Practical applications?

[Blue Protoman]

Title. Any stories of Xournal? Qorganizer? Other God-knows-what that has saved your ass at school or work, or at least made things easier? When I start college in Fall 2012 I might use my Pandora to take notes, to save paper and space.

 

[TrashyMG]

I use it at work quite a bit, mostly remote SSH login, tail automated message logs and to keep an eye on things.

 

[Blue Protoman]

What software do you use? Be sure to mention that, guys!

 

[Caine]

During most of my meetings I use my Pandora to take notes (using mousepad).


I've used gedit a couple of times to work on some software in the train.


I am experimenting a bit with using Orage as my agenda, but so far I don't use it too much.


I've read a few PDFs using Evince and am reading some books in FBreader.

 

[Prometheus]

Just plain old Mousepad, here. Now that I'm quicker at thumb-typing, I can get notes down quite quickly (and get quick additions made to my novel, too).

 

[TrashyMG]

Well to do what I mentioned earlier, I just use the command terminal to connect to other unix based systems..


ssh -X username@hostname


X-forwarding works like a charm, although sometimes the screen is a tad too small.

 

[Wootson]

I always use AbiWord to make notes in class. Had many reactions from people saying how awesome the Pandora is. I also find it very funny when people their batteries go dead and how they always use every energy saving trick in the book to not run out of juice so quickly. Meanwhile my Pandora still goes strong with 80% to 90% battery life.


Browsing the web on this little thing is also very comfortable as we have WiFi on every location at our university. Even reading my mail is no problem at all. Pidgin running in the background also.

 

[Blue Protoman]

People prefer typing in Abiword to the likes of Xournal (which offers the best of both worlds)?

 

[midnightman]

This is of interest to me too since I am planning to get one for myself, I have been lurking the forums and then registered just recently to ask questions and get more info, what attracts me most is the ability of the Pandora to become a computer that you could use for something else when not gaming, anyone here with more applications that they use?

 

[vadsamoht]

I've only found it moderately useful for university because of the following:


1. Lecturers tend to get a little annoyed when it looks like you're playing with a DS in their classes.


2. I write most of my assignments in LaTeX, which is still yet to arrive in Pandora-land.


That said, for general notetaking the Pandora is excellent, if you don't have to wait for it to boot up (I like to get my ideas down ASAP).

 

[Blue Protoman]

Couldn't you just explain to them that that's not what it is? I'll probably go so far as to get a spare SD card dedicated exclusively to functional applications (not even Solitaire).

 

[vadsamoht]

Couldn't you just explain to them that that's not what it is? I'll probably go so far as to get a spare SD card dedicated exclusively to functional applications (not even Solitaire).

Yes, but the inital embarassment of being called out in front of ~80 other students, and the resulting discussion of "No, it really IS a computer", and the rest of the lecture hall hating you for the interruption (which is often interpreted as your taking the chance to show off your latest piece of tech), just makes it all not worth it.

 

[BaDToaD]

Couldn't you just explain to them that that's not what it is? I'll probably go so far as to get a spare SD card dedicated exclusively to functional applications (not even Solitaire).

Yes, but the inital embarassment of being called out in front of ~80 other students, and the resulting discussion of "No, it really IS a computer", and the rest of the lecture hall hating you for the interruption (which is often interpreted as your taking the chance to show off your latest piece of tech), just makes it all not worth it.

Collar the lecturer as he walks in and show him the Pandora saying "I'm going to be using this to take notes. I just thought I'd show you as I didn't want you thinking I was playing on a nintendo during lectures."


Done!

 

[Esn]

I would never use it to take class notes or read ebooks. As for notes, thumb typing (or regular typing for that matter) is not nearly fast or flexible enough for me. I have a small agenda in which I take all my notes throughout the year, on whatever topic, as well as schedule things out. I write very quickly because I write very small; the letters are 2mm tall usually, written with a 0.25mm Hi-Tec-C pen. The high-tech way of doing something isn't always the most efficient one...


As for reading ebooks, I've found that the screen isn't pleasant for me to read on (the Kindle guys have a point). So I still read ebooks on my front-lit GP32, actually...


What I have used it for recently is musical composition, using Audacity to record multitrack audio. I've also used MyPaint for a few things, and it's been a comfortable device to put in my pocket when I'm going somewhere with wifi.

 

[Blue Protoman]

Couldn't you just explain to them that that's not what it is? I'll probably go so far as to get a spare SD card dedicated exclusively to functional applications (not even Solitaire).

Yes, but the inital embarassment of being called out in front of ~80 other students, and the resulting discussion of "No, it really IS a computer", and the rest of the lecture hall hating you for the interruption (which is often interpreted as your taking the chance to show off your latest piece of tech), just makes it all not worth it.

Collar the lecturer as he walks in and show him the Pandora saying "I'm going to be using this to take notes. I just thought I'd show you as I didn't want you thinking I was playing on a nintendo during lectures."


Done!

I suppose, if you can show him that you have no games on it. In theory, it'd be all right.