Great Tool for Lazy Note Takers

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Whether the professor is writing on that whiteboard or skipping through a power point faster than you can copy notes, take a quick picture with your cellphone and email it to Qipit.

Qipit, is a useful webapp that will recognize the text in your photo, from whiteboards to handwritten notes to pages in a textbook, and turn it into a searchable PDF and email it to you.qupit note taker

Pretty cool, huh?

Lifehacker.com has a nice tutorial here.

Josh Ritter Discusses Songwriting

One of the Green Olive Yuks favorite songwriters, Josh Ritter, was interviewed recently. Here is some of what he had to say regarding writing.

Josh Ritter songwriting

“My parents are scientists and they always talk about the idea that science doesn’t come from nowhere, it comes from definite needs in a society; people start studying questions based on what the society needs, and I feel that’s the same way with songs.

Not everything, I mean, ‘Toxic’ by Britney Spears is a great song and maybe it doesn’t answer a biting social need, but I do think if you go back from a song like that and look at what was going on in the world and in America at the time, that you’d find something interesting that you could put in your back pocket.”

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