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 [...]

So are you the kind of student that loves using flash cards to review for an exam? Maybe you’ve never put in any thought to writing up a set that would aid you in your studies. Just thinking about carrying a stack of 3×5 index cards everywhere you go seems like something that might make [...]

1. Insert Space to Widen the Page

You probably know you can make the page longer by inserting space, but did you know you can make the page wider by inserting space? Click the “Insert/Remove Space” button and move the cursor to the edge of the page. You should see the insert/remove line change to a vertical bar [...]

Did you know when you do a clean install of Vista it doesn’t erase all your useful stuff like documents and program files? That’s crazy, mostly because you’d think a clean install would be clean, but way useful. Your system is technically clean, just with a really big folder with a bunch of junk in [...]

After my sound driver breaking (and I’ve tried every other driver I can get my hands on), MS Word breaking, OneNote Printer dissapearing, and a few other weird things after upgrading to Vista (yes, I upgraded instead of doing a fresh install), it’s time to clean house. I think it was viewing all the squeaky clean [...]

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a class where the professor has said, “You’re allowed for the test 1 page back and front of whatever you can fit,” and then you spend about five hours with a cramped hand writing in barely legible writing trying to fit twelve pages of notes and homework onto one paper. [...]

That’s precisely what I did last Thursday, and it wasn’t a happy experience. When everything you do revolves around what’s on your computer or the internet (OK, that’s a little sad, but what can I say), not having your computer can put you at a loss. So what’s a student to do?

1. Know where the [...]

Here’s a link to Twelve ways to mark up a book (link via Achieve it). Personally, I think these guys need Tablet PCs and eBooks (wink), but I still think these are some good practices to follow. I especially like some of the general tips, such as not to mark the obvious and to use [...]

Week four was fraught with frustration, mostly involving OneNote 12 crashing in the middle of Calc class. I ended up using Journal and then copy and pasting my Ink back into OneNote. The price of beta testing I guess.

This week was better though, I ran the Office 12 checkup utility and while it didn’t say [...]

NetDrive is a very neat application that lets you add an FTP location as a letter drive. Just download NetDrive and off you go! Now some of you may have noticed that Windows already provides a feature very similar to this. In fact, Windows does, however, it is also a very cluncky service and does [...]