Turning paper documents into editable digital files

Well, I am blown away by this one. If you are struggling with old master copies of outdated resources that have to be updated, or brought back to clean black and white life, there is a program that will read your scans or photos and turn them into editable word .doc files. It even preserves the original pictures.

The program is called Abbyy Finereader and it does all it says it does.

You can download a free trial on CNET, and if you don't have the hundred bucks, it is available for PC or Mac on thepiratebay.org

Resources for Shop / Industrial Arts

I've been finding it difficult to find resources for shop and industrial arts, however here are some useful links

Safety (specific tools)

How to (specific tools)

Leather working (video series)

Turning work on a Lathe

Video/Audio capture made simple

There's an update on atubecatcher (I posted on this software a while back).

It now allows you to capture anything on your screen, as well as audio. Effectively this means you can now use it to burn movies, videos, anything you can see and hear on your computer and record it as a video file to use somewhere else. It is high definition and high quality audio and works with about 4 mouseclicks, clean and simple.

I donated $10, because this new update solves dozens of problems for me.

Wow.