Blog:: Craig Pringle

This Friday I'm off to Boston for TechEd 2006.  Needless to say I can't wait!

I leave Wellington at 4:30pm NZ time, which is about 8:30pm on Thursday Boston time.  I arrive in Boston at 5:40am on Saturday.  Yikes, that is a long trip.  Clearly I am going to need some strong coffee that day - anyone where I can get a good espresso in Boston?

If you are heading to TechEd drop me an email - I'm always keen to meet up with like minded tablet types!

If you are testing Vista Beta 2 then you may be interested in this:
"CA, Inc. (NYSE: CA) today announced an offer to provide Microsoft Windows Vista Beta customers a no-charge, one-year trial subscription to CAs eTrust EZ Antivirus. The distribution has the potential to reach millions of projected Windows Vista Beta 2 customers and can be downloaded starting today at: http://ca.com/windowsvistabeta."
The free subscription is valid for a year, including updates and web based support. Good stuff CA.

I'm home - in body anyway!
Had a great time in Singapore and I have much to blog about.
More Soon...

I've just arrived in Singapore.  I'm here for a few days - and I have some really cool activities planned.

Tomorrow I am going to visit Heulab to see their "Classroom of the Future" showcase.  I'm getting a guided tour and I'm really looking forward to it.  I have seen the Heulab products in action before, including the flagship product Fun with Virtual Classroom.  It is an amazing tool that allows teachers to empower students to colaborate without relequishing control.  Best of all it has been written from the ground up to take advantage of the Tablet PC.

Friday and Saturday I am attending Vista readiness labs being run by Microsoft for selected influencers.  I'll be blogging more about that later.

Sunday I don't fly out until 8PM at night so I intend to have a good poke around Singapore before I go.

On Saturday I blogged Telecom NZ to show tablets with EVDO
Now Vodafone and Lenovo New Zealand Partner to Deliver Embedded 3G Connectivity
One thing for sure, NZ is a great place to be a Mobile Computer user!
Via Geekzone

John Tokash has installed Vista on a Tablet kiosk EO.
the has two great posts. The first details how he installed Vista on an eo
In a follow up post he gives More about Vista on the TabletKiosk eo.
"It is very responsive! I dont have Aero running, of course.
I dont recall if I had to install the audio driver or if it found it without help, but its working.
When installing the digitizer, make sure to choose the b_stage driver from your D drive. A_stage doesnt work at all. Even b_stage, though, doesnt calibrate perfectly."

Toshiba and ZD are running a virtual symposium focusing on the Tablet PC on May 24^th (Eastern Time).

The tagline “Everything You Need to Know About the Tablet PC and Why Your Company Can’t Afford Not to Embrace It” sounds promising.

You can register here and review the program here.  Check it out.

Darryl Burling has a new Toshiba M400 and is Tableting. Darryl is a creative guy and has been known to make some really cool apps in the Windows Mobile space.
"I've got a nice new shiny Toshiba M400...
It arrived about a week ago, but I've only just had a chance to play with it in the last day or so. I started by installing Windows Vista on it - a late internal build. Very nice. "

Maurico over at Geekzone reports that Telecom is going to have notebooks and tablets with embedded EVDO modules on show at Convergence Oceania '06 which will be held at Te Papa in Wellington on the 25th of May.
"One of the notebooks being shown is the Toshiba M400 Tablet PC, embedded with Telecoms CDMA EV-DO Mobile Broadband cards, allowing users to do away with data cards and connect as soon as they turn their notebooks on."

I've just received word of a Wellington office user group meeting. Here's the details:

"Pizza and drinks will be provided, along with some great information.

When: Wednesday 24 May 2006, 6:00-7:30pm
Where:
Microsoft New Zealand
Level 12, 157 Lambton Quay
Wellington

Topic 1: Ryan Duguid, Microsoft Technical Specialist.
Microsoft Office InfoPath is a Windows-based application for creating rich, dynamic forms that teams and organisations can use to gather, share, and reuse XML based information. This session will cover the basics of InfoPath forms and look at advances in InfoPath 2007 that support the gathering data from email forms and browser forms.

Topic 2: Steve Schapel, Microsoft Access MVP
Where does Microsoft Access fit in? A brief discussion from the point of view of the user/developer, with some real-world example scenarios of where Access is found a niche.
This promises to be a very informative and entertaining evening!"
Convenor: Steve Schapel
www.woug.info