February 9, 2012
Notepad++ is a worthy replacement for Windows’ in-built and much loved text editor, and comes highly recommended if you’re a programmer, web designer or simply someone who finds themselves in need of a powerful plain text editor. Not only is Notepad++ free under the GPL licence but it is also possible to extend its functionality with plugins.
December 30, 2011
Over the years, the Moleskine notebook has become a trademark staple for anyone dabbling in creative endeavors. In fact, the Moleskine is almost as iconic as the Apple laptop, the hipster glasses, and the daily visits to Starbucks. But simply having one of these notebooks won’t be enough to spark your productivity and get your steam pumping towards optimal efficiency.
October 18, 2011
One thing that’s oddly missing from Android by default is a Notes application. Be honest: How many times have you sent yourself an email (or at least saved a quick Gmail draft) just because you had nowhere to jot down a quick note? Well, I hope to remedy that today, with either of these two free and simple note apps for Android.
July 13, 2011
For me, the iPad is the ultimate device for paperless reading, writing, and photo viewing. The comfortable viewing size of the iPad makes it a perfect electronic notebook for reading ebooks, PDFs, typing short emails, and viewing lots of photos. There are also some very good apps that actually allow you to use the iPad like a notepad.
April 14, 2011
There are many applications out there that try to make your life easier by letting you take useful notes that you can search and manipulate in a number of ways. Some of these programs do a decent job while others fail you miserably. Xournal is an amazing little program that has many great purposes and can easily become one of your must-haves. Best of all, it runs great on Linux!
February 16, 2010
There are many fish in the sea of notepad applications. From text editors for programmers to the simpler web based notebooks, we have the entire range. The bottom line falls on the fact that your pick would depend on what you want to use it for. To replace Notepad, programmers would go for something like [...]
February 12, 2010
Yes, the color is orange or at least some of it. Note taking apps are as common as…ummm, oranges. Most of us probably start with Notepad, then go up to sticky notes and finally stop at Evernote. You have a tab for notes in Opera and addons in Firefox. But all of these apps aren’t [...]
January 21, 2010
With 100,000+ apps in the App Store, we can find apps for a variety of uses, such as turning your iPod Touch/iPhone into a professional camera/photo editor (for iPhone), an external hard drive, a reference book, or a radio, yet productivity apps that integrate with Google services, which are free and which we can use [...]
March 27, 2009
For the most part we can agree that PDF documents come in very handy at times, they’re easy to read and content effective. However, if reading a PDF comes easy to us, shouldn’t it be just as easy to create one? That’s where doPDF shifts into place. This free PDF converter not only rescues you [...]
March 24, 2009
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is cool – the thing that lets you analyze an image and recognize the text within the image. Something that you can do with Evernote. However what if you want to do it for some of your own images? Of course you can use Evernote or you can use JOCR. A [...]
