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ShopSavvy for iPhone – Here Just In Time for Holiday Shopping

By Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator on November 18, 2009

BigJapan’s, ShopSavvy, which incidentally was one of 10 winners in the original Google Challenge contest in 2008, arrived this week iPhone. With ShopSavvy’s “laser”, really taking a photo with the iphone camera, you scan a product’s barcode and the app will do a price check. Results are rendered for both online and local retail locations. The app also accumulates reviews for the products, allows you to save the product to customized wish lists, generates price alerts that you can target prices for, gives a history of your scans and saves and allows you to share on popular social networks such as twitter and facebook. On first attempt, the app scanned several items quickly and is easy to navigate. Best of all, it is FREE!

I was attempting to video tape my initial use of this great app but here is a video found on youtube that demonstrates the fine points:

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Nancy Raskauskas, Administrator

Nancy Raskauskas,Founder, Owner and Developer of the Cosmic Networks, is also the Middle and Upper School Computer Teacher at Worcester Preparatory School on the eastern Shore of Maryland. Nancy is a very creative teacher and a telented Graphic Artist. With a background in language arts and art, along with her talent for technology, Mrs. Raskauskas inspires students to move forward in computer skills. The winner of many state and national awards for her work with technology and children, Mrs. Raskauskas was named the Maryland Technology Teacher of the Year and has received national awards from the Computer Learning Foundation. Her writing appears in a number of web sites and publications.

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