I have been weeding our oldest blog posts and came across this oddity from back in the late 2000s about text generation in Microsoft Word that reveals what we did in the days before ChatGPT generated random text for us. Behold a wondrous technological workaround of the past.
Citavi is a powerful and increasingly popular project and reference management tool. The free version supports up to 100 references and offers the full range of tools as the purchased/licensed full version, so you can try everything Citavi has to …
“Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism. It’s time to stop them.” ~ Zephyr Teachout Is there anything Google cannot do? Is there anything Google soon will not decide it should not do? By the time you rule the world, …
If you are an avid collector of Pokemon, or indeed just have a passing familiarity with Pokemon Go, you may be interested in how the game concept has been used by a university in Thailand to teach children in rural communities about the …
The University Library is a PokemonGo gym – yours to join, collect the resident digital pets, battle and defend! PokemonGo has gripped the headlines over the past few weeks but what has just started to emerge are the hidden dangers it poses for …
Pic Collage is a free photo editor and collage creation app useful for creating and annotating field trip photo albums, drawing and adding text to mark important features, research and illustrate design concepts, and even create visually appealing infographics and conference or …
Update 15.12.16 – OpenToonz has been released and can be found and downloaded here. Graduating to a career in animation? OpenToonz, an open source version of the software used by Hayao Miyazaki’s animation studio, Studio Ghibli, becomes available as a free open source and download from …
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Flipboard brings together your news and social media feeds, magazines and blogs to form a personalised gossip magazine(s). You can even create your own magazines (privately or publicly) and subscribe to others’ public magazines. You can read, like, retweet, comment and …
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Not a small and misspelled dog but a powerful dictaphone app that offers one-touch recording from up to 45 seconds before you hit “record”. It allows you to annotate your audio recording with photographs of whiteboards, notes, diagrams or pictures …
Robobraille has been mentioned before on Liblog but it is worth drawing out as a particularly good app for converting a picture of text into the real thing online. No, it is not intended to help you more easily copy and paste …
