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Just Beam It is a service for quickly and easily sharing files with your colleagues. To use the service just visit Justbeamit.com and drag a file from your desktop to the Just Beam It transfer box. After dragging your file, Just Beam It generates an unique url for your file. Give that link to the person or people you want to be able to download your files. Just Beam It supports files up to 2GB. Watch the short video below for an overview of Just Beam It in action.

a new cloud storage system to share files. similiar to drop box, where people can share files. you can also search within files. It will be linkied to your Google docs. 5K are free and you can pay to upgrade. It is not available for everyone yet.

share, send files up to 1 GB to others for free. They need to access the file within 5 days.

Wappwolf connects your web services / apps with Dropbox. You can drag & drop files into a predefined folder on Dropbox and have them automatically converted to a new format or sync them to your favorite places, including: Evernote, Kindle, Facebook, Flickr or Google+. Convenient access to all your files from any device. see Richard Byrne's April 26, 2012 blog Free Technology for Teachers for further assistance

Sugar Sync access , sync, and share your files from any device. free 5 GB account. need to download.

Balablolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from AZW, CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PRC, PDF and RTF files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

SSReader is a free, large font reader for OS X that speaks text files aloud and displays the text stanza-after-stanza, simultaneously. -- See a demonstration! Although this reader was created to assist those with visual impairments, it can be used by anyone. This program works reads any text file, including those from: Project Gutenberg

Dollar Scan;  send them a book and they will scan it for $1 per 100 pages.  They OCR and send it back to you as a PDF file. It will be interesting to find out more about graphics and since they OCR the files, if they can send it back as text for screen readers.

Various ways to wireless share files between IOS Devices

f you have Google Chrome installed on your PC, it can actually do this. Google Chrome includes both an integrated PDF viewer and print-to-PDF features. Drag-and-drop a PDF file into the Chrome browser window to open it in Chrome. Click the menu button in Chrome and select Print. Click the "Change" button under Destination and choose Save as PDF.

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PDF to Audio Offline, another app that will provide text to speech support for almost any text file. 

free online storage, upload, access, share your files

article with vidoe on how to save stuff you have created on your iPad to iturnes to be able to open on a computer with itures

Wappwolf. automate your dropbox, syncs to Google Docs drag and drop files into a predefined folder on DropBox and it is utomatically converted and syned to your assigned devices

Three Ring is available for Android and Idevices. Take pictures of studen'ts work and file it in a digital three ring binder.

 a list for free apps for education 

Talking Clipboard is a text to speech conversion software, that can read, any type of document, whether ePub books, web pages (HTML), CHM, PDF, MS Word, RTF, RSS feeds, scanned image documents, etc. using natural sounding synthetic voices (SAPI 5 compliant) and can convert them to MP3 or WAV audio files for your portable music player.

DAISY reader for mac and PC reads various file formats with supports. proposed price $39 Has a trial version

This is a collaborative project to create an open-source electronic book reader that will support various formats including DAISY and EPUB content. Currently the software is limited to supporting DAISY 2.02 format 'Talking Books'. DAISY / EPUB reader requires a minimum of version 1.5 of Android (also known as 'cupcake'). When the application is installed on a device with version 1.6 or later with TalkBack installed, the navigation of files and folders on the SD card is spoken. The application can be downloaded from the Downloads section of the project site: http://code.google.com/p/android-daisy-epub-reader/downloads/list.