Happy 40th Birthday, mouse.

On 9th Dec 1968 Doug Engelbart demonstrated what was to become a mouse. Now, as I look round my desk, I have: A kitkat mouse (ball) Trackerball (which I prefer) Wacom tablet & wireless mouse (all 3 of these are connected to my PC) Tablet – trackpad & pointer – fingers also work (it generally…

Ivory towers will fall to digital land grab

A new approach to learning?. Bill Gates has visions of a $400 tablet (wonder if that will end up as £400 in the UK …?) He suggests that “Within four or five years, instead of spending money on textbooks,” he is quoted as saying, “they’ll spend a mere $400 or so buying that tablet device…

Working Smart: PowerPoint’s “Presenter View” This looks useful – I’ve tested it on the Tablet – with Office XP 2003, wonder if it will work in the classrooms with Office 2K?…

Tablet PC

Up and running! I’m so pleased, I’ve got it up and running, following the ideas on this thread at TabletPC Buzz (site down at present, but was there before!) Given that most of the sites I’ve read about the M200 discuss the fact that you can’t use the restore CDs if you don’t have an…

New Year – and poorly tablet PC.

I seem to have been getting rather behind with keeping this upto date – I have got a heap of useful links that I want to comment on, though at present they are just sitting in the “draft” tray. One of the things that I have been trying to sort out is my tablet PC…