Mobile PC (Tablet PC) - Thoughts and Ideas : TIP

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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Inker - vs - ActiveWords part II

wnewquay — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:18:00 GMT

Wow,

Pete at ActiveWords support spotted one of my postings about this conflict and wrote to me to suggest turning off the ActiveWords Buffer. Did you catch that? This was a proactive support response. I was going to wait for a response from the Inker developers before troubling the folks at ActiveWords. They were onto this before I asked.

Pete wrote:

To turn off the ActiveWord buffer -

From the ActiveWords MonitorBar Menu, select "Options...".

Select the tab "Operating Mode".

Press the "Advanced..." button.

Check "Disable ActiveWord buffer".

Close the "Options" dialog.

NOTE: When working with the ActiveWords Buffer turned off, you may need to pause your typing when executing a "Text Substitution" ActiveWord to avoid character overlapping.

In some limited testing this morning, this seems to be working.

Thanks to Pete at ActiveWords.

I should mention that the Tablet Input Panel (TIP) works fine with ActiveWords running (without the modification) I was going to wait to see what the people at Inker were going to do about this in their next build. See: Inker Users Discussion.

Inker - vs - ActiveWords

wnewquay — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:18:00 GMT

Inker seems not to work when ActiveWords is running. Specifcally, text that is recognized in the Inker window does not get inserted properly in the target application. This would be a very tough call for me if I had to choose between one or the other. As soon as my account in the Inker discussion group is approved, I will post about the incompatibility there.

Inker - a replacement for the TIP (Tablet Input Panel)?

wnewquay — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:11:00 GMT

Inker - from ATOZED software

This looks very interesting. It is still in beta with plenty of issues being discussed on their Inker-Users discussion on Yahoo Groups.

Here is an excerpt from the website. It certainly bears watching.

What is Inker?

Inker is a replacement for the Windows pen input system. Inker is more efficient to use and more customizable than TIP.

Inker includes all of the functionality of TIP and more, however Inker and TIP can run side by side. Installing and using Inker does not disable or remove TIP, however we suggest you turn off the automatic pop up features of TIP.

Inker uses the same writing recognition engine as TIP does, however Inker focuses on reducing pen clicks for input and corrections through a streamlined user interface. Inker is written in C# and WPF.