Hold your horses, I’m mid-midterms

28 February 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tracy's Updates

I’ve been dying to share something interesting that will make y’all laugh (those who have been following the blog for a while), but I only have a few moments to spare this week thanks to midterms and I want to spend more time on it than 5 minutes. An unfortunate caveat of any college blog is that the bloggers are (usually) in college…

Good luck to all the midtermers (…?) out there!

Tablets becoming a common sight locally

16 February 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tablet Concepts

For the past two years I’ve visited daily the same coffee shop next to my school (I’m a creature of habit). It offers free wifi, lots of tables, and good coffee, so it’s a student magnet.

Most days you see 90–100% of customers hunched over a Mac or a Dell of some kind, busily working on grad studies or engaging in conversations I can’t understand because they’re either literally or metaphorically in another language. It’s essentially it’s the largest concentration of people working with portable computers in the area.

Mozy Online Backup

16 February 2007 Posted By: Andrew
Posted in: Software Info

The search for the ultimate backup utility has taken me to far ends of the Earth. Well not quite the ends of the Earth. However, my latest stop has quite successful. For while, I was backing up files to my schools server, which offers a paltry 400MB. I needed more. I thought about using my personal website as a storage location since I have tons of free space just waiting to be gobbled up. But I really wanted to have differential backups.

Without getting too technical, differential backups are like save points. I can go back to any time in the past and restore that version of my file.

OneNote 2007 PowerToys

16 February 2007 Posted By: Andrew
Posted in: OneNote

Chris Pratley says that Dan Escapa has just released 3 PowerToys for OneNote 2007 with more on the way.

So far:

• Word Count.
• Send to OneNote (from the file explorer/shell).
• Export Outlook Notes to OneNote.

Wikipedia+RoboForm is my Ace in the Hole

15 February 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Study Aids, Websites

That’s right. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I love my Wikipedia.

In case you haven’t heard, Wikipedia is a free, easy to use, online encyclopedia that is user-edit-able (which is what a wiki is). Usually, a user run encyclopedia would be a bad thing (spam, faulty information, lack of information), but in this case it’s blossomed into a wonderful resource.

Rich McIver: The Twenty Minute Guide to PC Security

13 February 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tablet Concepts

Rich McIver, with ITSecurity.com, posted a lengthy article on PC security that is a must-read for anyone using their computer as their life-in-a-box, like many Tablet PC-ers.

Included in article are tips for password protection, safe emailing, physical protection, safe surfing, wireless protection, and more.

The Twenty Minute Guide to PC Security: 20 Tips to Secure your Box

Have any feedback on MindManager?

8 February 2007 Posted By: Trevor
Posted in: MindManager

Hi all,

I’ll be attending the MindManager User Summit next week. If there’s any thing you wanted an ear at Mindjet for– your most troubling issues, new features, or anything else you’ve just wanted to say, please pass it along. The summit is on Tuesday, so try to get them to me before then.

You can post it here as a comment or you email it to me at trev@studenttabletpc.com.

Testing the "HipsterPDA"+Tablet PC Idea

7 February 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Hardware, Organization

I’m not paperless and I never will be. Try as I may, I either can’t grab my tablet fast enough or I just miss the arts and crafts feel of real paper. That said, I have no problem admitting to the use of paper.

With all the hoopla about the “HipsterPDA” (heh, funny name) over at 43Folders, I decided to give it a try. It always looked like something I’d enjoy–I like excuses to buy new office supplies–and it’s cheap, so why not. Plus, they’re kinda cute, and very personalized (check out the Flickr photos of different Hipsters).

Ink Wiki? Anyone?

6 February 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Note-Taking, Study Aids

I know they offer personal Wikis for organizing your information (it you’re particularly fond of the Wiki format) but none of them include ink. I’m just want a simple “insert ink-drawn image” tool so it’d be easy to include formulas and diagrams. That can’t be too hard, right?

Why? I’m thinking for study purposes. My classes overlap so much that it’s annoying having everything separated sometimes. Imagine if I could create my own reference Wiki with definitions, conversions, formulas, theories, diagrams, etc. with the added power of ink add-ins. I’m sure some study program does something similar, but I don’t want something so complex (like RecallPlus) that it takes forever to set up and figure out.