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1. #Eazydraw academic student how to
2. #Eazydraw academic student update
3. #Eazydraw academic student archive
4. #Eazydraw academic student full
5. #Eazydraw academic student pro

#Eazydraw academic student full

$95 (but you can have full use of the program for 9 months for $20). Nevertheless, I’ve been able to create some pretty cool illustrations with it.

#Eazydraw academic student how to

The interface is somewhat clunky (but that may be because I’m still figuring out how to use it). In spite of the name, I’ve found this program anything but easy to use. I’m using this to create illustrations for my Old Testament Overview textbook (see Notebook above).

#Eazydraw academic student pro

Devonthink Pro was considerably more expensive and its interface wasn’t user friendly. I wavered between Eaglefiler and Devonthink Pro for a long time, but the simplicity of Eaglefiler is what won me over.

#Eazydraw academic student archive

It’s really nice to have a place to put old email (you can archive your Mac inbox in Eaglefiler), store web pages and PDFs, and accumulate research materials. Eaglefiler also has a drop box function that you can set up, but thus far I haven’t figured out how to use it efficiently. You needn’t leave Safari or whatever web browser you’re in to use the hot key. One of the best features of Eaglefiler is its hot key function, which allows you to set up a key combination to save web pages as web archives. You can put almost anything in Eaglefiler, including PDFs, web archives, pictures, sound files, etc. Eaglefiler provides a place to file all your digital detritus (or, as the case may be, all your important digital stuff).

#Eazydraw academic student update

Plus, it will be much easier to update and revise than the printed version I used to produce. It’s completely transformed my book into something dynamic and interactive. I’ve been able to add numerous illustrations, links within the document itself, and images. Now, students can click on weblinks and go directly to those pages. With Circus Ponies Notebook, however, I’ve turned the text into an Internet-based document (you can export the notebook in HTML).

For the past ten years, or so, I’ve printed this textbook through our university printshop and asked students to purchase it through our bookstore. I have converted a textbook I wrote into Notebook format. Nevertheless, I have found a wonderful application for this program. I initially purchased this as a replacement for the Windows-only One Note, and while I may continue using it for note taking, I’m seriously considering Scrivener (see below) which seems more suited to the kind of research and writing I do. Ĭircus Ponies Notebook Note taking software that utilizes a notebook metaphor. Note: Bookpedia is substantially cheaper than the better-known Delicious Library (which is $40.00), and while Delicious might have more “bells and whistles,” if it does, I couldn’t figure out what made it so much more expensive. A free iPhone version is available so that you can carry your library with you everywhere. If you can’t find the cover art for a book, you can use the iSight camera to photograph the book itself (the program automatically provides a grid so you can place the book cover properly). The best part is that you can use your iSight camera to read the barcodes on books-then all the information on the book is automatically loaded into the application. īookpedia A terrific program that allows you to catalog your library.

Since I’ve been experimenting with lots of new programs, it’s nice to have something that gets rid of all the extraneous, hidden files when you delete an application off your computer. ĪppZapper An application that completely removes other applications you no longer want on your Mac. Unfortunately you can’t do video chat with it, but since I don’t know many people who do video chat anyway, that isn’t a problem. Adium has a highly customizable interface which makes it more fun to use than iChat. I’ve noted when the programs offer an educational discount to students and/or professors.Īdium Instant messaging application. As an academic, most of these programs relate to my job as an educator, but some are simply helpful things to have on a Mac. I thought I would compile a list of software I have found to be the most helpful along with a “wish list” of things I hope to add in the future.

I’ve owned my Macbook for almost two months now, and I’ve added a bunch of software that has been just terrific.