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Tablet PC2 Review: HP 2730p EliteBook Tablet PC
Sleek and thin with a beautiful display the HP 2730p EliteBook Tablet PC is packed with features and small details that make the HP EliteBook Table PC experience stand out from the crowd. With so may Tablet PCs available today what makes the 2730p Tablet PC standout? Ease of use, an exceptional screens..... There is no question that HP paid careful attention to detail when designing the HP 2730p EliteBook Tablet PC. The listened to users It's...

InkGestures (#4)
AN EDITING COMPANION FOR MICROSOFT WORD 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 thirty copyediting commands. Capitalize words. Italicize words. Create bullet lists. Insert text. All with a pen on a Tablet PC. DESIGNED FOR THE TABLET PC InkGestures is designed to make copyediting even more natural on the Tablet PC. With pen-based editing you can make changes to a document much like you would on paper yet have your changes applied to the document immediately. Plus InkGestures makes it easier to edit when and where you want. Whether you're sitting on an airplane editing a manuscript or on the couch editing an assignment, you can be more productive with InkGestures and your Tablet PC. SUPPORTS EDITING E-MAILS IN MICROSOFT OUTLOOK When you use Word to create e-mail messages in Microsoft Outlook? (which Outlook does by default), you'll have access to the same pen-based editing capabilities in Outlook. InkGestures supports over thirty editing and formatting commands.

FranklinCovey TabletPlanner 3.0 For Tablet PC (#16)
This versatile and robust software is the first planning application built specifically for the Tablet PC format. Pervasive integration of the digital ink capabilities provides a user interface that maintains the familiar look and functionality of the FranklinCovey paper planner. As intuitive as it is useful, TabletPlanner is the next generation of planning from the productivity experts. Intuitive user interface remains true to the look and feel of FranklinCovey's best-selling paper planner. Runs fully functional on non-Tablet PCs with Windows XP operating systems. Supports Office 2003 and seamlessly syncs Microsoft Outlook or Exchange tasks, appointments, and contacts using built-in, advanced synchronization technology. Also syncs prioritized PlanPlus(TM) for Microsoft Outlook tasks. PowerNotes(TM) technology provides the best note-taking capabilities available. Record appointments, tasks, notes, and more in your own handwriting with a digital pen. Share anything, from handwritten and typed notes to takes or contacts, with anyone via one-click e-mailing. Drag and drop any note for easy prioritization, or to convert a task to an appointment or an appointment to a task. Prioritize, apply action codes, attach notes, and sort your daily tasks according to the FranklinCovey methodology. Enjoy exclusive productivity and effectiveness curriculum from FranklinCovey's world-renowned training seminars. Schedule appointments, set start and end times, and even set recurring appointments in daily, weekly, or monthly view. View meeting details by simply hovering over the item in your calendar. Annotate, highlight, and edit documents, such as meeting agendas or spreadsheets, in your own handwriting. Keep all your electronic papers-including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more-organized and viewable behind customizable tabs. Customizable eBinder(TM) gives you freedom to personalize and organize your notes and files by color, paper type and more. Custom pens feature gives you enhanced organization by allowing you to change the color and thickness of your pens and highlighters and save your preferences. Navigate quickly to past and future dates and store years of information for instant reference wherever your day takes you. Keyword searching and indexing uses the powerful handwriting recognition of the Tablet PC plus a faster searching method to ensure that you can find any note, appointment, or task in an instant. View any document using tools like zoom, shrink, fit to page, rotate, and more. "Slide" control allows you to quickly jump to any page within a large document Supports the remote or occasionally connected worker who may need to access calendar, task, and contact info when they are behind a firewall using Outlook Web Access. The Download button connects you directly to a file hosted on the vendor's website.

The Curse Of Cursive
Penmanship, like hieroglyphics and the IBM Selectric, has lost its purpose. Let's erase it for good. In all my years of school, there was only one time I cried in class. It was the first week of first grade—Mrs. Scougie's room—and we were learning cursive. Q. I hated the letter. But it wasn't that I couldn't get the strokes right. It was the way I held my pencil: with four fingers around the base, not three—an apparent crime against writing protocol....

Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Development Kit 1.7 (#14)
The Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Development Kit facilitates building ink-enabled applications for Tablet PC. The combination of software and hardware in a Tablet PC enables these methods of user interaction and allows for a rich, interactive, and productive computing experience for users. The Tablet PC platform encompasses Windows XP and its extensions that enable input and output of handwriting and speech data on a Tablet PC as well as interchange of this data with other computers. The Windows XP Tablet PC Edition Software Development Kit (SDK) enables you to build ink-enabled, pen-enabled, and speech-enabled applications and supporting hardware for the Tablet PC. System Requirements Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Service Pack 2 Visual Studio version 6 with Service Pack 5 or Visual Studio .NET (Both may be installed on the same computer.) Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (recommended) Consult the SDK documentation for more information on system requirements. Note: You must be running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 to install the Tablet PC Development Kit on a Tablet PC . Note: The Tablet PC Development Kit can be installed on certain non-Tablet PC operating systems (listed above). On these platforms your application can collect ink with the InkCollector class and can be tested and debugged. The InkEdit and InkPicture controls can be used to collect ink on these operating systems when the Tablet PC SDK is installed, but are not able to collect ink on non-Tablet PC systems that do not have the Tablet PC SDK installed. Note: The Tablet PC SDK requires certain files from a later version of the Microsoft Platform Software Development Kit (SDK) than shipped with Visual Studio 6. Please download the latest Platform SDK from MSDN? if you are using Visual Studio 6. Instructions After downloading the setup executable or locating it on your MSDN CD, click the Start button, click Run, and then type drive:\path\Setup.exe where drive is the letter of your the drive containing the setup and path is the path to the setup executable. Click OK. At the welcome screen, click the Next button. Read the license agreement and, if you agree, select "I accept the terms in the license agreement." Click the Next button. Enter the customer information as requested and click the Next button. Select complete or custom (default) installation option, and click Next. Click Install to install the SDK. Click Finish. The SDK installer creates a Tablet PC SDK folder in the Programs menu. This folder contains shortcuts to programming documentation and release notes, as well as sample applications and source code. The source code for the sample applications is installed in the \Program Files\Microsoft Tablet PC Platform SDK\Samples folder. The compiled binary executables for the samples are installed in the \Program Files\Microsoft Tablet PC Platform SDK\Bin folder. You can view the source code and sample applications using the Samples and Source Code shortcut. You can run the Context Tagging tool using the Context Tagging tool shortcut.

PDF Annotator (#3)
PDF Annotator lets the user open any PDF file and add annotations, using the Tablet PC pen, directly on the PDF file's pages. The annotated documents can then be saved directly back to PDF format. In this way, anyone can read or print the annotated PDF documents. Annotated documents can also be easily attached to emails. Previously, annotating, commenting or proofreading a document received for review in PDF file format was possible only by using multiple software products in a row--or only by printing the document and adding comments manually. With PDF Annotator, annotations can also be added in a natural way--using a pen--but everything remains in digital format. PDF Annotator allows commenting of PDF files in a single step. The user no longer needs to print a PDF document to annotate it. A PDF file received for review can be opened in PDF Annotator, commented on the Tablet PC using the pen, then saved back to a PDF file in a single step. This saves both resources and time. With the Tablet PC, a PDF document is treated just like a normal printed document. The user just writes or draws his ideas and thoughts on the existing document. PDF Annotator also lets you insert blank pages to gain more space for your comments. It can be used to fill in forms, and you can even use it for note-taking by creating new blank PDF documents. Manual

Snipping Tool For Tablet PC (#13)
Snipping Tool for Tablet PC allows you to easily "cut out" anything on screen and share it with other people. The whole screen becomes an "inkable" surface that you can add comments to and mark up however you like. You can then save that annotated image to use later, or send it to someone else in an e-mail message. Snipping Tool provides an easy to use pie menu to help you mark up and cut out information and send it to email, copy to clipboard, save for later, and more. Snipping Tool 2.0 is part of the Microsoft Experience Pack for Tablet PC (English only). The Download button connects you directly to a file hosted on the vendor's website.

Revelation Natural Art (#12)
Art & Design software package. Astonishing new art package simulating ''''natural'''' media. Suitable for Interactive Whiteboards, Pressure-sensitive Graphics Tablets and Tablet PCs. Fully customisable interface for all user levels and 3 pre-defined interfaces. Huge stamp library of curriculum relevant images. A4 colour Activity Guide full of topics and ideas. Companion website full of Schemes of Work, guides, step-by-step activities, resources & links. USING ICT TO EXPLORE, DEVELOP AND EXPRESS VISUAL IDEAS Revelation Natural Art can easily be configured to meet any learner?s specific needs. You can add or reduce the number of tools available to make the program as powerful or as simple to use as you wish. The fully customisable interface constructor allows you to: Add or remove tools to meet any user?s abilities Increase/decrease tool button sizes Add or remove any menu options Move tools around; lock or undock toolbars Create completely new toolbars with new behaviours Save and load your own customised settings for future use Three pre-configured interfaces tailor the software to the needs of a young KS1 learner, a KS2 learner and a confident KS3/4 user. The rich range of super realistic natural media effects allows all users to work intuitively with the same tools on the computer that they have already used in their real life Art and Design work: Crayons Oil Pastels Pencils Charcoal Felt pens Chalks Acrylic paints Poster paints Watercolour paints Airbrush sprays A 30-day FREE demo version of this product can be downloaded from here. Includes the three user modes: Simple, Junior and Advanced, and allows you to customise your own mode. The Revelation Natural Art Reference Guide is included in PDF format. NB: The print, save and help file options have been disabled. In addition, users lucky enough to have access to alternative input devices like pressure sensitive screens, pressure sensitive graphics tablets and the forthcoming Tablet PCs with pen sensitive screens will find Revelation Natural Art provides the most amazing and natural user experience for drawing, painting and animation directly onto their screen. Progressive undo and redo allow all users to undo (step by step) the whole of their painting or drawing to try again and again until they are satisfied with the results they have achieved. The stamp library provides hundreds of curriculum relevant images that can be used to construct or augment work in creating pictures and combining text and images. Stamps can be used as single images or sequences of images, can be resized, flipped, skewed and transformed in many different ways. Also, the user is able to create and save their own artwork as stamps into their own stamp library for future use. The Circle, Rectangle, Star, Spline and Polygon tools allow a rich range of shape construction when creating images. The Symmetry tools offer two and four way symmetry, and full control over how the symmetry is applied ? both when using the painting tools and also when working with stamps, effects, textures, motifs and text. The Motif editor allows the learner to experiment with and apply a range of pattern and tiling effects, in a wide range of combinations The Texture chooser lets the user apply media with a range of textured background effects, to simulate different paper types and media combinations The Effects tools allow areas of your image to be smeared, lightened, darkened sharpened, softened and outlined in a simple, intuitive fashion. The Animation Toolbar allows sequences of images to be combined to generate moving images, using a film frame metaphor. Onion skinning allows you to see the previous frame as a shadow when you are drawing the current frame, and a range of cartoon elements lets all users experience the creation of exciting moving images in minutes. Revelation Natural Art allows you to work with images from a wide variety of sources. Use digital photographs, image scans, web graphics and many other sources as your starting point. Any images you produce with Revelation Natural Art can easily be saved for use on the web (including animations), used in DTP, presentation or word processing software. The program comes with a full colour A4 Activity Guide which covers a range of topics and ideas, including Exploring Colour, Taking a Line for a Walk, Imaginary Animals, Light and Colour, Patterns, Animals and Birds, Drawing and Foreshortening, Landscapes, Perspective, Human Figure, Human Face, Animation and Expressing Feelings and Emotions. Revelation Natural Art also comes with: A set of animated viewlets which visually demonstrate the software interfaces working. A detailed reference guide systematically covering all features of the software. An integrated online help system, accessible at any time by pressing the F1 button. There is also a companion website with a further range of useful weblinks, step by step tutorials, schemes of work and other resources to help you get the most out of the software in your classroom. The combination of a highly configurable interface, rich natural media effects, progressive undo, curriculum stamp library, symmetry tools, motif and tiling editor, texture effects and easy, intuitive user experience makes Revelation Natural Art the best painting, drawing and animation tool for pupils of all ages and abilities. The Download button connects you directly to a file hosted on the vendor's website.

Lenovo ThinkPad X200 Tablet
ProsSolid build quality Integrated 3G/HSPA Integrated webcam Excellent keyboard 12.1in. wide-screen LED-backlit displayConsNo optical drive No touchpad Moderate battery life with the 4-cell battery Expensive VerdictAlthough it lacks an optical drive and a touchpad, and battery life could be better, this is a typically well-built ThinkPad. If you're a Tablet PC fan, it's a very good (if somewhat pricey) choice. Read full review of Lenovo ThinkPad...

Tablet Enhancements For Outlook 3.0 (#1)
Tablet Enhancements for Outlook is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook® 2003 and 2007 that turns the popular personal information manager into a fully pen-enabled application on your Tablet PC, UMPC, or Origami device. TEO 3.0 replaces Outlook's standard UI with fully ink-enabled forms and lets you write and keep your notes in your own handwriting. No synchronization required. Rapid One-Handed Data Entry The ability to quickly capture data in meetings, classes, or phone calls is very important. TEO allows you to do this using the same software you use today, resulting in a minimal learning curve and maximum use of the captured data. Microsoft Outlook, out of the box, provides little optimization for the Tablet PC platform. While you can send ink emails using the features of Word 2003, you're stuck using the on-screen keyboard or input panel for other items such as appointments, contacts, tasks, and journal entries. The magic of TEO is that it provides Tablet PC-optimized forms for creating and editing the rest of these items without re-inventing the application. When you create a contact, it is a true Outlook contact with additional ink data attached. You can toggle the TEO view on and off to switch between the standard Outlook view and TEO. If you want, you can strip them item of all ink data and convert it to a standard Outlook item when you're done making the necessary corrections. MapPoint Integration with Contacts and Appointments Use the mapping integration to find out how to get to Bob's office for that lunch appointment you have. You can pan and zoom the map on the location tab and when you found the information you are looking for, add it to your notes and mark it up or set an early reminder to make sure you get to the appointment on time. Ink Data Entry Convenient and accurate handwriting recognition. Convert to text when and if you want to. Improved correction interface allows you to make non-destructive corrections to recognized text more quickly than previous versions. Background recognition means PDA's and other applications work the same with TEO as any other Outlook item. Recognition preview and confidence indicator alerts you of incorrectly recognized text. Note Taking New rich note taking allows mixed ink, text, images, and more. Built in audio recording lets you record conversations, meetings, conference calls and more. Recording and playback embedded right in the Outlook item. Paste text and images from other applications and web pages. A hyperlink is automatically added for clipped web content. Multiple pages of notes and the ability to import Windows Journal documents. Stationery picker allows you to change the background of note pages. Better Organization The Outlook Journal is a great place to keep track of notes, customer interaction, and time spent on jobs. Keep a log of all your phone calls. Skype integration automatically organizes your call notes and links them to contacts. Keep track of research topics using the research highlighter which organizes links to Wikipedia articles in your notes. Stay organized with Outlook categories. TEO can warn you if you forget to categorize an item. Find contacts and map appointment locations with directions using MapPoint integration. Requirements TEO 3.0 requires a Tablet PC, UMPC, or Origami device running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP2 or Windows Vista as well as Outlook 2003 or 2007. The Download button connects you directly to a file hosted on the vendor's website.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Network Installation Package (#8)
This installation package is intended for IT professionals and developers downloading and installing on multiple computers on a network. This download link connects you directly to the Microsoft Download Center. If you are updating one computer, you should use Automatic Updates to receive Windows XP Service Pack 2. Visit http://www.microsoft.com/protect for details. Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 is now available as a free upgrade to existing Tablet PC users via Windows XP Service Pack 2. New Features Improved handwriting recognition New In Place Tablet Input Panel (TIP) Handwriting recognition based on word context Easier to enter web site addresses and email addresses Better integration with Office Suite Programs Additional Features Available With Windows XP Service Pack 2 By installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 your system security infrastructure will also be improved. SP2 includes: Improved network protection through new Windows Firewall Turned on by default for all the connections of the computer Improved choices for local configuration Memory protection to stop buffer overruns caused by malicious software Safer communication with Outlook Express and Windows Messenger by isolating unsafe attachments Enhanced Microsoft Internet Explorer security Improved choices for maintaining and installing automatic updates Wireless Provisioning Services Windows Peer-to-Peer Networking Updates to IPv6 Further Reading Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools Using Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 in a Managed Environment: Controlling Communication with the Internet Group Policy Settings Reference for .adm files included with Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 Post questions about this on the Microsoft Windows XP SP2 newsgroup http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc

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