The image that immediately comes to mind when thinking of planning and preparing teaching lessons is of the kindly teacher, laboriously trudging through large amounts of paper and mapping out the direction of the upcoming lesson. Oh, hang on...that was a Dickens book i was reading. Well, its either that or you can update it to the 20th Century by imagining the same scenario with its modern day equivalent - Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. Now it's time to move on from those efficient but bad old days and move into the next generation of lesson planning. Common Core is ... Read more
Here is a very useful application that many will find very helpful. ABBYY PDF to Word Converter is a free document management app for Facebook that lets you easily convert PDF files, including ones you have just scanned, into workable Microsoft Word documents where the text can be edited. As in most Facebook apps, this one is simple and literally asks you to upload your PDF, select a language and the app will do the rest. You can convert up to 10 documents per month for free and register with ABBYY Fine Reader Online to get more. ABBYY PDF ... Read more
At first look this iOS application looks to be a pretty simple thing. But it doesn't take too much scratching of the surface to realize that there is a lot more just under the surface that makes Scan to PDF a very useful and flexible way of turning your iDevice into a scanner that you can keep in your pocket. What it does is to let you scan top quality, multi page documents and then print or save or share them in many different formats. Here is a highly useful app that is designed for both individual or businesses ... Read more
"Bye, bye email...hello TagMyDoc" goes the byline to this innovative and very useful file sharing app. TagMyDoc could well be the future of document sharing and takes online communication one step further into the 21st Century. While it's taking people a while to come to terms with QR Code technology - and many people I talk to still have no idea what those funny little square boxes are all about - when one wakes up to the idea that they are basically a bar code it's easy to see the possibilities. TapMyDoc is a free app that let's you place ... Read more
When you are sitting in a lecture, a seminar or meeting you don't really want to be the one tapping away on your keyboard while the action takes place. Apart from anything else, it's kinda distracting and you can hire a stenographer to do that. Remember when you were in collage with that foolscap pad you used to take to lectures. It was covered in doodles and stuff but it did carry the crux of the information whether it be through diagrams or your note taking. Soundnote is the modern day foolscap pad with one big difference - not only ... Read more
We have reviewed several document management applications recently and GroupDocs joins the brilliant OrganiDocs HD, Zilicus PM and Folder+ as one of the better ones. It's a comprehensive web-based service for sharing files and documents as well as delivering a powerful set of management and collaborative tools that enable you to securely upload, convert, view, sign and compare all document formats with colleagues and business partners in real-time. GroupDocs was designed for small to medium businesses and provides an answer to the perennial problem that is known as document management. It starts with a dashboard where you can see ... Read more
When I first bought my iPad a few years ago I looked upon it as a really useful little toy to access email and Facebook when traveling. A couple of years down the track and with the help of WiFi technology and a few essential apps it has turned into a second computer that i tend to use more than my Mac at home and at work. OrganiDoc HD has just turned into one of those essential apps! This staggering and very powerful file management application is almost the missing link that revolutionizes your tablet and is virtually a USB ... Read more
AsPDF is one of those types of apps that I love the most. While it appears to be little more than a place to submit and share PDF's - generally not the most exciting and fun concept - there are two different functions that AsPDF can fulfill. One the one hand it's a place to find thousands of manuals, documents and research material on anything from cancer research to any number how-to manuals. But on a sneakier and very clever level it could also be a place where you could effectively store all your home manuals and technical information and ... Read more
While ReadCube doesn't contain anything earth shatteringly extra to similar apps like Papers For Macintosh, Mendeley and Zotero, it is a very useful and attractive looking alternative to have around. ReadCube streamlines PubMed / Google Scholar searches and article downloads, helps researchers to organize and annotate publications as well as creating references with Endnote and simplifying the whole literature research thing. Read more
I like this app. Based in Poland (and available in English or Polish language versions), this online app makes life very easy if you need to create a .pdf file of any web page. You simply enter the full url (including http://) and click a button! A few seconds later the file is available for download. Read more