JK mentioned ritePen on his recent podcast and, having just installed it, I have to concur. It's a "must have" for the Tablet. When in pen mode, it essentially allows you to write anywhere on the screen and have that ink converted into text inside the active application. This is something I would have expected to be native to the Tablet OS but... oh well, I guess that's the strength of the Microsoft model for their partners. They sometimes leave so many basic things out of their products, partners get to fill in the gaps. Of course, it sucks for customers to have to pay extra for stuff that should have been part of the basic product (oh you wanted wheels with you car, Mr Reilly? sorry, that's extra). Guess we shouldn't complain though. At least we have the Tablet in the first place. Thank you, Sir Bill.
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
um. might I direct you to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/tabletpc/learnmore/vanwest_03july15wa.mspx
I believe this is meant to do what you're suggesting, and it's in the box.
Posted by: Adam Bomb | Thursday, March 03, 2005 at 05:52 AM
not sure why the URL got truncated, trying again.
"http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/tabletpc/learnmore/vanwest_03july15wa.mspx"
Posted by: Adam bomb | Thursday, March 03, 2005 at 05:54 AM
weird. just append ".mspx" to the url. Don't know why it's getting chopped off.
Posted by: Adam Bomb | Thursday, March 03, 2005 at 05:55 AM
The Write Anywhere functionality was dropped in favor of the new TIP icon and floating input panel when Tablet PC 2005 Edition was released.
Posted by: Marc Orchant | Thursday, March 03, 2005 at 08:18 AM