I have not posted to my iPhone Journal in quite a while. I was looking at the Blog with Firefox on the MacBook Pro running Parallels. I notice that with Snow Leopard, that new Notes files on the iPhone are automatically downloaded to the mail client on my MacBook when I am synching the iPhone. That would make it very easy to transfer those files to this blog. When I synch the iPhone and the Notes posts go to mail, I just save them in a dedicated folder, but I could copy them and paste them into a new post on this blog.
I was also thinking of starting a new blog. Online Learning Today, in which I will report on current research in the area of online learning. I am also working on creating a wiki based net book for an interactive course on "Understanding and Conducting Research in Online Learning and Teaching." The blog of course would be related, or maybe it would be better to do Online Learning Today as a video blog or vlog. It's something to think about. I really like the way blogger works, just sign on with your google mail account and you are ready to start blogging. Very nice.
I just started to listen to Jeff Jarvis' book "What Would Google Do?" from audible books on the iPhone.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Posts From iPhone
Original message from EasyWriter - March 23, 2009
I just tried and found that writing with EasyWriter on the iPhone works in horizontal orientation, with the keyboard, of course. This makes the individual keys larger but the keyboard takes up more of the available landscape than in the vertical mode. I think that I prefer to use EasyWriter in the vertical mode. Now how do I get this EastWriter Pro page to stay in portaiture mode, which I prefer for reading and writing? It's default orientation seems to be landscape even though I am holding the iPhone in the portrait orientation. I just tried it again. Apparently the default orientation is landscape, but if I hold the phone in the portrait orientation it does switch to that orientation.
Added more text from May 6, 2009 3:47 PM
Entering text into EasyWriter on the iPhone while sitting outside on the deck. It is easy to enter text outside in the sunlight with the iPhone, something I certainly can't do with the laptop computer.
And finishing this post today, May 28, 2009, I have been working with creating Online Learning Today - Episode 4, and tried making a reference slide with Photoshop CS3. I created a 7x5 image and entered the text as Myriad Pro Regular 24 point, and changed to Italic for the journal and volume number. I saved the image as a jpeg to the desktop. I will see if this is readable as a movie, and if not can increase the font size in the future.
We are leaving soon on a 9 day RV tour of Northern California and the Southern Oregon coast. I will be posting our progress on some venue.
I just tried and found that writing with EasyWriter on the iPhone works in horizontal orientation, with the keyboard, of course. This makes the individual keys larger but the keyboard takes up more of the available landscape than in the vertical mode. I think that I prefer to use EasyWriter in the vertical mode. Now how do I get this EastWriter Pro page to stay in portaiture mode, which I prefer for reading and writing? It's default orientation seems to be landscape even though I am holding the iPhone in the portrait orientation. I just tried it again. Apparently the default orientation is landscape, but if I hold the phone in the portrait orientation it does switch to that orientation.
Added more text from May 6, 2009 3:47 PM
Entering text into EasyWriter on the iPhone while sitting outside on the deck. It is easy to enter text outside in the sunlight with the iPhone, something I certainly can't do with the laptop computer.
And finishing this post today, May 28, 2009, I have been working with creating Online Learning Today - Episode 4, and tried making a reference slide with Photoshop CS3. I created a 7x5 image and entered the text as Myriad Pro Regular 24 point, and changed to Italic for the journal and volume number. I saved the image as a jpeg to the desktop. I will see if this is readable as a movie, and if not can increase the font size in the future.
We are leaving soon on a 9 day RV tour of Northern California and the Southern Oregon coast. I will be posting our progress on some venue.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Back to the iBook
It has been quite a long time since I have contributed to the iPhoneJournal. Not that I have not done iPhone stuff. For example I bought a number of books on developing apps for the iPhone. Now I should read them and try to put some of the ideas into practice. Started to read "Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK" by Dave Mark and Jeff laMarche. Very straight forward and easy to follow so far (I got to page 19). That's my usual approach to technology is to buy some books and then fail to follow up on the reading and the implied action. I also listened to the first lecture of a course at Stanford on developing iPhone apps. It is available through iTunes (iPhone Application Programming). I have downloaded the video lessons to the iPhone so I can watch them from there. I can also watch them on the MacBook Pro.
Barbara and I took a number of computers and related stuff to an electronic recycling operation run by Goodwill Industries. One of the items Barbara was going to throw out was an old iBook (10 GB hard drive). I put AppleWorks on it and wrote a document that described what had transpired as follows:
Well here we are in AppleWorks 6.2.7 on the iMac. Before we go any further let’s see if we can print out this document. After adding the HP 2200 printer at 10.0.1.199, the page printed just fine. AppleWorks did not crash, so I now have a word processor working on this computer. I also saved this file in Documents as 4-29-09.cwk. So far, so good. I have the iBook connected to the network, I believe, with the Ethernet cable. However the wireless icon claims I am connected to Apple Network 2d6167, Airport Extreme, so let’s disconnect the Ethernet cable and the AC line and continue in the family room on battery and see if the wireless connection works.
For Family Room starters, let’s see if we can print from here. Chobe came to sit in my lap so I have the iBook perched on the left arm rest of the orange recliner. It fits there very nicely, bettter than the MacBook Pro. I think this document printed out OK, but will not know for certain until I go to the printer in the office. Let’s see if we can get on the internet from here. I could not, but them I switched to an alternate wireless station, WASSON, and was able to get to the internet where I placed on order to Practical Press, which seemed to be working fine. Let’s print again while we are connected to the WASSON wireless port.
The file printed out wirelessly, when connected to either 2d6167 or to WASSON, but would only access the internet with WASSON.
So there you have it, that's my iPhoneJournal for today.
Barbara and I took a number of computers and related stuff to an electronic recycling operation run by Goodwill Industries. One of the items Barbara was going to throw out was an old iBook (10 GB hard drive). I put AppleWorks on it and wrote a document that described what had transpired as follows:
Well here we are in AppleWorks 6.2.7 on the iMac. Before we go any further let’s see if we can print out this document. After adding the HP 2200 printer at 10.0.1.199, the page printed just fine. AppleWorks did not crash, so I now have a word processor working on this computer. I also saved this file in Documents as 4-29-09.cwk. So far, so good. I have the iBook connected to the network, I believe, with the Ethernet cable. However the wireless icon claims I am connected to Apple Network 2d6167, Airport Extreme, so let’s disconnect the Ethernet cable and the AC line and continue in the family room on battery and see if the wireless connection works.
For Family Room starters, let’s see if we can print from here. Chobe came to sit in my lap so I have the iBook perched on the left arm rest of the orange recliner. It fits there very nicely, bettter than the MacBook Pro. I think this document printed out OK, but will not know for certain until I go to the printer in the office. Let’s see if we can get on the internet from here. I could not, but them I switched to an alternate wireless station, WASSON, and was able to get to the internet where I placed on order to Practical Press, which seemed to be working fine. Let’s print again while we are connected to the WASSON wireless port.
The file printed out wirelessly, when connected to either 2d6167 or to WASSON, but would only access the internet with WASSON.
So there you have it, that's my iPhoneJournal for today.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
July 20, 2008
July 20, 2008 Notes
July 20, 2008 Notes
What a day - Got up at 7:30 to leave for airport at 7:55 to get Brus on the way back to Seattle. Got back home and read Chapter 3 of HODE 2007. I had started to read the 2003 edition HODE and had read the first 11 chapters when the 2007 edition arrived. I decided to read both books a part (section) at a time, Part 1 of the 2003 edition followed by Part 1 of the 2007 version. Both editions have 5 parts in common. The 2007 version has an additional part not in the 2003 edition. I will have a similar problem in 90 days (44 plus 46) when I get ready to start in on the Handbook of Reaearch on Educational Communications and Technology. I just got the 3rd Edition which came out in 2008. This background reading helps me prepare for my projected blog series, Online Learning Today, a review of current research in online learning and teaching.
Then I fired up the MacBook Pro to synch up the iPhone and check for Ed 603 student assignments so I could do the regular Sunday upload of the online gradebook file, when a message popped up saying the 2.0 firmware upgrade for the iPhone was ready to be downloaded. Hurray. This of course took awhile and the old MacBook Pro was busy preparing a netflix movie to be transferred to AppleTV so I opened up the HV20 and started recording John's Tech Vlog in the blue recliner with Chobe sitting in my lap.
The refitted iPhone seemed to be working perfectly so I clicked on the new app button and downloaded a New York Times reader (free) and Super Monkey Ball ($9.99).
It is almost time for supper and I am again sitting in the blue recliner with Chobe in my lap entering text into a Notes document. Time to send it to wassonjbw for inclusion in the iPhoneJournal on blogger.
Sent from my iPhone
July 20, 2008 Notes
What a day - Got up at 7:30 to leave for airport at 7:55 to get Brus on the way back to Seattle. Got back home and read Chapter 3 of HODE 2007. I had started to read the 2003 edition HODE and had read the first 11 chapters when the 2007 edition arrived. I decided to read both books a part (section) at a time, Part 1 of the 2003 edition followed by Part 1 of the 2007 version. Both editions have 5 parts in common. The 2007 version has an additional part not in the 2003 edition. I will have a similar problem in 90 days (44 plus 46) when I get ready to start in on the Handbook of Reaearch on Educational Communications and Technology. I just got the 3rd Edition which came out in 2008. This background reading helps me prepare for my projected blog series, Online Learning Today, a review of current research in online learning and teaching.
Then I fired up the MacBook Pro to synch up the iPhone and check for Ed 603 student assignments so I could do the regular Sunday upload of the online gradebook file, when a message popped up saying the 2.0 firmware upgrade for the iPhone was ready to be downloaded. Hurray. This of course took awhile and the old MacBook Pro was busy preparing a netflix movie to be transferred to AppleTV so I opened up the HV20 and started recording John's Tech Vlog in the blue recliner with Chobe sitting in my lap.
The refitted iPhone seemed to be working perfectly so I clicked on the new app button and downloaded a New York Times reader (free) and Super Monkey Ball ($9.99).
It is almost time for supper and I am again sitting in the blue recliner with Chobe in my lap entering text into a Notes document. Time to send it to wassonjbw for inclusion in the iPhoneJournal on blogger.
Sent from my iPhone
July 19, 2008
July 19, 2008 Notes
1:21 PM sitting in the Medford Cinemark with Barbara and Brus waiting for Dark Knight to begin. We got here plenty early so we could be certain of getting seats together. No problem, we had our choice of the house. We were even able to go to Circuit City before the movie started and pick up some miniDV tapes. I am listening to Leo's Tech Guy podcast while waiting for the movie. I had to crank the volume down on my hearing enhancement devices so I could hear the podcast. I have my little controller along so I can adjust the volume in the theater if necessary. I also brought along batteries, the last time I went to a movie one of the devices needed a battery change. Well time to log off and watch the previews (intermixed unfortunately with commercials, which certainly does not enhance theater viewing experience). In fact I was wrong, its not previews that are being shown right now but commercials. At 20 minutes before show time the previews started. Unfortunately, the preview was followed by a commercial. Even the prievies are more commercials than preview or trailers. And the commercials continued. This uninteresting display is called cinema first look. So much for the theater experience.
Sent from my iPhone
John Wasson
1:21 PM sitting in the Medford Cinemark with Barbara and Brus waiting for Dark Knight to begin. We got here plenty early so we could be certain of getting seats together. No problem, we had our choice of the house. We were even able to go to Circuit City before the movie started and pick up some miniDV tapes. I am listening to Leo's Tech Guy podcast while waiting for the movie. I had to crank the volume down on my hearing enhancement devices so I could hear the podcast. I have my little controller along so I can adjust the volume in the theater if necessary. I also brought along batteries, the last time I went to a movie one of the devices needed a battery change. Well time to log off and watch the previews (intermixed unfortunately with commercials, which certainly does not enhance theater viewing experience). In fact I was wrong, its not previews that are being shown right now but commercials. At 20 minutes before show time the previews started. Unfortunately, the preview was followed by a commercial. Even the prievies are more commercials than preview or trailers. And the commercials continued. This uninteresting display is called cinema first look. So much for the theater experience.
Sent from my iPhone
John Wasson
Thursday, July 17, 2008
July 13, 2008 Notes
July 13, 2008 Notes
Sunday 3:50 P
I am sitting in the blue recliner with Chobe stretched out on the carpet at my feet. She came inside for a snack and relief from the 97 degree F day in the yard. I have spent the day working on a vlog about my computers, my network, and the problems with creating documents on different computers with the same application, and with sharing documents between computers, and reading a chapter by Peters in the HODE.
I just reset the iPhone and can now do all the things I could not do, make a call, access the Internet and send a tweat, and send email. I was just able to send Notes docs to myself, to post on the iPhone blog, for the first time since early June.
However, I sent the messages to wassonjb@mac.com and they showed up in the inbox of the iPhone where I deleted them, but not in mail on the MacBook Pro. Before finding this out I had deleted the original Notes on the iPhone and thus lost all the content. Let's send this Note to wassonjbw@gmail.com which makes sense since blogger, the repository for John's iPhone Journal, is a google enterprise. So let's send this note to wassonjbw and not delete the original note on the iPhone.
Sent from Notes on my iPhone 7-17-08 12:45 PT
Sunday 3:50 P
I am sitting in the blue recliner with Chobe stretched out on the carpet at my feet. She came inside for a snack and relief from the 97 degree F day in the yard. I have spent the day working on a vlog about my computers, my network, and the problems with creating documents on different computers with the same application, and with sharing documents between computers, and reading a chapter by Peters in the HODE.
I just reset the iPhone and can now do all the things I could not do, make a call, access the Internet and send a tweat, and send email. I was just able to send Notes docs to myself, to post on the iPhone blog, for the first time since early June.
However, I sent the messages to wassonjb@mac.com and they showed up in the inbox of the iPhone where I deleted them, but not in mail on the MacBook Pro. Before finding this out I had deleted the original Notes on the iPhone and thus lost all the content. Let's send this Note to wassonjbw@gmail.com which makes sense since blogger, the repository for John's iPhone Journal, is a google enterprise. So let's send this note to wassonjbw and not delete the original note on the iPhone.
Sent from Notes on my iPhone 7-17-08 12:45 PT
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
June 4, 2008
June 4, 2008 Direct Post from MacBookPro
Greetings and salutations. I have a huge backlog of Notes files on the iPhone which I would normally send by email to the MacBookPro and paste into this blog, the iPhone Journal. However, the iPhone does not work at home. Apparently AT&T no longer services this area in the lee of Roxy Ann Peak in southern Oregon. Barbara is not able to use her AT&T mobile phone either. Chobe the cat does not mind as she refuses to use a cell phone.
I can not use Safari (which I have tuned into Twitter) either and can not, as I already mentioned, send email from the iPhone. I thought Safari and email on the iPhone used wifi so apparently my iPhone can no longer connect to my airport extreme network. I also have trouble connecting my Alienware laptop running vista to the wifi network, but can connect via ethernet. Same thing with my Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop running the latest version of Ubuntu. I can get to the local area network with an ethernet cable, but not via wifi.
As long as I am discussing all my problems, I might as well mention AppleTV and its connection to the internet. The AppleTV is connected to the Sony Bravia via HDMI. It was not working a lot of the time so I drilled a hole in the wall to run an ethernet cable to the back of the cabinet in which the Sony Bravia and the AppleTV were housed. This worked quite well.
I am looking forward to the announcement of the new iPhone on June 9 and wonder if I can add that to my current AT&T account which has 12 months to run. At the end of the contract I will probably drop AT&T and replace the iPhone with an iPod Touch. I think the iPod Touch will do everything that I do on the iPhone except make cell phone calls, which I am not interested in anyway. In looking at the iPod Touch screen on apple.com/ipodtouch/ I do not see a mail icon. However, I assume I can do internet mail to my .mac or gmail accounts. I just want to get the new iPhone to run out the AT&T contract and see how it works. Then I will cancel my AT&T account and get an iPod Touch. June 2009, a year from now, sounds like a good time to make the switch.
The other day I spilled coffee on my trusty MacBook Pro. After drying out and letting it set for 24 hours, I found that it still functions reasonably well. What does not work are some keys on the lower left keyboard, the caps lock, shift, fn, ctrl, option, and command keys. The shift and command keys on the right side do work. I can also connect the keyboard and optical mouse from the defunct G4 computer to the MacBook Pro by USB and restore full keyboard functionality. Subsequently, the return key fell off the computer. Since the limping MacBookPro is the only Macintosh computer I currently have, I really do need another MacBook and fortunately Barbara says I should get a new MacBookPro for Father's Day.
Today I was looking at iPhone Aps and saw Readle.com an app that let's you read .doc, pdf, and txt files online with the iPhone. I signed up for an account and then pasted Learning Online Today 03 a pages file into Word and saved it as a .doc file. Then I, hopefully, uploaded the .doc file to my Readdle account and am hoping for the best. What I would really like is an app that would allow me to read the extensive list of eReader books I have (pdb files).
Greetings and salutations. I have a huge backlog of Notes files on the iPhone which I would normally send by email to the MacBookPro and paste into this blog, the iPhone Journal. However, the iPhone does not work at home. Apparently AT&T no longer services this area in the lee of Roxy Ann Peak in southern Oregon. Barbara is not able to use her AT&T mobile phone either. Chobe the cat does not mind as she refuses to use a cell phone.
I can not use Safari (which I have tuned into Twitter) either and can not, as I already mentioned, send email from the iPhone. I thought Safari and email on the iPhone used wifi so apparently my iPhone can no longer connect to my airport extreme network. I also have trouble connecting my Alienware laptop running vista to the wifi network, but can connect via ethernet. Same thing with my Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop running the latest version of Ubuntu. I can get to the local area network with an ethernet cable, but not via wifi.
As long as I am discussing all my problems, I might as well mention AppleTV and its connection to the internet. The AppleTV is connected to the Sony Bravia via HDMI. It was not working a lot of the time so I drilled a hole in the wall to run an ethernet cable to the back of the cabinet in which the Sony Bravia and the AppleTV were housed. This worked quite well.
I am looking forward to the announcement of the new iPhone on June 9 and wonder if I can add that to my current AT&T account which has 12 months to run. At the end of the contract I will probably drop AT&T and replace the iPhone with an iPod Touch. I think the iPod Touch will do everything that I do on the iPhone except make cell phone calls, which I am not interested in anyway. In looking at the iPod Touch screen on apple.com/ipodtouch/ I do not see a mail icon. However, I assume I can do internet mail to my .mac or gmail accounts. I just want to get the new iPhone to run out the AT&T contract and see how it works. Then I will cancel my AT&T account and get an iPod Touch. June 2009, a year from now, sounds like a good time to make the switch.
The other day I spilled coffee on my trusty MacBook Pro. After drying out and letting it set for 24 hours, I found that it still functions reasonably well. What does not work are some keys on the lower left keyboard, the caps lock, shift, fn, ctrl, option, and command keys. The shift and command keys on the right side do work. I can also connect the keyboard and optical mouse from the defunct G4 computer to the MacBook Pro by USB and restore full keyboard functionality. Subsequently, the return key fell off the computer. Since the limping MacBookPro is the only Macintosh computer I currently have, I really do need another MacBook and fortunately Barbara says I should get a new MacBookPro for Father's Day.
Today I was looking at iPhone Aps and saw Readle.com an app that let's you read .doc, pdf, and txt files online with the iPhone. I signed up for an account and then pasted Learning Online Today 03 a pages file into Word and saved it as a .doc file. Then I, hopefully, uploaded the .doc file to my Readdle account and am hoping for the best. What I would really like is an app that would allow me to read the extensive list of eReader books I have (pdb files).
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