WCSH6.com has a great video and story of Berwick Academy, a private middle school in South Berwick, Maine and their use of Tablet PCs. Berwick Academy is the first private school in Main to use Tablet PCs in the classroom. The video features some really good interviews with students and teachers talking about how they use their [...]
100mb wireless speeds by 2010? Samsung certainly thinks so and is demoing technology that proves it is coming, at speeds 30 times faster than current broadband. I can certainly get used to 100mb wireless, can you? From MSNBC: Samsung Electronics Co. showed off its vision for the future of mobile technology Thursday, sending data wirelessly at [...]
Have a UMPC and a GPS unit? If so, and you want a new way to track your movements while on the go, check out this Software InkShow about GPS.RADAR Origami Edition by JGUI Professional. GPS.RADAR Origami Edition was created to make use of the portability of a UMPC. With this program you can attach your USB or [...]
As WiFi networks are spreading very quickly, privacy is a huge concern. For example, did you know that all three of the big Instant Messenging applications ( Yahoo, MSN Messenger, and AIM) send your data over WiFi in plain text? That is scarey! So what is a good Tablet PC user to do if he just [...]
Technology is becoming the college student’s best friend. From tablet pcs and flash drives, to cell phones and iPods and scientific calculators, Best Best and their parent’s credit card are a match made in heaven. Checkout this article from Post-Gazette.com on today’s student and technology. Image by Daniel Marsula, Post-Gazette College students have become the creme [...]
PhatWare just released an update to PenCommander – V 1.5. Updated for the Tablet PC, and the UMPC!! Here is a list of some of the new features: Optimized for Ultra-Mobile PCs Includes improved scripting engine with optimized performance and new user-level functions Allows to assign PenCommands and keyboard shortcuts to single-stroke gestures. Allows to [...]
Not a fully functioning Tablet PC, but this is a really cool ‘ink’ device. Take a look at the Aiptek My Note Digital Notepad. Write up to 135 pages of notes (you can expand this via SD card) on this ‘clipboard’. Most interesting to me is that you can take notes for up to 20 hours on 5 AAA [...]
Last week, I pointed everyone to Rob Miles blog and told you about a plug-in for Live Writer that he was working on. It turns out that Rob has been quite busy lately and has just released version 1.0. Basically, it allows you to grab images from Flickr, annotate them with ink, and then post [...]
The college / Tablet PC craze is not just based in the U.S. Colleges within the United Arab Emirates just signed a $5.4 million dollar agreement to implment Toshiba Tablet PCs: UAE Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) are to boost their learning environments with the implementation of Toshiba tablet PCs for faculty and student use. [...]
Most people do not know what goes on behind the scenes at GBM to produce the InkShows that we publish at least twice a week. We have a schedule that is typically a month out, and we do our best to produce two InkShows a week. It is true that it takes a team to produce [...]
Handwriting personalization in Vista is where it starts to get really interesting for Tablet PC users, and that is the focus of this Software InkShow. In Windows XP SP2, the only method of ““training†the recognizer is to add words to the dictionary. That does help a lot when dealing with unknown words, but it doesn’t do [...]
Fujitsu Japan has the details on their latest Tablet PC, the LOOX P series, which appears to be a feature upgrade to the P1510D. Among the feature upgrades are an increase in resolution to 1280 x 768 and what appears to be the addition of a PC Card slot, which would be a boone to [...]
For those of you who like to be first in line with things, here is you chance to do so with Windows Vista! Amazon has Vista Ultimate SKU listed for $399 available on January 30th, 2007: This is obviously an attempt to get people in quickly, the details on the page are a little strange: [...]
Get your hands on the Pre-RC1 build of windows Vista. This is a great opportunity for all those that don’t have access to MSDN or part of the Beta! Get there fast!! Only available to the first 100,000 people!! Make sure and come back and let us know what you think of the Tablet PC functionality! [...]
Scott Hanselman is a blogger and developer I follow both on his blog and his podcast Hanselminutes. He frequently posts and updates a list of his favorite utilities covering a range of computing needs that make his life easier. He’s recently updated the list on his blog, and it is truly a collector’s bounty. While [...]
Chad Essley is an animator and cartoonist that I have followed for quite awhile. On his site Cartoonmonkey.com you can check out his work, as well as how he uses his Tablet PC to create his art. You can also check out a video of Chad working with his Tablet PC and Alias Sketchbook Pro [...]
Hugo Ortega has just published the 4th episode of Talk’n Tablet Downunder podcast, this time talking wtih Nick Randolph, a .NET Compact Framework MVP. This podcast is particularly interesting because it was done after Nick spent a week with the Samsung Q1 and the eo UMPC.
I am not sure how many of you follow Daniel Escapa over at his blog, but he has been on fire today (maybe he has time because the TR is done and it’s getting ready to come out???). He has been covering some changes to the API and asking for some user input. He also [...]
Remember the hue and cry from the mainstream tech media about UMPCs having no keyboard? Well, I recently got a chance to take a look at an ultra-mobile device that comes with a keyboard and that has everyone talking. Rob Bushway loaned me his Sony’s Vaio UX180P to try out and post his review. (Rob’s a [...]
Earlier this month, I wrote an editorial regarding the placement of the Tablet PC program group within Vista. I also submitted my opinions to Microsoft as a bug, and was consequently told that Microsoft had made a decision to move the Tablet PC options group underneath Accessories. That remained the case as of Build 5472. [...]
Tangled Up In Purple is an interesting new blog I’ve subscribed to, simply because, well, the author is checking out a Tablet PC. A Toshiba M400 to be exact. The latest post focuses on using a Tablet PC at work for the last 10 weeks. Check out the pros and cons here. Disappointing to hear [...]
Interesting. Loren Heiny links to an article in the Grand Rapids Press that is generally favorable to Tablet PCs, mentioning a number of the well worn pros and cons of “these special laptops.” What’s intriguing about the article is the point of view that makes it sound like Tablet PCs just arrived on the scene. [...]
Because I do web development as my full-time job, I’m frequently switching between browsers, mostly FireFox and IE. I just noticed, via CyberNet, that FireFox 2 Beta 2 RC 2 has been released and is available for download (Windows English version). Here is the link to the FireFox FTP server for other versions and languages. While [...]
James Kendrick and Marc Orchant are back with show #27 of OnTheRun With Tablet PCs. Listen and download here. Here are the show notes: Marc Orchant and James Kendrick are back with show #27 after a very long, unrestful hiatus and we have some catching up to do. The latest build of Vista seems to [...]
I, along with others, have been quite envious that Craig Pringle managed to get his hands on a Motion LE1600 that has touch capability. I’ve also been waiting anxiously for Craig to report in. And now he does. He’s got a terrific blog post about his experiences along with a video that shows the Vista [...]
If you are a southpaw and have some difficulty using a Tablet PC, you might want to check out Melvyn Buckpitt’s blog, The Old Man. He’s blogged a couple of entries about his efforts and his promising more. His issue is that most applications don’t allow for easy use for left-handers. He’s already blogged one [...]
One of the things that drives me crazy about doing Shakespeare, or any of the great classics for that matter, is that modern audiences are extremely reluctant to sit through a play for more than 2 hours these days. The communal attention span is too short, and no matter the Bard’s direction of “two hours [...]
We can never have too many alternative inking experiences on Tablet and Ultra-Mobile PC’s. So we were glad to receive this bit of info from the folks at Evernote today: EverNote 1.5 Beta is Now Available! Dear User, The EverNote Corporation is proud to announce that we are launching public beta testing for EverNote Plus [...]
Early today, I reported that it appeared that Asus would be announcing their R2H Ultra-Mobile PC / Origami. Well, the official press release from Asus has been posted on their website. There is no word on pricing or availability. Here are the specs: R2H Specifications Intel® Celeron® M ULV Processor (900MHz) Genuine Windows® XP Tablet PC [...]
This will be a great plug-in for all of you Flickr users out there: Rob Miles is working on a Flickr plug-in that will allow you to annotate your pictures with ink. It seems like a lot of folks are starting to “get it” when it comes to marking up objects with ink, blogging with [...]
Neat article from the Vermont Law School Blog about the benefits of using Tablet PCs in class from a “green” or environmentally friendly (killing less trees for paper) perspective, and also the fact that in slate mode, professors can see students faces again. The “green” side to my Tablet PC is that since I am [...]
Digit-Life is reporting that Asus will be announcing their R2H UMPC today. I have checked the Asus website and have not seen anything yet, but I will certainly be checking back periodically: UPDATE: Here is the official announcement from the Asus website. Thanks for the link, Big Wes! Here is what Digit-Life is reporting: ASUSTeK Computer [...]
Grahl Software has just released PDF Annotator 1.3. In addition to releasing this new version, PDF Annotator now has educational pricing. Regular pricing is $49.95, single student license is $34.90. 5 or 10 “Buddy Packs” of student licenses is $22.90 per license. Complete schools can purchase PDF Annotator for 1000 seats at $2.00 per license. [...]
I was looking around today and found what seems to have the potential of being a great blog starting up. Do you program with the Tablet PC SDK? Are you interested in programming for the Tablet PC platform? Well, today I found this blog that’s only about a week old, but has some nice articles already. Here [...]
Looks like Dell isn’t the only laptop maker to recall batteries. In the second largest ever recall involving computers and electronics, Apple is recalling 1.8 million Sony manufactured batteries from its iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 computer sold from October 2003 through this month: From MSNBC.com: Apple Computer Inc. will recall 1.8 million lithium-ion notebook batteries after [...]
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