Saves screen capture as file to your desktop automatically.
• Command+Shift+4 – Gives you a crosshair cursor so you can choose which area of the screen you want to capture. Saves screen capture as file (.png) to your desktop automatically.
• Command+Shift+4 (then press spacebar) - To capture a specific application window
• Control+Command+Shift+3 (or 4) – Copies the capture into your Clipboard memory, so you can paste it anywhere you want.

  After you are done taking the screen capture it will automatically stop or you can press Press Esc to cancel.

  Apple Screen Capture App:

  

  There is also a little unknown app on your Mac called, Grab (just search on Mac with Spotlight for it or Navigate to your Mac Utilities folder). Grab is an app on your Mac that also enables you to capture screenshots, but you get a few more options. One option in particular is one that allows you to time your screenshot. Grab performs a countdown to ten seconds to give you time to arrange that “perfect” screen shot. This would be best used if you are navigating to a particular website/screen that has some sort of result that requires an action by the user to be activated (i.e. fireworks upon click of a particular button on their website).

  Grab also has other options that you can find by just playing around with the app.

  Third-Party Screen Capture Apps:

  

  Of course you also have third-party app options (there’s probably a third-party app option for EVERYTHING). Some which provide more powerful screen capturing solutions. You can use the following apps, some free some paid:

  • Skitch – FREE
  • Paparazzi – FREE
  • Little Snapper
  • Grab up – FREE
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  Most iPhone users realize their phone can be used for more than just making calls and sending text messages. However, lots of people don’t recognize how it can be used as an education tool to boost their grades, help them relax after a hard day’s work, be successful at work, and even keep up with their busy social lives.

  Get Good Grades

  Cram is an excellent app that lets students create flashcards, practice with multiple-choice tests, and write their own quizzes — all from their iPhone screen! No need to shuffle through index cards or loose-leaf paper, this high-tech way of studying is the way to go.

  Of course, students can also access the Internet, read emails from their teachers, crunch numbers, look up words, create a class schedule with deadline reminders, write notes to themselves, store documents, and even read e-books from their iPhones.

  Kick Back And Relax

  Students can unwind after a long day at school with music, videos, and even TV shows on their iPhones. They can also find restaurants and movies so they can hit the town, post to their blogs, and even unwind with an exercise app. But, at the end of the day there’s noting quite like a game of Pac-Man.

  Succeed At Work

  An iPhone makes it possible for students to stay in touch with their bosses, keep track of their schedule, and even set an alarm so they are never late for another shift. One way to really stand out on the job is to stay organized, and an iPhone can help students become organization gurus.

  Stay Social

  Even though students are extremely busy with classes, most find a way to fit in a social life. Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Skype, picture-taking, phone calls, and texting are all ways the iPhone helps students stay up to date on the social scene.

  In short, with apps like Cram, a student’s life can be simplified and, believe it or not, school can actually be fun.

  This was a guest post. We will have more like these to come in the future as Patrick and I aren’t experts on everything like we want to believe, lol.My Colleges and Careers is a great resource for students looking for help in preparing for school, finding a program, and starting their career.

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