Drive Converter: Online File Conversion For Google Drive

            Convert files from one format to another, all on Google Drive. With Drive Converter you don’t need to download or sync a file to your computer in order to convert it to something else. With support for converting documents, music and video from one format to another, Drive Convert is a great tool if you want to do some file conversions without making your computer work too hard.

The app starts by presenting you with a list of uploaded files you’ve currently stored in Google Drive. For me only non-Google-Docs files showed up – files I’ve either uploaded or been shared.

Pick the file you want to convert and you’ll be presented with the convert. Which formats you can convert to depends entirely on the source file – documents, for example, can be converted into other documents. Here’s what that looks like:

Pick what you’d like to convert your file into. You’ll be given the option to save the file directly to Google Drive, or you can download the file yourself. Either way the process shouldn’t take long, assuming the file you’re converting isn’t huge. Try it out if you’re curious – you just might find it useful – though anyone looking for advanced features might want to look elsewhere.

• An online conversion app using Google Drive for storage
• Converts documents, audio and video files
• Needs access to your Google Account in order to work
• Users can also upload files from their computer
• Similar: OnlineConverter, Convert Audio Online, Fileminx, YouConvertIt, Primo,wAppWolf

Check out Drive Convert @ DriveConverter.com

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Feedly, Reviewed: What Makes It Such A Popular Google Reader Replacement?

Now that Google Reader is but a distant memory, the fight for the future of RSS is truly on. One of the most notable products fighting the good fight is Feedly, a powerful RSS reader about which David Pogue of the New York Times quipped, “Feedly is what you needly.” We’ve reviewed Feedly’s Firefox add-on, and even its iOS app way back in 2011.

Google Reader wasn’t an app or an add-on: It lived purely on the Web, so today I’ll be looking at Feedly Cloud, a browser-based RSS reader that requires no external tools to use. We first reported about it as it went live on June 19, but now’s the time to take a good, long look at it.

Claim to Fame: What Feedly Promises

Feedly’s product tour touts several key features:

• All in one place: Feedly’s home to all of your blogs, news sites, podcasts, and YouTube channels, and also lets you easily migrate from Google Reader.
• Productive: You get multiple layout options, auto-marking items as read, tagging, sharing, and keyboard shortcuts.
• Blazing fast: Feedly claims to transform websites into “pocket-size cards” which load quickly and are easy to read.
• Smarter sharing: I know we already spoke of sharing under Productive, but Feedly’s tour makes a point of it. You get Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, Evernote, and LinkedIn, along with Buffer, Pocket, and Instapaper support.
• Desktop, phone, and tablet: Feedly has apps; but we won’t be looking at those.

I won’t be running through each and every one of these points in detail, because frankly, that would be boring. I’ll tell you what I care about: Productivity and speed, and sharing. So, let’s look at those in further detail.

Productivity and Speed

For most nerds, productivity is synonymous with keyboard shortcuts — avoiding your mouse makes you incredibly productive, as we all know. Let’s start with those, then:

The list of keyboard shortcuts Feedly offers is not nearly as exhaustive as the ones Gmail has (just hit ? in an open Gmail window to see what I mean), but it gets the job done well. You get shortcuts for quickly hopping between articles and feeds, marking feeds as read, and so on. But what’s this “magic bar” that gg goes to? I’m glad you asked:

It doesn’t look like much, but the magic bar is a quick-navigation tool. Start typing x, and the list you see above narrows down to this:

In other words, a super-fast way to navigate feeds with specific names, without having to futz about with the sidebar menu.

And yes, in case you like the sidebar, it exists:

When it comes to consuming news, productivity is about navigating your feeds (which we’ve just looked at), as well as about how quickly you consume the content that’s in those feeds. Most of us just want to get in there, tear at those headlines like rabid news consumers, and get back out again until our next bout of procrastination (or “research”). That means the information has to be laid out in a way that can be easily scanned and processed. Easier said than done: Some feeds consist mainly of images (Flickr), while some are text-heavy, and some have mainly videos (YouTube). If that’s not enough, different people just read differently.

Feedly rises to the challenge with no less than four different layouts:

From left to right, you get Title Only view, Magazine view, Cards view, and Full Article view. Out of these four, Magazine View and Cards view are worth elaborating on. Here’s Magazine View:

So you get a featured image next to each piece, along with a title and an excerpt. Very easy to scan and see if you want to dig deeper.

Cards view looks like this:

To me, this is a good view for image-heavy sources, like the Flickr blog you see above. When you click an item, it opens in an overlay. Other neat layout features include the option to hide categories with no update, and the fact categories retain their open/close states across sessions. Last but not least, Feedly can curate and feature articles based on how popular they are on Google+ and Facebook, if you’re into that sort of crowd-based filtering.

Feedly is not without its quirks, however: For Flickr, it showed me many duplicate versions of the same article using different languages — something other RSS readers (such asNewsBlur) are clever enough not to do.

The final word on productivity and speed: Feedly is responsive, and offers many different ways to view and navigate your content.

Sharing

If sharing is caring, Feedly offers heaps of caring for you to bestow on friends and random online strangers who happen to follow you along the Web’s main social venues. From left to right, you get:

Google Plus, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Then there’s Buffer, plain old email (although there’s an issue with this at the time of this writing) and finally, options to save the article for later, and tag it. The Google Plus button is tightly integrated with Feedly, opening a G+ sharing dialog right on the page itself. Buffer is similarly polished, popping up a beautiful overlay. The other sharing features appear as clunky browser pop-up windows — not as pleasant, but they work.

Then there’s this, on the other side of the article:

From left to right, you get to save the item to Evernote, Instapaper, Pocket, and Delicious. There’s Pinterest support, too: Just hover over an image to pin it on Pinterest. I wish they offered saving to some of the nicer bookmarking alternatives like Pinboard as well, but alas, you will have to make do with this IFTTT workflow if you want to save content to your Pinboard.

Final Thoughts

Feedly is a mature, fleshed-out product, with a thoroughly modern UI and robust sharing features. It’s no wonder it is one of the leading Google Reader alternatives, but really, you should look at it as its own thing – a powerful online news reader. If you haven’t settled in on a news reader you really like yet, you should check it out.

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Uncommon Ways to Use Your Laptop Touchpad

Take a moment to consider your laptop’s touchpad. It seems like a simple, boring piece of technology. They’re used when we can’t plug in a mouse, as physical mice are generally considered much better. But touchpads can be fast and efficient, too. They have shortcuts for everything from easily scrolling, zooming and rotating to gestures for quickly getting around in Windows 8.

Spend a moment learning your touchpad’s tricks and configuring actions that work well for you. It will pay off when you can use your touchpad to get things done faster. For Windows 8 users, touchpads are arguably more convenient than standard mice — they’re a great way to add touch gestures to PCs without touch.

Get Around Windows 8

If you’re using Windows 8 on your laptop, you absolutely have to know the touchpad gestures. These will allow you to mimic touchscreen gestures with swipes on your laptop’s touchpad, making getting around the Windows 8 operating system much less obnoxious. Instead of using the touchpad to move your mouse cursor to the bottom-right corner of the screen and bringing up the charms bar that way, you can just swipe in from the right to view the charms bar. It’s much faster and feels like a natural action, not a clunky hot-corner action.

These gestures should work automatically if you purchased a new laptop with Windows 8 on it. If you upgraded an existing laptop to Windows 8, you may need to download and install the Synaptics touchpad driver package first. If you don’t like this swipe feature and find you use the gestures accidentally, you can disable the gestures from within the Synaptics touchpad driver control panel.

To use a gesture, perform the associated swipe on your touchpad as if you were swiping over a touchscreen:

• Charms: Swipe in from the right. In other words, touch the right edge of your touchpad and swipe inwards towards the center.
• App Switcher: Swipe in from the left to access the app switcher and switch between Modern apps.
• App Bar: Swipe downwards from the top to open the hidden “app bar” in a Modern app.
• Scroll: Place two fingers on the touchpad and move them vertically or horizontally to scroll around.
• Zoom: Place two fingers on the touchpad and pinch them together or stretch them apart to zoom in and out, as you would on a touch screen. This also activates “semantic zoom” on the Start screen or in Modern apps. Semantic zoom allows you to view more information at a glance.

For other Windows 8 gestures and shortcuts, consult our list of shortcuts and gestures for Windows 8.

Use Your Touchpad’s Hidden Features

Your laptop touchpad has a variety of hidden features and actions that can be configured. The exact options you have available will depend on your touchpad. Different laptops have different touchpad options.

To access these options, press the Windows key, type Mouse, and click the Mouse shortcut. On Windows 8, you’ll have to click the Settings category before the Mouse shortcut appears.

In the Mouse Properties window, click over to the Device Settings tab and click the Settings button to start configuring your touchpad.

You’ll find a window with options for configuring your touchpad and using a variety of different actions, complete with “Practice” buttons that allow you to practice the gestures and “Show Video” buttons that will demonstrate exactly how they work. Remember, the exact options you see will depend on your touchpad, so every computer will have different options and actions available.

Here are a few of the more interesting actions you may be able to enable and configure:

• Tap to Click: You can generally perform a single-finger tap on the touchpad to click, perform a two-finger tap on the touchpad to right-click, and possibly even perform a three-finger tap to middle-click.
• Two-Finger Scrolling: If enabled, two finger scrolling allows you to scroll up and down — or even side to side –by placing two fingers on your touchpad and moving them around. This is very helpful when scrolling on web pages.
• One-Finger Scrolling: Some touchpads allow you to scroll with a single finger by defining a region of the touchpad that functions as a scrolling area. For example, you could place your finger at the right edge of the touchpad and move it up and down to scroll. You’ll have to be careful when using this feature, as you may scroll accidentally if you move your finger to the edge of the touchpad.
• Pinch Zoom: Pinch zoom allows you to place two fingers on the touchpad and pinch them together or stretch them apart to zoom in and out, just as you would on a touch screen. This works in many applications, including browsers to zoom in or out on web pages.
• Pivot Rotate: Place two fingers on the touchpad and rotate them as if you were turning a knob to rotate a photo or other object.
• Tap Zones: Some touchpads allow you to enable “tap zones.” Different zones of the touchpad — like the top-left, bottom-left, top-right, and bottom-right corners — can be configured to perform special actions when you tap them. For example, you could tap in the bottom-left corner of your touchpad to open your Start menu or tap in the bottom-right corner to perform a middle-click.

This is just a snapshot of the many options that may be available. Feel free to look through your Synaptics touchpad control panel and find other options that allow you to perform tricks with your touchpad.

Handwrite With Your Touchpad

TouchPad Handwriting is a small free app that allows you to type characters by drawing them with your finger on your touchpad. This works anywhere in Windows — just draw the shape of a letter and it will be automatically inserted.

This isn’t practical for writing in English. You can’t write entire words, just multiple letters at a time. As such, it’s more of a cute proof of concept than a practical tool.

For languages that use many complex symbols instead of a small alphabet of letters, this tool may be more useful. Indeed, it seems designed for such languages. Of course, you’ll have toinstall the appropriate language support packages before you can enter such characters on a Windows system.

Do you have any other tips for using your touchpad in clever ways? Leave a comment and share them!

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Indian company launches $50 mobile payment device

Bangalore-based Ezetap has launched a new mobile point-of-sale device that will cost a lot less than similar products in the market, while meeting global security standards and RBI guidelines. 

Rapid growth in India's online retail and financial service sectors is leading to a demand for secure point-of-sale devices, as companies move towards non-cash based transactions. Overall, credit and debit card based transactions in India are expected to touch 862 million this year, a growth of 33% over last year, according to a report by Atos Worldline India. 

"India is the toughest market, very competitive and cost sensitive," said Ezetap co-founder Abhijit Bose, who expects to sell one million devices in the next two years. The Ezetap device, will be priced at around Rs 2,900, consists of a lightweight card reader that can be plugged into any smart device or feature phone used by a retailer. Customers need to only swipe their cards on the mobile to complete the transaction. 

"Most people prefer cash on delivery. And it became difficult, when they did not have exact cash at the time of delivery," said Abhinay Choudhari, co-founder of online grocery store BigBasket.com, which has about 1.5 lakh customers. Experts said with the government promoting digital payments, the mobile point of sale market is expected to soar. "Millions of mom-and-pop businesses, or kirana shops, cannot afford expensive integrated point-of-sale solutions," said Uttam Nayak, group country manager for India at Visa. 

There are a number of companies that offer mobile payment solutions, including Mswipe, Prizm Payments and Synergistic Financial Networks. "It is a very competitive space," said Nayak who expects the insurance and ecommerce industry to be the biggest adopters of mobile point of sale solutions. 

Ezetap has bagged banking customers, such as Citibank and Yes Bank, as well as those in the ecommerce, telecom, insurance and hospitality sectors. The company has launched operations in Kenya and expects to enter the South-East Asian markets in the next three months.

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Create Great Diagrams Using Cacoo & Google Drive

What do you use when you need to draw a diagram? Do you do the whole thing from scratch? Do you create each and every box with a series of four lines, or do you use a program that creates the box for you? Would you go a step further and use a template? Would you appreciate ready-made images of desk furniture to design your office layout? If you’re anything like me, you’re always ready to make the job as easy as possible. That’s whereCacoo comes in.

If you’ve been contemplating drawing some sort of diagram and have no idea where to start, Cacoo is going to be an app you will love and will never forget. It’s got a huge variety of stencils and templates to get you started, it hooks into Google Drive and it’s ready for you to use for free online or offline on your devices via Drive. In short, it’s perfect.

Cacoo’s Free Usage

Cacoo is free up to a point. You get 25 free sheets of diagrams and three exports before you are expected to use the paid plan. However, you can get another 5 sheets for free if you introduce a friend. That, and if you’re really clever you can make your sheets work doubly hard by adding more tabs to each of them. If you’re a student or you work in academia, you can use Cacoo with a full-featured academic account for free until the end of August 2013. After that, you can go back to a regular free account or a new paid account.

On the free account, you can do a trial export three times. This will be as a simple PNG format only. Paid accounts can export as vectors in a number of formats, such as PDF, PPT, PS, SVG, and PNG.

Using Cacoo With Google Drive

Cacoo is one of many great apps now available to use via Google Drive. To set it up, head to your Google Drive account and click on Create. Then browse through the options until you see Cacoo, then add it. From then on, Cacoo’s Diagrams will be one of the listed options for file types when you click on Create.

Your Cacoo files will be stored on Google drive and backed up to all your devices using the Google Drive app. This also means you can use Cacoo on the go on your mobile devices, which is incredibly useful for people who are out and about a lot.

As with all Google Drive files, you can share with friends and collaborate on your files in real time. This makes your Cacoo documents extremely useful for office diagrams and other things that need to have input from multiple people. As it is real-time collaboration via Google Drive, you can all collaborate while in a Hangout chat by adding Cacoo as an app while you’re in a hangout. Other users not in the chat can continue to work on the document as well.

Cacoo Stencils For Diagrams

Cacoo has a huge amount of stencils available for use immediately. On the right hand side of any canvas, you can see the selection. Under ‘Basic’ you can see people, balloon speech bubbles, images for use on greeting cards, arrows, dimension lines and more. The ‘Office’ section has a variety of office equipment, aerial-view office furniture for doing layouts of office plans, and simple images to represent most nodes on an office computer network. In other sections, you’ll find software flowcharts, wireframe images, graphics to represent iPhones and Android phones, and electric circuit stencils.

If these stencils aren’t enough, you can also search the store for more. Some of them cost a little money, but some of them are free. I found this aquarium stencil set for free, which is really useful if you’re putting together a plan for your aquarium.

If you still can’t find the stencils for your use, it’s possible to save a Cacoo diagram as a stencil, meaning you can use that stencil for your future diagrams. If you’re looking to make a little bit of cash from your hard work, you could also try to sell your stencils in the Cacoo store, where other users look for stencils.

Cacoo Templates For Diagrams

As for templates, Cacoo has free templates, templates available to buy in the store, and it is also possible to save your own diagram as a template for future use or to sell in the store. The free templates include things like organisational charts, Android and iPhone mock-ups, greeting cards, mind-maps, flow charts, and more.

Creating Your Cacoo Diagrams

With all these stencils and templates, you can see how it can be very easy to create your own diagram quickly and professionally using Cacoo. It’s also worth noting that the whole Cacoo experience is simple and straightforward. There are toolbars and floating menus that are pretty self-explanatory when you take a look around. Aside from the tools previously mentioned, there are also basic drawing tools ready for use.

When you start creating your diagrams with Cacoo, you’ll find it all makes sense quickly, and your documents will come to life in no time. If you do run into difficulties with Cacoo, you can quickly refer to the help document for a guide on moving and resizing images or lines, plus a list of shortcuts you can make use of to create drawings quickly.

What programs do you normally use for diagrams? Have you tried alternatives such asCreately or yEd? Will you be trying Cacoo? Why/Why not?

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Save and Reopen Your Web & Document Sessions With Cupcloud

Ever find yourself with a ton of tabs and Word documents open, but then have to reboot your computer? Whether it’s an update or a new app that requires a reboot, rather than put it off, or bookmark a bunch of tabs you only need for the time-being, Cupcloud will actually temporarily save your tabs, documents and more, and restore them with a simple click of the button.

The free app, which we’ve taken a brief look at in the past, runs quietly in the background until you need to use it. We’ve taken a look at a few Chrome extensions like Tab Bundler andTab Shutter, but Cupcloud goes beyond saving just website tabs in your browser and extends to the desktop itself.

Getting Cupcloud Setup

At the moment, Cupcloud only supports a limited list of applications. You can save tabs from three browsers – Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari, as well as documents open in Apple iWork, Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. You can also save all open windows in Windows Explorer and the Mac OS X Finder.

The first step to getting Cupcloud up and running on your computer, is signing up for a free account. Cupcloud is in public beta and signing up is as easy as entering your email, username and password.

You’ll then be prompted to download the free beta software. Cupcloud is available for Windows XP, 7 and 8, as well as for OS X 10.7 and later. After downloading and installing the little app, you’ll be prompted to log into your account.

Using Cupcloud

Once you’re logged in, Cupcloud couldn’t be easier to use. The options for the app are limited – all you really can choose is whether or not you want to start Cupcloud when your computer starts. It makes sense to start Cupcloud as you start your computer since it’s the kind of app that runs quietly in the background, waiting for you to use it when need be.

As you are working, if you decide that you need to save all the tabs you have open in your browser, your Microsoft documents, and your Explorer and Finder windows open, you just hit the Cup button.

Cups are automatically named, using nothing more than a sequence of numbers, but right clicking the Cup will allow you to rename it. There are a few other options that you’ll view in that menu when you right click your Cup, or saved tabs and documents. You can delete the Cup, move it to another folder, or “Uncup” it. When you hit Uncup, it will open up all the tabs and windows that are saved in that specific Cup.

If you want to get really organized with your ‘Cups’, you can also create multiple folders in the side-menu. This is particularly useful if you want to save tabs that are work-related, leisure-related, or even getting even more organized, project-related.

If you tend to need a certain number of tabs open on a regular basis, you can use Cupcloud to save all the tabs that you would normally have open for the task, and get them loaded in your browser with just one click.

Another really cool feature that Cupcloud affords its users is allowing you to take that content with you from one computer to another – whether on a Mac or Windows machine. All you have to do is download and install the free app on all of your machines, and you have instant access to all of your Cups. So if you’re working on something at work and need to pick up where you left off from home, just Cup your windows, then open them up on your other machine when you get home.

Best of all – Cupcloud is cross-platform so if you’re a a Windows user for example, you can still retrieve your saved session on your friend’s Mac.

While Cupcloud is in beta, the free version of the service allows you to create unlimited cups per month, but you can only access the 30 most recent cups. Premium gets you unlimited cups and unlimited access to those cups. Other features Premium users can look forward to include  sharing, extended program support and secure cups. While in beta, all it takes to get premium is to invite two friends to join the service. For every friend who joins, you’ll get 2 free months of Cupcloud premium service, for a limit of up to 2 years. There is presently no paid subscription model.

Another interesting feature is sharing, which has yet to be released. By right-clicking the Cup of your choice,  you can share it to other Cloudcup users. If you email a shared Cup to someone who doesn’t already have the app installed, they’ll be invited to sign up and download it. Once they’ve accepted the shared Cup, it will appear in both of your apps, and any changes to it will be reflected in both accounts.

To see Cupcloud in action, check out the video below:

Our Verdict

It’s incredibly easy to use Cupcloud. The app is simple to use and performs its primary function very well. Such an app helps address a small but annoying problem when you’re trying to pick up your work where you left off. It has us left wondering why someone didn’t think of this before.

Of course, it’s still in the beta stages of development so you’ll find there are some kinks to be worked out. Future releases which allow sharing to other users, together with a much-needed expansion of the types of files, folders and apps that Cupcloud can save to its sessions, will make Cupcloud truly indispensable.

Download: Cupcloud for Mac & Windows (Free)

What do you think of Cupcloud? Can you think of any other ways you can take advantage of the free app? Let us know in the comments.

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Create Great Diagrams Using Cacoo & Google Drive

What do you use when you need to draw a diagram? Do you do the whole thing from scratch? Do you create each and every box with a series of four lines, or do you use a program that creates the box for you? Would you go a step further and use a template? Would you appreciate ready-made images of desk furniture to design your office layout? If you’re anything like me, you’re always ready to make the job as easy as possible. That’s whereCacoo comes in.

If you’ve been contemplating drawing some sort of diagram and have no idea where to start, Cacoo is going to be an app you will love and will never forget. It’s got a huge variety of stencils and templates to get you started, it hooks into Google Drive and it’s ready for you to use for free online or offline on your devices via Drive. In short, it’s perfect.

Cacoo’s Free Usage

Cacoo is free up to a point. You get 25 free sheets of diagrams and three exports before you are expected to use the paid plan. However, you can get another 5 sheets for free if you introduce a friend. That, and if you’re really clever you can make your sheets work doubly hard by adding more tabs to each of them. If you’re a student or you work in academia, you can use Cacoo with a full-featured academic account for free until the end of August 2013. After that, you can go back to a regular free account or a new paid account.

On the free account, you can do a trial export three times. This will be as a simple PNG format only. Paid accounts can export as vectors in a number of formats, such as PDF, PPT, PS, SVG, and PNG.

Using Cacoo With Google Drive

Cacoo is one of many great apps now available to use via Google Drive. To set it up, head to your Google Drive account and click on Create. Then browse through the options until you see Cacoo, then add it. From then on, Cacoo’s Diagrams will be one of the listed options for file types when you click on Create.

Your Cacoo files will be stored on Google drive and backed up to all your devices using the Google Drive app. This also means you can use Cacoo on the go on your mobile devices, which is incredibly useful for people who are out and about a lot.

As with all Google Drive files, you can share with friends and collaborate on your files in real time. This makes your Cacoo documents extremely useful for office diagrams and other things that need to have input from multiple people. As it is real-time collaboration via Google Drive, you can all collaborate while in a Hangout chat by adding Cacoo as an app while you’re in a hangout. Other users not in the chat can continue to work on the document as well.

Cacoo Stencils For Diagrams

Cacoo has a huge amount of stencils available for use immediately. On the right hand side of any canvas, you can see the selection. Under ‘Basic’ you can see people, balloon speech bubbles, images for use on greeting cards, arrows, dimension lines and more. The ‘Office’ section has a variety of office equipment, aerial-view office furniture for doing layouts of office plans, and simple images to represent most nodes on an office computer network. In other sections, you’ll find software flowcharts, wireframe images, graphics to represent iPhones and Android phones, and electric circuit stencils.

If these stencils aren’t enough, you can also search the store for more. Some of them cost a little money, but some of them are free. I found this aquarium stencil set for free, which is really useful if you’re putting together a plan for your aquarium.

If you still can’t find the stencils for your use, it’s possible to save a Cacoo diagram as a stencil, meaning you can use that stencil for your future diagrams. If you’re looking to make a little bit of cash from your hard work, you could also try to sell your stencils in the Cacoo store, where other users look for stencils.

Cacoo Templates For Diagrams

As for templates, Cacoo has free templates, templates available to buy in the store, and it is also possible to save your own diagram as a template for future use or to sell in the store. The free templates include things like organisational charts, Android and iPhone mock-ups, greeting cards, mind-maps, flow charts, and more.

Creating Your Cacoo Diagrams

With all these stencils and templates, you can see how it can be very easy to create your own diagram quickly and professionally using Cacoo. It’s also worth noting that the whole Cacoo experience is simple and straightforward. There are toolbars and floating menus that are pretty self-explanatory when you take a look around. Aside from the tools previously mentioned, there are also basic drawing tools ready for use.

When you start creating your diagrams with Cacoo, you’ll find it all makes sense quickly, and your documents will come to life in no time. If you do run into difficulties with Cacoo, you can quickly refer to the help document for a guide on moving and resizing images or lines, plus a list of shortcuts you can make use of to create drawings quickly.

What programs do you normally use for diagrams? Have you tried alternatives such asCreately or yEd? Will you be trying Cacoo? Why/Why not?

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