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 If you are struggling with old master copies of outdated resources that have to be updated, or brought back to clean black and white life, there is a program that will read your scans or photos and turn them into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.

Video Converter .mov to .avi

I've had an iPhone for a while now, and I'm really happy with how simple and high quality the video is. You can shoot for hours, and well, yeah.

The one frustration I've had is that I can't edit .mov files in Windows movie maker, and use them, for anything. I don't have a mac and I'm not getting one, so.

I found a solution. It's called Prism video converter, it's free, and it will convert folders rather than single files. It's also quite quick.

The only other issue I've had is that videos are often 90 degrees rotated when they are converted. This happens with Prism too, but if you are editing, it's a quick fix on WMM, in that you only have to select effects, click rotate 90, 180 or 270 degrees, and your clip is back to normal.

Whoot.

Enjoy using your iPhone.

Cheers

Dave

CTS CON 3040 Stair Construction Module (1 credit course)

I've just finished planning a course for CTS. Here is a link to the homepage.

It will be part of a larger offering (5 credits) but none of the work is finished for that yet.

If you'd like to see the shell of the portal, it is here.

Happy St. Patty's Day

The King with Six Friends - Read aloud

Here is a great Picture Book I loved when I was a kid.

Enjoy.