Either view you choose will display the text and clearly, and it’s nice to see that when you turn the page there is a flipping animation. As you might expect from a quality ebook reader, Cool Reader comes with a text search function that makes it easy for you to find specific passages in the book you are reading.

You can also use its bookmark function to go back to the part that you were just reading. There is also a table of contents so you can see the book at a glance.

Cool Reader also comes with a proof reading features such as comments. Bookmarks can also be exported to text file.
If you read a lot of books, you will find Cool Reader’s file browser very useful, with the most recently accessed books right at the top.

Aside from this the app has support for Text to Speech (TTS), LitRes online book store and online catalogs (OPDS). It also has extensive support for FB2 including footnotes, tables and styles. If that isn’t enough for you there is support for Korean, Japanese and Chinese languages as well. You can also customize Cool Reader’s colors and backlight levels, and you can change the background from a solid color or texture.

Related Links:
Cool Reader on Google Play
Official Website

However, this “sketch” is beautiful and well polished. It doesn’t matter if you can only draw stick figures; with this program you’ll end up with professional looking pencil drawings. All you have to do is select a picture stored on your phone gallery. Or you can take one with your camera. With a single click you’ll end up with a detailed looking sketch.

Even professional artists will get inspired with the results. Even if you’re not an artist, the results might just inspire you to become one. The program’s simplicity makes it suitable for anyone. When you load a picture, numerous options allow you to fine tune the result, including color and original mode. Once you are satisfied with the results, you can save it.

That is basically all that Pencil Sketch does, but it is good at it. The program is compact so it is quick to download. Installation is painless, and of course it is free. The nice thing about Pencil Sketch is that it works very smoothly. It doesn’t matter how complicated an image is; the app will produce a detailed sketch.

Pencil Sketch is a really fun app. You can literally turn thousands of photos into dramatic looking artworks. You can also put these pictures on your website or enhance them with a photo editor. At the very least, it can be very amusing.

Related Links:
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Developer on Facebook

Once you install Flipboard, you’ll see boxes on the main page. To put contents on each box, just tap it. The Content Guide will appear showing you categories like Tech, Food & Design, Business, Arts and more. There are suggestions available for popular online news magazines, sports columnists’ tweets and more. Just tap the Add button to include it.

A content box can be opened by tapping. At the main page are the top story and a couple others. To read more, flip the pages. Stories can be shared in Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook. Flipboard is very efficient in offering contents that you probably won’t need to go to the actual sites. Aside from news, you get to see photos, friends’ status updates and update your own status. All of these are presented in a beautiful interface.

Content is updated on a regular basis. You’ll be able to see new content and images every time you open the app. There are nine boxes on the first screen and the second can hold a dozen. The app allows you to view contents in various ways. The web page can be displayed, or it can be an RSS feed or HTML 5-powered Flipboard Pages. The latter is for sites partnered with the company.

Flipboard also has a category for audio featuring TWiT, Slate Internet Radio and CMJ Network. Simply tap the + icon to add a feed.

Related Links:
Flipboard in iTunes
Flipboard in Google Play
Flipboard Official Website
Flipboard on Facebook
Flipboard on Twitter
Flipboard on LinkedIn

With Mindjet you will be able to make new maps on the fly or import them from the company’s cloud service. Because your files are saved in the cloud, you can access them anywhere there is an Internet connection.

It is very easy to create a new topic; just slide your finger and a new topic will be made. In fact, it won’t take more than two taps to do tasks like moving, editing, folding, unfolding – making it very convenient to use.
Mindjet also lets you add as many topics as you want and you can also insert subtopics too. In addition, you can save all the branches as individual maps, and it is also easy to do basic tasks like cut, copy and paste.

Their cloud service allows you edit and create files as well move and copy maps inside your account. Dropbox users will be happy to note that Mindjet allows you to sync your maps there and also access your other files. It is also worth pointing out that the map display is in real time, so the placements of all your topics are in their present location.

Drag and drop is fully supported, and you only need to tap once to create sibling and parent topics. Finally, Mindjet has undo, redo and zooming in and out.

Related Links:
Mindjet on iTunes
Official Website

Vox can also play Game Music and AAC, and it even has numerous cool effects built in like echo, pitch shift, and time stretch. In addition the software has reverb and a fully functional equalizer so you can make adjustments to the sound.

While it does have a lot of features, the interface and window are well laid out. As a lot of music players have evolved to become all in one media apps, Vox does only one thing, and that is play music.

Unlike other music players for Mac, Vox’s 10 band equalizer is at par with commercial media apps, and you can also chain effects. Of all the effects built in, one of the most interesting is definitely time stretch, as it can speed up tracks without affecting the pitch. It supports drag and drop so you can easily rearrange the tracks on your playlist.

There are a lot of free music players for the Mac but the problem with those is they are very large and take a long time to download. Vox on the other hand, is less than 10 MB yet comes packed with a lot of practical features. If you’re not in the mood for long downloads, then give this a try.

Related Links:
Official Website
Vox on Facebook

A video tutorial appears when you first start the app. You will then see some preloaded samples. The I symbol has four options: About, Help, Getting Started and Support. Before you take pictures, try the 3D samples first so you know how to move an object. You can pan, rotate and scale objects.

Clicking the New Capture Button will start a tutorial when you launch the app for the first time. Finish the tutorial. Take a picture by pressing the camera button. The app keeps track of how images you’ve taken. Press Finish Capture when you’re done.

The images will be sent to Autodesk’s servers where they will be transformed into 3D and then sent back to your iPad when modeling and rendering is complete. The time it takes depends on the number of photos you took.

This is really the app’s best feature. If you’re familiar with 3D software, you know how resource intensive the process can be. Rather than force your iPad to do the work, Autodesk servers will do it instead. Catch is free, but you must have an account of some sort. It can be an account in Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.

123D Catch is part of the 123D family. The other apps include Sculpt, Make and 123D.

Related Links:
Download 123D Catch
Official Website 123D Catch
123D Catch on YouTube
Autodesk 123D Official Website
Autodesk 123D on Facebook
Autodesk 123D Blog

Compatible with nearly all iOS devices, you can use its paint brush to select from different colors and modify the paint brush size. The fact that you can zoom in helps with the editing. Drawcast also has an eyedropper tool to help you select colors. Once you have chosen the color and adjusted the brush size, you can start painting away.

Once you are finished drawing you can share it with your friends via Twitter or Facebook. Another nice feature in Drawcast is it allows you to import photos from your device and edit them. If you’re making a detailed drawing you can switch to full screen mode so you can see everything. Obviously this would work better with the iPad but the app looks all right on the iPhone.

There is no limit to the size of your drawing; the only limitation is the size of your hard drive. Drawcast is frequently updated so new features are always being added. Now the app has multiple undo and has support for layers.

For anyone who wants to make quick doodles or improve your drawing, this is the app for you. Even if you don’t consider yourself much of an artist, sketching with Drawcast can be a lot of fun.

Related Links:
Drawcast on iTunes
Official Website

With Teleport, controlling multiple Mac computers is very easy. When you reach the edge of your computer screen, the mouse you are using ends up being “teleported” to your other Mac. In addition, you can sync the pasteboard between your Macs, and if you go to the Preferences Pane you will be able to set up and choose which hosts you want to handle. You can also use it to graphically arrange the monitors, and once that is done you are ready to go.

Anytime you want to control your other Mac, just reach out to the edge of your screen where the slave host is linked to, and that’s it; you are now controlling it. Aside from the mouse, you can also use your keyboard to control the other computer.

At the master computer, you will see a notification that indicates the placement of your cursor. If you want to resume control of your master computer, simply drag your mouse back to where it once was. In short, Teleport is a very easy program to use.

This isn’t a utility that you will use every day, but it is nice to have one like this around. It is very easy to use and setting up is a breeze as well, so if you have several Macs, this is a handy tool keep around.

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It’s a sophisticated program, capable of modeling human figures, creatures, vehicles, and so on. The program uses a graphical interface instead of icons. You use the keyboard and mouse to change an object’s geometry. Four selection modes are available: Body, Face, Edge and Vertex. Make no mistake about it; Wings 3D has a lot of tools. Each mode comes with its own set of modelers and editors. Its auto-UV feature makes adding textures easy.

There are a lot of mesh and selection tools plus lights, materials and colors. You can export objects as OBJ and other popular formats. Standard features include weld, cut, bridge, bevel, extrude and rotate among others. Advanced features include inset, shear, bend, intersect, circularize etc. You can use its Smooth Preview to assess your model. Other advanced tools like sculpt, tweak and Virtual Mirror are perfect for modeling symmetrical objects.

There are a lot of options, but you can configure its interface. You will find more commands with its right-click menus. Keep your cursor over the mouse over a menu, a brief explanation will pop up. It can import ndo, 3ds, ai, .lwo/.lxo, .obj and other popular formats. You can export to 3ds, ai, obj, pov and many others.

Wings 3D is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It is continuously being updated. The software uses OpenGL for rendering. However you can export and render with YafRay, POV-Ray and other software.

Related Links:
Download Wings 3D
Wings 3D on SourceForge
Wings 3D on Facebook
Wings 3D on YouTube
Wings 3D Development Forum

With Tomboy you can easily organize and even branch off notes. You can also create links for those pages you made, and what’s even better is that the links stay intact even if you rearrange and rename your notes. In many cases changing names and reorganizing is unavoidable, so this is a really handy feature.

Using the program is also very easy as everything is just a mouse click away. All you need to do is click the Tomboy Panel applet and select any of the notes you made, and you can also use its search function to find older notes that you made before. Another handy feature is the Table of Contents as it shows all your notes in the order when you last changed them.

The versatility of Tomboy doesn’t end there though, because with it you no longer have to drag your applications around the desktop to find the website you added. As far as editing features go, it has many advanced features but you probably won’t need to make many adjustments as the basic set up works just fine. The interface of Tomboy is very streamlined so you can focus on just writing notes. In addition, the application offers.

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