The best apps of the week: Handy Scanner, Wiztiles, Winzip, Remarks and Carbon

February 19th, 2012, Saiju Sukumaran

The best apps of the week: Handy Scanner, Wiztiles, Winzip, Remarks and Carbon

Handy Scanner

With Handy Scanner can scan Android any document or photo you need to store or share via email, perfect for those occasions where we are urged to send a document and only have a mobile phone. The advantages of this application is that we can convert the captured files directly to PDF then send email and even upload it to our dropbox account in the cloud, to have a backup of our documents. Also Handy Scanner automatically detects the boundaries of the document and allows you to configure the capture so that it more feasible to print and make it look like the original document with the Print function Ready. There are two different versions of this application, an advertising-free and pay-per € 1.99.

Wiztiles

Wiztiles is a Windows Phone application that helps us customize the interface of the operating system at will, allowing us to modify the tiles or tiles of the home screen. How you use this application is quite simple, offering different colors, icons and to select the background image we want. Features:

Unlimited customization of tiles.
Color Picker allows you to make a color chip.
Use icons or images from your image gallery or the built-in themes.
Support Topics: Make your own themes and share them with others. Download additional themes online.
Add tasks or shortcuts to any tile, such as phone, camera, email, text messaging, web browser, wifi, bluetooth, airplane mode, cellular network configuration, share your status on twitter, facebook, linkedin, Windows Live, search , addresses, maps, marketplace and more.
Support Live Tile: Add text information on the card again and will flip to reveal more details.
Storage Media: All tiles that are created can be saved
Application works very well in both light and dark themes.

Winzip

At last has come the popular software for compressing and decompressing files “WinZip” to IOS, which works with the. Zip and now enable the visualization of this type of file attachments when we arrive in an email, including those with password without that we can still compress a file directly from your mobile device. Features:

Open files. Zip to be attached in the mail.
Browse and view Zip files
Open encrypted Zip files.
Copy the contents of a Zip file to the clipboard
View Zip files from web pages in different email providers (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail …).
WinZip is able to preview files in. Txt,. Doc,. Docx,. Xls,. Xlsx,. Ppt,. Pptx,. Rtf,. Pdf,. Key,. Numbers,. Pages,. Htm,. Htm, . jsp,. bmp,. jpg,. jpeg,. tif,. tiff,. png,. gif

Remarks

Great application for iPhone that will facilitate the handling of PDF documents on the Apple tablet. With Remarks can interact with PDF files and make handwritten notes, forgetting for a while removing the keyboard and the memory lane handwriting. It has a management system pretty good handwriting also avoids that by putting the doll on the iPhone screen is taken as some kind of catch. Stylus works with both special and with our own fingers. Its features are:

Notes (even on PDF files
Ability to create drafts for new ideas
Text Notes
Writing and drawing with your finger
Share articles with others to edit
Add sticky notes
Exchange of documents with a computer
Edit notes on Mac or PC
Share notes with friends
Import PDFs from Dropbox, Box.net, Safari and some other applications.

Carbon

Has finally arrived Carbon to Windows Phone, the most popular Twitter client for WebOS and it definitely becomes an option to consider within this platform (although not yet implemented push notifications). Its features are: