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Post by MartinT on Nov 6, 2024 11:45:29 GMT
Recommend any good apps here, regardless of platform. Here's my first one. A useful PDF app as a website, usable on all platforms. We all need to manipulate PDFs on occasion but few are prepared to subscribe to the rather pricy Adobe Acrobat. Here's the next best thing, capable of doing many of those things we need to do occasionally. I Love PDF. www.ilovepdf.com/ |
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Post by seanm on Nov 6, 2024 17:52:09 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Nov 6, 2024 22:21:40 GMT
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Post by seanm on Nov 7, 2024 7:33:51 GMT
Thanks Martin.... Unit conversions? Phaghh! if my Physics teacher had his way, you would go into the shop and order a pair of 1.5 kg m 2s -3A -1 AAA cells for your remote control!  |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 7, 2024 7:55:25 GMT
if my Physics teacher had his way, you would go into the shop and order a pair of 1.5 kg m 2s -3A -1 AAA cells for your remote control! I'm the same; always give my responses in metric except miles, but I could get used to km in a trice. Thing is, I'm forever converting hp / ps / kW (power) and lb.ft / nm (torque) for cars. |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 7, 2024 9:47:03 GMT
Shop (Android and iOS)
I didn't realise how useful this app is until recently. It interrogates your e-mail and shows you the status of all your orders, no matter where placed*. You get the transit status, tracking details, expected delivery etc. You just link it to your phone on setup, and your primary e-mail.
*I am currently showing parcel status for Amazon, Black Hawk, Shenzhen, FastWRX, Fensport, Pharmacy2U - all without telling it anything.
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 7, 2024 10:19:33 GMT
Recommend any good apps here, regardless of platform. Here's my first one. A useful PDF app as a website, usable on all platforms. We all need to manipulate PDFs on occasion but few are prepared to subscribe to the rather pricy Adobe Acrobat. Here's the next best thing, capable of doing many of those things we need to do occasionally. I Love PDF. www.ilovepdf.com/Thought I might have a use for it - then I saw what it does. I will have a use for it, as will madam |
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 7, 2024 10:35:17 GMT
Can anyone recommend an app for finding duplicate photos with all sorts of different names, saving only one
Madam has thousands of photos with so many duplicates of each and running out of storage on her ipad
I imagine the app needs to compare the photo contents as the dupes can have various different naming 'conventions'
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Post by MartinT on Nov 7, 2024 13:08:40 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 7, 2024 19:25:56 GMT
Thanks
Will go ferreting
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Post by MartinT on Nov 12, 2024 9:09:30 GMT
Some here will accuse me of being a Microsofty, but since I have a 365 licence, why not?
I have moved from finding OneNote kinda useful many years ago, to using it in earnest at work to produce documentation, to now in my private life where I use it for all my note-taking. What I so like about it is that it's multi-platform and works on all my devices, synchronising the notes as I open it on a new device.
A fantastic utility to make notes in an organised way by major and minor categories. For instance, one category I have is for cars, broken down into each one I've owned, where I capture snippets of accessories I'm interested in, website URLs, photos etc. Other pages are for recipes, wishlist, music reviews, hi-fi reviews, places to visit etc.
The ability to see something I'm interested in, quickly open OneNote on my phone and make a note or take a photo, then open it later on the desktop PC and fill in more information, is for me what cloud computing does so well.
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 12, 2024 10:36:00 GMT
OneNote also has a free version doesn't it ?
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Post by MartinT on Nov 12, 2024 11:02:02 GMT
OneNote also has a free version doesn't it ? I think it does, Mike. All you would need is a free Microsoft account, which many people have already. Someone please confirm that the app is free on all platforms? |
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Post by seanm on Nov 13, 2024 7:16:29 GMT
I found your comments about OneNote interesting.... I spend my working day (in a virtual online school) largely within the Teams/Class notebook environment with I find simultaneously breath taking / spectacular, glacially slow and buggy. Class notebook is OneNote on steroids.
I started using OneNote during my PGCE about 17 years ago, when it was billed as a "scrapbooking" app.... I think it echoes the change in "information" and "note taking". I feel that information is much more a loose collection of weblinks (often to video), snaps taken with a phone and screen grabs glued together with snippets of writing. In contrast the linear nature of a document in word is rather restrictive and not "in the moment". I see this reflecting the change in presenting styles... short "micro" presentations which rely on signposting to do the heavy lifting. The presenter is able to give a pacey overview of say 5 topics in 10 mins rather than reading a power point to you for an hour about one topic. If a participant is sufficiently interested in one of the topics, they follow the signposts in their own time.
I think there are analogies here with the fax machine... these are credited with speeding up and improving communication.... not as a result of faxing being faster than snail mail, rather it made it acceptable to hand write rather than waiting for documents to be typed up on headed letter paper. Salesmen closed deals this way before the competitor's tender had left the mailroom
I like the cross platform nature of OneNote which is essential... However, I do find that entering information onto the page is clunky compared to say powerpoint or publisher (that unloved MS offspring). I recently watched a Y13 student making excellent use of the Samsung notetaking app using pen input. But I always have concerns about the closed nature of such offerings.
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Post by MartinT on Nov 13, 2024 8:15:27 GMT
I do remember Teams and Class Notebooks well. My school used them as a replacement for exercise books (the school was paperless: no exercise books, no text books, no handouts). The beauty of 'OneNote on steroids', as you so aptly describe it, is that tabs are created for each student automatically and only the teacher can see all the tabs. Students only see their own tab. Teachers don't 'take work home' to mark, they just open the Class Notebook and mark/annotate directly. It's a beautiful system and works 99% of the time. Sadly, an occasional glitch could cause a Class Notebook to not open correctly, but we in IT could restore it from backup in a few minutes.
Back to OneNote, I like its intentional loose nature, there are no templates and you just paste or type stuff in any way you like. Also, being a well established product (especially in schools and colleges), there is no danger of OneNote disappearing (taking your work with it).
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Post by petea on Nov 13, 2024 15:10:45 GMT
Translation app: I find Deepl very useful and have an account although the free version is good for most stuff. You can either use it on their website or download their app which can be used as a ‘hot tool while writing. www.deepl.com/en/translator |
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Post by nicholas on Nov 13, 2024 15:17:45 GMT
I have found Universal Package Tracker to be useful particularly for tracking shipments from multiple international carriers. Simple, efficient and just works: parcelsapp.com/en |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 13, 2024 15:41:27 GMT
I have found Universal Package Tracker to be useful particularly Me too, and the app called Parcels! |
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