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Using our iPads – At work, at home and at play

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We talked about a couple handwriting apps we are using for meeting notes, all of which allow for drawing too. Some can even convert the handwriting to text. All though, are for multi page notes, like our meeting notes. From time-to-time, we just need to jot down a quick note. For handwritten notes, most often [...]

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Handwritten notes on the iPad have become a natural everyday thing for us. Gone are the removable page paper notepads, in place people jots down notes on their iPads that they can file or share as needed. For meetings, many people leave their notes in digital ink, exactly as they wrote the notes, most often [...]

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There are some things that just work better on a tablet over a desktop. That can be because of available tools or processes that work better with a couple fingers instead of a mouse. Photo enhancing/editing keeps getting more powerful on the iPad. Tapping, pinching and sliding all works more naturally for zooming into spots [...]

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Last week we mentioned the IMDb app being updated with more ways to share quotes from movies, a must have to be amongst the well spoken at the water cooler. Today, IntoNow has also updated their app to give you more info, quicker, all with your iPad. The Universal app IntoNow has been out a [...]

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The folks from Nuance Communications, the provider of Dragon voice recognition, have released their free iPad notes app – PaperPort Notes. A notes app that has a little bit of something for everyone. The app is light enough to be happy with it if you where to only use one notes capture method while still offering [...]

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Outside of watching or listening to media on the iPad, using the iPad in the office is about being able to access work files and note taking. We cover and will continue to cover note taking solutions, this post is about always having everything you need in meetings. The trick of the process is converting [...]

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To better organize our day, and through the power of the iPad, we divide up our personal, general work, team time off and large clients into separate calendars. This used to cause issues trying to watch multiple calendars and make sure there wasn’t conflicts, now you can choose which or all to view through a [...]

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Everyday we take many photos with our iPads and iPhones which we share with friends through a variety of social photo share apps. It’s fun to share with others your perspective on what you saw during your day through a simple snapshot. What if you could save one or a couple images every day that [...]

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We woke to find Penultimate kicked up the game of iPad note taking another notch. The latest update now includes full DropBox and Evernote integration!! Linking your DropBox account to your copy of the Penultimate iPad app means that you can send and store both pages and full notebooks up to the Cloud. You can [...]

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We have a few options now to use our iPads for writing articles with few distractions. Several have been reviewed by the many folks around the office. A newer addition to the group is Phraseology. An iPad app that lets the writer in your get to what you need to do, write. Creating new, saving [...]

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