I just downloaded Microsoft OneNote for iPad after learning about it on the Microsoft OneNote blog. I haven’t been a OneNote user for quite some time, but I was excited to see that OneNote was available for the iPad. I was hoping to get that great OneNote experience I had when I used it on [...]
Bigger, better, blottier. Our own Warner Crocker has thrown out all boundaries of breadth and length in this year’s Life on the Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards, his annual look back on the “achievements” of the year in tech, web, and culture.
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Some gadgets seems really cool when you hear about the concept, but after actually using them you realize that tech has already passed it by. Sadly, I think that’s the case with the Livescribe’s Echo Smartpen for all but a small group of people. The pen records your handwritten notes and audio helping you keep [...]
Been fielding a good number of private questions as of late regarding tablet options and alternatives to OneNote, specifically Android- and iPad-based ones. Trend seems to be growing, so I thought I should address it publicly. Beats turning it into my email signature.
Griffin Technology announced a new inking accessory for tablets or smartphones that will also be useful in other ways. You can now ink digitally, traditionally on paper, and point to your heart’s content while making presentations. I love my Stylus + Pen, but if you make a lot of presentations as a teacher, public speaker or [...]
Samsung’s IFA unveiling may have been revealed prematurely as it is discovered that Samsung will be introducing three new products at the German trade show–a Galaxy Tab 7.7 slate, a Bada OS-powered Wave 3 smartphone, and an unknown device that goes by the Samsung Note moniker, as This is my next unfolded. At this point, [...]
After Sprint, T-Mobile USA may be the second major carrier in the States to offer the Android 2.3 HTC Flyer tablet with the latest version of HTC Sense. A model of the Flyer was seen going through the FCC with GSM and T-Mobile-compatible 3G bands. Wireless Goodness says that the filing with the regulatory agency [...]
The RocketFish Stylus and Pen from Best Buy is the perfect weight and length for an iPad stylus. The fact that it also has a ballpoint pen is a nice plus. RocketFish is the Best Buy brand of technology products. While many of their RocketFish branded accessories are often cheap knock-offs, this is the exception. [...]
In addition to opening up the HTC Sense experience to third-party developers, HTC will also be allowing developers to tap into its active digitizer pen for the HTC EVO View 4G and the HTC Flyer tablet, the first Android tablet to come pre-bundled with a pen for notes and drawing. When HTC took the HTC [...]
Despite all of the April Fools jokes running wild on the Internet today, there is a lot of real notebook, tablet and smart phone news worth checking out. Notebook News For the Week of April 1st: We kicked off World Backup Day with a collection of deals on services and storage that will help you [...]
With Sprint already linked to the HTC EVO View Tablet via a rumored leak earlier in the week, an HTC trademark filing for a device of the same name with a 4G moniker at the end helps to solidify the tablet’s 4G roots. If in fact the HTC EVO View Tablet will be coming to [...]
Our friends Steve ‘Chippy’ Paine and Sascha Pallenberg got their hands on an HTC Flyer in Germany and demonstrate its inking chops. The inking experience looks mediocre, with palm rejection only working some of the time. The small Android tablet isn’t shipping with Honeycomb, but Android 2.3, which is what you’ll find on smartpphones. On [...]
Booq just announced a new iPad 2 case which should help you get an inking and note taking experience. How you ask? With a built in tablet, of paper, that you can write, draw and sketch on all you want without a soft tipped stylus. The BooqPAD is a pretty interesting iPad 2 case which protects you iPad 2 [...]
This morning the hottest news has been surrounding Evernote, Asus, eye control and faster WiFi. We also saw a few new notebook details come out from CeBIT 2011 in Germany regarding mini-notebooks and the Asus Slider. The biggest news of the morning was Notebooks.com’s interview with Phil Libin, the CEO of Evernote, regarding the future of Evernote [...]
There is speculation that T-Mobile USA may be offering the new Android 2.4-powered HTC Flyer tablet with its tablet-revamped HTC Sense user interface the the updated HTC Incredible S smartphone that now houses a larger 4-inch display. The models that were being introduced in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress come with support for T-Mobile USA’s [...]
Our own Warner Crocker is at it again, handing out his annual Ink Blot Awards. The list of recipients is long and (mostly) distinguished. This marks the sixth year that Warner’s put together the list over at Life on the Wicked Stage, his personal blog. I highly recommend reading through the list of awardees and [...]
The Tokyo Institute of Technology is working to improve touchscreen input with a range of haptic adapters. The adapters, which can be attaced to your thumb or held like a brush, look pretty straight forward and I wouldn’t be surprised if these went from research to production overnight. In this video, a researcher shows how [...]
I’m always on the hunt for iPad apps that turn the media consumption device into a useful productivity tool. Unlike Steve Jobs, I still believe that the pen has a place in digital note taking and computing. Many iPad apps have promised inking capabilities, and many most have failed horribly. Penultimate is a good example of one [...]
This may yet turn into a case of “be careful what you wish for” but for the time being, I am thoroughly impressed by what I’m seeing of an iPad inking app called Penultimate. Why? Because what I’m seeing are smooth, fluid lines of varying thickness, the closest I’ve seen to ink from an active [...]
Xavier Lanier reported from the iPhone 4 OS launch at Apple headquarters that Steve Jobs answered a question about the possibility of a stylus for iPad with this little gem: “If you see a stylus, they blew it” Gotta love Steve J for his “super” quotes. Well sorry folks, but I’m with Steve on this [...]
The iPad is simply not a good device for inking and I doubt that any third-party software’s going to improve the experience much. One of the problems is that the iPad uses a capacitive multi-touch display that lacks palm rejection. While this is all fine and dandy if you want to consume content, it creates [...]
The lack of an active digitizer for inking on the iPad has everyone (okay, maybe primarily me) down. The folks at Evernote aren’t letting that stop them from adding it to a future version of their iPad app, which is already live and ready for download in universal iPhone/iPad format.
Over in the GBM forums, sbtablet has penned a pretty thorough review of the Beta of Office 2010 from an Inker’s perspective. Sharon covers OneNote, Word, and Powerpoint and lays out what those who haven’t dabbled in the Beta have to look forward to, as well as some dislikes and likes. Well worth a read.
One of the requests I’m getting over and over when it comes to reviewing the iPad is about Inking. To be clear, I don’t anticipate Inking to be what Tableteers are used to in any shape or form, but there are some options out there that will be worth testing. One of those looks like [...]
I regret banking on lack of inking as my reason to not get the iPad. I’ve already been shown that ink on the small iPhone screen can look good. Now there’s a video demo of an app called PadNotes that shows how it might work on the iPad. You hear that? That is the sound [...]
Yesterday we mentioned the great CeBit coverage from jkkmobile and Netbooknews.com. In checking out some of the videos from the show, this one from jkkmobile featuring the Hanvon Tablets caught my eye, because it is the first new wave Tablet I’ve heard about that might have a digitizer/stylus option for Inking. Hanvon is debuting two [...]
The heart and soul of GottaBeMobile has been Tablet PCs; we’ve documented and provided news about the latest and greatest tablets to hit the market for several years. Our readers are perhaps the most savvy tablet experts around. That being said, what are your thoughts about purchasing any of the upcoming Tablet 2.0 devices that [...]
In a comment to a post on jkOnTheRun Shogmaster apparently got some hands on time with the HP tm2 and tried out some inking. The video is embedded below. As I watch it, though it looks like his hand is away from the screen, not resting on it, so we’re still looking for info on [...]
Will OneNote be the one, or will Evernote be forever? You decide at Lifehacker’s Battle of the Desktop Note-Taking Apps! Yes, the productivity blog Lifehacker has put it to their readers to decide which desktop note-taking app will reign supreme. They even give a shout-out to the Tablet PC niche by pointing out how much [...]
We’ve reported on a similar product in the Hanwha Duo, but now we have a review of a working unit of the Hantech Siso Tablo from the folks over at Slashgear. The Siso Tablo works on the same premise as the Duo with a transceiver unit that sits either atop your laptop a la webcam [...]
We’ve written a lot about Windows 7 Starter Edition and so has everybody else. We’ve also had a lot of objections to the concept from both a marketing standpoint and the 3 application limit that the Starter Edition will come with. Ed Bott has taken a serious look at that 3 app limit and put [...]
Last night was a rare night in the Crocker/Savaiano household. We both had the night off and after a rare lovely dinner at home, and making a silly video, we decided to just be bums and catch up on some TV viewing and wipe some stuff off the DVR. One of the shows we’ve been [...]
Do you find yourself wishing your notebook computer was sometimes a tablet? Have you been putting off getting a tablet because of the tradeoffs? Are JKK’s and Chippy’s touchscreen modifications to standard netbooks something you’ve always wanted to do but weren’t comfortable doing? If you answered “yes” to these questions, Hanwha Japan’s Duo just might [...]
This evolution can only be described as natural. Father of Ink Blogging Mark ““Sumocat†Sumimoto has taken up his digital pen and moved from Ink Blogging (his handwriting is pretty to look at) to cartooning. Or at least he’s trying his hand at it. Head over to Sumocat’s Scribble’s and offer him some encouragement as [...]
Phatware has released version 3.1 of their PenOffice software. If you are an OpenOffice.org users with a Tablet PC, then you need to check out this update. The new version of PenOffice now includes support for OpenOffice.org 3.0 or later documents. That means that programs like Writer, Calc and Draw documents can now have handwritten [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
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