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I visited Mivar Automotive on Autovak RAI 2007 and had a chat with Peter Odding. They are going to introduce their software for car collection on a tablet pc. The EasyBook of PaceBlade (disclosure: paceblade is a subsidiary of Tulip Computers, my employer). So again, this is a nice case. The software is originally developped for a PDA, but customers ask for a larger device (but not too large). And a lot of them want to skip the paperwork when a rented or leased car is inspected after returning.
He thinks a tablet is a great device because it is more robust compared to a PDA. And because it is a real pc it is easy to communicate (wireless) with the backoffice and other software. The camera is very handy when you want to record the damage for your electronic file.
Nice to see that the video of Le Mans Damage Company which I produced was installed on the easybook and shown to customers on the fair. I also saw some photos their which I took at Le Mans.
In this video you can hear Peter Odding talking about the tablet pc and his software. Because it is in Dutch you can find English subtitles on it.

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You can download the iPod video (25 mb,m4v) and the Windows Media video (77 mb, wmv, 1280x720).

Wacom tablet
Yesterday Stan Segers from ReSQqueL (his weblog: My Torn datapages) brought me his Wacom tablet. A kind of drawing tablet, so not a tablet PC. But interesting enough to try the handwritingfeature and installing options in Windows Vista.

Installation
The installationin Vista was just plug & play. Inserting the cable in the usb connector and Vista recognised the device and installed the drivers. After that I had to install a driver for automatic calibration of the tablet with the screensize. This driver is over here. Important remark: it is on the American website and not the European one! After installing this driver/app which was done automatically after downloading eveything worked fine.

Handwritingrecognition: Dutch language in English Vista!
And now the most exciting new! I can use dutch handwriting recognition in my english Vista without installing one bit. All the language for handwritingrecognition are already in Vista. Just a matter of setting the right checks in the control panel!
How this done? Well watch my short screencast (in Windows Media and iPod version)!

In this videoblog I will show you my PaceBook. A tablet pc of PaceBlade. (disclosure: PaceBlade is a subsidiary of Tulip Computers, my employer).

In english

Because some people asked for it I produced an engish version of the Le Mans and PaceBlade video. You can find it in dutch in this posting. Ok, Jack is still talking dutch, but now you can read what he is talking about. I put some titles in english on those screens which are important. I hope you like it.


The PaceBlade EasyBook

You can see Jack Tensen at work in his company Le Mans Car Damage. He is showing us the use of the EasyBook tablet pc of PaceBlade. All damage is entered in the tablet pc via a wi-fi connection. And you can see that all parts, images, details and specifications are used with the tablet pc. It takes half of the time comparing with paperwork and his calculations are without mistakes.

If you want to see the photo's I took go to this posting.


Disclosure
Oh, and here is my disclosure: I am employee of Tulip Computers. And PaceBlade is a susidiary of Tulip Computers. Tablet pc's are PaceBlade's core business.