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Applications for Tablet PC's (courtesy of Gateway Corp.)

This is a list of software applications which are designed to work on a Tablet PC, or work well with Pen-based navigation.  Some applications are freeware/shareware while others will have costs associated with them.  Typically, most applications will have a trial download allowing you to test the application before you decide to purchase.  This is by no means a comprehensive list of what is available as a commercial application or in the open source community.  It is intended as a starting point. 

  • Microsoft Windows XP Tablet Edition Home Page   

  • Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

    • Art Tool for Tablet PC
    • Calculator for Tablet PC
    • Drawing Animator Toy for Tablet PC
    • Extended Desktop for Tablet PC
    • Handwriting Analysis Tool for Tablet PC
    • Hold Tool for Tablet PC
    • Hoop Strategy Game for Tablet PC
    • Ink Screen Saver for Tablet PC
    • Letteris PowerToy for Tablet PC
    • Maze Game for Tablet PC
    • Microsoft Dots! PowerToy for Tablet PC
    • Microsoft Phraseology PowerToy for Tablet PC

     
    • Microsoft Physics Illustrator for Tablet PC
    • My Font Tool for Tablet PC
    • Pool for Tablet PC
    • Power Paint Tool for the Tablet PC
    • Puzzle Game
    • Tablet PC Music Composition Tool
    • Thumbnail View
    • Tic Tac Toe
    • Web Search Power Tool for Tablet PC
    • Word Search Game for Tablet PC
    • Writing Practice Tool for Tablet PC
    • Writing Recognition Game
     
     
  • Send to OneNote from Internet Explorer   

    This PowerToy adds a Send to OneNote button to the Standard Buttons toolbar in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later. Click this button to copy all or selected parts of a Web page to a new page in OneNote. The new page is created in a Web Clippings section in your notebook. You can keep all copied Web pages in that section, or you can move them to different sections of your notebook after you copy them.

     

  • Send to OneNote from Outlook  

    This PowerToy adds a Send selected item to OneNote button to the Standard toolbar in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. Click this button to copy one or more selected e-mail messages from Outlook to new pages in OneNote. The new pages are created in the section of your notebook that you specify. This PowerToy also provides a OneNote menu that lets you quickly open a new side note, start OneNote, select options for the PowerToy, and more.

     

  • Tablet PC Software Showcase 

    Check out more than one hundred software applications available for the Tablet PC. Search by business department, industry vertical, home use category, and more. (For an optimal viewing experience, set your screen resolution to 1024 x 768 or higher.)

     

  • Experience Pack for Tablet PC
    • Ink Desktop
    • Snipping Tool
    • Ink Art
    • Media Transfer
    • Ink Crossword
    • Energy Blue Theme Pack 

     

  • Education Pack for Tablet PC
    • Ink Flash Cards
    • Equation Writer
    • Send to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
    • GoBinder Lite
    • Hexic Deluxe for Tablet PC

     

  • MS Windows Journal Viewer

This accessory enables users who do not have a computer running Microsoft ® Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition to view files that were created in Microsoft® Windows® Journal on a Tablet PC.

 

  • MS OneNote Home Page
  • DyKnow
    • DyKnow Vision™ software fosters interaction through collaborative note taking, student response tools, content replay, and anywhere, anytime access.  Teachers can use DyKnow Vision to instantly transmit content to student screens for annotation.  DyKnow Vision works with desktops, laptops, Tablet PCs, and interactive whiteboards in fixed, mobile, and distance environments.
    • DyKnow Monitor™ offers a more flexible way to keep a bird’s-eye view of student computers.  Like other computer monitoring and control applications, teachers can use DyKnow Monitor to view thumbnails of student screens, block Internet browsing and other distracting applications, and blank student screens.   What differentiates DyKnow Monitor is efficiency and scalability. Teachers can monitor lab and mobile computers using class rosters, computer locations, or both to identify students. DyKnow Monitor’s design allows for central server management and bandwidth optimization, reducing administrative requirements while allowing hundreds of computers to be monitored in wired and wireless environments.

*Gateway is an authorized reseller of DyKnow.  Please contact your Gateway Sales Representative for additional information.

GoBinder is a powerful application that enables students to learn better and study smarter. GoBinder lets students take notes, using a keyboard or a Tablet, download instructor lectures before class and annotate on top of them. With its unique Digital Paper technology, students can capture Web and native Windows application files, like Word documents and PDFs straight into the GoBinder database. All information and personal notes in GoBinder can searched, making it easy to study for tests or manage research projects.

*Gateway is an authorized reseller of GoBinder, offering volume license discounts.  Please see your sales representative for further details.

Students use Blackboard Backpack as the digital replacement for the fa­miliar three-ring binder. This mobile learning solution helps students or­ganize their notes and assignments and keeps them prepared with an­swers. Blackboard Backpack lets students organize everything under tabs that mirror their Blackboard course environment, so it is famil­iar even the first time they use it. What’s more, because it is such a flexible solution, students can cre­ate their own tabs to organize their personal and extracurricular activi­ties. 

*Gateway is an authorized reseller of Backpack, offering volume license discounts.  Please see your sales representative for further details.

NotateIt software simulates a multi-page 'magnetic' whiteboard on your computer, making it easy to brainstorm, mind map, collect, organize and store your thoughts and ideas. Plus, NotateIt includes a powerful tool set you can use in conjunction with any other Windows application: Annotation Tools, Screen Capture, On-Screen Soft Keyboard and Screen Recording and Playback.  For complete flexibility, you can even change the background  of your 'whiteboard' to graph paper, lined paper or any other graphic organizer that suits your needs.  21-day trial download is available. Jumping Minds   http://www.jumpingminds.com/

Designed for Tablet PCs, JumpingMinds software uses advanced handwriting recognition to read your answers as you write them on the display. No typing. Just write your answer, get instant feedback, correct if needed, and continue onto the next problem at your own pace.  Downloadable trials of their software packages are available on their web-site

Interactive Learning Through Technology   

FunPack Series which consists of Fun With Construction, Fun With Virtual Classroom and Fun With MindBook is developed by a team of professional developers from HeuLab. They offer trial demonstrations of their products.

Graphite The Graphite Project is an open-source Visio-like graph drawing application designed for use on a Tablet PC. 

InkyBoard is a simple application for the Tablet PC that mimics a white board or a flip chart.

PDF Annotator lets the user open any PDF file and add annotations, using the mouse or a Tablet PC pen, directly on the PDF file's pages.

The tool lets you write search terms on a small form, and instantly send the terms to a Google search inside your default browser with one tap (or a gesture).   

WriteOn was developed as part of the Technology for Teaching and Learning project at Virginia Tech and was funded by Microsoft Research. This application was developed by Dr.Tront, Vinod Eligeti and Samantha Chandrasekar.

e-link application for presentations:

  • irtual screen transparency

  • annotate application screen

  • save application image plus application as composite

  • insert composite into OneNote pages

  • transfer composite via clipboard

An add-in for Microsoft Outlook® 2003 and 2007 that turns the popular personal information manager into a fully pen-enabled application on your Tablet PC, UMPC, or Origami device. TEO 3.0 replaces Outlook's standard UI with fully ink-enabled forms and lets you write and keep your notes in your own handwriting. No synchronization required

 

ArtRage, the easy to use, stylish painting package that lets you get painting from the moment you open it up. You can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle glitter, and more. You can paint with gold leaf, silver foil, and other metallic colors. You can even load in your photos as Tracing Images to help you recreate them as paintings.

Simple app that will allow network / IT admins to quickly diagram networks.
This application will allow users to quickly draw out a network diagram/design. It's great when presenting solutions or designing solutions quickly in meetings. It has many built in icons etc.
 

OneSnap is a web page capture tool for OneNote that simplifies and optimizes importing web pages to your OneNote notebook

Jarnal is an open-source application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal, making a presentation, annotating a document - including pdf - or collaborating using a stylus, mouse or keyboard.

Whether you're the official score keeper, or doing it just for fun, Rakonza K-ForCE enables you to easily score the baseball / softball game, print scoresheets, collect season statistics, generate a game summary web page, and much more.

Math

  • xThink Calculator and MathJournal
    • xThink Calculator recognizes hand-written, two-dimensional math calculations and solves them.
    • MathJournal is a problem-solving tool for the Tablet PC. This powerful combination of recognition software and mathematical algorithms completely changes how you do mathematics. MathJournal makes the Tablet PC an intelligent sheet of paper that recognizes the formulas and equations that you write and solves them. It performs sophisticated calculations, including equation-solving, symbolic integration, and plotting 2D and 3D graphs.
  • The Geometer’s Sketchpad
  • VectorPad

VectorPad is a Tablet PC application to visually introduce students to Vector Math
Users draw vectors with electornic ink and the computer performs the following operations:

  • addition
  • subtraction
  • dot product
  • cross product
  • vector projections
     

Accessibility and the Tablet PC

  • Herbi Website is a great resource site with ideas and downloadable programs to increase accessibility using a Tablet PC. Desriptions of available applications:

Herbi Writer is a Tablet PC program for people learning how to handwrite. It shows sample letters being written, and lets the student know whether their own attempts to write the same letter are correct. For a letter to be considered "correct" the student must write the letter in the same way as the sample letter was written.

  • Tablet PC Speech Assistant is a program for the Tablet PC written by Todd Landstad. Todd is a software engineer with years of experience with Tablet PC development. He developed the Tablet PC Speech Assistant as an aid for people for people who have problems speaking. Tablet PC Speech Assistant can make it quick and easy for some people to have phrases they often use spoken by the default voice on the Tablet PC.
  • InkTalk demonstrates the potential of using the Tablet PC in conversations. You may find that it is useful today, but there are some limitations which mean that it may not be useful. The main limitations are:
    • Ink to Text recognition: The recognition works well for some people, but not so well for others. If the recognition does not work well for you, then InkTalk will not be useful. If you have problems writing, then InkTalk will probably not be useful to you.
    • Default voice: InkTalk uses whatever the default voice is for your computer. So you will not find InkTalk useful if you are not comfortable using the default voice on the Tablet PC.
    • Volume: In some places the audio from the computer is not loud enough or clear enough for people to understand what the computer is saying. So InkTalk may only be useful in fairly quiet places.
  • PictureHelper is a simple program which makes it easy to create informative pictures. The program can be downloaded by following the instructions at the bottom of this page. You can use PictureHelper to associate text to regions on a picture. When viewing this annotated picture in a browser, as you move the cursor over the different regions, a screen reader can read the text associated with the region


Forms Software

Other Resources (Not Specifically Designed for Tablet PC’s, but helpful nonetheless)

E-Books, Publications & E-Magazines

The Gateway Student Library includes over 150 great classic works from Plato to Mark Twain, and George Washington to Brown vs. Board of Education, as well as a bundle of reference works chosen to give students the resources they need to discover and obtain the knowledge and they need to succeed.

Resources Include:


Geography

Miscellaneous (These applications are not ink-enabled, but come in real handy).

  • PDF Creator Programs

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
 

Paint.NET is a photo and image editing tool designed for computers running Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000. It serves the digital imaging community as a free alternative to the standard paint application included with Windows.
 

Advanced Converter is a powerful program for conversion between units of measurements. The program contains more than 1700 units divided in 66 groups. It is very simple to add new units and custom groups of units. You may arrange groups and units in according with personal preferences.
 

EniG. Periodic Table of the Elements contains the basic data about the element in seven languages (Croatian, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese). It shows visually the change of physical condition with the change of temperature. The language, the speed of temperature change, the exchange of elements or the scrolling of characteristics can be adjusted by configuration file.

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