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Never buy one of anything . That's advice you should stand by when you're buying unusual gadgets. The advice was good when Randy Pausch offered it to me some 15 years ago, and it's still good now. Of course, with 18 month old twin girls at home, this has become second nature to me. Two boxes...

InkSeine is one of five project downloads currently available on the OfficeLabs.com site. I've been having great fun participating in the OfficeLabs.com launch. It's been great to get to know some of the people in the OfficeLabs organization. I've been impressed with how they are running...

GottaBeMobile.com forum member JasonJ is a prolific inker. He’s been at the avant-garde of InkSeine for some time now. He’s offered us lots of great feedback and has a flair for illustrating his points. For example, he’d like us to add a sizing tab to make it easier to resize the InkSeine application...

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. It's been crushed like an empty can of cheap beer...

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 discovered. This is the new set of Flick gestures...

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 invited the InkSeine Team to participate in this...

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 raises. Page 1: The table of contents Anthony starts...

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 1" girth. By the way, don't let this scan...

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, as well as MVP's Craig Pringle and WNewquay...

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: _____________________________________________________________________ RE...