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Ken Hinckley's blog exploring the savage frontiers of pen, touch, and mobile devices
The official blog of the InkSeine project at Microsoft Research
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Automatic screen rotation has been popularized by the iPhone but is also available on the OQO Model 02 thanks to Kenrick's Automatic Screen Rotator Utility ( executable download ). Just hold the device the way you want to use it. The screen flips to the...
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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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A conversation with the Tablet PC MVP's this week reminded me of a productivity hack I constructed for my tablet a while back. I guarantee that you will either absolutely love this hack, or think it is the stupidest thing you've ever heard. In...
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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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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 am having some great fun this week modding up one of my slate Tablet PC's. I have a nutty little idea that I am working towards, but mums the word on that for now... Either it will take the Tablet PC world by storm, or I will prove once and for...
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A lot of ink blogs are just a vile mess. But there are a few, like Sumocat , who really get it right. Partly it is just because his handwriting is so beautiful, but also, the interesting content is there to back it up. When ink blogging is done right...
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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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I'm happy to see that InkSeine is generating some fresh Tablet PC buzz in the blogosphere . Apparently, offering a new inking application to a crowd of pen computing enthusiasts is like tossing a fish into a crate full of starving cats! But seriously...
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