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Gesture Search Finds Everything On Android With Scribbles
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Android (2.0 and up): Do you desperately miss the handwriting recognition of Palms and Newtons gone by? Google’s created a Gesture Search app that pulls up apps, contacts, bookmarks and other phone data using your finger-point chicken scratch. More »
Design
FontCapture Turns Your Handwriting Into A Font
1:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’ve got a few minutes, stylish script, and a scanner, FontCapture can turn your handwriting into a font. That keeps all your mad-scientist notes on the computer, yet still gives them that essential lab bench grit. More »
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3:00PM Angus Kidman |
I’ve always found handwriting recognition on tablet PCs to be about as effective as throwing bricks at the screen, but Microsoft remains convinced that we’re just months away from ditching our keyboards altogether. A new post on the engineering Windows 7 blog goes into exhaustive detail on how Microsoft develops and improves its handwriting models, and makes for interesting reading even if (like me) you remain convinced that the keyboard is king.
Recognizing Improvements in Windows 7 Handwriting [Engineering Windows 7]
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How Handwriting Recognition Has Improved In Windows 7
3:00PM Angus Kidman |
I’ve always found handwriting recognition on tablet PCs to be about as effective as throwing bricks at the screen, but Microsoft remains convinced that we’re just months away from ditching our keyboards altogether. A new post on the engineering Windows 7 blog goes into exhaustive detail on how Microsoft develops and improves its handwriting models, and makes for interesting reading even if (like me) you remain convinced that the keyboard is king.
Recognizing Improvements in Windows 7 Handwriting [Engineering Windows 7]
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Design
YourFonts Turns Your Handwriting Into A Personlised Font
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | YourFonts is a web-based service that turns your handwriting into a TrueType font for free. If you have a printer and scanner, nothing can stand between you and the awesomeness of your own script. We’ve covered a similar service before, but the handwriting-to-font process at Fontifier costs $US9 per font you create. YourFonts has a software package for making personalised fonts that runs $US49, but the web-based tool is entirely free. The process is straightforward: download the provided PDF template, print it out, and fill in each number and letter blank with your own hand writing. When you’re done you upload the template back to YourFonts, preview it to make sure it looks like your own calligraphic gift to the world, and then download it as a monitor-friendly font. Additionally you can use the service without actually printing the PDF out and using a scanner—if you’ve ever wanted to create your own set of crazy wingdings, you can load up the PDF in an editing application like Adobe Illustrator and fill in the font-grid with anything you wish—hand writing or otherwise. MyFonts [via Cool Tools] More »
