Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Results – Lego Beyond Toys 3

The goal of this master class is to create expansion packs for the Lego Mindstorms NXT product. The student follow a series of lectures on the underlying technologies and in the end design and build their extension pack.

An Efficient Publication Process

An Efficient Publication Process from Christoph Bartneck on Vimeo.
In this video, we introduce an efficient publication process. It starts with structuring thoughts, and assembling all the elements in a text editor. Next, we demonstrate how manage references and how to include figures. Last, we demonstrate the usage of Latex to automatically layout a document.

Mac Software Bundles

The idea to sell software in a bundle at a discount is now completely unleashed. Today I counted the following sales:

The Mac Sale
One Finger Discount
MacHeist Nano Bundle (the full next bundle will be released soon
The Mac Bundles
The daily Mac Update Promos
Mac Friendly
Give good food 2 your mac
Mac bundle box
MacGraphoto

You can even create your own bundle [...]

Creating PDF bookmarks from Microsoft Word on Mac OS X

The bookmark feature of Adobe Acrobat (PDF) is really useful. It allows the reader of a PDF document to see the structure of the document and by clicking on the structure, you can navigate to the referenced section. Microsoft Word creates such structures through the use of styles. The automatic generation of the table of [...]

Duplex printing on Canon Pixma iP4600

I have been looking for a new printer that could print on both sides of the paper (duplex). The Canon Pixma iP4600 caught my attention since it it supposed be able to print duplex. However, the specifications are unclear. It looks like only Windows computers can print duplex (see screenshot below). Since I am using [...]