Tablet PC Show #42
The Tablet PC Show #042 (MP3 - 13.5MB- 39 min)
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Welcome to episode 42 of the Tablet PC Show! I’m flying solo this week and jump right in…
News and Updates:
- Rob at GottaBeMobile notes the upgrade paths available for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition to Windows Vista. It’s more complicated than you might think.
- Christian Falch has released a demo of his Ink Anywhere program.
- InkGestures is being updated for Word 2007.
- Microsoft has abandoned Money for Windows Mobile.
- Is inking passé?
- Bill Gates pushed unified communication.
- Is Microsoft releasing some sort of new Pocket PC?
- They are releasing a new Windows CE phone.
- Judie Hughes of The Gadgeteer has a DualCor cPC.
- Apple files for yet more patents possibly for a tablet.
- Eleksen releases a wireless fabric keyboard.
- SumoCat wants Windows Mobile on UMPCs, I just want the Mobile UI.
- Samsung promises a follow-up to the Q1 and more.
- Just what’s the deal with the Founder UMPC? Someone is releasing it soon. Is it Daewoo?
- CNET UK pits the Q1 against an Apple Newton. We compared them first here last time. Did they find this podcast via this page on CNET?
I got some help recently to solve a problem with ActiveWords. When my tablet came out of sleep mode, ActiveWords would re-start adding several seconds to the waking up. Fortunately, the folks at ActiveWords has this solution:
Some users experienced a problem with ActiveWords handling the process of coming out of Standby/Hibernation so we configured ActiveWords to shut down when entering standby, then restart coming out of standby. You can leave ActiveWords running through standby and hibernation by making the following change.
1. Open the file: “C:\Program Files\ActiveWords\Users\[username]\AWMonitor.ini” using Windows Notepad or another text editor.
2. Locate the line for “Restart After Suspend=1″ in the [Config] section and change it (or add it if it is not present) so it reads: “Restart After Suspend=0″.
3. Restart ActiveWords.
I’ve been playing a bit with FranklinCovey PlanPlus for Outlook. It’s decent, but I’m not sold on it. I’m looking for a better methodology to help control my workflow and am considering FranklinCovey as well as Getting Things Done. Any ideas?
I’ve also been playing around with MindManager by MindJet. It’s a very nice application that integrates well into Office. However I’m just not sold on mind mapping in general. Maybe I just don’t get it. Anyone want to straighten me out on this?
I’ve also been trying out PDF Annotator (very nice), but don’t think I’ll use it enough to buy it. Same thing for Anagram for Outlook.
If you have comments or questions or feedback, or a problem or issue with your Tablet PC for which you’d like help, please feel free to leave a comment here, email me, or leave me a voicemail right here!
Music:Intro: “Wallawalla” by Drop Trio
Outro: “Second First” by Drop Trio
(Music available at magnatune.com.)
August 5th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Actually, I just want to see inherent small screen support. Win Mobile has it; XP doesn’t… but it needs it if the UMPC is to succeed. (Or more accurately, Vista needs it.)