Saturday, July 12, 2008

The Tablet PC

I recently took a tumble (anyone who knows me will tell you I am clumsy) and hurt my right arm. Needless to say this is not good if you and a computer geek. Fortunately at the same time I was trading out my Dell 1720 for a new dell lattitude XT. So I am actually writing this blog entry. Literally! I am using the handwriting recognition features of the tablet PC.

So far I am very impressed. The tablet does a better job reading my handwriting they some of my friends do (hi joe!). It is interesting that it reads my writing better then my printing. For some reason all those years I actually thought my printing was easier to read then my writing. Guess I was wrong. I am pretty sure I actually can write faster than I can type.  This as is kind of sad knowing ] have made my living writing computer programs for the last 30 years.

I will have to bring up my visual studio 2008 environment and see how easy it is to code this way. l should point out I am doing this all on Vista Ultimate. I did not like Tablet XP any where as much as Vista.