These are different devices that can be used for taking handwritten digital notes. The table PC is the most versatile of these and has all the functions of a laptop with hind written text input capacity. The text can be converted to typed text through software or stored at hand written text in an image format. The paper block digital note pad gives the user versatility in maintaining paper-based and digital formats of his/her notes. The hand written text is usually stored as an image. The note pad provides "tablet" capabilities to any personal computer t which it can be connected through a USB interface. This device is not particularly portable though. The digital pen is the most portable digital hand writing device but can only store hand written noted or drawings when used with a specific type of paper. Similarly to the note pad it provides the option to maintain both paper-based and digital copies.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Digital hand writing text and drawing devices
These are different devices that can be used for taking handwritten digital notes. The table PC is the most versatile of these and has all the functions of a laptop with hind written text input capacity. The text can be converted to typed text through software or stored at hand written text in an image format. The paper block digital note pad gives the user versatility in maintaining paper-based and digital formats of his/her notes. The hand written text is usually stored as an image. The note pad provides "tablet" capabilities to any personal computer t which it can be connected through a USB interface. This device is not particularly portable though. The digital pen is the most portable digital hand writing device but can only store hand written noted or drawings when used with a specific type of paper. Similarly to the note pad it provides the option to maintain both paper-based and digital copies.
Monday, June 9, 2008
The Dictaphone
This is one of the most useful devices for taking notes fast and in a spontaneous way, when a PDA or tablet PC would be inconvenient. The digital Dictaphone (or voice recorder or transcriber) can also be used for interviewing someone or recording a lecture. This, and other similar devices, stores the audio as a digital file on a flash memory card for later transfer to a computer. In combination with speech recognition software, this device can also be used to create typed text....but one has to speak clearly and not too fast. The dictaphone in combination with a microphone, can be used to create texts when commuting with automobile; record the text as speech and then transfer it to a computer and translate it into typed text through speech recognition software. Hence, this is a definitive boost to your paperless office.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Use commuting time wisely and get paperless tasks done
A large fraction of today’s workforce spends over an hour each day commuting by automobile to and from work. This time is in many cases considered lost where nothing else than the actual commute is taking place, and maybe some passive listening to a radio station or music CD. While listening to the radio or music is useful, one can recover some of the commuting time to actually get office work done, or learn something in a more targeted way. The PDA phone can be used to make phone calls to clients and collaborators. Make sure to use a headset for listening and conversations since you need both hands free for safe driving. The PDA phone can also be used to listed to audiobooks (through the headset) and through that learn a new language or, for example, how to become better at negotiatiating. The beauty if this type of multitasking is that it will make the commuting time more useful and also seem shorter since time passes by faster when we are actively engaged in learning.
PDA Phone: the ultimate handheld paperless device
A PDA phone is one of the most versatile and multifunctional information and communication technology (ICT) devices (or gadgets). It is basically a handheld computer (or personal digital assistant; PDA) with cellular phone and wireless internet capabilities. Some PDA phones are also equipped photography/video capabilities, and are mainly used to:
- Communicate through wireless phone, email, chat, sms and text messaging (you could even do fax through an Internet service).
- Access the Internet and almost all services provided on the World Wide Web.
- Perform common PDA enabled tasks, such as time and task management with electronic calendars, contact management, and a variety of third party software applications that can range from word processing, financial analyses, games, medical dictionaries and even GPS based geographic orientation.
PDA phones have also evolved into powerful multimedia and entertainment devices since they can be used for photography, video and audio. A range of different games exist for the different PDA phone operating systems, and some have even radio and TV capabilities.
The most useful attribute of a PDA phone is probably the combination of PDA and wireless communications capabilities since this permits mobile real-time synchronization of time management, contact and other types of data between the PDA phone and other ICT devices (desktop and laptop computers) that are linked to the network.
Let’s look at the following example to better illustrate the usefulness of having many functionalities integrated into one handheld device: You have just been called on the phone by a new client and he gives you his contact information. You use the PDA phone audio recorder to record the part of the conversation which contains the address. After the call you link the number that called you with this contact name and address in the contact list. You open the internet browser and do a simple search on your client’s (or his company’s) name to obtain more background information which you then can paste onto his contact entry. Then you take a picture of yourself and attach it along with your contact information to an email which you send. Shortly thereafter, he responds per email with an attached file that contains a document that you have been asked to edit. You use the PDA phone’s word processing software to open the document and read it. Later you link a foldable and portable keyboard to the PDA phone through a Bluetooth connection and edit the document almost as conveniently as it would have been using a laptop. You finally email the edited document back to your client.
A Smartphone is different from a PDA phone in that it is mainly a cellular phone with some limited PDA capabilities. A Smartphone usually lack editing capabilities and only enable viewing of for instance PDF documents or even Internet pages.
- Communicate through wireless phone, email, chat, sms and text messaging (you could even do fax through an Internet service).
- Access the Internet and almost all services provided on the World Wide Web.
- Perform common PDA enabled tasks, such as time and task management with electronic calendars, contact management, and a variety of third party software applications that can range from word processing, financial analyses, games, medical dictionaries and even GPS based geographic orientation.
PDA phones have also evolved into powerful multimedia and entertainment devices since they can be used for photography, video and audio. A range of different games exist for the different PDA phone operating systems, and some have even radio and TV capabilities.
The most useful attribute of a PDA phone is probably the combination of PDA and wireless communications capabilities since this permits mobile real-time synchronization of time management, contact and other types of data between the PDA phone and other ICT devices (desktop and laptop computers) that are linked to the network.
Let’s look at the following example to better illustrate the usefulness of having many functionalities integrated into one handheld device: You have just been called on the phone by a new client and he gives you his contact information. You use the PDA phone audio recorder to record the part of the conversation which contains the address. After the call you link the number that called you with this contact name and address in the contact list. You open the internet browser and do a simple search on your client’s (or his company’s) name to obtain more background information which you then can paste onto his contact entry. Then you take a picture of yourself and attach it along with your contact information to an email which you send. Shortly thereafter, he responds per email with an attached file that contains a document that you have been asked to edit. You use the PDA phone’s word processing software to open the document and read it. Later you link a foldable and portable keyboard to the PDA phone through a Bluetooth connection and edit the document almost as conveniently as it would have been using a laptop. You finally email the edited document back to your client.
A Smartphone is different from a PDA phone in that it is mainly a cellular phone with some limited PDA capabilities. A Smartphone usually lack editing capabilities and only enable viewing of for instance PDF documents or even Internet pages.
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