Notable.ac Notable is a great idea for students and lecturers alike, but still has some growing to do.Download Now Some note-taking techniques are kludgey: printing out slide decks and writing on them, for instance, or copying and pasting images into a word processor. Notable.ac is another take on the note-taking problem, this time in the form of a free-to-use Web app.
Sharing and collaborating on notes is easy with Notable.ac. Notable.ac is more than a note-taking app. It's a complete course platform for both students and lecturers. Once a course is created in the system, anyone can upload the course's slides, and the entire class can join in and either collaborate on notes or write their own private ones on slides.
No highlighting features are currently available, but you can tie slide notes to certain points on the slide for easier reference. The lecturer panel, currently available only by request, also provides some trends and insights into the class's behavior.
Notable is a great alternative to university-provided platforms—and with some added features, it can really give classes a boost.
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In the hands of a skilled artist, deviantArt muro can be used to create stunning works of art.Muro comes from deviantArt, one of the Internet's largest and oldest art communities, established in 2000. Muro itself was launched in 2010, but has recently received a major overhaul. You don't need a deviantArt account to start using Muro, but you do need a free account to save your work. deviantArt muro does not offer as many brushes as free Web-based paint application Psykopaint, but it does make some interesting choices. For example, the default brush you start off with isn't a basic paintbrush (à la Microsoft Paint), but a brush called Webink which makes it easy to create shading by linking your strokes with a web of fine lines. It feels similar to the procedural brushes used on another free Web-based drawing tool, Harmony.
In the hands of a software reviewer, deviantArt muro can be used to create scary-looking bunnies with ease. deviantArt muro boasts a "Works with Wacom" logo, which inspired me to reach for my Intuos5 pen tablet and try scribbling with the pen. Muro was responsive, and the brushes worked well. The free Sketch brush was lots of fun to use with the tablet, and felt similar to actually roughing in a sketch on paper. That said, Muro is no Corel Painter, and did not recognize when I flipped the pen over and tried to erase something with its eraser end.
Most of deviantArt muro's features are free, but some of the brush packs cost money.A prime example of Redraw is a piece called Sable, in which deviantArt user *tinkerpaws draws a richly detailed ibex with birds perched on its back. By watching the Redraw replay, you can see exactly how *tinkerpaws created the work. Artists often share screencasts of their process as YouTube videos, but this requires third-party recording software. With deviantArt muro, the recorder is built right in, and you don't have to think about it as you work. The only drawback is that it doesn't support audio narration or text notes, so the artist can't explain things as they work.