FotoNote converts an image to electronic text using OCR, widely used by business professionals. One neat feature is that FotoNote brings this useful technology to the iPhone and iPod touch. Now even casual users can OCR their every day items like restaurant receipts for expense reports or tax deduction for example, or maybe take a screenshot in another app that you want to save the text.
AirPrint leaves a lot to be desired, but Printopia fills in the gaps at a great price.
iOS 4.2 Brings Multitasking & Wireless Printing to iPad
The new version of Apple’s mobile platform, iOS 4.2, is available today for the iPad, iPhone & iPod touch. iPads received the most new features, including support for multitasking, wireless printing, app folders, a unified inbox and access to Game Center, among other things.
Apple also announced that its Find My iPhone application is now available to all users for free, sans a subscription to MobileMe.
The American Bar Association has built a site full of useful information to help insure your online shopping experience is a safe one. Stop by SafeShopping.org and spend a few minutes reviewing their tips. Even cyber-shopping pros will learn something here.
Remember that Mark Twain autobiography, allowed to be published in full only a century after Samuel Clemens’s death? The New York Times reports that it’s turning into a surprise runaway bestseller—the publisher can’t print the books fast enough to keep up with the demand. It originally thought a run of 7,500 copies would be sufficient—after all, who besides scholars would want “a $35, four-pound, 500,000-word doorstopper of a memoir”?—but has printed 275,000 so far and is still not meeting holiday season demand.
You can buy the Kindle version at Amazon for $9.79. And, now Amazon lets you gift Kindle books. Santa . . .
What is GroupMe?
Free group texting and conference calling. It’s like a private chat room over SMS, or reply-all text messaging. GroupMe enables you to organize and communicate with the groups of people in your life that are important to you.
What can I do with it?
Set up unique groups to text message or conference call. Each group is given a unique phone number. When you send a text message to a GroupMe number, the message is sent instantly to everyone in the group. When you call it, GroupMe automatically connects all group members on a conference call. Because it’s a unique phone number, you can save it to your contacts and you’ll never forget who you’re talking to.
This is too easy to believe! Can't wait to get the family "grouped" together.
Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. That's something like five exabytes of data.
~~ Eric Schmidt, Google CEO
Finally, Google has announced that they’ll roll out Docs editing for mobile devices in the next few days. The feature, first announced several weeks ago but never actually deployed, is now ready to go for Android and iOS devices. All you have to do to edit a document on a mobile browser (including the iPad) is pressing the Edit button in Google Docs. That’s it.
The NOAA announced last week the release of “Charting a More Perfect Union,” a collection of over 400 documents including Civil War-era maps and nautical charts, and annual summaries of the US Coast Survey. It’s available at http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/history/CivilWar/.
One of the drawbacks of Scrivener 1 was trying to deal with different windows of information. You could split the page between two parts of the book (which I never found comfortable). But not much more than that. With Scrivener 2 though we now have QuickRef screens which are utterly wonderful. Watch…
Select a document in the Binder on the left.
Then hit the space bar — nothing more. You get a quick look, much as you do in Finder. Like this…
Great tip! Read it all.
