Have fun with Photo! Editor

I can’t imagine the amount of good freeware that is around the web and that you don’t know about it. This is the case of Photo! Editor, a program that allows you no only to take your pictures and make them perfect but to create some funny caricatures.

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Viliv S7

Chippy from UMPCPortal has found at IDF a new UMPC that will be released in the first quarter of 2009. This one has a shape of a mini Tablet PC with a 7 inches display and will use an Atom processor. I hope that it uses the dual core Atom announced yesterday by Intel. That would be nice.

           

TEO 3 is free

I don’t know how I have missed this news about one of the best Tablet PC Applications I have ever tested.

Tablet Enhancements for Outlook 3 has recently been changed for a commercial application to a free for all software program that adds much needed tablet PC support to Microsoft Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook 2007. It runs on a wide variety of hardware including Tablet PCs, UMPCs (Ultra Mobile PCs) or an Origami device running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or Windows Vista.

Via ghacks

           

iHangMan for UMPCs and Tablet PCs now Freeware

A short note to say that I have decided to unlock iHangman  and release it as freeware.

HangMan is one of older Paper Games known. According to Wikipedia Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two players. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters.

This is a version of the game prepared for UMPCs and Tablet PCs where the computer thinks the word and it’s our task to guess it. The game comes with 3 lists of words, the main list of around 1000 words, the list of Capitals of Countries and the List of Countries names. You can create your own list of words in a TXT file adding one word per row, this feature makes the games virtually new every time that you add a new list of words to be used by the program. This game is a perfect tool to practice your handwriting with the Tablet PC recognizer. You can also use it as a learning tool to teach your kids new words making the learning process a big fun.

Tweaks2k2.com - iHangMan for UMPCs and Tablet PCs

           

Intel Video driver for P1610

Fujitsu’s Laptops, UMPCs and Tablet PCs are one of the best in the market, no questions about it, but at the same time Fujitsu’s Drivers Support is the worse I have seen in a long time. To give you an idea, the Intel video driver for the P1610 listed at Fujitsu web site is from early 2007 and the latest Intel Driver for the 945GM is from June 2008. But wait a minute. That latest driver from Intel does not work well in Fujitsu’s P series. It causes a processor overload every time you turn on the unit or when you rotate the screen. That overload cost you around a minute of your time waiting for getting control of your tablet.

Anyway… I found yesterday that there is a newer video driver at Fujitsu Siemens support web site if you look under P1620. The version number is 7.14.10.1329. I installed and I find it working a little better than the latest one listed under the P1610 which is version 7.14.10.1147.

Oh… I updated the list of drivers installed on my P1610, in case anyone wants to compare.

           

GottabeMobile got ink!

Yes, GottabeMobile, one of the most important sites about Tablet PC got ink support in its forum thanks to a collaboration with TodoUMPC, the European site about UMPC.

In this way GottabeMobile becomes the first forum in English with Ink support in the whole world!

           

Gigabyte M912 video review

Chippy at UMPCPortal has shot a video review of the Gigabyte M912 mini Tablet.

He will be writing about this machine for a while so keep visiting his page for more information.

           

Get more from your small speakers

One of the features that I liked from my Samsung Q1 was the sound quality. The Q1 was prepared with drivers with SRS capability. Yesterday browsing the web I found that you can get the same sound quality in any UMPC or Netbook by just installing SRS Audio SandBox.

The SRS Audio Sandbox was designed recognizing audio has become more important as many people use their PC for entertainment, both at home and on the road. With SAS you can customize your audio experience based on music, movie, video or game content.

Let me tell you… the sound on my P1610 was just horrible and after installing this program I enjoyed playing music again like I did before in my old Samsung Q1. Fantastic! A Must Have!

           

Diving with a Tablet

If you though that you have seen everything that can be done to a Tablet PC or you can do with one of them… You are wrong! Check this video.

           

Gigabyte M912, EU Pricing and Availability

I don’t know if I should be publishing this after the news of this device not been available for our American readers.  Something hard to digest even 24 hours after I read the news. Anyway… Chippy has some really good news for our European friends about the different models and prices for this device that seem to be one of the best options for this Summer.

           

Gigabyte M912V

Gigabyte is going to surprise us with a new netbook running Vista this Summer.

Featuring a 8.9-inch WXGA touch screen display that can be rotated 180 degrees to transform into a tablet pc, the M912V adopts 160GB SATA HDD, a 1.3M camera and LED backlight. 4GB SSD and HSDPA support are optional.

No words at Aving USA about what processor will be using this machine. I just hope that it’s a Core Solo… at least.

           

Kohjinsha SX Series: 8.9 inch convertible with DVD drive

If you are thinking about to buy a mini Tablet PC the Kohjinsha SX could be the one you are looking for. This mini Tablet is fully loaded with all you need in a device even with this small size. 

8.9 inch 1280 * 768 touch screen
Intel ® Atom ™ processor Z520 (1.33GHz) with 1GB RAM
60GB HDD
Super Multi-DVD drive
Wifi and Ethernet
Dual cams
ExpressCard/34 slot
Micro-SD, SD/MMC and Memory Stick
USB2.0 x 2
VGA out
4.2 hours battery life with standard battery
8.2 hours battery life with extended battery
225mm * 185mm * 22/33mm, 1250g

Via: jkkmobile

           

QuikMaps

QuikMaps is apparently a new service coming soon and currently in beta. This site allows users to create maps with the ability of writing notes or drawing lines in these maps. A really good tool for Tablet PC and UMPC owners.

           

Flybook V5 available in USA

The Flybook V5 is available at Flybook site for North America. This mini Tablet has about the same spec than the Fujitsu P1620 but the Flybook cost a lot more, around 3000 dollars.

Even when this device is aiming clearly to the business market it seems to me that is a little bit over priced. Probably because they added actual gold to the paint, don’t you think

Via Wired.

           

P1610: The latest driver is not always the best

Drivers play a very important role in the performance of any device. I often have seen people reporting that it takes up to 5 minutes and even more to boot Vista and I always though it was just exaggerations of these persons because in my Samsung Q1 with a Celeron at 900 MHz I was booting in about 2 mins. But all that changed when I got my Fujitsu P1610.

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