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The Tablet PC Show #044 (MP3 - 23.5MB - 69 min)

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Welcome to episode 44 of the Tablet PC Show! Matt Hoffman and I run through a large number of topics (and run a bit longer than usual, as well). It seems to be the week of beta software…

• Electrovaya has announced a new keyboard for their Sribbler SC3000 tablets that will include an optical drive. We like this idea and think they should take it further. The Scribbler seems to be becoming the the successor in our minds to the HP TC1000/1100.
• GottaBeMobile.com has the specs on the new Asus R1F tablet. There are some interesting features on this one.
• Ed Holloway has already released the second beta of his ink plugin for Microsoft’s Live Writer blogging tool. And it’s great stuff!
• Ed has also found a likely cause of performance problems on Lenovo X41 tablets and has a workaround.
• Samsung has finally released their flash memory-based Q1 UMPC.
• If you’re running Office 2007 beta, you need the second beta version of Windows Desktop Search 3.0, which was just released.
• EverNote has released their 1.5 beta as well with some nice new features.
• Windows Vista will support the touchscreens on UMPCs with a virtual mouse. But the Motion LE1600 won’t need it since it sports both a touchscreen and an active digitizer.
• PDF Annotator has been improved with version 1.3, just released.
• IMSI PDF to Word version 3 offers another solution for dealing with PDF files — convert them into Word documents.
• The HiPAD II looks like an Etch-A-Sketch, is available only in Korea, and has a very interesting feature set.
• The beta version of ClearContext version 3 looks really nice on Outlook 2007… and that’s all I’ll say about it so far.
• The beta of Ilium Software’s InScribe virtual keyboard for tablets has just ended and during the testing we discoverd a conflict between InScribe and ActiveWords. A workaround for the problem is to disable the ActiveWords Buffer (without which it can still run just fine). In ActiveWords, go to Options -> Operating Mode and click the Advanced button. Then select the checkbox as shown here and you’ll be good to go.

• Awhile back I blasted Apple for putting their application menus at the top of the screen rather than in the application window. After reading this from Jensen Harris’ Office UI blog, I may have been mistaken.
• FireFox 2.0 Beta 2 is about to launch and Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 RC1 is out as well.
• Matt is eying this sweet multi-monitor solution from Radius:

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.)

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