App Review pages at Stanford Libraries and Med School
by vijoy on November 9, 2011 at 4:24 pm
A team in Academic Computing Services in Meyer library has been together a nifty page on iOS App reviews. Ranging from productivity, to connectivity, to media development, take a look at the page they’ve put up. http://acomp.stanford.edu/ios_app_reviews The Med School school here at Stanford has also published a page called MedApps, helping those in medicine [...]
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