MacNoteTaker is a possible work around for not being able to synchronise memo pad files. It is a Palm application that allows long notes and a Mac OS X conduit that allows notes to be synchronised and exported as text files. I’d rather just have a conduit for memo pad documents, but this looks better than nothing.
My little monochrome zire 21 organiser comes in handy for quick notes on the train. The Mac OS X Palm Desktop software is currently at version 4.2.1. If you unstuff and then run the installer, you get a system error message – the installer does not check user rights on the Application folder correctly. The work around is to:
For some reason, when I first ran the installer, the full set of ‘synchronise’ conduits for the Zire applications did not install correctly. The Palm Desktop does not use the Mac OS X printer system so I can’t print a monthly calendar to PDF…. The irony of all this is that the Palm Desktop is based on the Claris Organiser of many years ago. If I didn’t use the memo application as much, I’d just synch with iCal.
“When researching new processes we often find ourselves working with different industries. It was interesting working with a confectionery manufacturer. Their experience in the science of translucent colour control helped us understand processes to ensure consistency in high volume.”
From Jonathan Ive’s account of the 1998 iMac design (this would be the slot loader judging by the illustrations).
The Design Museum page format is XHTML with a styled table layout. One for the Foundation Degree module next year…
Processing is a programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an open-source alternative to commercial software tools in the same domain.
Downloading the 6Mb dmg of Processing 1.0 β for the Mac OS X version as I write. Produces Java applets from a simplified control language. Very trendy Web site. The name of the project tends to worsen the signal to noise ratio on Web searches though.
Planetqhe is a site by David Kay Harris dealing with probability. There are Excel spreadsheets that present problems in probability in a novel way, including two stage tree diagrams.
The presentation is different to the usual one in UK GCSE textbooks – Harris is head of Maths at the International School of Toulouse and the site is in English for use by Baccalaureate students.
The Web site navigation is a tad confusing (inconsistent use of frames) and the multiplicity references in the text to the Amazon store is perhaps sending a very ‘heavy sell’ message (I have no issues with sponsorship in general – just how you integrate the marketing message into the site).
David E Joyce of the Clarke University has provided a set of Java classes that allow complex geometrical constructions too be built using parameters passed to a Java applet.
The geometry applet looks as if it could be used to provide dynamic graphics to help students explore locii and circle theorems without the rather imposing deductive framework of the Elements. Watch out for some examples here. You can download the Java class files as Geometry.zip. Look at the HTML code for the Geometry Applet page for examples of how to get the applet funtioning.