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5GB of online storage for FREE

21 February 2008 Posted By: Robert
Posted in: Software

Fancy a ton of online storage space for FREE? I thought you would. Well it’s not quite a ton but Microsoft today announced an upgrade of their Windows Live SkyDrive facility from a measly 1GB up to a really useful 5GB. What’s more they’ve also extended the service to more countries, offering more of us the gift of space (check out the full details on the Windows Live SkyDrive Team Blog).

I’ve just signed up for an account and had a quick look around and I’ve got to say I’m pretty impressed. Don’t take my word for it. Get yourself along and stock up on the GBs. Let us know what you think! Thanks Microsoft! ::via jkOnTheRun

Giveaway of the Day: EverNote Portable

27 December 2007 Posted By: Robert
Posted in: Software

Well it may be post-Christmas and most of us would have opened all of our pressies by now (get anything nice?) but thanks to GiveAway of The Day and the EverNote Corporation we’ve got one more present to ‘open,’ and this may be a little better than those seasonal socks you got from your Aunt :o) This gift is none other than EverNote Portable

Giveaway of the Day: Wow……EverNote!!

15 November 2007 Posted By: Robert
Posted in: Software

Every now and then Giveaway of the Day comes up with an exceptional giveaway and today must be one of their best ever - the incredibly useful and Tablet PC friendly EverNote. You may remember I highlighted EverNote as one of the primary tools in my ‘Back to Uni software box.’ It’s absolutely one of the best Tablet PC notetakers out there so if you haven’t tried it already then get yourself along to Giveaway of the Day fast!! ::via GottaBeMobile who credit discovery to jkOnTheRun

Student Discount on Bluebeam Revu PDF Software

15 October 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Software

Bhaltair on our forums points out a major discount on the pen-friendly Bluebeam PDF Revu (similar to Adobe Acrobat).

If you’re a student, you can get the (standard) version of Bluebeam’s Revu for $30.  This will support all Office 2003, 2007 programs etc.  It’s a GREAT PDF writer (print to PDF) - in fact it’s better than Acrobat’s.  I’ve done actual color printing from PDFS and it wins hands down. You can buy the CAD system BlueBeam Revu for $50.

I just wanted students to know you can get a huge discount if you write them and buy it as a student.

Fitting a ‘better’ Cornell page template into OneNote

11 October 2007 Posted By: Robert
Posted in: Note-Taking, OneNote

Well my migration over to OneNote is going pretty good. I’ve used it exclusively now in both of the scheduled 3 hour seminars I’ve attended so far, along with numerous other note-taking tasks, and I’ve got to say I’m thoroughly enjoying the experience and that’s without even getting my teeth into, shall we call it, the ‘power features’ of OneNote yet, such as side notes and note flags etc.

Of course a large part of the ‘moving in’ process has involved a ‘custom fitting’ tweak of the interface i.e. re-positioning OneNote’s toolbars, the removal and addition of buttons etc. and a ‘figuring out’ session on how to incorporate my established electronic filing system, but everything has been straightforward and hassle-free.

Tablet PCs Software for Drawing and Art

9 October 2007 Posted By: William
Posted in: Software

I love to draw. It’s what I do during my boring lectures. It’s what I do to relax. The tablet pc as a drawing tool was a huge part of the appeal when I was first looking at buying a tablet and seeing that we’re having a bit of a ’software week’ here at STPC I thought I might give a rundown on what is available and what works best for different drawing styles.

I’m going to look at a number of packages including MsPaint, Artrage, Alias Sketchbook, Flash, Corel Painter, Photoshop and I’ll add a rundown of any drawing software that I get sent.

Making OneNote Printer-Friendly

4 October 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: OneNote

One of my major gripes about OneNote is that the pages will get longer, but they won’t tell you where the page will cut off if you have to print it to paper. For random scribbles and day-to-day operations, this is fine, but if you’re getting ready for that open note test, being able to easily print without equations/diagrams getting cut in half is important.

Here are two easy ways to make your life easier for those moments when you’re forced to surrender control to paper printouts.

Would this idea work as an ink-blogging tool?

29 September 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Software Info, Tablet Concepts

OK, I’m not a programmer, but it makes sense to me that this would somehow work.

What if someone created an ink blogging program that (excuse me if I misuse terms) would parse the ink into individual pictures for each word.

Follow me here:

1. The same way the ink post plug-in for Windows Live Writer works, it would pop up a Journal-like window that you can write however much you want.
2. At the bottom of the ink window, it would have two buttons:
   1. one that auto-created the individual images,
   2. and one that quality controlled it first with a window where you could fix the recognition and word spacing.

Tracy’s "Already at uni" Software Box

26 September 2007 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Software Info

As a follow up to Robert’s post, I thought I’d share as well, though I’ve been back to school since late August. I also just had to use the word “uni” since I think it’s funny, as a person who never heard someone call it a uni until Robert and William jumped in. And, for clarification, I’m still an undergrad engineering student and proud of it.

In summary, my software box hasn’t changed much lately since I’ve found something that works well for me and so why change, right? I will try to list all the small things that make my computer sing in chorus to make it at least a little interesting.

What’s in Robert’s ‘back to uni’ software box?

20 September 2007 Posted By: Robert
Posted in: Software Info

I know a lot of our readers are already well into the new term and I hope you’re all getting on fine. However in my corner of the globe (if globes have corners? :o)), the new semester doesn’t begin until October 1st so right now I’m sitting slap-bang in the middle of my yearly ritual of Tablet PC re-formating, and deciding on what changes, if any, I’m going to be making to my software setup. Therefore I thought it may be of value to some of you if I shared a few of the major software decisions I’ve made for the upcoming term and why. Read on to find out what’s going to be in Robert’s ‘back to uni’ software box.

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