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.
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