K.Y. NOTE

I use my laptop when I work outside of my office, for example expriments, meeting, business trip and so on. However I use my desktop when I am in my office. So the data is updated here and there. I used USB to transfer new data from the laptop to the desktop or I email that to me. When I email outside, I include me in the destination as BCC. I got bored at last and I treated it.

As for email, I use Gmail to get and send emails. The logs remain at Gmail wherever I send email, so I don’t have to include me in the destination. However I use a mailer, because I sometimes want to read emails which I already got. Gmail has offline mode but we can’t save all mails on my computer.

I use Thunderbird as a mailer. I use IMAP of Gmail. I’m happy because Gmail serve a lot of volume. If I use IMAP with the school server, the administrator will get angry. I think that Thunderbird is good for Gmail. It has the same archive and star mark as Gmail. We can sync address book using google contact and sync calendar using Ligtning and Provider for Google Calendar. I’m not happy because Lightning for Thunderbird of Mac has not been released. I hope it will be released soon.

This is the main thing I want to write. I sync files and folders such as laboratory data and presentation files with Dropbox. My friend recommended it to me. I only register for my friend and I had not used it. (We can get extra 500MB storage per person). However It is really convenient for me after I use both desktop and laptop. It became essential for my study. I don’t have to use USB for sync, because Dropbox automatically syncs my new data between laptop and desktop. Data is saved on both local computer and on network, so I can access files when I’m not online. If the data on my local computer is broken, the data is backed up on web. I have only 2GB free space. I register and get more space. It’s worth the payment. Moreover yen is expensive nowadays.

If you wanna know the detail of Drop box, go here (Japanese site).

I use Evernote to sync memo. It has add-on for Firefox and Thunderbird, so I can easily clip good information. I can easily make a classification of memos by tag and can easily search what I want. I will maybe scan my laboratory notebooks and put them into Evernote. I collect articles by another software and I don’t know which software is better.

I want iPhone because I sync as describe above. I can sync mail, address book and Evernote with iPhone. However I can’t buy it because my due is left. But…

ブルーバックスの「エントロピーがわかる：アリーベン-ナイム」をタイトルに惹かれて買ってしまいましたが、既に理解済みのことばかりでした。大学でエントロピーについて教育を受けた人が読んでも何一つ新しいことを得られないでしょう。エントロピーについて言葉以外何も知らず、「よくわからないけどエントロピーは増加するらしいよ。」という人向けですね。

I got a poster prize at the last meeting.

I think my study has not been worth of a prize yet. However the poster was the results of 3 students’ study. So I thought our poster was worth for a prize and I represented to get a prize with honor.

I keep studying until the next time I get a poster prize.