My Notes on Information and Technology: IT’s Application for Student(4): K-Jotter (KWorld) and Kanvus Life

Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb…

K-Jotter and Kanvus Life.. Wah, apalagi itu?

Pertama kali saya bertemu dengan aplikasi ini adalah saat kuliah kalkulus IB. Kenapa? Karena dosen yang bersangkutan SELALU (gak pernah gak) mengajarkan kami menggunakan aplikasi dan alat ini. Bentuknya kayak apa sih? Nih, kayak gini:

Dan ini adalah contoh-contoh visualisasi aplikasi K-Jotter

Nah, sudah terbayang bukan bentuk dan fungsinya untuk apa? Yap, (sejauh yang saya tangkap) K-Jotter itu sejenis aplikasi untuk memasukkan data ke dalam computer yang berasal dari scanning tulisan yang dibentuk oleh alat yang namanya Kanvus. Sedangkan, Kanvus itu sendiri alat semacam spidol dan ‘whiteboard’ kecil elektronik yang bisa terhubung ke computer/laptop. Jadi, semua yang kita tulis atau gambar dengan kanvus ini bisa ditampilkan di laptop kita. Eits, tapi ternyata Kanvus tidak hanya berhubungan dengan K-Jotter saha loh.  Alat ini juga bisa dipakai bersama dengan aplikasi K-xxx lainnya (biasa disebut KWorld) dan digunakan untuk berbagai macam fungsi.. bermanfaat banget buat kita mahasiswa-mahasiswa (dan juga siswa), terutama yang lebih senang belajar dengan visual J check it out!

Overview

1. Easy Maneuver on a Slim Tablet with Hotspots and Hotspot Manager (Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista) With its slim design, Kanvus can be easily maneuvered to launch MS Paint or execute the programmed commands with the hotspots located around the tablet. Hotspot Manager allows personalization of your most used programs to become hotspots. 2. Organize with K-OfficeMemo for MS Word/Excel/Wordpad (Only supports Windows 2000/XP)--à seru kaan? Biar bisa ngedit atau catat koreksi2 tugas makalah atau skripsi hehe :D) When it comes to brainstorming ideas, or organizing thoughts, use Kanvus with K-OfficeMemo to quickly joggle down these unorganized items on MS Word, Excel or Wordpad. 3. Individualize with K-Jotter for Personal Emails (Only supports Windows 2000/XP) For emails, Kanvus and K-Jotter enables you to draw mini sketches in your emails to show your personality. Kanvus with K-Jotter inspires self expression and emphasize individuality. 4. Effectively Deliver Proposals with K-Presenter (Support Windows 2000/XP/Vista) -à bisa juga untuk file presentasi: For Power Presentation, Kanvus combined with K-Presenter will enable you to emphasize important points on MS PowerPoint. 5. Look Your Best with Corel PhotoImpact 12SE  Before putting your photos on display in digital or traditional photoframe, Kanvus and Corel PhotoImpact enable you to retouch, and adjust the photos with customizable templates and digital art tools.

Dan ini adalah spesifikasi alatnya:

(tabel:http://www.asianic.com.ph/product/kanvus-life106)

Sumber: http://us.kworld-global.com/main/prod_print.aspx?mnuid=1306&modid=10&pcid=&ifid=&prodid=376&noframe=1&flag=1

Selamat 'mencorat coret'! :D

Wassalam.

My Notes on Introduction of Information and Technology: IT’s Application for Student(3): Evernote

Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb…

Evernote? Apa itu?

Ya, mungkin banyak di antara kalian yang belum tahu apa aplikasi Evernote itu. Saya sendiri juga baru berkenalan dengan aplikasi ini setelah kuliah hehe. Saya tahu adanya aplikasi ini dari Android Market. Waktu itu, saya pikir aplikasi ini hanya untuk di handphone saja (smartphone blablabla), tetapi setelah saya searching ke mbah google, ternyata aplikasi ini juga berjalan di computer, bisa di Windows, Mac, dan  lainnya.

Intinya, Evernote itu adalah suatu aplikasi buat mencatat! Ya, sesuai dengan nama –note di belakangnya. Keunggulannya, membuat catatan di Evernote ini mudah dan hasilnya pun bisa kita share dengan pengguna akun Evernote di seluruh dunia!

Berikut artikel yang saya dapat dari internet plus prinstcreen dari official websitenya. Selamat membaca dan.. menjelajahi evernote! :D

2.      1.  On the web…

http://www.evernote.com

Logo Evernote. Sampai sekarang juga saya masih belum mengerti kenapa logonya gajah?hehe

Contoh tampilan Evernote (gambar2 di bawah ini juga)

 

bisa buat taruh resep juga :)

Ini tampilan di websitenya

Evernote bisa digunakan untuk:

1. Keep everything in sync.

With Evernote, all of your notes, web clips, files and images are made available on every device and computer you use.

2. Remember things you like.

Save everything cool and exciting you see online and in the real world. Snap a photo, record some audio and save it.

3. Save favorite webpages.

Save entire webpages to your Evernote account with our nifty browser extensions. You get the whole page: text, images and links.

4. Take notes anywhere.

You’re always moving, your notes should be too. With Evernote, your memories are on every computer, phone and device you use.

5. Work with friends and colleagues.

Share your notes and collaborate on projects with friends, colleagues and classmates.

6. Plan your next trip.

Keep all of your itineraries, confirmations, scanned travel documents, maps, and plans in Evernote, so you’ll have them when you need them.

2.     Artikel

Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched and exported as part of a notebook. Evernote supports a number of operating system platforms (includingMicrosoft Windows, Mac OS X, Chrome OS, Android, iOS and WebOS), and also offers online synchronization and backup services.

The Evernote web service launched into open beta on June 24, 2008 and reached 11 million users in July of 2011. In October 2010, the company raised a $20 million USD funding round led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures and DoCoMo Capital. Since then, the company also has raised an additional USD $50 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital and Morganthaler Ventures.

Evernote is available in a paid version or a more restricted, advertising-supported, "free" version. Use of the online server is free up to a certain monthly usage limit, with additional monthly use reserved for paying subscribers.

Data storage and access

On supported operating systems, Evernote stores and edits the user's notes on their local machine.

Users with internet access and an Evernote account can also have their notes automatically synchronized with a master copy held on the Evernote server. This approach lets a user access and edit their data across multiple machines and operating system platforms, but still view, input and edit data when an internet connection is not available.

Where Evernote client software is not available, online account-holders can access their note archive via a web interface or through a media device.

The Evernote software can be downloaded and used as "stand-alone" software without using the online portion of your Evernote account (online registration is required for initial setup, however), but will not be able to upload files to the Evernote server, or use the server to synchronize or share files between different Evernote installations. Also, no image or Image-PDF (Premium only) recognition and indexing will take place if you use the software entirely offline.

Data entry

As well as the keyboard entry of typed notes, Evernote supports image capture from cameras on supported devices, and the recording of voice notes. In some situations, text that appears in captured images can be recognized using OCR and annotated. Evernote also supports touch and tablet screens with handwriting recognition. Evernote web clipping plugins are available for the most popular internet browsers that allow marked sections of webpages to be captured and clipped to Evernote. If no section of a webpage has been highlighted, Evernote can clip the full page. Evernote also supports the ability to e-mail notes to the service, allowing for automated note entry via e-mail rules or filters.

Where suitable hardware is available, Evernote can automatically add geolocation tags to notes.

The online service also allows selected files to be shared for viewing and editing by other users, and allows integration ‘with Twitter for storing or forwarding "tweets". Users can also use the Twitter system to add notes to Evernote remotely, by sending tweets from any Twitter-capable device.

“Free" and "Premium" accounts

The free online service has monthly usage limitations (currently 60 MB/month), and displays a "usage" meter. A premium service is also available that currently costs $5 per month or $45 per year, and currently offers 1,000 MB/month usage.

As well as the larger per-month upload limit, the premium service features faster word recognition in images, greater security and text searching within PDF files.

The free service is supported by advertising, on both the web interface and in the application. The premium service allows the user to disable this advertising.

Free service also does not allow files be available offline. Sometimes it does make them available from cache but that can cause conflicts when synced.

All Evernote accounts, both free and premium, have a maximum limit of 100,000 notes and 250 notebooks.

Supported platforms

Evernote clients are available for Andriod 1.6 and above, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, and for Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, WebOS, Maemo, Android,BlackBerry (including BlackBerry Playbook), iOS, Google Wave, and iPad mobile platforms as well as a beta for Symbian S60 5th Edition. There are portable versions of Evernote available for flash drives and U3 drives.

There is substantial variation in supported features on different platforms: for example it is possible to edit rich text and sketches on Windows; on Mac it is possible to edit rich text, but only view sketches; and on the iPad only plain text could be edited prior to version 4.1.0 (August 2011).

There is currently no officially supported native application for Linux or BSD.

Web clipping support is installed by default on the Internet Explorer and Safari browsers when the Evernote software is installed under Windows or Mac OS X. Evernote web-clipping plugins are also available for the Firefox and Google Chrome browsers, but need to be downloaded and installed separately. Evernote email-clipper is automatically installed in Microsoft Office Outlook if the desktop version is installed on the same computer. There is a Thunderbird email plugin, but it too must be installed separately.

There are some third-party clients for Evernote:

§  NixNote. An open-source, cross-platform clone of Evernote written in Java, which runs on any OS with desktop as a Java virtual machine (Java SE) including Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, among other OSs.

§  People's Note. People's Note is a Windows Mobile note taking application with full-featured Evernote integration. Supports offline notes storage.

§  Ploze. Ploze lets you read, search and create Notes on your Windows Mobile phone whether or not you are connected to the internet

Similar products and services

Evernote's competitors include Memonic; Springpad; Simplenote; Microsoft OneNote; Yojimbo; Journler; Circus Ponies NoteBook; Lognoter PIM version; Zotero; gnote; BasKet Note Pads; and Nevernote, an open source clone of Evernote.

Sumber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evernote

My Notes On Introduction of Information Technology: IT’s Application for Student(2): Adobe Illustrator

Aplikasi berikut ini sebenarnya masih berkaitan dengan gambar (berhubungan dengan blog sebelum ini, yaitu Adobe Photoshop). Tapi yang membedakannya dengan Photoshop adalah Illustrator digunakan untuk mengedit gambar-gambar vektor. Semasa SMA, saya pernah  mendalami aplikasi ini selama satu semester dan saya menyukainya J. Enak (menurut saya lebih simpel), dan lebih keren aja (ini menurut pandangan saya gak jago IT ya, hehe). Oya, karena keunggulannya di gambar vektor juga, makanya aplikasi ini sangat cocok buat para mahasiswa untuk membuat poster, banner, atau lainnya yang kalau ukurannya diperbesar, tidak akan pecah. Hmm, saingannya coreldraw juga nih.. Oke, berikut ini adalah salah satu penjelasan dari internet tentang Adobe Illustrator. Kali ini dalam bahasa inggris dulu ya (soalnya dapatnya ya yang ini). Check it out:

Contoh tampilan Adobe Illustrator CS 5 (terbaru) mantap kan?

Logo AI CS 3

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. Illustrator is similar in scope, intended market, and functionality to its competitors, CorelDraw and Macromedia FreeHand.

The latest version, Illustrator CS5, is the fifteenth generation in the product line.

History

Versions 1–1.6 (Illustrator 88)

Adobe Illustrator was first developed for the Apple Macintosh in 1986 (shipping in January 1987) as a commercialization of Adobe's in-house fontdevelopment software and PostScript file format. Adobe Illustrator is the companion product of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is primarily geared towarddigital photo manipulation and photorealistic styles of computer illustration, while Illustrator provides results in the typesetting and logo graphic areas of design. Early magazine advertisements (featured in graphic design trade magazines such as Communication Arts) referred to the product as "the Adobe Illustrator". Illustrator 88, the product name for version 1.7, was released in 1988 and introduced many new tools and features. As of 2011, the Adobe Illustrator '88 file format is used in the MATLAB programming language as an option to save figures.

Versions 2–5

Although during its first decade Adobe developed Illustrator primarily for Macintosh, it sporadically supported other platforms. In the early 1990s, Adobe released versions of Illustrator for NeXT, Silicon Graphics IRIX, and Sun Solaris platforms, but they were discontinued due to poor market acceptance. The first version of Illustrator for Windows, version 2.0, was released in early 1989 and flopped. The next Windows version, version 4.0, was widely criticized as being too similar to Illustrator 1.1 instead of the Macintosh 3.0 version, and certainly not the equal of Windows' most popular illustration package CorelDraw. (Note that there were no versions 2.0 or 4.0 for the Macintosh - although the second release for the Mac was titled Illustrator 88 - the year of its release.) Version 4 was, however, the first version of Illustrator to support editing in preview mode, which did not appear in a Macintosh version until 5.0 in 1993.

Versions 6–10

With the introduction of Illustrator 6 in 1996, Adobe made critical changes in the user interface with regards to path editing (and also to converge on the sameuser interface as Adobe Photoshop), and many users opted not to upgrade. Illustrator also began to support TrueType, making the "font wars" between PostScript Type 1 and TrueType largely moot. Like Photoshop, Illustrator also began supporting plug-ins, greatly and quickly extending its abilities.

With true ports of the Macintosh versions to Windows starting with version 7 in 1997, designers could finally standardize on Illustrator. Corel did portCorelDRAW 6.0 to the Macintosh in late 1996, but it was received as too little, too late. Designers tended to prefer Illustrator, CorelDraw, or FreeHand based on which software they learned first. As an example, there are capabilities in Freehand still not available in Illustrator (higher scaling percentages, advanced find-and-replace feature, selective round-corner editing, export/print selected objects only, etc.). Corel was never considered a professional level tool by major agencies or design shops. Famously, Aldus did a comparison matrix between its own Freehand, Illustrator and Draw, and Draw's one "win" was that it came with three different clip art views of the human pancreas.

Adobe bought Aldus in 1994 for PageMaker. As part of the transaction, the Federal Trade Commission issued a complaint of Adobe Systems on October 18, 1994 ordering a divestiture of FreeHand to “remedy the lessening of competition resulting from the acquisition” because of Adobe's Illustrator software. As a result, Macromedia acquired FreeHand in 1995 from its original developer, Altsys, and continued its development through 2004.

The difference in strengths between Photoshop and Illustrator became clear with the rise of the Internet; Illustrator was enhanced to support Web publishing, rasterization previewing, PDF, and SVG(Scalable Vector Graphics.) Adobe was an early developer of SVG for the web and Illustrator exported SVG files via the SVG File Format plugin. Using the Adobe SVG Viewer (ASV), introduced in 2000, allowed users to view SVG images in most major browsers until it was discontinued in 2009. Native support for SVG was not complete in all major browsers until Internet Explorer 9 in 2011.

Version 9 included a tracing feature, similar to that within Adobe's discontinued product Streamline.

Versions CS–CS5

Illustrator CS was the first version to include 3-dimensional capabilities allowing users to extrude or revolve shapes to create simple 3D objects.

Illustrator CS2 (version 12) was available for both the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It was the last version for the Mac which did not run natively on Intel processors. Among the new features included in Illustrator CS2 were Live Trace, Live Paint, a control palette and custom workspaces. Live Trace allows for the conversion of bitmap imagery into vector art and improved upon the previous tracing abilities. Live Paint allows users more flexibility in applying color to objects, specifically those that overlap. In the same year as the CS2 release, Adobe Systems announced an agreement to acquire Macromedia in a stock swap valued at about $3.4 billion and it integrated the companies' operations, networks, and customer-care organizations shortly thereafter. Adobe now owned FreeHand along with the entire Macromedia product line and in 2007, Adobe announced that it would discontinue development and updates to the FreeHand program. Instead, Adobe would provide tools and support to ease the transition to Illustrator.

CS3 included interface updates to the Control Bar, the ability to align individual points, multiple Crop Areas, the Color Guide panel and the Live Color feature among others.

CS4 was released in October 2008. It features a variety of improvements to old tools along with the introduction of a few brand new tools acquired from FreeHand. The ability to create multiple artboards is one of CS4’s main additions from FreeHand. The artboards allow you to create multiple versions of a piece of work within a single document. Other tools include the Blob Brush, which allows multiple overlapping vector brush strokes to easily merge or join, and a revamped gradient tool allowing for more in-depth color manipulation as well as transparency in gradients.

CS5 was released in April 2010. Along with a number of enhancements to existing functionality, Illustrator CS5's new features include a Perspective Grid tool taken from FreeHand, a Bristle Brush (for more natural and painterly looking strokes) and a comprehensive update to strokes, referred to by Adobe as "Beautiful Strokes".

Branding

Starting with version 1.0, Adobe chose to license an image of Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" from the Bettmann Archive and use the portion containing Venus' face as Illustrator's branding image. Warnock desired a Renaissance image to evoke his vision of Postscript as a new Renaissance in publishing, and Adobe employee Luanne Seymour Cohen, who was responsible for the early marketing material, found Venus' flowing tresses a perfect vehicle for demonstrating Illustrator's strength in tracing smooth curves over bitmap source images. Over the years the rendition of this image on Illustrator's splash screen and packaging became more stylized to reflect features added in each version.

The image of Venus was replaced (albeit still accessible via easter egg) in Illustrator CS (11.0) and CS2 (12.0) by a stylized flower to conform to the Creative Suite's nature imagery. In CS3, Adobe changed the suite branding once again, to simple colored blocks with two-letter abbreviations, resembling a periodic table of elements^. Illustrator was represented by the letters Ai in white against an orange background (oranges and yellows were prominent color schemes in Illustrator branding going back as far as version 4.0). The CS4 icon is almost identical, except for a slight alteration to the font and the color which is dark gray. The CS5 icon is also virtually the same, except that this time the logo is like a box, along with all the other CS5 product logos. The "Ai" is now bright yellow.

Internationalization and localization

Language availability

Adobe Illustrator contains the following languages: Arabic (Middle Eastern version), Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, French (Canadian), German, Greek, Hebrew (Middle Eastern version), Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Turkish, Indonesia, Ukrainian.

Compatibility

Compatible with Inkscape^;Inkscape's native format is SVG, and it's also a format supported by AI, but the two implementations are not 100% compatible. Inkscape can also export into PS, EPS and PDF, that Illustrator recognize

Sumber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator