27
Feb

TPC University: Degree Series Announcement

Trev and I are pleased to announce we’ll be adding a new segment to our website we like to call "Tablet PC University." We’ll be looking at different majors and going through ways a tablet PC and related software (or whatever else) can help make you more productive at whatever focus you may have. [...]

25
Feb

Tablet PC Education Blog…Finally!

Robert Heiny (Loren Heiny’s dad, for fans of Incremental Blogger, another great tablet blog) has started a blog on the tablet PC in education, and considering in his profile it writes, "Specialty in organizational development to increase personal benefits for students through education," as a personal description, I’d have to say it looks pretty promising. [...]

16
Feb

Nigel Ward on OneNote and My Response

Associate Professor of Computer Science (University of Texas - El Paso) Nigel Ward posted a comment about a review of OneNote he wrote on whether OneNote really is the next big thing for students. He asked for my comments on his article and I thought this discussion would be beneficial to all you out there [...]

13
Feb

Type Fonts with a Twist

This is just a quickie (since I have a test tomorrow), but here’s just a little trick for an old dog.

For those times where you do type because it’s just easier (e-mail, a need of spell check, formatting, etc.) and it’s not official business (resume, reports, etc.), going back to blah fonts such as [...]

10
Feb

50,000! Spectacular!

Hey all. Today we broke 50,000 hits. The Student Tablet PC opened up officially on December 1st, 2004, so we’re very excited that so many people come to read our site.

I’m thinking of offering a contest to celebrate. I’m unsure of the prize at the moment, but I can get a copy of most any [...]

07
Feb

Organizing Your Files, nay! Your Life

Face it. As students our papers, our notes, our readings are our lives, at least they are the means to our livelihood. So what do we do when something gets lost? We have problems, that’s what. This article will cover a few simple techniques that will preserve your sanity and hopefully your grades…

07
Feb

Great Article on Shared Maps

I saw this on Nick Duffill’s  blog, Beyond Crayons. It’s a great example on how to and how not to create shared mindmaps. You already know my love for MindManager and mindmapping in general. In the academic world though, very few of my friends know about mindmaps or MindManager, yet they are fascinated once they [...]

02
Feb

It’s in the Bag

Once you have a Tablet PC, a big question that hits usually runs along the lines of, "Um…what do I carry this in?" A normal laptop bag may work fine for a normal laptop (hence the name "laptop bag"), but most tablets are no where near the size of a standard laptop. One would soon [...]