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Ken Hinckley's blog exploring the savage frontiers of pen, touch, and mobile devices
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I spent the weekend at Snoqualmie pass. Winter has certainly not yet relinquished its grip on the Cascade Crest. Here's some of the sights done AlpineInker style. - Here's a car that someone left parked for the winter. That probably wasn't a good idea...
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I just received an OQO-style moleskine in the mail! When I opened it up, it was full of arcane tricks for using InkSeine's Tool Ring as a flick pad. This topic has come up before but now it seems that perfect combination of custom flicks has been...
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InkSeine is one of the projects featured on the new Microsoft Office Labs web site . There are some cool prototypes available there, so I recommend you swing by to check them out, and to learn more about Office Labs. We're honored that Office Labs...
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An InkSeine user, Anthony Chan, posted up a thoughtful review of InkSeine on his blog , written in InkSeine itself! With his permission, I'm reproducing it here. He has a lot of great comments and ideas for features. Let's discuss the points he...
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The OQO Model 02 is almost the same size as my Moleskine Pocket Sketchbook. I suspect this is no accident. To illustrate the point, I scanned them side-by-side. The OQO is slightly narrower, which is necessary to make it fit in my shirt pocket given its...
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Sometimes great connections and friendships are forged over the internet without ever getting a chance to meet that person behind the keyboard. Well, I had great fun this week getting to meet Rob Bushway and Warner Crocker from the GottaBeMobile.com site...
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I received another cool email about InkSeine's Tool Ring this week. This user not only had one of his precious tablet hardware buttons programmed to open the Tool Ring, but he also sketched up a neat idea for a new feature: _____________________________________________________________________...
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One way to think of InkSeine is that it is nothing but a glorified pen-computing-on-steroids interface to Windows Desktop Search. We rely on Windows Search to deliver some of the most innovative and useful functionality that we have to offer in InkSeine...
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GottaBeMobile.com forum member moneyburninhole conceived an ingenious InkSeine Tool Ring hack for flicking your way around on your Vista Tablet PC. It is so brilliant and useful that I just have to share it. moneyburninhole posted this comment in the...
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Distressed books from forgotten decades, documents battered by time, and postcards from the distant past hold a deep charm for me. Perhaps it was because my grandfather was an insatiable reader and his shelves were always brimming with volumes dating...
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One of the things we are trying to get fully functional for an update is to enable rotation of objects in InkSeine. We have it mostly working; pretty much the only thing left to do is to add some snapping so the 90-degree orientations are easier to achieve...
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I took some time today to try and collect up the articles, musings, reactions, and discussions about InkSeine that have hit the web. My goodness, when I saw them all together I couldn't believe how much stuff there was! A lot of people have been pretty...
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From the early returns, people seem to be excited about InkSeine's floating Tool Ring . This semi-transparent palette floats on top of all your windows. It lets you scroll by circling the pen, or take a snapshot by tapping the camera icon: For example...
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We have a fix for the serious localization bug that has plagued many of our InkSeine friends outside of the United States. The worst symptom of this bug is that some users who use non-American ways to write decimal numbers or dates are unable to load...
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UPDATE: bug fix now available! My humble apologies to users outside the US who have encountered some problems with InkSeine. The good news is that this is the only major bug that has come up in our InkSeine deployment, and we already have the problem...
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