Use Windows Meeting Space to Mirror Your Tablet PC to a Projector

wnewquay — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:17:00 GMT

I use my Tablet PC when I do public speaking. I like to use it to display and build MindMaps using MindManager or draw diagrams with SketchBook Pro. This should be very straightforward, but it gets interesting when I want to display my Tablet PC with a projector, and to walk around the room at the same time. (Try that with at conventional laptop machine).

I have been using MaxiVista for this application for years. (see: Wireless Presentations with a Tablet PC with MaxiVista)

MaxiVista has been great but there are some issues with Vista. You can work around them, but when I got an Toshiba M700, I thought it would be worthwhile to consider some Vista based alternatives.

Just a note: MaxiVista works well on XP or in an environment where one machine is running Vista, and the other is not. You have to been running an XDDM video driver on the Tablet PC if it is running Windows Vista.

Windows Meeting Space

If you are running Windows Vista on your Tablet PC and have Vista on a desktop PC attached to a projector then consider using Windows Meeting Space to connect the two machines and mirror your Tablet PC on the Desktop PC and from there, display it on the projector. It is very quick to set up, and in my testing it has been really stable.

The quick overview:

Start Windows Meeting Space on both PCs.
Create a meeting and "join" it.
On the Tablet PC - Share your desktop

I have set out more detailed notes for this in: Windows Meeting Space to Mirror Your Tablet PC on a Projector

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MindManager® 7 - May 30, 2007

wnewquay — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:30:00 GMT

I have been using mind maps for decades. In 1999 I found MindManager. It became my personal productivity tool of choice. And as soon as there was a version for the Tablet PC - MindManager was the killer app that let me to get my first Tablet PC. And isn't that the definition of a 'killer app'? An application so compelling that you buy hardware to allow you to use it.

To this day, I use MindManager daily.

Generate new ideas
Planning for all but the most trivial documents and tasks
Taking notes
Presentations

Head on over to MindJet.com and find out about the soon to be released MindManager® 7.

I can't wait.

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Use Windows Meeting Space to Mirror Your Tablet PC to a Projector

Windows Meeting Space

MindManager® 7 - May 30, 2007