Just got this in from xThink, announcing the release of MathJournal 2.1. MathJournal is available for $249, with student pricing for $119. Stay tuned for some xThink contests. Check out these new features: Enhancements in MathJournal 2.1: Easier installation for Windows Vista Simplified installation for administrator and non-administrator users. Support for Pegasus Mini-Note Taker Brings [...]
xThink, the makers of the popular ink based products Calculator and MathJournal, recently announced how their products are spreading in use over in Croatia. From their press release: Those who watch xThink’s worldwide progress are aware of xThink’s activity in Croatia (especially if they speak Croatian!). Since late 2006, xThink has been building a partnership with [...]
I’ve been quite busy doing real life stuff using the Lenovo Thinkpad X60 Tablet PC since I started walking the bleeding edge and installed Vista RTM on my Toshiba M200. Now that things are evening out a bit, I’m getting back to testing and tweaking and finding out what works and what doesn’t on this [...]
In this first installment of User InkReviews at GottaBeMobile.com, GBM reader Steve S takes an extensive look at xThink’s MathJournal 2. As a daily user of MathJournal, Steve is well qualified to give us the inside story on MathJournal, what works, what still needs work, and how much improved MathJournal 2 is over MathJournal 1. Steve has his Bachelor [...]
What a great contest! We received a steady stream of entries up until 11:50PM last night and almost all of them were correct. It looks like many of you took the opportunity to review the demo videos and agree with us that Math Journal 2 is an awesome application. The correct answers were: Rand (4) [...]
If you have not done so already, be sure to enter our MathJournal 2 contest, where you have a chance to win a copy of MathJournal 2, valued at $249. xThink has also donated a copy of Calculator to give as a consolation prize. So your chances of winning something just went up! The contest ends on [...]
This week, xThink announced the release of MathJournal 2.0. For students and those who work in the math or engineering field and have Tablet PCs, there couldn’t be a better solution. To help celebrate this launch, we’ve been given a MathJournal 2.0 license to give away ($249 value) to one lucky GottaBeMobile.com reader. Special thanks to [...]
There are few applications that utilize the power of ink better than the MathJournal tool from xThink. Math on a keyboard is minimal at best, but the addition of the pen to diagramming and solving extremely complicated math problems makes for a very intuitive process. Well, xThink has released their version 2.0 today. Here are [...]
xThink has been testing their products to see how well they work with the UMPC form factor. They tested them with Future Pad PC from IBD in Germany and have published some screen shots of how Calculator and MathJournal look on the smaller form factors. Their conclusions: the xThink applications work very well with touch [...]
In this special edition InkShow, Teresa Shu, of xThink, has sent us over a preview video of MathJournal 2.0, along with a couple of webpages that go over the function library and new features of MathJournal 2.0 Watch the MathJournal 2.0 InkShow (3:35, 3mb) Read about the new features in MathJournal 2.0 and Function Library Download the trial [...]
If you visit www.xThink.com, you’ll notice that xThink doesn’t have a publicly accessible trial download of MathJournal. However, through a special arrangement with GottaBeMobile.com, xThink is offering our readers a special 45 day evaluation trial of MathJournal 1.1. MathJournal includes the functionality of Calculator (see our InkShow), plus it features plotting, symbolic math, integrals, derivations, [...]
Interested in learning more about xThink Calculator for the Tablet PC? Then you’ve got to watch this InkShow! Watch it now Download the trial of Calculator Download MathJournal 45 day evaluation (includes all the features of Calculator, plus plotting, symbolic math, integrals, derivations, ability to define constants and functions, output to MathML, and [...]
I had a good email conversation with the folks from xThink this weekend. Look for the beta testing on MathJournal 2.0 to begin soon. New features and functions to look forward to. I’ll be doing some beta testing for them and am really looking forward to it. If you are interested, check this page out.
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