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Online OCR extracts text from scans for free
Have you ever received a PDF file in an email that contained information you need in text form, but the PDF doesn't let you select the text? Sometimes this is due to access restrictions on the document, but more often it's because the person creating ...
New in Office 12: the MiniBar
No,
Microsoft isn't trying to ply you with liquor and have their way with
you (they don't need to get you drunk to do that). The Microsoft
minibar is an in-context toolbar in Office 12 that pops up as you
select text, offering you formatting ...
Super-automated del.icio.us bookmarklet - Today's Browser Tip
From the creator of the Super-fast del.icio.us Bookmarklet comes Lazy Sheep, an even more advanced bookmarklet for del.icio.us posting. Actually, it's more of a bookmarklet generator: You enter your del.icio.us username and password and choose ...
15+ great Google Chrome extensions
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We've already mentioned other ways to power up Google Chrome. Before extensions arrived on the developer channel, Userscripts and bookmarklets were your ...
SendTo: copy from the web, paste to a Pocket PC
SendTo is a nifty bit of freeware that lets you copy and paste text from the web directly to a note or text file on your Pocket PC. Unfortunately it only works with Internet Explorer for now, but all you need to do is select text in your browser, ...
Google Docs gains context menus
Working with your documents and spreadsheets at Google Docs just got a whole lot easier, thanks to the introduction of contextual menus. Now, right clicking a doc provides most of the popular options that you typically need to use the navigation ...
Backpack add-ons for Firefox
We're big fans of Backpack, the online PIM organizer with a pioneering KISS philosophy from the wildly successful 37signals. At times, however, Backpack can appear too simple, making it seem like the only way to interact with the service is through ...
Firefox extensions that enhance the eBay shopping experience
What happens when power shoppers demand more from the eBay experience? Why, Firefox add-on developers pick up the slack, of course! Nathan Willis at Linux.com has posted a good writeup of three key Firefox add-ons that help you find better bargains, ...
SpokenText will read your docs, web pages, or email out loud
There's no shortage of services out there that let you convert text to poorly pronounced, mechanical sounding speech. But SpokenText has a few cool features that you don't see too often. Not only can you convert Word, PDF, PowerPoint, TXT, or HTML ...
Awesome Highlighter: Highlight web text before sharing URLs
When you send a URL to a friend, it's probably a good idea to include a note letting them know why you sent it. But if you're too lazy for that, you could always just highlight the snippet of text you really want them to read. Awesome Highlighter ...
It's all bubble talk
Speech bubbles are great way to add commentary to pictures. To do this just fire up a graphic program like Photoshop, import your photo, make a new layer, select a shape, draw a shape, create another layer, select the text tool, type what you want, ...
Highlight text on the web with Markkit
Now that "web 2.0" has been around for a while, it's become apparent that even the most mundane features of desktop apps are going to be available through web-based services. You've probably seen the highlighting feature in word processors like ...
Spreeder - another online speed-reading application
Just like ZAP Reader, Spreeder is an online speed-reading application that will help train your brain to read faster. Although they function very much the same, Spreeder's main goal in life isn't simply to allow you to read articles online more ...
Vox finally unveils Vox This bookmarklet, Digg This button
Six Apart's community-focused Vox blogging service has been making a number of incremental improvements over the last month or two with minor updates to their software. New themes and other enhancements are all welcome additions, but two specific new ...
More Google Books news
Sure, Google is planning to start selling access to digital books online. But that's not all Google Book Search is good for. Today Google announced a few new features for its online book service. My Library You can create a "book collection," using ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
