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Showbie: the paperless classroom made simple. Clean Print Helps You Save Ink and Paper. Clean Print is a free browser add-on for Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Safari (including Safari on the iPad). The purpose of Clean Print is to help you save ink and paper when printing articles from the Internet. Clean Print allows you to remove images and advertisements from pages before printing and article. Clean Print also gives you the option to increase or decrease font size before printing an article. Learn more about Clean Print in the video below. Applications for Education If you use it and you can get others in your school to use it, Clean Print can help you maximize your school's printing supplies budget.

If Clean Print isn't for you, give one of these other ink saving tools a try. Free Online File Converter, Storage, Sharing, Transfer | Cometdocs. Whiteboard. WriteRoom — Distraction free writing software for Mac & iOS. "But if, when it comes right down to it, full screen is your holy grail, and the ultimate antidote to the bric-a-brac of Word, then you must enter the WriteRoom, the ultimate spartan writing utopia. "— Virginia Heffernan, New York Times "Unlike practically everything else in our digital lives, WriteRoom's minimalist interface implies a truly flattering proposition: It's you, not the software, that matters.

"— Jeffrey MacIntyre, Slate "Green text on a blank, black screen, with a square, blinking cursor. "WriteRoom’s minimalist interface also frees you from the nagging urge to fiddle with margins, fonts, and other settings, leaving you with nothing to do but write "It’s a primitive application, to be sure — I suspect completely by design — but it may be just what the doctor ordered if you need to get your head out of your butt and put some words on the page.

"A perfectly balanced, indispensable part of any Mac writer’s toolkit. Collaborative Learning with NIMBUS / Overview. Chalk.