21
Oct

Blog Launch: Tablet PC - A Student’s Perspective

Breaking cover during the past week is a new blog coming courtesy of student Anirudh Saraf. His blog, entitled Tablet PC - A Student’s Perspective, is one well worth keeping an eye on. Planning to blog mainly on “notetaking, OneNote and OneNote powertoy development” Anirudh has already got his blogging ball well and truly rolling [...]

15
Oct

Student Discount on Bluebeam Revu PDF 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 [...]

11
Oct

Fitting a ‘better’ Cornell page template into 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, [...]

09
Oct

Tablet PCs Software for Drawing and Art

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 [...]

05
Oct

Adding RAM and the Memory Configurator

It’s been a pretty hectic last few weeks, a handful of exams and lots of homework.

A couple weeks ago, I added some more RAM to my tablet, Apollo. Apollo originally had 512MB (2x 256MB); a couple years ago I added a gig stick, bringing the total to 1280 (1x 1GB, 1x 256MB). Over the last [...]

05
Oct

Jim Vanides - Tablet PC Tips

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 [...]

04
Oct

Making OneNote Printer-Friendly

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 [...]

04
Oct

Out with the old (sob!) and in with the new

Well it couldn’t have happened at a worse time i.e. a few days before the start of my new term, but recurring battery problems have finally caused me to lose faith in my trusty old Acer C300 and as a consequence I’ve sent her packing to the Tablet PC retirement home (well actually I’ve passed [...]

01
Oct

Fun With Embedded Fonts

If you visit this site through conventional means, you may have noticed I’ve been playing with embedded fonts. Let me know if it’s cool (in small quantities, of course) or extremely annoying

01
Oct

DocuPen on the Way

Quick update that I have a Planon DocuPen RC800 coming my way for review purposes. I really can’t wait to try this thing out on my own as I’ve heard very mixed reviews. It seems like a great solution for students, but does it really work?We’ll see!