Education Pack includes five programs to help you excel at school. (watch Emily Rimas’s video at the bottom of this page)

 

• Equation Writer – Handwrite a math equation, and then convert it into a neatly typewritten image.
• GoBinder Lite – Keep track of your schedule to jot down quick reminders about class schedules, project deadlines, and extracurricular activities.
• Hexic Deluxe – This full-featured puzzle game has a new spin, by allowing you to rotate pieces easily with your tablet pen.
• Ink Flash Cards – Create flash cards to help you learn facts or study for an exam.
• Send to OneNote 2003 – Keep all of your class notes and research in one place, by sending web pages, pictures, and other files to OneNote, and annotate or highlight them with your tablet pen.

Experience Pack contains six programs to be more productive and creative (watch Dustin Hubbard’s video at the bottom of this page) 

 

• Ink Desktop – Take notes directly on your desktop for quick and easy access later.
• Snipping Tool –  Use your tablet pen to select a portion of a website, document, or other content on your screen.
• Ink Art – Paint with your tablet pen using Ink Art, which simulates an artist’s toolset.
• Media Transfer – Copy or stream media files from your home computer to your Tablet PC.
• Ink Crossword – Solve crossword puzzles with your tablet pen.
• Energy Blue Theme Pack – Customized Tablet PC desktop, Start menu, windows, toolbars and Windows Media Player skin.

Enhancement Pack includes the five most popular programs from the Experience Pack and the Education, released for the English operating system. The Enhancement Pack is available in: Chinese Simplified & Traditional, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean & Spanish.

• Ink Desktop
• Snipping Tool
• Send to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
• Hexic Deluxe for Tablet PC
• Energy Blue Theme

  UTILITES & UPDATES 

Getting Started with C# Development for the Tablet PC - This hand-on lab introduces the features and benefits of developing applications for Tablet PC form factor. You create a Windows Form application that is a physician's prescription pad. The application demonstrates manipulating basic ink properties, collecting ink, rendering ink, and exposing handwriting recognition functionality.

 

InkListBox is a custom control that extends the ListBox class with ink functionality for managed Windows Forms.

 

InkWebPublisher sample C# code illustrates how to create and transform ink content from your application into interactive HTML Web pages. Includes information about implementing alt text and rollover functionality for ink.

 

Journal Reader Supplemental Component for Tablet PC Development Kit provides programmatic read access to files in the Journal format. This simple component takes a stream containing a Journal file and returns a stream containing the file’s content in XML format.

 

Mobile Ink To-Do Starter Kit contains a semi-transparent form for taking notes and keeping them synchronized through a Web Service. It also supports battery awareness and online and offline data, two key features of a great Mobile PC Visual Basic & C# applications.

Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Pack Update is for users who already have installed the Windows XP Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Pack. This updates menus, dialog boxes, Help files, and tutorials from one language to any of the 20 supported languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.

Office 2003 Update improves ink recognition when using Office 2003 on your Tablet PC.

Office XP Pack enables you to write directly with your tablet pen in Office XP documents.

Recognizer Pack adds international handwriting recognizers for: Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), U.S. English, U.K. English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.

Software Development Kit (SDK) facilitates building ink-enabled, pen-enabled, and speech-enabled applications and supporting hardware for the Tablet PC. [Tablet PC Ink Explorer (projects written in C#)]  

Art Tool – Use this coloring book and your imagination to create pictures using a variety of included templates.

 

Calculator – An updated pen based calculator for writing the numbers for calculations.

 

Dictionary Tool – Improve your handwriting recognition results by customizing the dictionary to interpret your handwriting.

 

Drawing Animator Toy – Lets you draw your own doodles and animate them, including picture rotation, bounce, and more.

 

eBooks Reader – Offers a digital version of printed books using Microsoft's ClearType technology (meaning its very easy to read, even on a tiny screen).

 

Energy Blue TabletPC Desktop Theme

 

Extended Desktop –  Allows you to use the tablet pen to access the portion of the extended desktop that displays on an external monitor.

 

Handwriting Analysis Tool – Examines the characteristics of the your handwriting and reports what it reflects about the your personality.

 

Hold Tool – Turn off the press and hold functionality for certain controls. Scrollbars, push buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, spinner controls, slider controls, and tab controls will respond immediately when the pen tip touches them.

 

Ink Screen Saver – Use your pen to create a personalized ink screensaver!

 

InkSeine – offers the unique ability to search for files directly from ink without transcribing queries to a search box or a separate search application. With InkSeine, you can circle a handwritten phrase within your notes to create a query. The query persists in place as an icon that gets saved in perpetuity, just like any other part of your notes.

 

My Font Tool – Turns your handwriting into a true type font and allows you to use it in any program.

 

Physics Illustrator brings your drawings to life with a motion simulator for the Tablet PC. Simply draw two-dimensional bodies, connect them in various ways and apply forces, then watch as animation makes the bodies move, collide, and interact. ("Non-Genuine” Authorization Version)

Power Paint Tool – Sketch, paint and draw creating pictures in layers based upon the pressure from your stylus.

Shopping List is a simple ink-enabled list that uses gestures to add and remove items.

Thumbnail View – Navigate and quickly preview your journal files.

Web Search Power Tool – Allows searching the Web using Tablet's inking capabilities.

Writing Practice Tool – Help your children practice their writing skills by practicing writing words, then watching as the letters animate to show a picture of the word.  

GAMES 

BETA! Arcs of Fire is the first game to be developed that utilizes the Tablet PC Game SDK.  Arcs Of Fire makes heavy use of pen functionality during game play.

Dots! – An interactive strategy game (1 or 2 player) with the objective: Connect four adjacent dots with the pen to form a complete square.

Euclidean Crisis is a multiplayer real-time strategy game where players control a diverse team of units on a two-dimensional battlefield, and must destroy their opponents' energy cores while protecting their own. Players tell units where to go by drawing out paths, and give orders using special gestures and voice activated commands. The game is rendered in a retro aesthetic featuring simple shapes (hence the origin of the title) in a world with colorful, psychedelic visual effects synced to the music.

Hoop Strategy – Build your own strategy to get the ball in the hoop. Draw a path and be creative—but keep in mind that gravity, velocity, and trajectory will play a big part in your success.

Letteris – A Tetris-like game of cascading letters and words, where letters fall from the top of the screen and start stacking at the bottom. You must make words using those letters and get points based on how many words you can guess.

Maze Game – Escape this maze as fast as you can by using your pen to draw a line from start to finish.

Phraseology – Similar to the popular TV game show "Wheel of Fortune," Phraseology presents pieces of sentences along with a category name. To win you must guess the correct phrase, letter by letter, using ink!

Pool – Using your tablet pen, compete against the computer or another person, or against another Tablet PC user across a wired or wireless network.

Puzzle Game –  Drag and click jigsaw puzzle pieces together using the tablet pen. You can also create customized puzzles of different levels of difficulty.

Tic Tac Toe – The “classic” game.

Word Search – Challenge yourself with the Tablet PC version of the Word Search Game. Create games using your own choice of words and difficulty levels!

Writing Recognition – To score points, write the letters before they hit the ground. The higher your score goes, the faster the letters drop. 

FOR MUSICIANS 

Music Composition Tool – Create and play your own music files. Use your pen to write notes on the staff and then play your tune.

Sheet Music Templates – To use this stationery after you download it, on the New task pane, under Stationery, click New from stationery. In the Stationery task pane, under Add a page, click to open the stationery collection, and then click the page you want to use. 

Bass Clef

Drums

Organ

Piano

Treble Clef

Vocal (4 Part)

Interactive Tour of Tablet PC features and accessories

Newsgroup for discussions in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 

Channel 9 Video Interviews 

Susan Cameron demonstrates the Tablet PC Power Toy

Dustin Hubbard demonstrates the Tablet PC Experience Pack

Bert Keely is one of the visionaries behind the Tablet PC

Peter Loforte of the Tablet PC team shows what's cool!

Burt Parker of the Tablet PC team shows surprising uses

Emily Rimas - Tablet PC Education Pack revealed

Tetsuo Seto demonstrates tablet pc multi-language features

Michael Tsang writer of drivers for Tablet PC's digitizer.

David Winkler about his role as “coder” on the Tablet PC team.  

NEW! Presentations

Design Considerations and User Experience Guidelines - Gain an understanding of all of the software design considerations that you should think about when building your Tablet PC functionality. Learn about topics such as handling screen orientation changes, handedness considerations, and UI optimizations for stylus-based interaction.

Ink Recognition - In Depth -- Find out everything you need to know to use the handwriting recognition APIs in the Tablet PC Platform. You will even learn how to use the APIs to build correction UI with such features as enumerating recognition results and interacting between results and Ink.

Enhancing Productivity with Tablet PCs at Microsoft (DOC or PPT)

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