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mySchoolog

30 March 2007 Posted By: Andrew
Posted in: Organization

Looks like Kevin Tofel at jkOnTheRun has issued us a challenge:

Download Squad featured MySchoolog yesterday and I thought the concept was great. It’s a free, web-based organizer for students at any level of education; yes, I think even The Student Tablet PC folks might find value here.

Mr. Tofel, I accept your challenge!

I just signed up for the mySchoolog Beta and I’m going to start working with that. I’ll get you all posted on my progress.

The game is afoot!

Fun with pie charts

26 March 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Blog Related

Happy Tuesday, everyone.

If you’re looking at a text only version of this post, you should really check out the image. It will make you smile.

The Q1 Performance in Class

26 March 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Hardware

I gave the Samsung Q1 an honest shot in class for taking notes. I put OneNote and all my OneNote files on the UMPC and took notes for two days on the small touch screen. Interesting.

Benefits of a UMPC

• It has a smaller profile so you can blend in a little easier. If nothing else, you can easily hide it in one of those day planner cases or behind your backpack.

Adobe Digital Editions: A great eBook reader

19 March 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Digital Books, Software Info

While reinstalling Adobe Reader I stumbled upon a little surprise in the file menu labeled Digital Editions. I had no idea what it was but it sounded promising and I couldn’t help but click.

Adobe Digital Editions is a completely new way to read and manage eBooks and other digital publications. Digital Editions is built from the ground up as a lightweight, Rich Internet Application (RIA). Digital Editions works online and offline, and supports both PDF and XHTML—based content.

It takes hardly any time to download and install (here’s the link) and really is lightweight. It’s interface is quite sexy for Adobe, and the layout is super user & pen friendly.

Cool, Vista makes it easy to do a fresh install

18 March 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Back-Up / Restore, Software Info

Did you know when you do a clean install of Vista it doesn’t erase all your useful stuff like documents and program files? That’s crazy, mostly because you’d think a clean install would be clean, but way useful. Your system is technically clean, just with a really big folder with a bunch of junk in it called Windows.old. Vista does this coming from Vista or XP (those are the ones I’ve tested at least), so it works for OS upgrades and refreshes.

An Explanation of my UMPC Conversion

17 March 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Hardware

As stated in my Summit post, I did state earlier how I didn’t like UMPCs and I just didn’t think they would ever be useful to students. I claimed UMPCs were just an accessory device, similar to an iPod, that was just really expensive and there was no way a student would find it useful enough to grant the cost.

Now here comes the Summit and I actually have one that I can review as opposed to just looking at online and suddenly I’m all the rage about them. What the heck?

Refreshing my LE1600…that’s what Spring Break’s for, right?

17 March 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Back-Up / Restore, Hardware, Tracy's Updates

After my sound driver breaking (and I’ve tried every other driver I can get my hands on), MS Word breaking, OneNote Printer dissapearing, and a few other weird things after upgrading to Vista (yes, I upgraded instead of doing a fresh install), it’s time to clean house. I think it was viewing all the squeaky clean machines at the Summit that made my poor baby look so unloved.

Considering all I have on this thing and the lack of real record keeping I’ve done (shame on me), this should be fun, but for the best. Anyway, it’s good to keep track of serial numbers, back-up files, and where your install CDs are.

Reflections on the MVP Summit

15 March 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tablet Concepts

b(This probably breaks blogging rules, but I decided to make this all one post. It’s a long read, but I hope it’s at least semi-enjoyable).

Summary:

• It was GREAT meeting everyone
• Favorite Tablets of the MVPs
• New view on UMPC
• View on “Tablet PC” name future

I’m now on the plane and flying back to my home town of Austin, TX, after visiting the sunny city of Seattle (I did see the sun once). Although four days of non-stop geek talk can get tiresome (I need a break here and there), most if it was fun and informative. I was also fond of Seattle’s great selection of shops and got a real kick out of how Starbucks is everywhere.

InkLearn has a Home

14 March 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Software Info

Just got a message from the author of InkLearn that it has a new home at http://punzie.net/.

A few of you have been asking where to find it, so according to Jerome, all future versions will be found there.

Sliding over to OneNote…again

14 March 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Note-Taking, OneNote

Yes, OK, I will admit I tossed OneNote last semester when it died right before finals and I couldn’t get to my notes for a week. The extra functionality just didn’t seem worth the hassle.

But I’m not one to hold a grudge. I can’t remember but I think I might have been still using the Office Beta 2, anyway. After a while of opening six PowerPoints, four Word documents and a few PDFs just to do some homework, I decided to try a program that I could group all those files together. Journal also isn’t quite as stable under Vista as it was with XP, so it was worth a shot.

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