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. Continue reading “Results – Lego Beyond Toys 3”
Category: Technology
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 to help cancer research.
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 contents is based on it. Adobe Acrobat for Windows allows users to transform the document structure (based on styles) into PDF bookmarks. But no such luck for the Mac version of Adobe Acrobat. The conversion settings are not Word specific, but are set in the Distiller settings, that are used for the whole system. I think that it is a shame that Adobe withholds this useful feature from the Mac users.
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 a Mac, that would be rather dissapointing. I googled around and found no clear anwser. In the end I bought one and tried it out myself. I can confirm that it is possible to print duples on the iP4600 from a Mac (see printer dialogue below). Canon’s specifications should be more precise.
