I am a big fan of Microsoft OneNote, and I am using OneNote for iPad, but I was experiencing frequent crashes of the iPad application.
Some tests and some searches later, I learned that I was not alone, and that the crashes are caused by OneNote pages that contain a table with meeting information (when you create a new Linked Meeting Note from an appointment in an Outlook calendar item). So try to avoid that, or remove the table from the note if you are syncing with iPad.
Update: Microsoft updated OneNote for iPhone/iPad on July 1, 2013, and this update fixes this issue !
Jane Hart is gathering votes for the Top 100 learning tools for 2012.
This is my top 10, in random order:
Twitter: the best way to generate your own “information streams” about various subjects
SharePoint 2010: Microsoft’s enterprise collaboration platform. Fan of the “My Sites”, that allow you to create your own “portfolio”; with Office 365, you can set up your own platform in the cloud for a very reasonable cost.
Adobe Captivate: although getting really complicated, still one of the leaders as far as software courses (screencasts) is concerned
Tweetdeck: invaluable for organizing my twitter stream. Like the fact that it is cross-platform
Google Reader: allows me to follow more than 400 websites or other information sources (RSS) in one single web-based application
Feeddler Pro: iPad app that connects to your Google Reader account and displays your RSS feeds on iPad
Microsoft OneNote: the best note-taking application on the Windows platform. Unbeatable in combination with SharePoint and a tablet pc. Now with an iPad app!
Instapaper: with the “read later” button in your browser toolbar, you can save interesting articles for later, and read them e.g. in the iPad app
iSpring Pro: a very powerful “PowerPoint to Flash” rapid e-learning tool.
Compared to last year, not much of a change, 3 newcomers only.
The HP Elitebook is one of the best devices I ever used, but it has some serious issues with the screen rotation of the tablet. If you turn the screen around to use the pc as a tablet, you should be able to change the orientation of the screen with the rotate button.
In some cases, the screen rotates automatically, sometimes it does not, and the rotate button does not always work as expected.
This is what solved the issue for me:
install the latest Intel HD video driver from the HP support site
install or reinstall the HP Quick Launch button drivers from the same site
If you are in the training and learning business, you know that course material always has been the subject of many discussions. Some say it is necessary, others say that they are never used, but most students want “a manual”. Entire forests disappeared because of it, the added value of it is uncertain.
What if you could avoid using paper, and make the manual really deliver added value? I spent some time playing with iBooks author, a manual in Word format about an IT application, and Adobe Captivate software demo’s, to see if this could be a valuable alternative.
The workflow to replace all your paper based manuals by this solution would be:
Get yourself a Mac :–)
Get yourself an iPad if you want to preview your iBooks
