How do I use my Tablet while at my desk?
I love my Toshiba Portege 3500 Tablet PC. It is beefy enough to run Visual Studio, has a decent battery life and a good size screen.
In my office though I still use a desktop PC for my day to day work. I wanted a way to use the tablet also for running my news aggregator , viewing my schedule, while still using my monitor for my main PC.
Here is what I did:
1. I went to my friendly neighborhood Target and got a desktop picture frame holder that was strong enough to hold up my Tablet PC in portrait mode.
2. I installed ShareKMC on both my Desktop and Tablet PC.
With ShareKMC and simple press of the pause key I can switch control to my Tablet PC from the Desktop over the local area network. I can copy and paste text and small images between the two machines. The mouse pointer is a little jerky (hopefully its fixed in the final release) , but the keyboard works great.
I can keep my schedule up while leaving my monitor for real work. If I need to swap over to the tablet and type or dismiss a meeting request I can do so easily.
Thanks Scoble for the photo.
9:58:14 PM 
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