Tabletology.com Comments

by: Realistic expectations

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:28:34 +0000

PDE Annotator is not a “professional editing software suite.” If it were, it would cost hundreds of dollars, like other “professional” software packages. You need money to pay programmers to add these features (and autosave would likely require a major rearchitecting to get more efficient PDF file format handling.

by: wyane

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:04:59 +0000

Oh, it seems good^^
I will give it a try when my tablet PC broken.

by: Doug Dorsey

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:14:23 +0000

I have been useing laptop compaq nc6000 for the last 3 years and am considering a tablet. this is the only computer I use and I use it all the time so My qusetion is, do people use thier tablets as primary computers? and what do you recomend for $1200-$1500-

I really enjoy your website-

Thank you

DOug

by: ken

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:08:53 +0000

Fx crashes every time for me.I just download pdf now.

by: Daniel

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:09:45 +0000

I have found that the combination of a computer and Acrobat is particularly toxic.

by: Aaron Lambert

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:33:03 +0000

I have a MAJOR problem with Pdf Annotator. I just lost about 5 hours of work on an important document because Vista crashed while I was working on a document, and PDF Annotator does NOT MAKE AUTOSAVE backups. This function simply does not exist. I am amazed and perplexed - how can a professional editing software suite NOT HAVE AN AUTOSAVE feature????? I tried looking through all the options, and all the help files - nope, simply no mention of it. I have written to them and I am thinking of demanding my money back - though this will not compensate me for 5 hours of lost work. Perhaps I should ask them for 5 hours of my time priced at $50 per hour. This is completely ridiculous - how can they have managed to omit such a basic feature in a professional editing program????

by: Robert

Tue, 01 May 2007 21:09:18 +0000

Greetings Fellow Canadians:

I’m looking for Canadian Bloggers who love Tablet PC’s, UMPC’s, Mobile Internet Devices.

Actually I have a blog site of my own and am always looking for new material with a Canadian angle.

Personally I’m noticing that in Canada, many companies don’t push Tablet PC’s, UMPC’s, or my favorite Mobile Internet Devices.

So lets change this and help each other by sharing material on these wonderful products.
My blog site is at:http://midees.blogspot.com/.
Feel free to comment.
I’m from Montreal, and I’ll be pushing Mobile Internet Devices for Canada.
Lets hear from everyone.

Regards Robert

by: Andrew Wilcox

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:33:29 +0000

Here is my map of how to do dual screen in XP

http://www.cabre.co.uk/files/dualscreen/index.html

Love your blog. I have 4xTC11OOs in the house at the moment. Unfortunately I am going to have to give some of them up. Even the 1.2GHz 1.5 GB RAM TC1100 cannot cope with MindManager and Vista. The TC44OO does just! Unfortunately its esthetically and ergonomically backward compared to the TC11OO.

Value Engineering gone wrong!

by: Shawn McClelland

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:44:37 +0000

Thanks,
I’m actually thinking about moving back up in size. I loved my scribbler. But I’m thinking maybe the lenovo x60 multitouch (active/passive) screen.

by: Lyn

Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:29:15 +0000

That’s a great site–great use of OneNote.

by: Mike Ellis

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:02:19 +0000

Wow, that was some strange synergy. I was using google to find some pictures of Portage and Main so I could use my tabletPC and google sketchup to do some photomatch modeling.

Cool site,

Mike

by: Shawn McClelland

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:38:19 +0000

I am finishing up my MS in Biochemistry. I have used a tablet PC (started with an electrovaya) for all my classes, but then moved to the smaller OQO for my thesis research work in the lab. Here’s a website that discusses the idea of using a tablet PC as a research notebook. www.e-lab-book.com

by: Walter Logeman

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:32:46 +0000

Hi again,

I like your animal tablet domesticity. I drew your cat! Hope that is OK.

I am an avid tablet PC user - doing a 1000 sketches in one year on my M200, and blogging that process.

Walter

by: Walter Logeman

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:29:20 +0000

I am an avid tablet PC user - doing a 1000 sketches in one your on my M200, and blogging that process.

Walter

by: SimsHsia

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:53:32 +0000

There’s a petition for to continue the TC1xxx line: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/666964490?ltl=116183022390?ltl=1161830223

by: neuroblabla

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:58:28 +0000

fisher price?

by: bluemonq

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:37:25 +0000

Yes, definitely a touchpad. That looks sort of like a mini-USB plug at top, doesn’t it? That, plus the two buttons (and fingerwells) and the dark grey color of the large rectangle suggest that it’s a touchpad.

by: Rob Bushway

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:23:04 +0000

it is the trackpad for the electrovaya.

by: Dennis

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 07:52:52 +0000

Hi,
The newer V23i and V33i series Flybooks use Intel chipsets. You can upgrade the RAM also from the standard 512MB. The standard OS is XP Home edition with an upgrade to XP Professional available.

hth

by: Paul

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:22:35 +0000

Great site! Who would’ve thought that I would find out the link to Mindmapping and OneNote on a site from Halifax!

Cheers from a fellow Haligonian!

by: Olga Kits

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 07:30:55 +0000

Yup you caught one of my ESL moments! Olga

by: Nathan

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:17:44 +0000

‘With abandon,’ I presume. =)

by: Warner Crocker

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:31:26 +0000

Tres Bien

by: Karim

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:27:52 +0000

They cancelled Star Trek in 1969, too.

“Never give up, never surrender!”
- Galaxy Quest

by: Matt Smith

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:36:02 +0000

Your efforts are much appreciated. I bought a TC1100 a couple of months ago, and I love it. It wasn’t until a week after I bought it that I heard that HP had killed them. I thought about returning it, but it’s such a great machine so I held onto it. Too bad HP doesn’t just leave well enough alone.

by: Lyn

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:18:28 +0000

The thing at digital kitchen seems to be gone! ! It was really great as a representation of life with a tablet pc.

by: Lyn

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:02:42 +0000

More tidbits appear around the web. Engadget complains that it’s just a tablet PC. But that’s the point! It’s a tablet PC being shaped and marketed for life beyond business applications. Now, I wouldn’t buy one of these over and above, or instead of, my tablet PC. I want more screen space. I want something closer to a laptop. But if more and more people realize that tablet PCs are for creative types & for living, then we’ll really get somewhere (even more) amazing with this technology!

by: Olga Kits

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:22:14 +0000

Hi James, if my memory serves me right you make sure that you uninstall or not install the Outlook add-ins for Adobe. Let me know how it goes. Olga

by: James

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 01:58:58 +0000

What fix did you use to get Adobe 7 and Outlook to work without crashing Outlook?

by: DB

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:04:25 +0000

They didn’t use windows tablet because it sucks! This is a great idea, you can feel like you are using a regular computer with the convenience of being able to write directly on the screen. I havn’t seen this particular tablet, but I can tell you for sure that the idea is there. I just want to know how many ram slots it has and if you can upgrade the proccesor.

by: .Pink

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:21:12 +0000

So where ya been? I missed your regular posts while you’ve been away! I’m not quite sure if my tablet PC has spawned any others - however I constantly bump into people that are very infatuated with my machine! Hopefully I’ll have some confirmations one day

by: J Marchmon

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:48:16 +0000

OK, so I could take it to a business meeting, take notes, and read stuff without the base. I’m curious as to how much can really be done without the “base” portion of this unit. If you have to have the base close by for processing, is it really a Tablet PC (even if it’s running Win XP TE or Vista)?
At least with the convertibles you can swing the screen around and pretend the other part’s not there (sorry… I had to get a slate/hybrid dig in here somewhere).

by: J Marchmon

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:23:51 +0000

Definitely hybrid. TC1000 and TC1100 for me. I was stunned when HP/Compaq canned the TC line; hybrids offer the best of both worlds. Most of the time I just use the slate when teaching, reading, or jotting notes, and it’s light. When I need the keyboard however, snap and click–there it is.
TPC manufacturers take heed!

by: Scoobie

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:12:03 +0000

Fantastic overview, I’m look forward to the Onenote review
Paul
UK

by: Shona

Sun, 22 Jan 2006 22:27:35 +0000

Georgian College in Barrie is having a Web Conference on February 3rd, all are welcome, speakers from Apple and Google AdWords, also speakers talking about Podcasting and Blogging. Free for all!

Check out this site:
http://webevolve.ca/speakers/

by: Cathie

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:21:45 +0000

I voted for the convertible. I love my X41. All the convenience of a slate (including a comparable weight to most of them) and I can never forget my keyboard. It does everything I need to do for school.

Honestly, I hadn’t noticed that it doesn’t have a Windows key…I really don’t use it.

Peace,
Cathie

by: FeralBoy

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:26:25 +0000

Hybrid. Definitely. The more I use it, the more I appreciate being able to remove the keyboard when I want a slate. Doesn’t get any better.

by: Rob O.

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 14:41:32 +0000

If you need a notebook, get a notebook. The convertibles I’ve used suffer from too many tradeoffs to make them a good bang-for-the-buck value either as a notebook or a tablet PC.

And I’ve been particularly underwhelmed with the keyboards on the ‘verts I’ve used - which is their whole raison d’etre! The media darling IBM Thinkpad X41’s overly-praised keyboard, for example, doesn’t even feature a Windows key (now that’s a dealbreaker on *any* keyboard for me, post circa-1995) and the Function key is exactly where the Control key should be.

Embrace the tablet UI and avoid a convertible - you can always hook up a compact USB keyboard (and even a nice optical mouse) if you’re in a pinch to do some hardcore data entry. Slates are a better bang-for-buck investment.

by: .PInk

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 19:46:55 +0000

I love my toshiba tablet…… but do you think I can turn it in for that model????

by: Fernando Vajá

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:10:44 +0000

I prefer the convertible form.

Why?
As a owner of my own company, do consulting, university teacher and studante, using it for leisure (reading mostly) and other more “hat’s” it’s the form that does it all in such I prefer the convertible form.

Best success with your site.

Fernando

by: Chris

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:33:00 +0000

I’m a fellow tc1100 addict and really appreciate the fact that it feels so “intended” in both laptop and slate modes. Convertibles always strike me as looking unwieldy and too chunky when their screens are flipped round, while slates with optional keyboards (like the Motions) look a bit ‘Heath Robinson’!

by: Olga Kits

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:07:23 +0000

Hey Congrats Marc!!

by: Marc Orchant

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 04:58:38 +0000

Great poll ladies… er, gals…

No what was it James finally settled on calling you two?

Hee hee!

by: Brandon Erik Bertelsen

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 03:42:46 +0000

That’s the beauty of Technorati. Everyone can watch what real people are saying about their company. Bravo, to David for playing such an active role.

by: David Sifry

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:08:36 +0000

Great! Glad that everything is working well for you now.

Dave

by: David Sifry

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:23:54 +0000

Thanks for the post and feedback. I apologise for the unresponsiveness to support requests, we’ve just hired a new support person to help clear the backlog.

For now, I’ll look into your issue personally. In the future, feel free to send me an email at dsifry AT technorati DOT com if we’re ever again being unresponsive.

Again, my apologies.

Dave

by: Warner Crocker

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:46:05 +0000

Wonderful.

by: Warner Crocker

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:45:13 +0000

Technorati is a mess. Although some of my posts show up, some don’t. I’ve written several times and also haven’t heard a reply.

by: Olga Kits

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:58:39 +0000

Shhhhhh… don’t tell Lyn, maybe she’ll forget!

Well, James, you are such a stick in the Nova Scotia mud!
:-)

Olga

by: Olga Kits

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:57:13 +0000

Hey Jimbo! Thanks. We’re enjoying the creative process! As you can see from this photo, however, Simon The Dog has more than 2 legs. He said he is also willing to show you personally http://tabletology.com/92

Your requests will be taken into consideration, as soon as James Kendrick ponies up his TC1100!

by: James Kendrick

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:54:50 +0000

I’m sorry, I could have sworn you just asked to borrow my Tablet PC? If I remember correctly you were going to use Olga’s as your next stunt Tablet?

by: Jimbo

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:37:54 +0000

Is Simon a two-legged dog? He must have incredible balance to handle a gale ; )

Now how about a picture of your beloved TC1100 in a sand storm? Hurricane? Tornado (cow)?

Great blog

by: Olga Kits

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:06:23 +0000

They wanted a wash!

by: Olga Kits

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 12:30:24 +0000

Thanks Warner for keeping us on our toes! A little, hopefully, temporary glitch.

by: Warner Crocker

Sat, 17 Dec 2005 03:39:16 +0000

Am I missing something? I can’t seem to bring up the link for the poem.

by: Marks Fishing

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:54:48 +0000

Can you put the gnomes back where they belong, yes in the garden. Thankyou. Poor little gnomes.

by: Product Reviews

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0000

Pimp my Tablet PC, I love the program on MTV about Pimp my Ride, that would be cool to Pimp my Tablet PC and zip it up to a super powered custom build…cool

by: Olga Kits

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:39:56 +0000

Hi Perry -Truth be told I have never used Ritepen or Evernote so I don’t really know. I don’t really understand why they didn’t design this with the tablet pc XP edition. Do you?

by: Olga Kits

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:35:19 +0000

Well that is where we found them, in the shared laundry room! We didn’t ‘plant’ the gnomes in the sink. Gotta take the gnomes where you find them. And congrats on your first birthday, Warner. So much promise….

by: Warner Crocker

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:19:23 +0000

I got the gnomes. Just curious about the sink.

by: Warner Crocker

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:17:28 +0000

Glad you are so humbly iumpressed ;->. Thanks for the shout out. Keep up the great stuff. A day without a new Tabletology post is not as bright as one with.

by: Olga Kits

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:41:27 +0000

Hey Warner,
Check out your own post!
http://tabletology.com/52

Olga and Lyn
p.s thanks for the awards….

by: Rob Bushway

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:39:00 +0000

classic!

by: Warner Crocker

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 05:17:21 +0000

And the signficance of gnomes in a sink is?

by: Sumocat

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:50:32 +0000

Thanks for the shout-out. Cute cat. I have two tuxedo cats of my own, Patty and Spooky.
http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2005/11/let-sleeping-cats-lie.html

by: Olga Kits

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 13:29:27 +0000

Hi Stan,
Lynette and I discussed this morning how to proceed with a post on TheBrain and we’ll try and do something shortly. It takes a bit of time and our jobs stand in the way!! One challenge is to show the dynamic nature of TheBrain with jpegs or to find an alternative.
Thanks for the comment! Olga

by: Stan Kramer

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:49:29 +0000

Ladies…er…girls…er??

Enjoyed your visit with James and Marc and your site and am eager to learn more about your use of MindManager. But, could you share a little more info on how Lynette uses Brain? Like James, I have tried using it several times in the past but actually found it too restrictive for my workstyle. Your description - piles of papers on the desk - caused me to download the demo, again, but I guess I’m locked in my old paradigm and still can’t see it as useful.

Thanks

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by: Olga Kits

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:01:10 +0000

Thanks James. I tried it -and yes the image can be stretched - but it remained unreadable. I’ll try it again this weekend and play with different MindManager images/resolutions/sizes/ export settings etc. Olga

by: James Kendrick

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 04:18:00 +0000

The map is an image in OneNote so can you drag the lower right corner down to make it big enough to read?

by: Perry

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:56:59 +0000

Ugh. I just don’t like RitePen at all. Maybe it’s just me and others have had better luck with it, but the times that I have tried it it hasn’t had nearly the success-rate as the Microsoft TIP at recognizing my handwriting. It also seems to do it’s recognition much more slowly, which on my pokey TC1000 is very slow indeed.

Of course it could just be my spectacularly bad handwriting…

by: Michael S. Scherotter

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:27:12 +0000

Great idea for the MindManager Tablet! Here is an add-in that creates a OneNote page of a map image that you can mark up with your thoughts. It’s not exactly what Olga asked for but it’s a start:
http://www.mindjet.com/labs/Tablet_Extensions.html

I use an Acer tablet and have been working with tablet computers since the age of Pen Computing (see http://www.charette.com/articles/index.html) so I know how great tablet computers could be!

Great site and podcast!

Michael S. Scherotter
Business Solutions Architect
Mindjet Corporation

by: .Pink

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:42:22 +0000

Hey! I’m glad I found your site (www.tabletpc.com)! I love tablets, but I also love blogs from Nova Scotia! I’m from Halifax too!

I love seeing your tablet travel! Catch you later.

by: Warner Crocker

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:21:51 +0000

Great hearing you on the podcast. Lots of fun.

by: Julie

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:04:49 +0000

As a CMap substitution you might look at Inspiration. It has some tablet oriented capabilities. (Inspiration.com)

And do, please, put up pictures of your “Brains.”

by: James Kendrick

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:29:49 +0000

Thanks for coming on the show Lyn and Olga! It was great fun.

by: Rob Bushway

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:28:50 +0000

love that shot…

by: Lyn

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:49:24 +0000

Chocolat chaud au bol et tablet…

by: shmen glick

Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:39:50 +0000

Boaz was seen with a tel aviv based hooker.

by: Dr. Neil

Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:21:56 +0000

What a cool idea! Tablet travels. But why use GMaps when you could be inking directly on to a VirtualEarth map?
http://www.viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/InkOnMaps.ashx

by: Canadian

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:38:10 +0000

This is a phantastic website on tablet pcs.

by: martimer

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:59:29 +0000

This is one of the neatest sites I have ever seen. Keep it up!

by: Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:34:13 +0000

You Got To Love Tabletology

I’ve linked to Tabletology before and I’m doing it again. I love checking this site out for the great photos Olga and Lynette post with their Tablet PC in different locatons. Very fun. Very whimsical. Very cool.

by: Lyn

Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:27:16 +0000

The combination of Firefox and Adobe Acrobat seems particularly toxic. I often think how much I must love Firefox, to go on using it despite its crashing and despite the fact that the tablet input panel doesn’t work with it.

It’s “flicking” links to new tabs and the web developer’s toolbar that keeps me committed.

by: Paul

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:18:54 +0000

Great blog! We are also sending some link love over to tabletology from tabpc.com.

Keep the cool posts coming!

by: Achim

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:08:51 +0000

I just love your blog. Nice to see that there ARE lots of tablet pc fans…

by: Warner Crocker

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:23:10 +0000

My pleasure guys. I love the photos very clever. And, just for the record it’s Warner not Warren. No harm, no foul.

by: Tablet PCs

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:37:11 +0000

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by: Tablet PC

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:30:38 +0000

Reasons to Love Your Tablet PC

tabletology: “All these years I never knew I was a visual/spatial thinker forced to live in a linear tree-structured computer world”

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by: Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2

Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:46:52 +0000

Tablet PC Thoughts From Near And Far

I enjoy reading (and linking to) the enthusiastic responses of new Tablet PC users. Occasionally a new tidbit of info pops and it’s always a good day when you learn something new. I also take a look at those who