Tag Archives: Tablet PC

Windows Live Messenger – a usability nightmare

The other day, I had a chance to check out the Live Messenger beta on a fellow developer’s machine here at SnapStream.  Sadly, we mostly just sat there making fun of it.  There are so many things wrong with it … Continue reading

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External monitors with notebooks/tablets

Eric Mack (well known for Getting Things Done and Tablet PC’s) is asking about using external monitors with a Tablet PC. Here’s my advice…if sticking to the traditional approach of hooking up an external monitor to the tablet is favored, … Continue reading

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The Toshiba M400 is out

I bought a Toshiba M200 about two months ago.  The special thing about the M200 is that, unlike most notebooks, it is a convertible Tablet PC. What prompted me to do this?  Two things.  One, my main laptop broke, so … Continue reading

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Obscenities are still words

Interestingly, there’s a blog post from Frank La Vigne describing how a list of approximately 3000 words known as obscenities won’t be shown as potential choices to the user. I wonder if this applies to the actual handwriting recognition.  I … Continue reading

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Toshiba M200 now at 60GB

Not exactly a banner day for the Internet, but not a bad day over here at rkuo.com.  The 60GB Hitachi Travelstar now in my Tablet PC is, in fact, close to as quiet as the old 40GB Travelstar and way … Continue reading

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On scanning and the DocuPen RC800

The following is my humble entry to Rob Bushway’s “Win your own DocuPen RC800” contest. I think the problem with most of the comments I’ve read so far is that they all focus on why scanning is good.  A lot … Continue reading

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Preferred Display Resolutions

Lora Heiny asks “What display resolution do you prefer?”  Well, it certainly depends on a number of things.  First of all, it’s not so much the resolution as it is the DPI (dots per inch) that people care about.   All … Continue reading

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