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Happy holidays, Everybody ^_^

30 December 2006 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Blog Related

I hope everyone’s taking this holiday time to spend some time with family and friends. I know I have, and I’m loving every minute of it.

So keep safe, keep happy, count your blessings, and spend some time with the ones you love this holiday season. This site, and all the others you’re surfing right now, can wait ^_^.

Vista, here I come!

27 December 2006 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tracy's Updates

Today I got in the mail a little box from Microsoft that enclosed, you guessed it, Windows Vista. Cool!

As soon as I get a chance, I’ll be installing it on my little Motion LE1600 to see how the two get along. My brother also wants to see how Vista works for gaming on his new system, so may have some comments from him at some point, too.

I am interested to see how Vista works on what I consider an average performance computer (1.5 GHz with an average graphics card). I do have a little “Windows Vista Capable” sticker on the side here, so I don’t doubt it will work, I’m just curious how well it works and what it can do.

Expert Tiny-Writing Cheat Sheets

21 December 2006 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: General Tips, Note-Taking

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a class where the professor has said, “You’re allowed for the test 1 page back and front of whatever you can fit,” and then you spend about five hours with a cramped hand writing in barely legible writing trying to fit twelve pages of notes and homework onto one paper.

I’ve had several of these classes, and while there are many variations (one 3×5 card, 10 pages of anything, 5 pages handwritten only, etc.), the Tablet PC can be a real time saver (or at least a real hand saver), especially if your notes are already digital.

Tagged by Tracy Hooten

20 December 2006 Posted By: Andrew
Posted in: Blog Related

I was tagged by Tracy Hooten in what she describes as “a little game of sharing spreading through the blogosphere.” The goal? Share 5 things you don’t know about me and then tag five more people. Here goes:

1. I was nicknamed “Fergbrain” by Michael Baldwin in 5th grade
2. Before Fergbrain, my nickname was “Bucksnort”
3. Not including school email addresses, I’ve only had two email addresses in 10 years
4. I signed up for my first email address in 5th grade
5. My family ran a hardware store for over a century in Loveland, Colorado

Using Word for more than typing

19 December 2006 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Note-Taking

A post in our forums got me thinking on using Word for more than simple day-to-day typing and actually using it as an ink platform.

Normally, the only thing you use the pen for in Word 2003 or 2007 is for marking up documents or filling in forms. But there’s no reason that’s all you can use it for. If you allow yourself to get past the fact there isn’t any ink handwriting recognition (meaning your ink isn’t searchable), the ink is actually pretty smooth.

Testing Ed’s Ink blog Plug-in

19 December 2006 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Blog Related

Dear Bloggers: What posting software do you use?

19 December 2006 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Blog Related

I’ve been having trouble finding the perfect blogging software to post from. Right now I’m using a FireFox extension called Performancing, but it leaves some features out I’d like.

To all the other bloggers who read this site: what’s your favorite software to blog from that’s not the original editor your platform came with?

I’m looking for one specifically that has image uploading, spell check, categories, formatting, and preferably available offline (like a desktop application). Oh, and WordPress support.

BTW, hooray finals being over!!!! I will say that typing is much harder with all this bling weighing down my left hand. Oh, the agony ;-).

Tagged by Jason Dorko

19 December 2006 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Tracy's Updates

I was tagged by Jason Dorko of DorkoTech in a little game of sharing spreading through the blogosphere. Apparently I have to share 5 thing y’all don’t know about me then tag 5 more people to keep playing. Let’s see…

1. I love Christmas and decorate the wazoo out of everything I can.
2. I think Foo Fighters and Queen rock.
3. I watch House, Bones, and Gilmore Girls religiously.
4. I have two collies that rival Lassie in cuteness (but not usefulness).
5. I hate sleeping and wish I could give it up altogether. Mostly because I hate waking up.
   

OK, in return, I tag 5 other bloggers, right? Sorry if you’ve already been tagged! I’ve been out of the loop for a while.

• Vic Kaiser
• Hugh Sung
• Aaron Hall
• Josh Einstein
• Trevor and Andrew (I’m only counting that as one, since it’s the same site)
  

             

Woohoo!

17 December 2006 Posted By: Andrew
Posted in: News

Congratulations to Tracy! She’s officially engaged!



You are going to use a Tablet PC to read your vows, right?

Quick Journal Tips

15 December 2006 Posted By: Tracy
Posted in: Note-Taking

I recently had a chance to talk to Rob Jarrett from the the Microsoft Journal Development Team and I asked if he had any tips he could share (developers always know some cool tricks ). Thanks, Rob!

I was surprised that some users didn’t know about this, but when in ink or highlighter mode (as opposed to Selection, Insert space, etc.), you can press-and-hold and drag to get a lasso to temporarily go into selection mode. You can manipulate the selection as you would in Selection mode, copy/delete/format/etc., and Journal will revert back to the previous mode once the selection has been cleared (i.e. deselected the ink/text/picture(s)).

Tools Options has an option for extended context menus which adds some useful commands.

You can have different background images/stationery per-page by copying and pasting entire pages from another instance of Journal.

The scratchout gesture is best performed if the zigzags are horizontal in orientation, and the ratio of width/height of the scratchout ink bounds is about 5:1. If I recall, at least 50% of the ink you want erased should be covered by the bounds of the scratchout ink.

Finally, another lesser known capability is in the correction UI (Copy as text), the options button has some options like including carriage returns and such.

Now back to studying for final #3 (two down!)…

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