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Jim Vanides - Tablet PC Tips

5 October 2007 Posted By: Robert
Posted in: News, Tips / Tricks

Jim Vanides, HP’s Worldwide Higher Education Philanthropy’ s Program Manager (wow great title!) is picking up speed with a video series of Tablet PC tips orientated towards educators. He’s already posted one on using a Tablet PC to annotate Powerpoint and his second helping, looking into using MS Journal as a viable alternative to Powerpoint, has just been released.

Sure Jim’s series is aimed more at educators than students but as a student who has to give endless presentations, I find that Jim’s video tips are providing some valuable insights. I’m sure many of you will agree.

50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work: How Writers Do It

27 August 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tips / Tricks

While looking through some old links of mine, I stumbled upon some tips from a time when I wanted to be a writer. It’s a hard think to motivate yourself to do work that you don’t really have to do, without a boss watching over and hard daily deadlines. Sound familiar?

50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work

Students should really take these tips to heart. While not 100% applicable, I’d say they’re 90% student ready, and more than just the generic ones the schools hand out like “find a quiet place to study” or “study four hours for every one hour in class.”

OneNote 2007 Tip: Extending Battery Life

24 June 2007 Posted By: William
Posted in: Software, Tips / Tricks

I haven’t had many battery life problems this semester except for every Friday where I had 4 consecutive lectures. 4 hours is a continuous stretch for any tablet taking notes and I struggled in the more writing intensive lectures.

Here is another setting change you can make in OneNote 2007. Tools>Options>Other>Battery Options and you can select a number of different levels from maximum performance to maximum battery life.

Keep in mind though that changing this effects the things that OneNote does in the background to make things more efficient but if that extra 15 minutes is critical for your note taking then give this a try.

The Move to Vista - Part 1: Getting Ready

12 January 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tips / Tricks, Tracy's Updates

OK, thanks to the MSDN Microsoft gives to their MVP’s (for some reason I choose TechNet instead of the MSDN for my first MVP cycle), I now have Windows Vista Ultimate edition to install on my Motion LE1600.

I’ve already installed it on a Gateway M275 that I inherited from my mom. I didn’t have anything valuable on it to lose and it was OK if Vista broke it (because you never know), but it’s working so well that I want to get it on my main computer before the school year starts this coming Tuesday. And, yes, you heard me, Vista works great, even on a computer with a PC rating of “1″ (thanks to the graphics card.

A fun way to relearn a new keyboard

4 December 2006 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tips / Tricks

Every new keyboard takes some adjustment time, some more than others (like the tiny keyboards many smaller tablets come with). I found a fun little typing game on BrainBashers called Typo that tests how fast you can type a sentence without messing up. If nothing else, it’s fun, but it’s also a nice way to brush up on your typing skills.

Now if only they had an Ink-Blot game, or, Inko Now that would be cool.

Replacing a Toshiba M200 LCD Mask

10 October 2006 Posted By: Andrew
Posted in: Tips / Tricks, Tracy's Updates

Sorry for not writing about this sooner. I’ve somehow managed to select a set of classes and other extracurricular activities that constantly and incessantly bombard me with work. As you might remember, my tablet succumbed to effects of hitting a pepper shaker.

After an initial panic, I gained my composure and started looking around. I eventually tracked down number of the part I needed, P000388420. New, the part was going to cost anywhere from $110 to over $250. That wasn’t going to fly. I decided to check eBay, on the off chance someone might be selling one unused. Must have been my lucky day. Not only did I find just what I was looking for, it was going to close in 4 days. I was able to snatch it up for a paltry $61 plus a few bones for shipping.

Cleaning up Add/Remove Programs

20 June 2006 Posted By: Andrew
Posted in: Tips / Tricks

Last time: Desktop Cleaning

I swear I was going to get this out two weeks ago. However, Boeing has been keeping me rather busy and when I get home, all I really want to do is go take a nap. That and waking up at 5:30 has absolutely no benefits, really.

But enough of my diatribe, this week we’re going to tackle removing programs.

It’s really amazing how many programs can populate your Add/Remove Programs list, especially if this is your first gander through. In case you don’t know where the Add/Remove Programs list is, Click Start | Control Panel, then double-click on “Add or Remove Programs”. You should get a box that looks like this:

Spring Summer Cleaning

4 June 2006 Posted By: Andrew
Posted in: Tips / Tricks

Schools out, finals are done, you have a Tablet and its slower your IBM 386 (yea, I actually had one of those. What a beast.) But the fact of the matter is it’s time for a little spring cleaning. So here’s Ferg’s Guide to Tablet PC Spring Cleaning, Version 1. I’m basically doing this as a walk through as I clean out my own computer:

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Step 1: The first thing I like to do is cleanup my desktop. As you can see, my desktop is rather cluttered. I use my desktop as a general scratchpad for files that I don’t feel like filling away, but probably have a place that they could go (other than the desktop, that is).

Michael Hyatt: “What’s the Secret to Your Success?”

8 May 2006 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tips / Tricks

(One last thing before returning to finals prep) You know a tip or word of advice is good if you still think of it months later. Back in February I read an article that any young person entering the career world could benefit from, and I’ve kept it in my head ever since.

Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing, answers a common question put forth to him: What’s the Secret to Your Success?

“I’m not sure I could boil it down to one thing. Life isn’t usually that simple. But if I really, really had to boil it down to one thing, I would say this: responsiveness.”

Jason Dorko’s been havin’ some fun

6 May 2006 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tips / Tricks, Websites

Jason Dorko, of DorkoTech.com, has been publishing some neat articles and videos that I haven’t had a chance to spread thanks to a busy, busy schedule (classes are OVER! Now just exams).

He’s published articles on ResultsManager (here’a good one on setting it up), a MindManager accessory, covering student use of the plug-in. He’s also covering MindManager with several articles and even several video demos (”Dorko Demos“). He’s ALSO covering his experiences with a semester of eBooks, starting us off with a demo video of the ebook system he’s using (SafariX).

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