Showing posts with label Tablet PC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tablet PC. Show all posts

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Hugh Sung is my Hero: The AirTurn



If you are a musician and you don't know about Hugh Sung, you are missing out. Hugh Sung is a classical musician with a thing for tablet PC's. He's a pioneer in using Tablet PC technology and now Netbooks as platforms for organizing and annotating classical music scores and for using these devices as a virtual music stand during performances. Over the years, Hugh has improvised different devices to turn pages. You can read all about Hugh's music and technology applications at www.hughsung.com. I bring all this up because I became very excited about a product that Hugh introduced called the AirTurn. I actually owe thanks to Mike Cane for posting a link about AirTurn on Twitter.

AirTurn is a wireless page turning device that plugs into a Boss footswitch and provides hands-free page turning for music. When used with another product called Musicreader, I am able to scan in PDF's of all my music and prayers for Sunday worship onto my HP2710P tablet PC and page through them using a footswitch during worship. With these two products, I'm always on the right page and I don't have a music stand full of loose papers to deal with. I tried it for the first time live in Worship today, and it worked flawlessly. Hugh is using this configuration with both a Tablet and a Netbook. Visit the links above for more info. I'm not paid to endorse this in any way. I'm just sharing something that worked for me.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

I bought my first real tablet pc

I've owned a Samsung Q1 and that's the first exposure I ever had to Windows XP Tablet Edition.  I was very impressed by how the tablet pc features enhances the functionality of Microsoft Windows.  I loved Windows Journal and OneNote.  I've lately been puzzling over whether to buy a real tablet with an active digitizer.  I puzzled and puzzled until my puzzler was sore (h/t The Grinch) between Dell Lattitude XT, HP 2710P, Lenovo X61T and even HP TX2510.  I almost pulled the trigger on refurbs by each of these manufacturers and I even made several visits to Microcenter that almost resulted in my buying a computer.  Then, "Fries With That?" offered his gently-used HP 2710P for sale on gottabemobile.com.  (At least I hope it's gently used).  I'll report when I get the goods, but I'm excited about adding this device to my quiver of tech tools.  

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