Tablet PC Blogs

A little bit of time was spent cleaning up the spam today.

The Tablet PC platform improves with each generation: faster processors, better software, improved resolutions, and better handwriting recognition (under Vista). With the increase in variety, which Tablet PC do you expect to purchase? Will you purchase a convertible or a slate? Will you invest in a screen capable of indoor or outdoor clarity? Will you look for a Tablet PC light in weight? Will you look for one based on price? Will you go for the unit with the largest hard drive and the most RAM?

The choices are great. What will it be?

Warner provides readers with a list of essential Tablet PC Software.

• Tablet Enhancements for Outlook (TEO 3.0)
• ActiveWords and ActiveWords InkPad
• InkGestures
• OneNote 2007 (beta)
• Paint.NET 2.63
• TipX
• Inkyboard
• MindManager Pro 6.0
• Snipping Tool 2.0 and/or Snag-It
• Ink Art 1.3 or Alias Sketchbook Pro
• PDF Annotator

The article also provides links to the cool Inkshows available on GottaBeMobile.

The 60 GB hard drive on my Tablet PC is full. This is the first time I have ever filled up a Tablet PC hard drive. Sure, other machines are stuffed, but never full. Once more, the contents are the Microsoft programs and my dissertation. Nothing else sits on the 60 GB drive. When I saw the notice last night that the drive was filled, I started to search around to delete items. There are some backup copies of the dissertation in a folder and so these will be off-loaded but otherwise I’m stuck with having outgrown the drive.

Any suggestions on what to do now? Should I move to an external drive for the dissertation? What solutions have you come up with for solving a filled hard drive?

I am back (sort of). Posting has been extremely light the past few weeks (months) because the problem statement for the dissertation needed heavy work and a 30 minute presentation was required during the second year residency. By Friday, and after very little sleep and plenty of worry, the problem statement for the dissertation prospectus was written in a form to present to a crowd of peers and potential mentors.

Despite an intense weekend, the presentation went well. Just a few short hours ago, a round of applause erupted as all of the doctoral students realized they had just completed 2/3 of the coursework and only have two more years to go! Now the real work begins, the dissertation.

My thoughts are pretty blurred as I reflect on the past weekend. The first chapter of the dissertation is outlined, ready for some heavy writing and editing (followed by a full year of more writing and editing). The next step is finding a mentor to help complete the dissertation. I'll start looking tomorrow for someone to help with the statistics. Actually, the plans for this week are to complete the statistics labs, improving my skills.

In between labs, I'll look around the community server website and see what is happening. An update for the software should be available in the next month. Some websites have already been updated with the 2.1 version. Hopefully the upgrade will be smooth.

I hope all is well in your world.

Nothing like a pizza and Tablet PC.

On March 8, 2006, an individual or business registered the domain name www.umpcblogs.com.  I apologize for not registering it and linking to this site, that was the plan but I became distracted during the week. Anyway, they are offreing the UMPC Blogs domain name for sale. The asking price is $10,000 US dollars. The price suggests people are expecting UMPC devices to be extremely successful.

Would you pay this money?

InkGestures is a Microsoft Word 2003® Addin that enables you to edit documents using the pen on a Tablet PC. With InkGestures you have access to over twenty copyediting commands. Capitalize words. Italicize words. Create bullet lists. Insert text. All with a pen on a Tablet PC.

Download a fully-functional trial version today.