Sunday 19th October 2003

It's Back - and I've been playing again

 

The playing part first. Over the last Week,as a "reward", I treated myself to a Graphics Tablet. Along that came a program called penSoft. This program is listed as a "Handwriting Recognition " program. To be honest it's hopeless -very much a creature of it's time. It's Window's 95/98 program and it shows.

So I spent a little time downloading a few trials to see what else was out there. smartWriter has lost out straight away. It appears to be something close to what I was after, but they didn't offer a trial, they made a 30 days money back offer , but at $70 dollars (all but a few cents)or approx £45 - £50 pounds in Smith money, they can keep that.

What I did find was PenOffice, My Script, PenReader and Softwriting.

Although all work on some sort of "training" basis, Pen Reader and SoftWriting went very quickly, they were, to me at least, hard to use and not very accurate, even after several tries. So that left  MyScript and PenOffice . Both of them work fairly well, with accuracy falling slightly into the MyScript court. But PenOffice has more to offer. I'll continue to try them both - for the next 12 days at least, until the trials run out.

The main question has to be - are they any quicker than typing? Sadly, at the moment NO. I am finishing this post off by typing it in - but I'll keep giving "handwriting" a try, it may just need a little more practise.

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 It's well and truly back, Living TV's (and one of my personal favourites) Most Haunted program is back for it's third series. I have made mention of my like for this program, and its cast, several times before, and this series promises to be as good, if not better than the previous two.

 

It is actually on program two, with the first program, an investigation of RAF East Kirkby, being an absolute classic. With Evie, Derek and the rest of crew (and the site owners Grand Son), they encountered things being thrown at them, strange noises and people "suffering" pain from the other world (a burning sensation on the arm and the smell of burning hair), along with Derek, the psychic, picking up the spirits' of several dead Airmen. One particular Airman asked for his wallet (though Derek) and this wallet had been found in the wreckage of an aircraft several years ago, but only a handful of people knew about it.

Spooky or what?

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Only a quick entry this week - to much to do and no time to do it.

Talk to you soon

God Bless

 

Dave