Author Topic: TI-nspire Computer Link move to obscure location (Read 10837 times)

Jonius7 · « **on:** May 11, 2011, 09:37:59 pm »

TI with theiir recent TI-nspire CX makeover have also given their website a neat makeover by displaying them in nice categories here: http://education.ti.com/calculators/downloads/US/Software/Search/
how nice and considerate of them!

However the problems emerged when i went to the ti-nspire section.
Where is the TI-nspire computer link???
Even worse when i went to the computer software section. EVERY single software was there except for ti-nspire computer link

I eventually found it thorugh an obscure link by finding it in google search results:

http://education.ti.com/calculators/downloads/US/Software/Detail?id=6772&ref=%2Fcalculators%2Fdownloads%2FUS%2FSoftware%2FSearch%2FResults%3Fcp%3D6001

Another fail by TI

EDIT: I should say that i was helping someone in my maths class upgrade their ti-nspire os when i couldn't find it

Yeong · « **Reply #1 on:** May 11, 2011, 09:41:12 pm »

good job finding it!

I was searching for that too O_o

ruler501 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 11, 2011, 09:41:30 pm »

TI is failing a lot lately. might they be trying to faze this out for the student/teacher software so you have to pay to connect to your calc

Jonius7 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 11, 2011, 09:44:47 pm »

possibly as they were promoting it unusally a lot throughout the website

ruler501 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 11, 2011, 09:47:48 pm »

Do you mean the student/teacher software by it? I don't go to the TI site much. only when I need software or OS's

Jonius7 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 11, 2011, 09:57:25 pm »

i don't go to the TI website often too, yeah i meant that they were promoting the costs-money software.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #6 on:** May 11, 2011, 10:15:20 pm »

Bah now they're doing the same thing as they did with TI-Graph Link and TI-Connect

I bet when the CX comes out, they'll purposely make everything else near impossible to find without Google.

Jonius7 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 12, 2011, 01:58:33 am »

Yeah but the thing that is different is that ti-graph link and ti-connect are listed under computer sofware (a billion versions of each) but TI-nspire link is NOT!

And btw where is omnom?

z80man · « **Reply #8 on:** May 12, 2011, 02:25:58 am »

It really is pointless to hide important software and promote paid apps. The user base is students and they will not pay for apps, nor would a teacher force a student to buy an app too. All of what TI is doing is screwing themselves because now they will get thousands of emails from students asking on how to send files to their calculators and they will just hurt their reputation even more than they already have.

BTW if TI ever cancels the 84+ my school's math department (school of 1800 students

) agreed to endorse the Prizm as the primary calculator that students must purchase after I compared the differences between the Prizm, Nspire, and Nspire CX. Because of this I might start labeling my projects with my real name because only 1 person at my school knows of me as z80man.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #9 on:** May 12, 2011, 02:39:02 am »

Quote from: jhgenius01 on May 12, 2011, 01:58:33 am

Yeah but the thing that is different is that ti-graph link and ti-connect are listed under computer sofware (a billion versions of each) but TI-nspire link is NOT!

And btw where is omnom?

Nah I mean a few years ago, when TI-Connect 1.6 came out they hide TI-Graph Link somewhere where we could only access via Google and later if we knew the link, kinda like OS 1.7 and 2.0.1. At one point they did the same with certain calc models I think, to promote the TI-Nspire more.

Also OmnomIRC was disabled since it's under maintenance.

Quote from: z80man on May 12, 2011, 02:25:58 am

It really is pointless to hide important software and promote paid apps. The user base is students and they will not pay for apps, nor would a teacher force a student to buy an app too. All of what TI is doing is screwing themselves because now they will get thousands of emails from students asking on how to send files to their calculators and they will just hurt their reputation even more than they already have.

BTW if TI ever cancels the 84+ my school's math department (school of 1800 students ) agreed to endorse the Prizm as the primary calculator that students must purchase after I compared the differences between the Prizm, Nspire, and Nspire CX. Because of this I might start labeling my projects with my real name because only 1 person at my school knows of me as z80man.

Actually those apps aren't paid, unless you mean the student software. But yeah it's pointless to make some things that many people want so hard to find.

Also I'm glad to hear your school agreed to endorse the Prizm. Make sure that some good math apps are made to do things the 84+ can't, if needed. That will help even more, and if it's possible, maybe even stuff to bridge the gap between the TI-Nspire CX and the Prizm, so instead of the TI-Nspire they promote the prizm *evil*

z80man · « **Reply #10 on:** May 12, 2011, 02:55:49 am »

I just saw this on TI's website for the standard Nspire CX.

Quote

TI-Nspire supports the following image types: jpg, jpeg, bmp and png.

Now with the Prizm there are two models: the cg10 and the cg20. The difference being that the cg20 can load bmp images while the cg10 (for US testing requirements) cannot. Now if TI allows the CX to do so wouldn't they be voiding usage of their calcs on tests. If not, then what the hell Casio

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #11 on:** May 12, 2011, 02:59:50 am »

I'm not sure really

z80man · « **Reply #12 on:** May 12, 2011, 03:06:46 am »

And once again another good reason to go Prizm route. I can see teachers having to deal with excesive amount of pr0n on the CX if TI doesn't do anything about it. But because teachers always get their ways TI will probably cancel that.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #13 on:** May 12, 2011, 03:08:11 am »

But isn't there a different image format available on the Prizm?

Anyone could write a converter to make custom images. Not that it's widely available, though, since most students won't browse calc websites to download such stuff.

z80man · « **Reply #14 on:** May 12, 2011, 03:14:12 am »

Quote from: DJ_O on May 12, 2011, 03:08:11 am

But isn't there a different image format available on the Prizm? Anyone could write a converter to make custom images. Not that it's widely available, though, since most students won't browse calc websites to download such stuff.

Yes it is possible to make an image converter or just an image opener that doesn't use g3p. And there is also g3b which is like an animated gif. It would probably be for the best if TI did the same because for education purposes pre-included images can be used to prevent pr0n. And then with people like us who get around these restraints, we're not the kind of people to start a pr0n issue. In fact I'd be very careful with any image converter software we make because we don't want it to get into the wrong hands and then cause Casio to release a new OS.

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