Livescribe recently announced a fantastic new player for their pencasts! Since none of the Apple portable devices are allowed to run Flash, we haven’t been able to use our iPads, iPods and iPhones to view any of the Livescribe pencasts. Well, that is not the case any longer!
Here is a link to Livescribe’s article announcing their player and how to get the free player on iTunes.
I downloaded it on my iPad to try it out. It has a great interface and allows you to download any of the Livescribe pencasts you have made with a Pulse or Echo smartpen, and you can also download any other Livescribe pencasts that are contained on their community site. Here is a screenshot of the opening menu on my iPad:
Once a pencast is downloaded to your iPad, iPod or iPhone, then you can view it as an animated movie with sound. This is a screenshot of one of my pencasts that I downloaded, and then played on my iPad.
* I just created a resource page where I will be starting to place my .pencast files if you want to download them and try them on YOUR iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone
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