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Contents [hide] In this post (Google Phone = Pocket Xerox Machine), I discussed some web apps that can turn an Android phone (and other smart phones) into a pocket xerox machine. These services include Evernote and Qipit. I’ve recently found an app on the Android Market that I think is even better for this purpose. [...]
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The recent version of Open Office makes it very easy for philosophers to insert logical notation into their papers. It’s done through by adding special commands into the AutoCorrect Feature. This post will show you how to do that. Suppose you want the existential quantifier to automatically replace ‘/e’ - Here’s what you do.
Filed under: educational technology, open source, research tools, teaching, the academy by Andrew Cullison
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I opened a spreadsheet in google docs today and discovered that I can now edit my google doc spreadsheets from the google phone! Google was heavily criticized for not hitting the ground with this kind of functionality. I’m glad to see they’re so quick to work on this. This really opens up the phone for [...]
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Free services like Qipit and Evernote are awesome for academia, and the Google Phone really unlocks their power. It’s like having a high quality Xerox machine in your pocket. How These Services Work I’ll focus on Qipit. First, set up an account with Qipit and give them your email address. Next, snap a picture of [...]
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Last week I wrote about the Open Office 3.0 note feature. If you have students submit papers electronically - OpenOffice 3.0 is a big improvement - because you can type notes and comments that appear in colored bubbles in the margins. The problem is that in OpenOffice 3.0 these comment bubbles appear outside the printable [...]
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Here’s a reason for academics to be interested in OpenOffice 3.0 - It has a much improved notes feature. Recent version of MS Word enables users to include notes in the margins. I rely on that feature a lot to write up comments on papers from my colleagues or my students. MS Word always had [...]
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Two very good discussions regarding the recent lawsuit that EndNote makers filed against the makers of Zotero - here and here. Stop using EndNote. [HT: Mark Eli Kalderon]
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Stop using Endnote. Thomson Reuters, the maker of Endnote, is suing Virginia over Zotero. The claim is that the makers of Zotero reverse engineered Endnote to make Zotero. However, it doesn’t look like that’s true. It looks like Zotero allows users to use their own Endnote file and save their bibliographic information back as an [...]
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The move from analog to digital TV will free up a ton of unused white space. The issue is - what do we do with all of that space? The folks at Google are pushing to free it up. Big telecom companies would like this white space to remain heavily regulated and controlled. If this [...]
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