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Exclusive: Writing's on wall for Mac OS X
News Mac users may soon be drawing that conclusion, thanks to forthcoming pen input software from Apple. Besides interpreting users' hand-printed text, sources said, InkWell will enable them to perform a variety of operations -- from opening and closing...
[July 27, 2000, 8:34]
Tablet flaw hard to swallow
News Over time, the panel that handles pen input eats up more and more of a system's resources, choking off computing power needed for other programs. The feature in question, known as the Tablet Input Panel, or TIP, was overhauled in the latest version...
[February 10, 2005, 8:20]
Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook T4010C review
Reviews Turn the screen around 180 degrees, lay it down flat, and the lid falls into its usual place, but with the screen outermost ready for pen-based input. XGA unit with the extra reflectivity common to Tablet PC screens because of the digitizer (for...
[February 7, 2005, 13:00]
OneNote 2003 Beta 2 review
Reviews When you write with a Tablet PC's pen, OneNote lets you display your input as cursive script (handwriting) or in a conventional screen font. Your OneNote notes can therefore be as rich as their paper-based counterparts, which makes this program...
[March 10, 2003, 16:17]
SpeedScript 2.0
Downloads Smart Writing SystemDesigned specifically for mobile devices, after only a short time SpeedScript will have you writing faster than with any standard input method.SpeedScript features the blue window that enables you to write 50 percent of all...
[July 21, 2008, 8:00]
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 review
Reviews An interactive 'Get going with Tablet PC' tour explains how to navigate menus with the pen and how to use the Input Panel to enter text. The big difference with this version of XP is the Input Panel, which lets you use the pen to enter text into...
[September 30, 2005, 0:00]
Dell Latitude XT review
Reviews This is a convertible Tablet PC that's likely to be carried around for significant periods of time in 'screen outermost' mode, ready for pen input. The main power button is here, along with a bank of four that access Outlook, initiate system log...
[June 17, 2008, 12:22]
The incredible shrinking PC
News The specialised version of Windows XP for tablets -- called Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition -- comes with pen input and handwriting recognition. IBM recently phased out its ThinkPad TransNote, a machine that captures handwriting jotted with...
[May 23, 2002, 10:43]
Tablet PC gets a boost from Dell veterans
News Tablet PC software, developed by Microsoft, seeks to provide a new take on an old idea: How to combine a Windows-based "pen tablet" and a notebook computer. Microsoft hopes to counter sceptics with a version of its Windows XP operating system that...
[May 21, 2002, 7:32]
Wacom Graphire3 Studio XL review
Reviews Sensibly, the tablet's default configuration is pen mode for the pen and mouse mode for the mouse, switching automatically as you change input device. You can't ask for more from an input device than perfect transparency, and when it comes to pen...
[February 18, 2004, 10:00]
Tablet PCs starting to take off
News IBM dropped the TransNote, a ThinkPad that had let users input notes by writing on a paper pad with a special pen. Nontraditional" portables, such as Fujitsu's current line of Stylistic pen tablets, have captured a fraction of the market and are...
[June 21, 2002, 14:35]
Tablet PC productivity tips review
Reviews In the Control Panel, choose Tablet and pen setting'. Take out the stylus, select thick red from the pen menu, and edit the document. Spend a few minutes going through the tutorials, especially the one for the Tablet PC Input Panel, the main...
[December 8, 2005, 12:00]
Sony Ericsson P800 review
Reviews In this pen-based mode, users can also access the P800's full list of applications. Thankfully, the P800's flip cover/keypad can be discarded altogether so the phone can be used in pen-based mode. In this position, this keypad becomes the primary...
[January 28, 2003, 10:40]
PenReader Touch for Windows Mobile
Downloads Super-fast recognition of pen strokes from any application window in order to increase efficiency and speed. PenReader Touch recognizes text written at any place on the screen and pastes it to the current cursor position Customizable pen width and...
[November 27, 2008, 7:00]
Pen pioneer sues Microsoft
News While Microsoft's original pen-enabled version of Windows stirred little interest, the company has continued to pursue handwriting recognition as a means of computer input, most recently with its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition.
[July 4, 2005, 9:20]
Tablet PC speaks in tongues, but not all
News The software giant has been touting the idea of pen-based computing for years and has been pitching Tablet PC at the past two Fall Comdex trade shows. When it comes to Asian languages, though, pen-based computing takes on a level of practicality.
[September 25, 2002, 8:03]
Nokia 7710 USB Modem AT
Downloads Nokia 7710 USB Modem AT: Wide screen with pen input Handwriting recognition HTML browser supports Flash 6 Up to 90 MB internal memory, 128 MB MMC card 1.23 Megapixel carmera (1280 x 960) Music player with stereo audio Audio and video playback...
[January 10, 2005, 7:00]
Landscape
Downloads The utility implements standard PalmSource Pen Input Manager API 1.1. Mobile Stream utility Landscape allows to use very popular Sony CLIE NX/NZ/TH series models in landscape mode. Practically this means that any application that works in landscape...
[September 11, 2007, 8:00]
The Multimodal Presentation Dashboard
White Papers The multimodal presentation dashboard allows users to control and browse presentation content such as slides and diagrams through a multimodal interface that supports speech and pen input. For example, if the user says "Get me a slide about...
[May 29, 2009, 1:19]
Decuma Alphabetic handwriting recognition
Downloads Decuma Alphabetic is a new concept for handwritten input, modeled closely to actual writing with pen on paper. A single input area is used for writing and presenting recognized letters and for editing the text.
[November 19, 2005, 7:00]
