I can't believe I didn't see this sooner. Great work Loren!!! Silverlight client that sends ink back to a recognition server and then uses the results. Brilliant!

http://www.tabletpcpost.com/search/

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In a pretty slick marketing effort, Samsung has enlisted the help of Sam to show why you need a Q1 too! Check out the videos!

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Novmeber 7, 2002....[READ MORE]]

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According to Gavin:

Tablet PC: The InkAnalysis API has RTM’d and the download is LIVE!

"new InkAnalysis API which integrates layout analysis with handwriting recognition (and exposes new capabilities and features). So far, I’ve pointed developers to the “Windows Vista SDK for RC1” to install the InkAnalysis API. I’m very excited to announce that the InkAnalysis API has now RTM’d and can be installed via the new addendum to the last  Tablet PC Platform SDK (1.7). This new release is called the “Input Supplement” and its version is 1.7.5."

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An absolute must see on Loren's blog for tablet PC users, a web based search supporting ink input from a tablet pc.

Great job Loren!

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 One of the items on my list of things to do before heading to PDC was to install the latest Vista Beta available through MSDN. Today I noticed that recently the Tablet PC Input Panel (TIP) for Vista has also been released recently, which was the final push I needed to install the Vista on my Toshiba M200 Tablet PC.

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Julie Lerman shows off the result of combining MSN Virtual Earth and web based Tablet PC Ink.

http://www.thedatafarm.com/virtualearth/

[Images are from MSN Virtual Earth]

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New Download on Microsoft.com: Microsoft Tablet PC TIP Update

Info on the Tablet PC TIP update to fix the memory leak bug as posted on What Is New

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If you have a Tablet PC, you need to check out this great list of resources!

If you don't have a Tablet PC, you need to check out this great list of resources, and after realizing all of the things that you could do if only you had a Tablet PC, GO BUY ONE!

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Tablet PC Super Star Julia Lerman has done it again, leading the way with Ink on the web. While I'm no artist, being able to do this is pretty darn cool and has some very cool development possibilities. [Special thanks to the Tablet PC team for making this ossible in the first place.] If you wish you had a Tablet PC so you could try this, go buy one! If you've never seen a Tablet PC in action, go find somebody that has one and ask to see it.

 Check this out:

[No crayons were injured in the creation of this image]

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The Tablet PC Edition 2005 SDK 1.7 to be used with Windows XP SP2 is available HERE

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Where is all of the TabletPC sample code? Is it just me, or excluding the SDK from Microsoft, is there very little source code floating around for creating applications on the  Tablet PC? Just for giggles, do a Google search on “using Microsoft.Ink”. You’ll likely get between 100 and 150 hits. Not to put that in perspective, search for “using System.Windows.Forms” and take a look at the 11,000+ hits you get on that one!

Now don’t get me wrong here, Microsoft has put together a very good SDK with some great examples, but it’s hard to find a lot more than that. If anybody knows of some good sources of example code to learn from, please let me know! In seeing this, one of my goals is to try and post more useful code relating to Tablet PC development. It’s my hope also to encourage others to do the same.

Here are a few of the better links that I have found:

• Creating Tablet PC Applications with VS.Net – Code Magazine
• Creating Custom Ink Enabled Components - .Net Developers Journal
• Tablet PC Articles - Leszynski Group
• Master the Pen Using Ink Controls in Your Tablet Applications – DevX
• Ink Based Animation Editor - AniEd
• Microsoft Tablet PC Platform SDK
• Tablet PC Capstone - University of Washington

Stay tuned for some Ink code!

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After spending the last month getting to know my Tablet PC I've decided that I need to make some time to start writing some code for. Moving to a Tablet has been a great experience and has opened a world of opportunities to me.

Since the helloworld of ink seems to involve taking a picture, adding some text and doing something with it, I've set my mind on creating postcards. Living some 3000 miles from the majority of my friends, family, and co-workers I always enjoy sending images from my digital camera. So here begins my journey in ink....

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Loren over at Incremental Blogger has posted a screen shot of WebCamNotes, an ink blogging application and a few others like Julia Lerman are working on them as well. I think the concept of ink blogging is extremely cool. As somebody that believes very strongly about the potential of that tablet pc, I think ink is a great format of input, but I have mixed feelings about the posting ink as an image. While there are certainly some fine examples of expression through the pen, there are issues with two of the best things about blogs are the power of search engines and RSS. I strongly buy into the Scoble view of news aggregators as the only way to read blogs effectively.

Now if we could effectively use ALT image tags to hold the converted text of the ink and hopefully help with the search engines. Another option would be do have blog engines return text to searches. I don't know if this would work well enough or not, at least until somebody creates a search engine that could somehow index and search “digital ink” like is capable within OneNote, but I think we're far from this. The second thing would be for a news aggregator to read this as well and optionally display the text.

For now I think that we're left with Ink Blogging being cool, but a few issues need to be worked out.

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It's official, I need to learn to print better and I've actively started developing with a Tablet PC. So far the TabletPC Developer site that has recently moved to GotDotNet seems to be about the best source of developer information for .Net and the Tablet PC. If there are others, please share.

My choosen developmet platform is the new Toshiba M200 which I'm very happy with so far. There are a number of great reviews out their already so I'll spare the details unless somebody asks for my opinion.

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