Comments on: iPhone Apps for Academic Types

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:03:25 +0000

For controlling my computer during lectures, Rowmote Pro allows me to do almost anything with it (and line of sight is no problem so long as both devices are on the same network.

Agree whole heartedly with Tim that Papers (along with Papers for the Mac) is an unbeatable combo when it comes to finding and reading academic material – just brilliant!

JotNot is an excellent one as well. It allows me to photograph pages from various publications and read them later. You can even run them through OCR if you want. Basically, I’ll never need a scanner/photocopier again!

ZBar is a barcode scanner which I often use to take note of books, movies and other things. You can then use the code to look the items up on Google, Amazon, etc.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:31:10 +0000

You missed a major one… Papers for iPhone! (along with Papers for Mac OS X).

Your personal academic research library, it stores a database of all your research papers with the actual PDFs and links to bibliographic search engines all integrated; syncs with Papers for iPhone so you can read the PDFs and the research database (and even search for more and add to it) on the go, beautiful interface for reading PDFs on both platforms. I wouldn’t do research without it now!

Enjoy

By: David

David — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:10:05 +0000

Well, it would be a little expensive for the AV cables, but it seems you should be able to export your presentation to images and then use those to display your presentation. However, I think the AV cables are only RCA outs, which wouldn’t help if you need a VGA connection, though maybe there are converters for that too…

Thanks. I’ll give that a shot and see how it works.

By: Jason C. Romero

Jason C. Romero — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:17:07 +0000

David:

By: David

David — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:29:49 +0000

I would pay a fairly large amount of money for an App that would play powerpoint/keynote presentations off the iPod Touch. It would save me having to carry my laptop around from class to class. Here’s hoping.

By: Penny Coutas

Penny Coutas — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:57:28 +0000

I’m using the iPhone as a data collection tool during ethnographic field work Sounds fancy but it just means I’m using one device instead of several! Although I do use a video camera from time to time…

http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au/pcoutas/2008/10/22/the-iphone-as-methods/

Though the app I use the most? Facebook. Second most? Google Maps. I really didn’t expect that!!!

By: Jason C. Romero

Jason C. Romero — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:22:19 +0000

As an alternative to Snatch, I imagine someone could access their computer from their iPhone using a VNC client (this is super easy on OS X). To make things easier, you could use the keyboard function in the app. I use Mocha VNC Lite: http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_vnc.htm