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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...

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 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...

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...

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 GBM forums : I also love the Tool Ring and wanted...

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 as far back as the 19 th century. Maybe it was because...

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. I've got a debug build of this on my tablet...

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, here is a comment that "Hari" posted...