I would be great to have an online annotation program where someone can post a draft of a paper and others can annotate it right there in the browser. I know there are commercial sites that do this but an open-source solution would be better. Read more »

Well, tried to use powerpoint 2007 to prepare some lectures today only to find a nasty surprise … ink support has taken a giant step backwards and is just about unusable. It seems that the intrepid programmers at Microsoft are colossally shortsighted and only see ink as useful for temporary annotations: you cannot select the ink by dragging a selection rectangle or using select-all, you’re reduced to clicking on each stroke. Ink can’t be grouped with non ink objects but must be treated separately… amazing how much this makes ink useless. Read more »

I’ve been using linux as my main platform for ages and ages … but this doesn’t live in harmony with new laptops especially tabletPCs. Typically on getting a new laptop I had about a month of head-banging frustration to look forward to as I tried to get the power management, modem, wifi, external screen, bluetooth, and of course the tablet pen all to play nicely. Not good. Read more »

This is very cool: a wii remote + infrared led + projector and you have your own interactive whiteboard:

more details here.

Looks like there's drivers for the wii remote for most platforms even linux, so hopefully we will see a whole lot of programs that make use of it eg driving powerpoint, navigation for croquet, ...