SMART Notebook Screen Capture Hint

I love the Screen Capture tool in Notebook software. Here's a tip.

You may have noticed, the area capture does not create an object the same size as the original. To get a screen capture image which matches the size of the original, be sure you have the View/Zoom setting on the Notebook page to 100%, not Entire Page or Page Width. Setting the zoom to 100% before choosing the Screen Capture tool will create an object the same size of the original.

Animated Text for SMART Gallery items

Here is a simple-to-use site for creating animated text. Their words:

Generate an animated text picture (gif) with texture in 10 seconds.

It really works that quickly, unless like me, you have a hard time deciding among all the cool effects and fonts. This took 5 seconds, after I finally decided on the texture and color.

http://textanim.com/

The images are .gif, so you can download them to your computer, insert them into a SMART Notebook file and move them to the Gallery in My Content folders. Very cool!!

Thanks to Shawn at http://findingyourwaywithsmart.blogspot.com/ for pointing out this fun site.

Apple Store - iPad session 9/13

• I learned that I should join the iPad forums, as it supplies many answers and ideas. Did that as soon as I got home.
• How do I know how much space I have filled on my iPad 2? - Go to Settings, General. There it is: Capacity 59.1 B, Available 55.5 GB. Guess I have room for songs and movies!
• What about Printing? - I have a non-airprint HP printer connected to my Airport. Karen suggested that I first see if the iPad can find the printer. Printing is accessed from the Share icon, top right corner icon, page image with arrow. If not, try to use the HP ePrint app. From HP ePrint app, my printer may work, but I'm not sure if it works through Airport. I tried, but could not get output. This is a project for later.
• Does the OS update automatically? - No. Each time I connect the iPad to my computer (which I had not yet done), iTunes will auto backup. Eventually, this will be a cloud option. I have now done this. Also, let the battery run down at least once a month and shut the iPad off at least weekly.
• Can I change the names of pdf documents in iBooks? - I like the library format of iBooks, and I have many pdf docs saved here. I use it for my SMART training manuals, as well as pdf copies of my own SMART Notebook presentation files and genealogy files. Some downloaded files do not have appropriate names, but iBooks does not let you edit the name. We found (through iPad forums) that my GoodReader app will let me edit the names. Now, I have to figure out how to get GoodReader to open pdf docs saved in iBook, without sending them to myself again.
• How do I get my Camera Roll in iPad Photos to create folders? - You don't create folders in iPad Photos. So that's why I could not figure it out. You have to sync the photos to iPhoto (actually goes through iTunes), set up the Events/Albums in iPhoto, then sync them back to iPad. I did that with my gazillions photos on iPad, then back. Not a fun thing, but maybe I can now do it a little at a time. Note: since I am going to send them back to the iPad, choose "delete photo" when you sync with iPhoto.
  
• I can set Places for photos in iPhoto/Preferences. Events-Advanced "look up places automatically." Haven't done this yet.
• Evernote app can assign GPS location to notes or photos you put there.

Last question was about using Bootcamp to run WIN 7. I have to use WIN 7 in training that I do. I'm going to try to use shared/public folders to allow opening, editing, saving docs from either Mac OSX or WIN 7 applications. I don't want to have duplicates of files I use.

It was a great session!