Section 58. Education

58. Education

Thanks to their ease of use, Macs continue to be popular with educators and students alike. (Apple also offers sweet educational discounts.)

Schoolhouse (www.loganscollins.com; free, donations accepted) tracks course schedules, assignments, and grades in the simple, iTunes-like interface you see in Figure 22. Friends who slept in can play catch-up by subscribing to your "classcast" of assignments. Schoolhouse is available only for the Mac.

Figure 22. Schoolhouse, exclusively for the Mac, helps students track schedules, monitor grades, and share assignments via its unique "classcast" feature.

iStudy Flashcards (www.macstudysoft.com, $16.99) creates customized virtual flash card decks (with subject-specific decks available for download). The program tracks performance and exports quizzes to your iPod. And Yojimbo (www.barebones.com, $39.00) captures notes, media, and more using a simple organizational scheme that makes Microsoft OneNote look positively clunky.