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The other day, I had a chance to check out the Live Messenger beta on a fellow developer's machine here at SnapStream.  Sadly, we mostly just sat there making fun of it.  There are so many things wrong with it I don't really know where to begin.DownloadingWell, actually, I do know where to begin, because it's my job.  Maybe we ...

Eric Mack (well known for Getting Things Done and Tablet PC's) is asking about using external monitors with a Tablet PC. Here's my advice...if sticking to the traditional approach of hooking up an external monitor to the tablet is favored, then just go with a 1900x1200 LCD.  You can't go higher without the dual link DVI interface. If Eric ...

I bought a Toshiba M200 about two months ago.  The special thing about the M200 is that, unlike most notebooks, it is a convertible Tablet PC. What prompted me to do this?  Two things.  One, my main laptop broke, so I needed a replacement and it got me thinking about where I needed to upgrade.  Two, I needed to sketch and ...

Interestingly, there's a blog post from Frank La Vigne describing how a list of approximately 3000 words known as obscenities won't be shown as potential choices to the user. I wonder if this applies to the actual handwriting recognition.  I don't know if you've ever worked with folks in their mid-20's to 30's, but it's quite frequent for ...

Not exactly a banner day for the Internet, but not a bad day over here at rkuo.com.  The 60GB Hitachi Travelstar now in my Tablet PC is, in fact, close to as quiet as the old 40GB Travelstar and way more quiet than the Toshiba 80GB drive that I briefly tried in my last post. As a completely unexpected bonus, battery life appears to have ...

The following is my humble entry to Rob Bushway's ''Win your own DocuPen RC800'' contest. I think the problem with most of the comments I've read so far is that they all focus on why scanning is good.  A lot of what has been mentioned already can be done with existing scanners.  This is the Docupen RC800 from Planon, folks! It is ...

Lora Heiny asks ''What display resolution do you prefer?''  Well, it certainly depends on a number of things.  First of all, it's not so much the resolution as it is the DPI (dots per inch) that people care about.   All other things being equal, I, and I suspect most people, would love as much screen space as possible and the ...