Another Email from Super Duper Inc.

I got another email from Super Duper Inc. today.  They said the email problem with Fact or Opinions should be fixed with the updates that are on there way.

Reply from Super Duper Inc.

I got a reply back from Super Duper Inc. yesterday.  They said they would work on the problems, so I guess now we wait for app updates.

Email to Super Duper Inc.

Below is an email I sent to Super Duper today.

Hello,

I am a SLP who is enjoying many of your great Apps on my Android Devices. I currently own 14 of you them, most of which I have purchased through the Amazon market. I am currently in the process of reviewing all of these apps on Amazon and my website. I have noticed some issues with a few of the apps and thought I would let you know.

I have been unable to get the Fact or Opinion? app to send student data through email.  Every time I click email results, it says “Error email file not created”.  I have tried this on my Lenovo A1, LG Doubleplay, and Kindle Fire and gotten the same result on all of them.

Opposites Fun Deck and Data Tracker do not store themselves on or allow me to move them to my SD card. It would be nice if these apps stored themselves on the SD card like your other apps especially Opposites Fun Deck which takes up over 14.5 MB of space.

I enjoyed the change in some of your initial apps that placed the student data within email instead of an attachment.  Having the data within the email makes it a lot easier to find and view as well as takes up less space.  I was surprised that this change didn’t continue with the new apps.  Of my 14 apps Understanding Inferences, Name That Category!, Let’s Name Things, Wh Questions at School, Wh Questions at Home, All About You, All About Me, and Fun Deck Following Directions send the data within the email; Data Tracker, Regular Past Tense Verbs, Opposites, Irregular Verbs, Plurals, and Homophones send it as an attachment.  Fact or Opinion? isn’t working.

Storing a copy of the html file used to create the email on the device may be helpful for some people, but I just find it annoying to have to go and delete sometimes fifty+ files on the device. You may want to let your customers know that a file is being saved on the device so they don’t run into problems. Not too many people look at the folders on their tablets or phones.  If possible in future versions of the apps you might want to at least provide the option of deleting the html file after the email has been sent.

Overall your apps are great tools in therapy. I use them every day and look forward to new additions and improvements.

Thanks,

Roger Wagner CCC-SLP

Plurals Fun Deck

Rating: 4/5
Another good Super Duper App for SLPs. This one provides the student with a choice of 2 words (i.e., plural & singular) to complete a sentence. The program can read the sentence and choices.  Singular and Plural forms are both targeted. Irregular and regular plurals are included.

One thing I don’t like about the app is that there is no quick way to just select irregular or regular. Another is that when you email the data it is in an attachment instead of within the email.  Like the other Super Duper apps the data for the email is created in an html file which is saved on the device.  If these aren’t deleted occasionally they can build up. I had over 50 when I first found them.

Super Duper WH Questions at School

Rating (5/5)

This is a good app for Speech Language Pathologists. It can be stored mostly on your SD card and can send the student's data within an email, unlike some of the other more recent Super Duper apps which sends it as an attachment. As far as I can tell the questions are the exact same as the Fun Deck Cards. Some of the time questions are challenging for younger grade students and some questions like one about art class is no longer appropriate for many students. Overall it has a good range of questions I would recommend for 2nd graders and up.

How to get free books on a Kindle or computer without using a credit card

This post is probably useful for anyone who wants to read, but I did actually have to figure this out for a student I provide services for as an SLP.  The student had won a Kindle as a prize for having perfect attendance at his school out on the Navajo Reservation.  Of course he didn’t have WIFI or even electricity at his house, so there was no way for him to get anything on his Kindle. I couldn’t bear to see the technology being wasted so I figured out a way to get some free books on his Kindle.  Making a short story long, here is what you need and need to do.

Things needed:  

·         Amazon account or email account to create one (described below)

·         computer with internet access

·         WIFI to transfer books to Kindle (Not needed for computer)

Summary: You can use an email address to create account on a computer, by leaving the credit card information blank when creating the account (this doesn’t work on a Kindle).

If you want to read free or purchased books on your computer, you can download software from amazon and then send e-books from the Kindle Store to the computer and read them.

If you want to read them from your Kindle, smartphone or tablet, you can send them to your device using your computer and then connect to WIFI using the Kindle or Kindle app on the device.

Details

If you don’t have an Amazon account, go to www.amazon.com and create an account by scrolling over “Sign In” on the upper right and clicking on the “New Customer click here”.  Complete all the steps required to create an amazon account (using your email address), leaving the space requesting credit card information blank.

Now with the Amazon account you can send free books to your computer or Kindle.

·         If you are sending books to your Kindle click “Manage your Kindle” from the “Your Account” area in the same location as the previous “Sign In”. Follow the directions from Amazon. Please note: you have to use your computer to create the Amazon account and send books to your Kindle from your computer; you are required to enter credit card information if you try to do this on your Kindle.

·         If you are sending books to your computer or any other device go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sv_kstore_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771 and download the desired software.

Now you can go to the Kindle eBook store on your computer and start looking for free books.  An easy way to find free books is to click on “Top 100 free” towards the bottom right of the web page or the desired category. You can also go to “Free Collections” section in the lower left of the Kindle eBooks page.  Select your desired book and click “Buy now with one click” and then send it to where you want it to go.

PowerISO

PowerISO is another awesome free program, I have been using for years. If you have a lot of computer games on CDs, you will probably find this software very helpful.  This software allows you to copy CDs and some DVDs and store them as a file on your computer. You can then play the game on the computer without having the disc, using a virtual cd/dvd drive from PowerISO. You can even have multiple virtual drives to allow you quick access to the discs you use the most. I enjoy the quick access to all of my therapy games (e.g., Earobics & Hearbuilder), without having carry the discs around or worry about them being scratched.  Download it here. Make sure to uncheck all of the extra stuff cnet and PowerISO tries to make you install.