Posts tagged Text

Best Text Recognition Tool: ABBYY FineReader [Hive Five Followup]

Last week we asked you to share your favorite text recognition tool—more formally known as optical character recognition (OCR)—then we compared them all. Now we’re back to highlight the most popular text recognition tool. More »

Entri Creates Controlled Collaboration Spaces for Text Work [Collaboration Tools]

Got an article to write with a fellow classmate? Need some feedback on a blog post you’re putting together? Entri lets you write with a good editor, grab the link, then share it with friends to chime in. More »

Five Best Text Recognition Tools [Hive Five]

Working with text on your computer offers a range of possibilities in searching and editing that simply aren’t available with hard copy text. Check out these five text recognition tools to get your printed text into your computer. More »

Which Text Recognition Tool Is Best? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools bridge the great divide between the virtual word and the printed word. This week we want to hear about your favorite tool for taking hard-copy text and importing it (as searchable text) into your computer. More »

Buy Textbooks Overseas for Heavy Discounts [Back To School]

We shared numerous textbook buying tips with you this week, but reader beala lets us know that merely buying overseas can save you a lot of money on its own. More »

The Complete Guide to Saving Money on Textbooks [Back To School]

Textbooks are ridiculously expensive, and publishers love to pull tricks to force the purchase of new editions whenever possible. This school year, save loads of cash using these textbook-buying methods.
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How to Use Text Expansion to Save Yourself Hours of Typing Every Week [Text Substitution]

In a regular day, most of us type the same things over and over again, wasting an enormous amount of time in the process. Why not let your computer do some of that work for you? That’s where text expansion comes in. More »

Nebulous Notes Edits Text Files in Your Dropbox Account [Downloads]

iOS only: Dropbox is a great place to stash your stuff and access it anywhere, including your text files. Nebulous Notes simply creates, edits, and saves text files back to your Dropbox account, with some extra security and customization features, too. More »

1dl.us Is a Swiss Army Knife of Web Utilities [Webapps]

Plenty of sites offer a quick IP address check, disposable email, URL shortening, image uploading, and quick text saving. 1dl.us offers all of them, on one page, for your bookmarking convenience. More »

Write.fm Offers Super Simple Text and Attachment Sharing [Sharing]

If you're looking for a simple way to share snippets of text and file attachments with nothing more than a shortened URL, Write.fm—from the creators of Task.fm—is a notepad with built-in file sharing. More »