Tag Archives: iphone

Lunch & Learn: Serge Goldstein on the iPrinceton app.

Posted on October 4, 2011 by John LeMasney

Over the past two years, OIT, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with a num­ber of Uni­ver­sity depart­ments and Black­board Inc., has devel­oped a mobile appli­ca­tion suite named “iPrince­ton.” This suite is cur­rently avail­able for iPhone/iPads, Android, and Black­berry mobile devices, as well as … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Plain Text

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Ben Johnston

html2text is one of those tools that most peo­ple might not need very often, but when you do need it, it is indis­pens­able.  html2text, as the name implies, con­verts web­pages (HTML) to plain old glo­ri­ous text. That text, in turn, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Read the Front Page of 873 Newspapers From 87 Countries for Free

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Angel Brady

New­seum is a free web­site that allows  you to read the front page of  873 news­pa­pers (includ­ing other coun­try news­pa­pers) for free. The front pages are high qual­ity images from the actual news­pa­per or you can read them as  PDFs, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Facebook app that lets you create flashcards

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Angel Brady

I recently came across a Face­book app called Q-Kards. It’s a sim­ple flash­card app that allows you to cre­ate flash­cards (for any topic like learn­ing a lan­guage or text vocab) to help you mem­o­rize infor­ma­tion. You can share your cards … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Productive Scholar: PULSe and Lynda.com

Posted on April 5, 2011 by John LeMasney

PULSe – the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Learn­ing Series is a new IT learn­ing oppor­tu­nity that sup­ports many of the tech­nolo­gies OIT makes avail­able.  Fac­ulty, staff, and stu­dents – any­one with a Prince­ton netID – can par­tic­i­pate in the live Fri­day after­noon … Con­tinue read­ing →

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