There are many digital pens out there that convert your handwritten notes and drawings to a digital format for storage and editing.  Two that have risen to the top are the Livescribe Pulse and the IOGEAR Digital Scribe.

The Pulse uses a tip-mounted camera to capture the writing and store it into internal memory. From there, it can be plugged into a USB port for transfer of the documents.

The Digital Scribe uses a receiver that captures the writings of the pen.  It can be attached directly into a USB port while writing or stored and transferred later.

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One of my biggest complaints with BaseCamp is the inability to add a description to milestones easily. You can work around that problem by creating a message after you create your milestone, then attach that message to the milestone. Far too many steps! I want to be able to quickly add the description without all of the extra steps.

While I still cant add a description directly from the milestone creation screen, BaseCamp has just made it much easier to attach a description.

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One of the productivity features I miss most when leaving my Ubuntu environment for Windows Vista 64-bit is multiple (virtual) desktops. After searching high and low, I finally found a solution that best emulates my beloved Ubuntu desktop.

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