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Play Presentations From The Cloud In Chrome & Control Them With Android Or iOS

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A while back, we reviewed YouTube Couch Mode - a Chrome extension that works with a smartphone app (available for iOS and Android) and lets you control YouTube and Vimeo videos playing in your browser. Presentation Remote for Google Drive is a Chrome app by the same developer that lets you similarly control presentations in your browser using the same Smartphone app. You can view presentations from not only Google Drive, but also Slideshare, Dropbox, and Scribd, complete with support for speakers notes. The app also supports presentations in PDF format and claims to support local files of up to 500MB, though this feature didn't work for us with a 160KB PPT file. Presentation Remote relies on the cloud to render the presentation, and you will notice a difference in quality depending on the service you use. Read More

Scribd Brings Its Mammoth Online Documents Library To iPhone

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Everyone who has ever done some serious research (and by that, we mean looking beyond Wikipedia) is sure to know all about Scribd. The service boasts of one of the biggest collection of scholarly and other documents, contributed by people from all walks of life. Until now, using Scribd from your iPhone wasn’t easy, as the service didn’t have an iOS app. Fortunately, the official Scribd app for iPhone has been released today, and now you can manage your Scribd account on the go, and even if you are not a registered user of the service, it is possible to use the app to read any document you want. Like the web version of Scribd, the app has a featured section and you can search for any keyword you want, too. It is also possible to maintain your reading lists, and bookmark items right from within the app. Read More