There is a couple popular companies providing cases that allow you to carry a iPad and a full size pad of paper in one. Generally, to keep the case thin, you get a iPad screen pressed against the pad of paper when the case is closed. Having access to the iPad screen and pad of [...]
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 [...]
There are a variety of printed card creation solutions, including Cards from Apple. One has let us know they have updated their card templates to include Valentines Day! No excuses to not have a card ready for the holiday. Sincerely Ink Cards has all of their usual cards to cover Birthdays, other ‘Holidays’ and even [...]
This just in, ProCreate has signed up with Jaja’s Stylus to support the pen’s pressure sensitive capabilities at time of it’s launch. Jaja stylus, which is currently fully funded but still open on Kickstarter, sent an update this evening telling of ProCreate updating their software to use the pressure sensitive pen action. They are still looking to [...]
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 [...]
Remember the ‘Jot’ Stylus, we have covered a couple times… it’s made by Adonit and it has that funny little clear plastic tip that makes precision writing on the iPad much easier. OK? We also mentioned that Adonit is showing off a version of the Jot Stylus that is pressure sensitive, telling your iPad how [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
There is a lot of press around Apple taking a deeper step into education with their iBooks Author tool. We’ll cover that in the future after we have a few creations completed. Till then, we have a nice find that is a free app unrelated to iBooks that you may find very useful. The ‘app’ [...]
We mentioned Adonit being at CES with their Jot Stylus enhanced with Pressure Sensitive capabilities on the iPad. Press hard and the internal electronics tells the iPad via bluetooth your pressing so the line needs to be different than the end of the line as you lift the pen off. Over on Kickstarter is the [...]
