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Sign legal documents with your finger, your iPad and Softsign

by Erica Sadun (Nov 8th, 2011)

Did you ever think of your finger as a legal signing tool? Softsign for iPad (free for a limited time) offers a PDF annotation tool for iOS that allows you to sign legal documents via a touch screen. Developer Tom Hodgson points out that a variety of laws implemented more than a decade ago made ...

Daily iPad App: PDF Expert

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 7th, 2011)

We've covered PDF Expert a bit before, but this week they rolled out a 3.0 update that greatly enhances the functionality in the app. When the iPad debuted, one of the first apps to rocket to the top of the charts was GoodReader, and with good reason: it was a better PDF reader than Apple's ...

Clarify brings focus to your screen-based documentation

by Brett Terpstra (Aug 1st, 2011)

Clarify -- now in Public Beta -- is Mango Learning System's new product for communicating screen-based instructions quickly and easily. It's something like a successor to ScreenSteps (which history will show I'm a big fan of), but in the words of developer Greg Devore, "while ScreenSteps was ...

Skitch leaps out of beta, 1.0 available now

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 7th, 2010)

Since it debuted in beta form at Macworld Expo in 2007, Skitch has become a favorite Mac utility for many, many people. It's great at grabbing screenshots, adding annotations and notes, and sharing them on Skitch.com, Flickr, Mobile.me or even your own server. We've waited three years for a 1.0 ...

ScreenSteps 2.5 takes screen-based documentation a step forward

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 27th, 2009)

ScreenSteps, the invaluable tool (mentioned here many a time) for writing software documentation quickly and easily, has updated to version 2.5. Among the new features is improved annotation capabilities, including a text tool and keyboard shortcuts for speedy duplication and repositioning of ...

Annotation helps you get your ducks in sequence

by Michael Rose (Jan 4th, 2007)

Have you ever said to yourself, "Gosh, I have all this animal observation DV footage, but no way to log the behaviors?" OK, maybe not. How about "Wow, I'm running this focus group/sleep study/usability project and I'd love to tag my tapes with timecoded subject actions?" Either way, Annotation 1.0 ...