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Bar Review On Your iPhone. And It's (Relatively) Cheap!

By Dan Filler, Laura Appleman et al.

<p><a href="http://blurblawg.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54f871a9c88330128774a5906970c-pi" style="float: right;"><img alt="Barmax" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e54f871a9c88330128774a5906970c " src="http://blurblawg.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54f871a9c88330128774a5906970c-200wi" style="width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" /></a>  We already knew we could do almost everything on our little iPhone.  Thanks to the magic of capitalism, humans have created 140,000 different applications - from the mundane to the sublime - to run on that magical Apple  toy.  But most of those programs cost five bucks or less.  Now, however, there's a <a href="http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/1000_iphone_app_offers_a_barbri_alternative_for_calif._test_takers">truly useful app</a> for the aspiring lawyer.   <a href="http://www.getbarmax.com/">BarMax</a> is offering a $999 California bar prep program that you can run anytime: sitting in a dentist's waiting room, stuck in traffic, or even during long and boring meetings.   The idea is great but the proof is in bar pass rates.  And if I were the folks at BarMax, that's the part I'd be sweating.</p><p></p><p></p>

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on February 05, 2010 (boomark / email).