App of the week for journalists: Kooaba Shortcut
A handy app for remembering articles your read in print publications
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App of the week:
Phones:
iPhone
Cost:
Free
What is it?
An image recognition app, allowing you to take a photo of a newspaper or magazine page and find the PDF version.
How is it of use to journalists?
You will find this app useful if you have ever come across a story in a newspaper or magazine, perhaps at a weekend, and wanted to remember it later.
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The image recognition technology recognises 79 different UK titles, including several local newspapers.
Simply take a photo of the page using the app, allow Kooaba Shortcut to recognise the page and then select the + button to save it to the app's libarary, to Evernote or share it via email, Twitter, Facebook or SMS.
Kooaba Shortcut is the successor of Paperboy, released for UK titles in November . A post on the Kooaba blog explains the name change:
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Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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