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Getting worried…

26 September 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Blog Related, Tracy's Updates

I checked on the status of my computer today (as I have everyday) on Toshiba’s website and things aren’t looking good from a distance. Tell me what you think this means:

It sounds like they don’t know I have the SystemGuard Warranty even after faxing it to two different people at two different times. "Quote" tends to mean, "The amount of money needed to get a task done." Plus, "hold" is never a good word when trying to get things done in a timely manner. If they send it back unrepaired or if it take days more figuring out that I DO have accident protection…well, you can guess how unhappy this camper will be.

More Example Note Pages

22 September 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: GoBinder, Note-Taking, Tracy's Updates

For those still deciding on whether to buy a tablet or not, the more screen shots the better. I thought I’d post some more example notes and homework so people can see how I use the digital ink and how tablets can benefit any student.

There are eight or so screen shots after the jump for anyone who’s interested (you can click on the small picture to make it bigger).

Just as an update, I got a call from Toshiba Repair confirming my return address, so apparently something’s being returned, which is always a good sign. Whether it’s fixed correctly or not we’ll soon find out.

Random, Non-Tablet-Related Post: The Bees

20 September 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Blog Related, Tracy's Updates

I just had to post about this. We’re in the process of getting a new roof and today was the first day of roofing. While beginning the job and clearing some tree branches, the workers apparently made our local beehive unhappy. Of course, we didn’t even know we had a local beehive, but from the looks of it they should have been paying rent for living in our roof a looooong time ago.

Class Notes Aided by Tablet PC

20 September 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: GoBinder, Note-Taking

I had a fun time with my tablet (well, the tablet I’m borrowing) this morning. Not really anything different, but enough to make me smile and enjoy the bliss of digital notes + internet.

I have a couple pictures so instead of taking up room on the front page, follow the jump to read my story.

Life right now with a broken screen

18 September 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Blog Related, Tracy's Updates

Well, my screen is still broken and I still have the tablet in my hands.

There was confusion about the SystemGuard warranty I bought but Toshiba didn’t have record of. After faxing my proof of purchase to two different numbers after talking to two different people, I finally talked to a great service rep who was nice, answered my questions, and was able to take care of everything warranty and computer related (way to go "Eddie").

My “Rice Crispy” Screen

12 September 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Accessories, Blog Related, Tracy's Updates

You know: Snap, Crackle, and Pop. Except this was more of a pop, snap, crackle. Yup. My screen broke.

I had put my tablet in my backpack and I was getting up from lecture to go to my next class when the strap on my backpack unsnapped and the backpack went crashing to the floor (although it didn’t seem that bad at the time). I picked it up, hooked the strap back on, and went to my next class.

Got to physics, pulled out the tablet, turned the screen, looked down, utter shock/horror, turned the screen back, closed the tablet, put the tablet away, pulled out a sheet of paper and a pen.

Tablet PC Show #23: Student Edition

11 September 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: News, Tablet Concepts, Websites

I was lucky enough to score a guest spot on the Tablet PC Show #23 with James Kendrick and Marc Orchant and we had a fun morning discussing (what else) tablet PCs and how they relate to students. Now, Skype was acting up on us so some of it sounds a little funky, but we did our best ^_^. Enjoy!

PDF Annotator Beta Works Pretty Well

9 September 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Note-Taking, Other, Software Info

There’s a new beta for PDF Annotator which Rob Bushway pointed me to after my last post. The only problem with my GoBinder digital book semi-solution is that large color pages are a pain to split up into small 10-20 page sections when the book is 500 pages long (black and white pages do fine though since they’re smaller so I can work with more at a time).  My statics class was also giving me problems because the professor teaches straight from the book, examples and all, and it was tough to figure out what to write down without rewriting the book and wasting time.

How I’m handling Digital Books and Storing Notes

7 September 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Digital Books, GoBinder, Organization

Sorry for the lack of many updates now that school has started. I’m trying to keep up with the piles of homework I get taking 5 technical courses and it leaves limited time for blogging. I’ll try to keep some stuff going though.

That said, I’ve had trouble figuring out how best to keep my books I spent hours scanning in. I had them in a tidy little PDF file with OCR, but anyone who has a technical textbook knows they’re pretty dull and I personally need to annotate as I go just to stay awake. With Acrobat’s limited commenting abilities (I really want to ink, not just highlight), it just wasn’t making the grade.

Chris Pratley: Setting up your OneNote notebook

5 September 2005 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: OneNote, Organization

Chris Pratley (one of the OneNote designers) outlines how the folks at OneNote decided to layout the folders when you first start the program in this article, along with some statistics on how people organize. If you’re still figuring out how you want to organize you stuff this semester, give the article a read, along with tablet PC developer Andy Gray’s article on how he organizes his OneNote (written from a business sense, but still applicable).

Thanks to JKOnTheRun for the link.

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