Should You Shred, Scan, Or Store Your Paperwork?

Do you have a mountain of paperwork waiting to be filed or thrown away? How do you decide which documents should be shredded scanned or stored?

Fargo Makes Outlining On The Web Clean And Easy

For outlining, a new HTML5 web application written in JavaScript called Fargo, just might be one of the best tools for creating, storing, and collaborating on outline documents.

Collaborate And Edit Meeting Notes In Realtime Using Sync.in

Whenever you need to work with a team online, or even if you just have to collaborate with other colleagues that may work at other remote locations, the ability to have something visual to look at and work on collectively is invaluable. Sync.in is true realtime document conferencing. It is an online collaborative notepad tool that I believe stands out above the rest.

iAnnotate: The Best iPad App for Annotating PDFs and Word Documents

When it comes to annotating and reviewing PDF documents on the iPad, iAnnotate PDF ($9.99) is my go-to solution. If there's an option to download a .MOBI or .EPUB ebook or .PDF version of a book, I always choose the latter because of what iAnnotate allows me to do. The tools and features in this iPad-only app are ten times more powerful than Apple's iBooks for highlighting, bookmarking, and reviewing annotations which makes it perfect for students, writers, or anyone who needs to mark up text as they read.

3 Ways to Electronically Sign Documents

Paperwork doesn't have to be a chore, if it can be handled swiftly and efficiently. In the case of signing documents, it usually isn’t. It’s a hopelessly convoluted process, all for getting a single squiggly on a single document. It’s time for document signing to enter the digital age and with electronic signatures, it has.

QuickOffice Pro HD: Create, Open And Edit Office Documents On Your iPad [iOS]

Apple doesn’t offer an all-in-one office suite, so users who want to handle these tasks on their tablet must turn to a third-party solution. One of the most popular is QuickOffice Pro HD, a $19.99 iOS productivity suite that is actually owned by Google. The app promises the creation and editing of Word, Excel and Powerpoint files and lets users save documents to .PDF. All of which sounds great – but does it actually work?

PDFStacks: Managing, Reading, and Searching Your PDFs Made Easy [Giveaway]

If you have amassed several hundred or thousands of PDF documents like I have, you probably have experienced the challenge of managing and accessing them in various folders on your computer. Since I have gone practically paperless in my day-to-day workflow, an application like PDF Stacks ($39.00) is one I should have started using a long time ago. We're giving away 25 copies of PDF Stacks for both PC and Mac. Find out how you can win one after the review.

How To Save And Share Text Documents Using iCloud

iCloud has been most useful for updating email, contact, and calendar data across Mac and iOS devices. But now it includes additional features for document files, for both Apple native and third-party applications. In this article I explain many of the pros and cons of saving text documents to iCloud.

Create PDFs With Advanced Features From Any Application With novaPDF Desktop Professional [Giveaway]

Most of us don’t have the tools to easily create PDFs – particularly with advanced options -- and don’t want to learn a complex application like Adobe Acrobat to do so. Softland's novaPDF is an easy-to-use tool to create PDFs from any application that supports printing. This week we’re giving away 25 copies of novaPDF Professional Desktop 7 worth a total of $1250! Read on for your chance to enter our giveaway and win your own copy!

4 Tips For Securing PDF Documents

When you create PDFs for business purposes there are a number of security concerns you may have, ranging from who can view it to how the content can be re-used. It's therefore vital to understand your PDF security settings well and to know what protection features are generally available. Here are some of the top PDF security tips.

LibreOffice 3.5 Released, Offers New Grammar Checking Tool [News]

How To Share Your Printer With Anyone On The Internet

Windows 7’s Homegroup feature makes sharing printers on your local network easy, but what if you want to share a printer over the Internet? This has traditionally been very complicated, involving print drivers, firewall rules and IP addresses. Google Cloud Print, built into Google Chrome, simplifies online printer sharing.

Create, Edit and Share PDFs the Right Way with Nitro Pro 7 [Giveaway]

In the next two week, we're giving away 50 free copies of Nitro Pro 7 worth a whopping $6000 in total!

Make Quick Changes To PDF Files With PDF Mod [Linux]

Make simple changes to any PDF file in Linux. Move pages around, edit the bookmarks, add pages from another PDF or remove pages altogether. It's a snap with PDF Mod, a simple Linux program that does one thing and does it well. If there's something PDF files aren't really supposed to be, it's editable. The format, originally created as a way to transfer data from a computer to a printer, is essentially a digital piece of paper.

Edit Text Files In Your Dropbox From Your Browser With TextDropApp

Edit any text file in your Dropbox from your browser. It's easy to with TextDropApp, a web-based text editor that uses Dropbox for storage. Whether you want to edit text documents from Chrome OS or just want a simple way to do some writing while on the go, TextDropApp is easy to use and quick. TextDropApp isn't just useful for programmers. It's also perfect for the writer on the move.

Reading Personal Documents On Your Kindle App

Since I first reviewed the Amazon Kindle for the iPad and other iOS devices, some pretty useful features have been added in recent updates. From basic annotation tools, an e-book library, and its Whispersync capabilities, the Kindle app now allows users to import magazines and newspapers, as well as personal documents—each of which can be synced between iOS devices.

Get Easy Access To Your Documents Stored Online With Google Docs For Android

The Google Docs app for Android provides quick access to your documents and collections stored online with Google. Within the app you can view, create, edit, upload, and share files or take pictures with your Android device camera and directly import them.

3 Handy Apps For Working with Text on Mac & iOS

When it comes to writing and manipulating text on a computer, I think we can never have enough tools to simplify all the tasks involved . Three relatively new applications you might consider adding to your arsenal are Mou and MarkdownMail, for working in Markdown language; and a seriously magical Mac application, FormatMatch, for automatically reformatting copied and pasted text.

2 Extensions That Improve The Speed & Functionality Of Google Docs [Chrome]

Google Docs is without a doubt one of the easiest ways to collaborate with multiple people on a single document. It offers a slew of features that make it easy to collaborate with others. However, there are always ways to improve, and thankfully that is where extensions come in. There are two particularly useful ones that I am going to take a look at today.