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re: Some Thoughts on Automatic Screen Rotation

feralboy — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:25:08 GMT

I love auto screen rotation and use it all the time on my Lenovo ThinkPad, even though it's a little iffy...while trying to resolve a software issue, I had to turn off all extra services and startup programs, and man, do I miss auto rotation. I'm turning services back on, one by one, but haven't figured out which one will bring back auto rotation (as that's the one I wanted to turn back on first), so I now appreciate it more than ever as I toggle through each of the orientations until I reach the right one.

re: Rough Winter

feralboy — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:21:28 GMT

Man, just looking at those pictures sent a chill down my spine. Brr... I've become such a weather wimp living in SF, where the temperature rarely falls blow 50 degrees or above 80 during the day. Heh.

That said, I do remember the beauty of it, safe behind a plate glass window (the unbroken kind), a cup of steaming brew (chocolate, coffee, whatever) to keep the errant drafts at bay, with nowhere to be until Spring...

Or maybe that was just a fantasy of mine back in the day (:

Beautiful use of InkSeine though (:

re: Rough Winter

Philhellene — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:46:27 GMT

Always good to see a post from you Ken.

Looks like an amazing place.

http://tabletpccorner.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3235&itemid=27

TrackBack — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:49:41 GMT

http://dbmoore.blogspot.com/2008/04/inkseine-app-that-may-make-me-switch-to.html

TrackBack — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:54:52 GMT

re: Portrait Inking on the OQO Model 02

Ken Hinckley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:52:32 GMT

Vista Business for me, primarily for three reasons:

1. Desktop Search. It's awesome to have this integrated with the OS. InkSeine can basically be thought of as a glorified UI to Desktop Search for the pen. Yeah, you can install Windows Desktop Search on XP, but it's a little bit onerous of an install and I find that it has a few quirks here and there that have largely been resolved with Vista's integrated search. Just make sure you tell Vista to index your whole hard disk (possibly with the exception of the Program Files directory) so you can find all your stuff. It only indexes My Documents by default.

2. Vista's handwriting recognition is incredible! It learns from your handwriting as you go, plus it picks up out-of-vocabulary words (like "OQO" !!!) from the search index of your email. (And it makes it convenient to add words when you do handwriting corrections too). A scenario that this really helps with in InkSeine is searching from my handwritten notes of people's names, which XP consistently bungles even after using it for years, but Vista recognizes amazingly well after a short ramp-up time.

3. Flicks. See my other posts on using InkSeine's Tool Ring as a flick pad. I have another post that I will do soon on my new set of flicks that I'm using on the OQO.

I know Vista takes a lot of criticism, but I find my OQO works just great with it. I still have Windows XP Tablet PC edition on several of my tablets (for testing, and because some are older devices that can barely run XP, never mind Vista). But it's painful to go back to XP on my tablets, especially because of the handwriting issue.

I am finding a few little quirks/bugs and things that could be improved about InkSeine on the OQO, but it works pretty well, particularly if you pick up our new release (version 1.1.425.0) which has some performance improvements and speeds the startup and shutdown time as well.

re: Portrait Inking on the OQO Model 02

marcelor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:59:35 GMT

Looking forward to hear more tips from folks on the OQO as I'm about to buy one. Ken, are you running Vista or XP TabletPC on the OQO?

re: Portrait Inking on the OQO Model 02

Ken Hinckley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:33:59 GMT

Thanks for the tips and posting the links, Bill! I've been using Kenricks' auto-rotate utlity for a few days now and it's wonderful. I also have his touch scroller utlity and just have not had a chance to install it yet. I'm actually kind of planning a blog post around these at some point - I've done some related research in the past.

I definitely consider the auto-rotate utility a must have on the OQO now, and I expect the same will be true of the touch scroller utility.

I expect I'm going to stick with Portrait orientation for my sketching and note-taking - the OQO just really feels right to me that way. I find it a little awkward to write on in Landscape.

re: Portrait Inking on the OQO Model 02

wherman — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:06:27 GMT

I just got my OQO as well and found these apps shortly after finding yours

Touch Scroller Auto-Disable when pen is near screen:

www.oqotalk.com/.../topic,2213.0.html

Auto-Screen Rotate based on shock sensor (ala-iphone):

www.oqotalk.com/.../topic,770.0.html

With both those all the writing apps really become quite easy to use in any orientation.

-Bill

InkSeine Update, InkSeine Featured on OfficeLabs.com!

The AlpineInker — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:27:54 GMT

InkSeine is one of the projects featured on the new Microsoft Office Labs web site . There are some cool

InkSeine Update, InkSeine Featured on OfficeLabs.com!

The AlpineInker — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:27:52 GMT

InkSeine is one of the projects featured on the new Microsoft Office Labs web site . There are some cool

InkSeine Updated, New Features & Bugs Fixed

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InkSeine Updated, New Features & Bugs Fixed

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