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Google's experimental Rivet app helps kids learn to read
Far too many kids struggle to read at an age-appropriate level, but Google is betting that technology could help them get up to speed. The company's experimental Area 120 unit has released Rivet, an app for Android and iOS that aims to make reading practice both accessible and rewarding. It offers more than 2,000 books ranked by difficulty, and uses speech technology to coach kids on their pronunciation. Rivet can read words or whole pages, highlighting words as it goes along, but it can also listen to a child's own reading and offer feedback on the words they didn't get right.
Rivet, new 360 media sharing for Mac
Mac users looking to take advantage of the Xbox 360's media sharing capabilities have thus far been confined to a single program, Connect360. Those have read the headline have probably realized that there is now another choice. The program is called Rivet and comes from Cynical Peak Software. It does everything that Connect360 does (streaming music, videos, pictures, etc) with some minor distinctions. The largest of which is that Rivet replicates your Mac's folder structure as opposed to displaying your media in a single list (a very long one if you've got a lot of media). Another difference is that Rivet comes in at $18.95 (compared to Connect360's $20). The last distinction is that Rivet is Leopard only, so Mac users who have yet to upgrade their OS X are left out of the fun. For the rest of you, there is a demo available from Cynical Peak Software. Hit the "read" link to give it a try.[Via Joystiq]
Rivet: Another Mac media sharing app for your Xbox 360
There isn't much we find wrong with Connect360, the $20 media sharing app that helps your Mac play friendly with your Xbox 360. In fact, that solution is arguably preferable to the official Windows Media Player solution in Windows, so the newly released Rivet has something of an uphill battle to gather Mac OS X mindshare. Luckily it has two advantages: unlike Connect360, Rivet replicates "the entire folder structure" on your Xbox so there will be "no more scrolling through a huge, flat list" (great if you've got a lot of music and movies); secondly, it's $1.05 cheaper. If you're interested, check out the demo and share your impressions with the rest of the class. [Via TUAW]
Rivet media sharing for Xbox 360
Mac users who have wanted to share audio, video, and pictures with their Xbox 360s have had to depend on Connect360 from Nullriver Software. Now, however, there's a new option: Rivet from Cynical Peak Software. Frankly, it does about the same thing as Connect360, running in your menu bar and allowing you to share media to your Xbox 360, though it does add a few convenient features. According to the developer, Rivet allows you to "supply multiple search paths for your media" and display your folder media folder hierarchies properly (instead of in a long, flat list). So if you've been frustrated by those limitations, Rivet is worth a look. In my brief testing it worked just about as well as Connect360.Rivet is $18.95 and a demo is available from Cynical Peak Software.
