It’s free and it contains six add-ons to your Tablet PC. From the web page:
Ink Desktop
Take notes directly on your desktop for quick and easy access later. Jot down a phone number, directions, or top priorities for the day.
Snipping Tool
Use your tablet pen to select a portion of a website, document, or other content on your screen. You can add handwritten comments and then paste it into an e-mail message or other program.
Ink Art
Paint with your tablet pen using Ink Art, whi …
Newest information about those TabletPC issues in CDS versions up to this point: James Kendrick reports that Copernic has made a new interim version available for TabletPC users. James says he’s been testing it for a day without any issues. Note that this release doesn’t have any changes apart from the fix for the flickering TIP on TabletPCs. Here’s the direct download link which you can also find in James’s post: Copernic Desktop Search 1.5 build for Tablet PC owners …
Copernic Desktop Search has had its version 1.5 released. I’ve had a look at it to see if maybe some of my suggestions from my article What I’d like to see in Copernic Desktop Search have made it into the final version. Unfortunately, there’s doesn’t seem to be any information on changes that have been made since the beta version, so it’s easy to miss something. Dear Copernic guys, maybe you could publish some more information on changes you make during development cycles?
CDS ca …
Well, I don’t. I never switch off my computer and I never quit the utilities that are running on it all the time. There may be better reasons for this than I have, but these are mine: I use it 14 hours a day anyway, and to boot my 3.4 GHz Athlon 64 system from a cold state into Windows XP, with all the tools running, it takes 19 minutes, that’s no exaggeration. In this context, there’s something I absolutely hate: most applications, even small ones, have routines these days that run “regularly” …
I just read a blog entry titled A word from the “Wise”: Don’t Use Exceptions on Alex Papadimoulis’ weblog. He describes in great length how a so-called MVP had told him that using exceptions was a bad idea and continues to prove in ten points why he doesn’t believe it. Well, not.
The only thing Alex proves is that he didn’t remotely understand what that MVP guy was (probably, I’m only guessing here, of course) talking about. The most important hint is one that Alex misses completely: The MVP s …
Many things change with the decision to work with purely object-oriented data in a specific situation. The outlook seems good: business processes and rules will be much easier to implement, completely typed data will be no problem at all and there’ll be no more structural problems trying to accomodate clumsy handling of records and rows in an otherwise OO application structure. There’ll be an object/relational mapping tool that takes care of all the persistence issues. There’s one thing though …
How do you do screenshots? Is there anybody who doesn’t do them these days? It just occurred to me that I never wrote about my program of choice for this task, SnagIt.
Obviously, some of us may be happy using the built-in Windows functions via the Print Screen key. But there’s a lot more that can be done with proper screen capturing software. I went to evaluate quite a lot of them before deciding to use SnagIt, but most failed at the simple tasks… like work …
Most people working with WinForms have probably encountered that red X that is drawn over a control at some point and just doesn’t go away as long as the application is running. Originally, I had a look at the source of this some months ago and now, when I saw a relating question again, I thought I might document my findings here.
Note that I did that research with .NET 1 and I haven’t checked for .NET 2 yet, so in the latter case YMMV. So where does the re …