Woot.com is currently offering the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet for $134.99.

Here are the quick specs:

High-resolution (800×480) touch screen with up to 65,536 colors

Memory: Flash 128MB

Memory card: 64MB RS-MMC (Reduced Size – MultiMediaCard)

Option for extended virtual memory (RS-MMC up to [...]

If you’re going to succeed at being an efficient TabletPC based student (regardless of what program of study you are taking) then it really helps to get, and stay, as organised as possible, and even more so when you’re study routine is primarily digital in nature. Thankfully you can go a long way to achieving [...]

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 quick tip that I picked up earlier today while studying for exams.

In OneNote 2007, rather than using the eraser on your pen to erase your misspelled word or accidental scribble you can actually just cross it out.

Just scribble a few continuous horizontal lines across your error and it will dissapear.

Evidently, this option is [...]

OK, so even without the good reason of many sales events over at Lenovo.com, there’s another reason to buy early if you’re planning on using a shiny new ThinkPad tablet this Fall semester, especially the late Summer semester. Lenovo is slooooooooooooow.

I had the privilege to have lunch with JK from JKOnTheRun on Monday and we [...]

Admittedly, the recent review of Mindjet MindManager Pro 7 was a bit light on when it came to actual example Mindmaps. Fortunately, Benoît, one of our readers, whipped up a great example which includes all of the elements that are recommended in great mindmaps.

Download MindManager File - 28k Full Size Image - 242k

Since it is currently [...]

Do you sometimes forget to put your laptop on standby, to later discover that you have wasted all of your battery life and conceqently only have 30 minutes left for that important exam review lecture?

I found myself in that situation just the other day. It’s partly due to the fact that I have [...]

Normally, day-to-day wise, I’m not a mindmap kind of guy. However, come exam time, they’re one of the only things that work for me. I was pretty excited to hear that the new version of Mindmanager was on its way. Mindmanager 6 was the most complete software I have ever used. It is extremely hard [...]

Save up to $420 instantly plus discounted upgrades on select ThinkPad notebooks this Father’s Day

Lucky for us, that includes the Thinkpad X Series tablets! That brings the X60/61’s down to a starting price of $1,400-$1,600. Nice! The UltraBase dock is also half price if you were planning on grabbing that.

Before you Google when Father’s Day [...]

I got an email from Zanoon Nissar publicizing a Microsoft event for educators that I thought I’d pass along since I know we have many that follow this blog.

I am a program manager from Microsoft who manages an event called the Innovative Teachers Forum.  It’s a great (and free) opportunity for teachers to apply [...]