TI Wizard - Games, Software, and Tutorials for the TI NSpire, TI-84 Plus, and TI-89 Titanium » Great Deals http://tiwizard.com Games, Software, and Tutorials for the TI NSpire, TI-84 Plus, and TI-89 Titanium Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:40:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Kindle 2– A Perfect Gift for Mom or Dad http://tiwizard.com/the-kindle-2-a-perfect-gift-for-mom-dad/ http://tiwizard.com/the-kindle-2-a-perfect-gift-for-mom-dad/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 01:37:37 +0000 admin http://tiwizard.com/beta/?p=96
Need a great gift for Mother’s Day or Father’s Day? Look no further—theAmazon Kindle is the perfect present for mom or dad. This sleek device has been redesigned and is now thinner than a pencil, much faster, and the battery lasts a lot longer.

UPDATE 11/21/11: Amazon has released new Kindles. Check out our new guide here.

The Amazon Kindle 2 has an E-Ink display which means that the device uses no power to keep the screen on. The E-Ink screen will not only give you days of battery life but the screen is easy to read indoors or outdoors in full daylight. The screen does not have a backlight and is matted, which means there is no reflection. The Kindle 2 has 2GB of internal memory that will hold over 1500 books, and not only can you read the Kindle, but it can read to you. The Kindle 2 features a text-to-speech function that will read aloud—perfect for those long car rides where you do not want to stare at a screen for a long period of time.

The Kindle 2 also features a full QWERTY keyboard that makes searching the bookstore and internet easy. When you want to purchase a book, simply press the “buy” button and the book automatically downloads in less than a minute. It certainly beats a trip to the book store!

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]]> http://tiwizard.com/the-kindle-2-a-perfect-gift-for-mom-dad/feed/ 1 The Electronic Textbook of the Future http://tiwizard.com/the-electronic-textbook-of-the-future/ http://tiwizard.com/the-electronic-textbook-of-the-future/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:04:50 +0000 admin http://tiwizard.com/beta/?p=80 Paperback books are soooooo 1990’s! If you haven’t had the chance to read about it yet, you’ve got to see the new Amazon Kindle electronic book reader. This ultra small and thin device looks like an oversized PDA, but packs amazing new technology, which will likely render overstuffed, 30 pound book bags entirely obsolete one day.  Can you imagine replacing all your text books with this 10 ounce machine?

The magic behind the Amazon Kindle is a new display technology called “E-Ink” and a built-in wireless cell phone modem. The E-Ink display is unlike any LCD monitor currently on your personal computer, cell phone, or PDA. The E-Ink screen is changes each time you “turn” a page in the book. After the flip, the display remains on but does not draw any power. It is similar to spray painting an image on an etch-a-sketch screen and then erasing and redrawing the next screen when you need to. What is so cool about this technology is that it is super easy to read both indoors and outdoors. The display looks like real ink on a real piece of paper. There is no eye strain or glare that you normally see with a traditional backlit LCD display. On top of that, since the display uses no electricity, once it has painted the screen, the Kindle can last a week or more between battery charges.

The other really cool technology in the Kindle is the built-in cell phone modem. Kindle owners do not need a cell phone nor are there monthly fees for owning a Kindle. Amazon.com pays all the associated cell phone bills associated with your Kindle when you download books to the reader. By using a built-in wireless modem which uses the cell phone network, you never need to hook your Kindle up to a computer or even to a wireless network access point. Wherever you can get a cell phone signal, you can surf the Amazon Kindle bookstore and download new books with a few pushes of a button.

Just imagine where this technology could lead us in the next few years! No heavy math, Spanish, English, or history books to carry around. No forgetting the book you are supposed to read in class that day. Everything can be available at your fingertips, anytime you want it. To top it off, Amazon even provides 100% free access to Wikipedia from your Kindle so you can look up references to subjects, any time you want.

]]> http://tiwizard.com/the-electronic-textbook-of-the-future/feed/ 2 The Lifescribe Pulse Pen, a Cool New Student Tool Just in Time for Christmas http://tiwizard.com/the-lifescribe-pulse-pen-a-cool-new-student-tool-just-in-time-for-christmas/ http://tiwizard.com/the-lifescribe-pulse-pen-a-cool-new-student-tool-just-in-time-for-christmas/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:54:27 +0000 admin http://tiwizard.com/beta/?p=71 Is a calculator the only cool tool that you can use in school? Believe it or not, the answer is no! There are a ton of other cool gadgets out there that are both fun to use and they can help you make the grade.

I couldn’t help but drool over a new gadget just hitting the market in time for everybody’s Christmas list. I’m talking about Lifescribe’s new Pulse smart pen. Lifescribe took last year’s technology from the Leapfrog Fly Pen and turned it into much more than a toy! The Lifescribe Pulse smart pen is a palm-sized pen computer which scans your handwritten notes as you write them and records the audio at the same time.
The real magic happens when you take the pen at the end of the day and hook it up to a USB docking station. A few seconds later all your notes are moved to the Lifescribe desktop software. Click on a particular section of your notes and you can hear the audio recording that was going on at that exact moment in time–no more confusing lecture notes!
The Lifescribe Pulse comes in two flavors. The 2GB memory version retails for approximately $199.00 and stores up to 200 hours of notes and audio before it needs to be downloaded to a computer. The smaller 1GB memory version retails for $149.00 but can only save about 50 hours of audio.
In addition to the Pulse pen you must use special microdot paper. The pen comes with a single notebook and additional notebooks can be purchased in packs of four at $19.95 each. There have been rumors that Pulse will allow people to print their own paper using a laser printer but as of September, this software is not yet available. However, given the average middle school and high school student is not likely to be filling more than four notebooks a year, the $19.95 paper cost does not seem to be a deal breaker.
]]> http://tiwizard.com/the-lifescribe-pulse-pen-a-cool-new-student-tool-just-in-time-for-christmas/feed/ 1 Tutor.com Offering 25 Minutes of Help Free For TI Calculator Owners http://tiwizard.com/tutor-com-offering-25-minutes-of-help-free-for-ti-calculator-owners/ http://tiwizard.com/tutor-com-offering-25-minutes-of-help-free-for-ti-calculator-owners/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:51:17 +0000 admin http://tiwizard.com/beta/?p=67 Free live tutoring over the Internet for TI Calculator owners!

Tutor.com is running a special offer for TI calculator owners to provide twenty five minutes of real time free math help when you enter your calculator product ID number as an online coupon code on their special offer page.
To find your Product ID for the TI-84, TI-84 Plus, TI-83 Plus and TI-73 Explorer, press 2nd MEM, 1:About on your calculator.   The TI NSpire product ID can be found on the “About” screen. You can reach the About display on the NSpire by pressing [HOME], select 8: System Info and then select 4: About.
Once you have your ID, register with Tutor.com on the TI Calculator special offer page and within minutes you can chat online with a professional math tutor about your homework questions. Customers with an existing Tutor.com account can use this special offer to add 25 additional minutes of time to your account. At Tutor.com online help is available 24 hours a day. You can get live support on any subject, no matter where you are—at home, at a friend’s house, at school, or at your local library. Once connected with a tutor through your Internet browser, you can walk through problems using a real time whiteboard and chat window on your home computer.
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