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NoodleTools Readability - An Arc90 Lab Experiment Update: On February 1, 2011, Readability was re-launched into a full-fledged reading platform that includes mobile support, queuing articles for reading later and a greatly improved reading view. In addition, the platform provides a unique model for supporting publishers and writers through your reading activity. Visit to learn more. Reading anything on the Internet has become a full-on nightmare. As media outlets attempt to eke out as much advertising revenue as possible, we’re left trying to put blinders on to mask away all the insanity that surrounds the content we’re trying to read. It’s almost like listening to talk radio, except the commercials play during the program in the background. Recently, Mandy Brown wrote a wonderful article for A List Apart called In Defense Of Readers. Despite the ubiquity of reading on the web, readers remain a neglected audience. In response to all this madness, we’d like to introduce Readability:

The Ultimate Collection of Productivity & Office Software for Mac | gadget release This post is for all you workaholics who use a Mac for your full-time career. From to-do lists and digital clutter organizers to word processors and time trackers, we’ve compiled a list of all the applications you’ll need to stay productive and efficient at work. Below you’ll find over 100 free and premium applications that will either fit right into your current workflow or revolutionize the way you get things done. Let’s take a look! To Do: Anxiety – Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Anxiety Backboard – I love my Mac and my Backpack Account. CheckOff – Check Off is a quick to-do list that sits in your Mac’s menu bar. Chipt – A Backpack Dashboard Widget. EasyTask Manager – Our personal task manager. EtreTask – EtreTask is a small, fast, easy-to-use to-do list manager. MySlips – A very simple and, in particular, speedy and intuitive way to create slips in order to flesh out and sort your thoughts. OmniFocus Klok

Keynote Make Your Texts More Readable Use proportionally spaced type. Monospaced type was created for typewriters to cope with mechanical limitations that do not affect type set by computers. With electronic type it is no longer necessary to accept the reduction in comprehension that goes with monospaced letters. Do not justify monospaced type. Project Pad Project Pad is a project to build a web-based system for media annotation and collaboration for teaching and learning and scholarly applications. The system offers an easy to use "direct manipulation" user interface. Our goals are that Project Pad should: a. Be web-based and support distance and distributed learning b. c. d. e. g. Project Pad software is available both as a set of Sakai tools and as a stand-alone web application.

PyRoom Dev ELAN ELAN is a professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources. With ELAN a user can add an unlimited number of annotations to audio and/or video streams. An annotation can be a sentence, word or gloss, a comment, translation or a description of any feature observed in the media. Up to 4 video files can be associated with an annotation document. ELAN is written in the Java programming language and the sources are available for non-commercial use. Main other features Download ELAN TextRoom Commentpress ¶ 1 CommentPress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph-by-paragraph, line-by-line or block-by-block in the margins of a text. New in CommentPress 3.8: select some text and comment specifically on that selection. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. ¶ 2 CommentPress Version 3.8.x (known as CommentPress Core) is now available for download at the WordPress Plugin Directory, and is compatible with the latest WordPress standalone and multisite versions. ¶ 3 The name of the plugin has been changed from CommentPress to CommentPress Core for two reasons: (a) because it serves as the basis for extending it for your purposes and (b) to safeguard historical installations, which could break if they upgrade. ¶ 6 CommentPress was originally developed by Eddie Tejeda at the Institute for the Future of the Book.

Bean: An OS X Word Processor Download Bean for High Sierra or Mojave Version 3.2.13 (released 3 May 2019) for macOS High Sierra (10.13) or macOS Mojave (10.14) • Not compatible with earlier macOS versions • Includes several bug fixes. Download Bean for Sierra Version 3.2.9 (released 14 November 2016) for macOS Sierra 10.12 • New in this version: even more bug fixes for Sierra • Spanish localization (Thank you, Francisco Ramón Román) Download Bean Version 3.2.5 (released 8 March 2013) OS X 10.5 to OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), Intel only Localized for: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Slovak Changelog / News & Plans / Previous Versions Requirements / Installation Bean requires a Mac with an Intel processor, running at least OS X 10.5 Leopard or greater. To install, double-click the downloaded file Bean-Install.zip. FAQ / Troubleshooting Answers to common questions about Bean are here. Cost / License / Sourcecode / Warranty Bean is provided at no monetary cost. Bean 3.x is closed source.

A.nnotate 10 jQuery and non-jQuery javascript Rich Text Editors Advertisement Introduction Javascript rich text editor has ease our life when we need to edit articles, post or even documents online. Most of the editors allow user to edit the content straight away (What You See Is What You Get - WYSIWYG), it just like editting a document with microsoft office. Nowadays, I think all of the content management system, blog systems are using rich text editor. LATEST VERSION: You can read our latest post about rich text editors: 10 Feature Packed Javascript WYSIWYG and Rich Text Editors So, here are the 10 RTEs that I can find online. Advertisement MarkitUp - jQuery Official Website | Demo markItUp! Fast and unobtrusive integrationSupport for keyboard shortcutsAjax dynamic previewSupported: IE7, Safari 3.1, Firefox 2, Firefox 3. jWYSIWYG - jQuery Official Website | Demo This plugin is an inline content editor to allow editing rich HTML content on the fly. GNU General Public License v2Compact and lightweightAjax dynamic previewBrowser friendly HTMLBox - jQuery

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