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Dropbox, the app we all (at least many of us) know and love, has a plethora of advanced uses to make life so much easier in managing data between multiple computers and online. We've posted several roundups of tips and tricks for Dropbox and now we present our ultimate toolkit and guide. We've pulled all our tips and tricks together and added quite a few more. Additionally, share your Dropbox tips and tricks and we'll update the list to share the fun with everyone.

Some little-known tricks and tips that will get you even more excited about using your iPad

"Google Drive  provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs."

Written with the iPad 2 in mind, but the iPad 1 has the same operating systems so many of these tips & tricks will wok on either device.

Apple's new iOS 5 operating system boasts hundreds of new features, but only a select few get highlighted on Apple's website.We tracked down all the rest of the great features, and chose the 25 coolest ones to share with you.

A bit outdated but good overview of social media safety tips for parents (but applicable to teachers too). Also outlines age minimums for accounts on the most popular site (Facebook=13, Twitter=none, etc)

A number of tips and tricks that you can use for four of Google's more popular features: Gmail, Maps, Google Drive and Google News.

20 great tips every teacher and student should be using to get the most of the collaborative learning opportunities Google Doc's offers

Wikisapces: "Which is why we created our brand-new YouTube channel for all our video tours and instructional videos. Not only because it gives us a handy place to share tips and instructions that might be too confusing to describe in just words, but because it lets you, our users, share these videos with your members."

Everyone knows how to do a simple Google search, but do you know how to read pages in languages you've never studied or track down the location of a friend's picture they took on vacation ages ago? Google wants to show you more tips on how to get the most out of its search results.

Interactive Whiteboard resources: These pages offer ways for students to work with words, work with images, and collaborate to create/improve/decide on this shared student workspace in your classroom. Think of that big white thing (IWB) as the students' shared workspace for practice, discussion, creating, and problem solving. The Tips and Strategies page offers ways to structure time and classroom management to facilitate student access and use of the IWB.

Australian technology company compiled a small list of useful tips, tricks, apps, and resources geared toward Special Education teachers using iPads (most items are usable with either iPad 1 or 2)

We all know Google Presentations is a great tool for making multimedia slideshows. But did you know it can also be used to make interactive quizzes and "Choose Your Own Adventure" style stories? With Google Presentations ability to link to specific slides you can build a non-linear slideshow that allows the user to make choices and go to different slides depending on their choice. Learn tips and tricks to make this work best, and see how this can be used for you or your students to make interactive quizzes and stories.

"Google Drive is one of the fundamental tools in our digital toolkits as teachers and educators. Whether you want to compose a document, create a presentation,  design a sheet, or share a beautiful drawing you made, Google Drive provides you with the tools to do that on any device and anywhere you are with an internet connection . Given this huge importance of Google Drive for teachers, I have created an entire section here packed full of tips, tricks, ideas, and third party tools to enable you to better tap into the full educational potential of this platform."

Links to great Dropbox related tips, tricks, and general resources... Cybraryman Internet Catalogue

The iPad app GoodReader allows you to annotate on top of PDF files, this page will give some tips and tricks for editing the content of PDFs on desktop systems.