Tech Happy Hour:Tools for Your Tablet

Faculty/Staff WorkshopThursday, February 27, 2014

Tell us about your tablet use!

• What kind of tablet do you have?• What do you use it for?

Today we’ll discuss tablet apps for

• storage for files of all types • reading, either online or offline • taking notes, saving files, marking up files • visual media • sound media

(and especially their use for teaching/research)

Dropbox

Dropbox

Instapaper

Instapaper

Instapaper

Readability

Readability

• Clipping service for articles and other textual content—use on a desktop computer or mobile Safari with browser plugin/bookmarklets (not easy)

• Allows tagging, sending to Readability by email, archiving, sharing

• Read now or save for later• Offline reading best feature; great for older

eyes too

Tablet Access to Ebooks

• Pleasant to read on tablet, ability to flip pages• iBooks=usually $ via iTunes store• Library (public, City Tech) options: – 3M, Overdrive apps = epub format ebooks– Kindle = Kindle format ebooks– Bluefire for epub ebooks w/o apps such as ebrary

• Need Adobe Digital Editions acct. for epub books—sign up at Adobe

Evernote

Evernote

Evernote• Can be used for clipping via browser but has much

more capability than Readability• Offline access, syncing features; offers desktop client• Rapid note creation• Mark up images, pdfs, etc. • Tagging, folders, collaboration & sharing• Quicknote reminders, lists, checklists• Share via AirDrop• Can be a hub for all your content• New app, Evernote Food

iAnnotate for Android

iAnnotate for Android

iAnnotate for Android

Camera/photos

• The camera is to take pictures using the front or back lens (default).

• Photos can be taken in high-dynamic range (HDR) mode, with 3 different exposures are combined in a single shot.

• You can zoom in and out using the pinch and stretch finger gestures.

Photoshop Express

http://cityte.ch/xpress

Photoshop Express

• Photoshop Express can be used to crop and resize images.

• This app can apply different filters to your photographs for special effects

• PS Express can also tilt images so they can be straightened

• Great for on the go photo editing.

Tascam PCMRecorder

http://cityte.ch/tascam

Tascam PCMRecorder

• The Tascam PCMRecorder can be used for field recordings

• Uses an equalizer to adjust the audio settings of a recording.

• Volume limiters in the app can help reduce clipping of recordings

• A low-pass filter can also be used to reduce background noise.

SoundCloud

http://cityte.ch/soundcloud

SoundCloud

• SoundCloud is a web service that allows the sharing of sounds.

• Recordings can be done on an iPad and shared through SoundCloud.com

• Requires user registration• Each sound has a unique URL that can be

shared or embedded into web pages.

+ Keyboard = Laptop Substitute

Photo by Karlis Dambrans http://flickr.com/photos/janitors/9679258384/

Questions? Suggestions?

Thank you!

Profs. Monica Berger, Anne Leonard, Maura Smale, Junior Tidal