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Mo’ Invites

30 January 2005 Posted By: Trevor
Posted in: Blog Related

While I continue to steal Marc’s idea, I’ll add that I have 6 gmail invites I’m offering up. Just comment with a valid email and I’ll get you. I’d recommend gmail accounts to all students as they are great place to store things online. You can just email important files to your gmail account and hold them there for access from any web enabled computer. This works great for homework and stuff like that.

Upcoming Topics

29 January 2005 Posted By: Trevor
Posted in: Blog Related, Trevor's Updates

Hey all,

Sorry I’ve been MIA for the past two weeks. I’m taking a rather large load this semester, 20.5 units/6 courses, in addition to helping run two student groups, working, and applying to jobs. It’s nuts, but I just wanted to let you know what I am currently working on for the site. I’ll try to have at least one of these up by the end of the weekend. Drop me a comment on your favorite so I can focus on getting that out first.

I also have 4 gmail invites to share. Drop a comment if you want one. Make sure you leave a valid email address.

My Plan - Update

28 January 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tips / Tricks

I thought after two weeks of using my tablet again in class I should report in on how every thing’s going. This will be a sort of random post (more so than normal. anyway), since it’s mostly numerous small things I have to report back on and not all of them are related.

1. Warranties are good

I had suspicions before but it’s now confirmed. I need to send my Acer 302 in to get serviced. Now, the little thing’s I’ve noticed wrong with it before never really bothered me and didn’t make it worth a week long trip, but things have gotten worse since. When I type, they keyboard either misses keystrokes or gets stuck on one, leaving you with sntencs tha loooooooooooooooook lke ths. Not cool to type anything longer than a sentence and if I’m doing that then I might as well use the TIP and pen. Right now I’m on a wireless keyboard, so it’s not like all is lost, but it’s still annoying, say, if I want to write my Gov paper during my lunch break when I don’t have my wireless keyboard… The other thing wrong is the log-in screen has about a two inch difference between the pen tip and the cursor, making it a tad bit difficult to log in between that and faulty keys.

Pricelessware.org

23 January 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Other, Software Info, Websites

jkOnTheRun featured a site worth mentioning here (hey, we’re poor students ) called Pricelessware. It basically collects all the good freeware out there with great navigation and some "Best Of" lists. It also will tell you if it’s freeware, crippleware, donationware, liteware, etc. so you know before the download.

I already found a couple programs I want to try later, so if you’re searching for a certain program, this is a great place to start (and end, in many cases ^_^).

New Posts Coming Soon!

19 January 2005 Posted By: Trevor
Posted in: Blog Related, Tracy's Updates, Trevor's Updates

Sorry for the recent lack of updates. Tracy and I, like many of you, are students and school has just started for us. Give us a day or two to adjust to the new semester and we’ll do our best to help you do the same.

Trevor

MindManager - Part 2

13 January 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: MindManager, Note-Taking

Well I finally got around to writing the second part of the MindManager article. I know I promised it earlier, but then Vegas got in the way, yeah yeah yeah. In the previous article I discussed the concept of mindmapping and I also showed some examples of how I use MindManager and mindmaps in my daily life. In this article I hope to explain how to use MindManager to create mindmaps for various situations. This is more of a piece of what to do when you have MindManager in front of you and the lecture is going on. If you haven’t read the first article yet and downloaded the example maps, I recommend you do that first. Link is here: MindManager Overview Part 1

My Plan for This Semester

13 January 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Organization, Tracy's Updates

Just thought I’d share what I’m doing this semester in-case some of it is helpful to others. My plan from last year has changed quite a bit, so this year should be interesting.

Keeping Your Tablet Happy - Time for a good defrag :-D

13 January 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tips / Tricks

As winter break comes to an end, it is important to have your tablet running in tip-top shape before classes start up again. There is nothing worse than having a slow tablet in a fast-paced lecture. With that in mind, I have a couple of simple things you should go through in order to speed up the performance of your tablet, or any other computer you might use…

Post Listing

12 January 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Blog Related

To help you navigate this site, and since most of our articles are helpful long after they’re published, here’s an updated list of our posts and the categories you can find them in. Enjoy!

I’m back! (with a scanner?)

10 January 2005 Posted By: Trevor
Posted in: News, Scanning, Trevor's Updates

Hey folks,

Looks like Tracy has been treating you all well with a bunch of articles and postings and such. Jeez when I left we hadn’t even broken 18,000 hits. You guys rock!

So CES was the bomb-diggity awesome. I got to play around with a lot of cool toys and check out a number of possible technological applications for students. I also met with some very important people including Kenneth Collura (more on him later) and members of the tablet pc team from Microsoft. I also met the developers of MathJournal and xThink Calculator,  the makers of the Sahara i213 tablet, the developer of ActiveWords and the product manager on Alias Sketchbook. 

The new Toshiba is the next step in what I believe will be a growing trend in tablets: consumer targeted tablets. The Toshiba is really targeted at the normal users without a lot of money. With a base price of $1500 it starts putting tablets in a much more affordable range. Speaking of affordable tablets, Sand Dune Ventures is offering a pretty good eductional discount on their Sahara tablets. So if you are looking for a slate tablet pc that runs fast and looks pretty this might be a good opportunity for you.

Also at CES I may have found the perfect scanner for students on the go.

http://www.syscaninc.com/en/products/eXport.htm

This scanner scans at upto 600dpi. It does one sheet of A4 at 600dpi in grayscale in about 10 seconds (I watched them do it). It runs off of USB power, and it’s only $139 (and you can probably find it for cheaper) They also have a more expensive model that will scan in duplex (both sides at once). This looks to be the ideal scanner for scanning in handouts during class. I’m trying to get a demo unit out of them to do a full review, but from what I saw at CES this is an awesome scanner.

Finally, I want to show you something very cool:

That’s all folks. Leave a comment if there’s anything specific you want me to comment on from CES.

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