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Using Quickoffice Pro HD with Dropbox on the iPad

On September 30, 2011 By Christian Brady

My colleague recently acquired an iPad and in setting up her iPad she ran into a problem that is quite common. While you can open a file from the Dropbox app into Quickoffice (or other apps) you cannot upload it to Dropbox from within QO until you add DB to QO. Once you have done [...]

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Presenting with the iPad

On August 2, 2011 By Christopher Long

At the beginning of July, I participated in the Hermeneutics Colloquium at the University of Freiburg. For the conference, I had written a paper, but I brought neither paper, nor books, nor physical copies of articles of any kind. Rather, I relied on my iPad and MacBook Air while in Europe. Together they weighed [...]

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Traveling with my iPad

On June 29, 2011 By Jillian Balay

Over the past month or so, I have done quite a bit of traveling (California, Nevada, and Massachusetts, to name a few places). I am happy to report that my iPad was extremely useful and helped me to remain quite productive throughout my travels. A large part of my current job, Program Assistant/Social Media Curator [...]

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RTF editing on the iPad & a larger gripe

On June 3, 2011 By Dan Tripp

First, the good news: the iNotePad HD app will indeed create and edit .rtf files on the iPad. Unfortunately, that’s about all it is useful for. iNotePad HD will sync with Dropbox, but only using the .txt format. Basically, this means you can create and edit .rtf files on the iPad with the app, but [...]

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Getting the iPad into my writing workflow

On May 24, 2011 By Dan Tripp

I’ve been using the iPad for a little less than a year now. It has served me well for teaching, checking email, reading PDFs and ebooks, surfing the web, watching videos, etc. Beyond using it as an e-reader, I haven’t really tried to integrate it too much into my research, for which I have preferred [...]

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Paperless Manuscript Review

On May 19, 2011 By Christopher Long

When Cambridge University Press asked me two months ago to review a manuscript on Plato, I agreed under the condition that it be accomplished without necessitating the use of physical paper. Having just submitted the review electronically as an email attachement, I would like to reflect both on the process and on a few ongoing [...]

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Using Quickoffice Pro HD with Dropbox on the iPad

Presenting with the iPad

RTF editing on the iPad & a larger gripe

Getting the iPad into my writing workflow

Paperless Manuscript Review

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