This show was taped live on February 16, 2009 and can be heard archived at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/30986
Show notes:
Live Mesh (www.mesh.com) is a recent technology that users can synchronize files with all of your devices, so you always have the latest versions handy. Through ease of accessibility, files may be retrieved from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file.
In the current environment, e-mail is the greatest communicator between the user and their documents. With Live Mesh, computer synchronization is the next wave as devices need a basic internet connection. Another great benefit from this technology, is that devices across many different companies (i.e. Apple) are not left out of the meshing sequence.
The current beta version can be found on the Web site. The full version is due out sometime in 2009.
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Asli Bilgin – Developer Evangelist, East Region DPE
• Born in Istanbul Turkey, currently residing in Manhattan New York
• Lead for Microsoft Financial services Developer Conference , which hosted 600+ customers, 18 partner sponsors , over 13 media analyst and press representatives.
• Developer Evangelist – spokesperson on Microsoft’s development platform as applicable to large enterprises. Responsible for education developers and architects on Microsoft future vision for the development platform within specific verticals. Official Microsoft spokesperson on consumer technologies such as Ford Sync.
• Developed global programs (WomenBuild and iGive) for Local Software Economy, Charitable Outreach and Diversity. Forged branding deal between Microsoft and Lego to create unified diversity message for women in technology.
• Published author and contributing editor for industry publications (e.g. MSDN, CNET and ElementK), university coursework and co-wrote 800 page architecture book on .NET.
• Deep software architecture and software development during 10+ consulting years at Ciber, Dell and Xerox.
• Strong financial and economic background w/degree as well as work experience in economics and financial services for 5+ years at investment companies such as Morgan Stanley and London’s branch of Trans Arabian Investment Bank.
Your work computer. Your home laptop. Your Mac. Your mobile phone. Devices live in multiple places. But the files you need—and the programs that open them—often don’t. Live Mesh changes all that.
With Live Mesh, you can synchronize files with all of your devices, so you always have the latest versions handy. Access your files from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file.
Working on one computer, but need a program from another? No problem. Use Live Mesh to connect to your other computer and access its desktop as if you were sitting right in front of it.
Live Mesh is as easy as sync , share , and access
Live Mesh Turns Car into Mobile Computing Platform
Using Azure Services Platform, a Microsoft “motoring guy” links his Porsche to GPS, music, Internet and more
Live Mesh itself is part of what Microsoft calls Live Services, one of the building blocks of Microsoft’s new Azure Services Platform, unveiled in November at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. The Azure Services Platform is a “cloud” platform hosted at Microsoft data centers. It’s designed to give developers and others the ability to easily develop and scale up applications that, among other benefits, can run on a wide variety of devices.
At PDC, Live Mesh served as a prime example of what Microsoft’s approach to cloud computing – called software-plus-services – can offer. Live Mesh and Live Services offer the pipeline through which information flows to devices, friends, and coworkers.
Live Desktop
Your Windows PC on the web—complete with 5 GB of free storage space—where you can see all your synchronized folders in one place. It lives on the web, which means that even if you‘re not at one of your computers, you can still access and work with your folders from any computer that‘s connected to the Internet.
Mesh bar
Appears whenever you open a folder in your mesh, helping you manage your files and the members you invite to share them. Use the mesh bar to:
• Invite or manage members
• See who has access to the folder
• See news related to the folder
• Post messages to the folder
• Chat with members using Windows Live Messenger*
• Change synchronization settings for the folder
Mac*
Add a Mac to your mesh. Sync and share folders between your PC and your Mac. Or your friend’s Mac. Or between two Macs. Live Mesh gives you cross-platform functionality, so you can maximize your mesh.
Mobile*
Take your mesh with you wherever you go. From any mobile phone with web access, go to mesh.com to work with your synchronized folders, upload photos to share with others, read news about your mesh, and more.
Microsoft’s new Live Services and Live Mesh tools can do much more than link automobiles to a music collection, of course. As part of the Azure Services Platform, they’re the digital plumbing software developers can use to link any number of digital data sources, notebooks and phones and other pieces of hardware, and the people that need that data every day. The MeshMobile is the one of what could be thousands of new applications based on Live Mesh and Live Services.
Get started
Find your way around quickly with these brief how-to guides:
• What you need
• Create your mesh
• Sync folders
• Share folders
• Use your Live Desktop
• Connect to a remote computer
• Use a mobile phone
Synchronizing life
now on Mac & mobile!
Your work computer. Your home laptop. Your Mac. Your mobile phone. Devices live in multiple places. But the files you need--and the programs that open them--often don't. Live Mesh changes all that.
Sync. Stop emailing yourself. Get files across your devices by synchronizing them instead.
Add each device to your mesh by installing Live Mesh software, and then choose folders to sync. You can sync a folder with one or two of your devices or all of them.
Share. Live Mesh makes it easy to share your stuff. Invite others to share a Live Mesh folder and keep it in sync on everyone's devices as files are added or updated.
Want to know what's happening in folders you're sharing--such as when members are invited or a file is changed? Live Mesh News notifies you every step of the way.
Access. When you sign up for Live Mesh, you automatically get your own personal Live Desktop—your Windows PC on the web—complete with 5 GB of free storage. Synchronize files to your Live Desktop, and you’ll be able to access them using almost any web browser, no matter where you are.
And who says you can’t be in two different places at once? With Live Mesh, you can connect remotely from one computer to another, so you can access files, programs, and settings as if you were sitting in front of that remote computer.
Techno Granny Show blog is an additional way for Techno Granny Talk Cast fans to keep up with Techno Granny. She is a 61 year old single grandmother who also hosts four Talk Casts on the Talk Shoe network. The Techno Granny show is designed to bring baby boomers and others up to snuff with 21st Century technology. TechnoGranny Talks is more than that, it is technology finds and opinions of a tech savvy grandmother who is a power user of technology.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Techno Granny Show, xInk Digital Pen
This show was originally recorded on 2-23-09 and can be heard archived at: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/tscmd/tc/30986
Notes from the show for those of you who do not own xInk Digital Pen or Live Scribe:
Overview information about Unicentrics system and products. The xInk came from a need of our customers using our case management platform system to be able to efficiently use their time and still be able to use pen and paper while getting all the data into the case management platform system for their organizations needs for reporting and billing.
Let us know if you have any questions and when you would like to touch base with Evan before the interview session.
Evan Indianer Bio:
Consultant and Entrepreneur
Evan has 20+ years of experience as an executive responsible for sales and development of technology solutions in a variety of industries. In 1983, at the age of 13, Evan created Indianer Computer Corporation ("ICC"), a company that offered cutting-edge, full scale technology solutions to some of the world’s most respected businesses and organizations. As President of ICC, he has supervised hundreds of web development and custom software development projects. In 2001, Evan launch Unicentric, a company dedicated to helping people who help people. With Unicentric’s Case Management Platform (CMP), Evan has leveraged technology to bring state of the art technology into social assistance organizations by increasing their capacity to serve the public, manage their organization, and win government, state, and foundation dollars.
Evan was CTO of Wishbox.com from 2000 to 2001. Evan sits on committees and technology advisory boards for several philanthropic organizations, including the National Technology Board for United Jewish Communities, the United Jewish Federation and the Carnegie-Mellon University Dean Leadership Council. In 2000, the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project recognized Evan as one of the "Top 40 under 40" who makes a difference in Pittsburgh. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation named him as one of Pittsburgh's Fifty Finest in recognition of his activity in the community, professional success, and commitment to others through charitable causes. Evan has spoken at numerous non-profit agency retreats. Evan received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (1992).
Throughout his consulting career, Evan has helped organizations bring efficiency and efficacy to their operations yet keep the human touch of providing their services. Evan recognizes the benefit of keeping familiarity for employees while influencing the workflow to eliminate duplication and maximize results.
xInk™ Digital Writing
Certain information is more easily captured the old-fashioned way—on paper with a pen. The xInk Digital Writing system allows entering handwritten information on enabled paper forms (i.e. site visit reports, client assessment, etc.; at any location including in the field). The system leverages innovative technology that places a miniature digital camera in the tip of a pen to capture handwriting strokes as they are written on the page.
When the form is complete, the pen is docked, the information is downloaded and synchronized with the Service xPert database, and handwriting converted into data for management, tracking, and reporting on clients without the need for transcription and manual data entry. Unlike tablet PC solutions, use of the xInk system results in an original paper copy of the completed forms, which may include signatures, and provides a non-intrusive input capability.
• Convert handwritten (even cursive) information into digital data
• Enable automatic reporting against data in forms completed by hand
• Create and preserve original paper copies
• Capture handwritten signatures and include them in the digital records, complying with State and Federal guidelines.
xInk Digital Writing System
“The Magic Pen”
As Easy As 1, 2, 3
1. Print
Print the forms out of the Unicentric system on regular office paper and on standard office laser printers. Print directly from the Unicentric application. There is no ‘special paper’ to purchase. xInk Digital Writing System software simply adds a unique digital pattern in the background of each printed form. To the user, the pattern just looks like a light grayscale. The digital pattern is not visible to the naked eye.
2. Write
Write on the printed form with the xInk Digital Pen the same way you would with any ballpoint pen, because that is what it is - a refillable ball point pen. On the bottom of the pen, next to the ink tip, is a small camera that takes pictures of the digital pattern it sees while the pen writes, constantly recording the absolute position of the pen on the form. The pen isn’t scanning images - it’s capturing the strokes as they’re written on the page, that requires very little memory on the pen to capture hundreds of forms.
3. Process
Instead of having to manually type all the hand written data in to the system, just place the xInk Digital Pen in the included USB docking station or connect via Bluetooth to download the pen’s contents for processing. In the USB docking station, it takes about one second per form page to transmit. The encrypted XML vector file of the pen strokes is transmitted to our server-based system for processing into both an image of the completed form AND into the interpreted data from the form fields.
With both the electronic image of the completed form AND the interpreted data of all the form fields, xInk Digital Writing System server software routes the image and interpreted data directly to the client folder, form and fields. You can capture staff and client signatures.
Evan Indianer
Unicentric
3127 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
412-697-7208
www.unicentric.com
Notes from the show for those of you who do not own xInk Digital Pen or Live Scribe:
Overview information about Unicentrics system and products. The xInk came from a need of our customers using our case management platform system to be able to efficiently use their time and still be able to use pen and paper while getting all the data into the case management platform system for their organizations needs for reporting and billing.
Let us know if you have any questions and when you would like to touch base with Evan before the interview session.
Evan Indianer Bio:
Consultant and Entrepreneur
Evan has 20+ years of experience as an executive responsible for sales and development of technology solutions in a variety of industries. In 1983, at the age of 13, Evan created Indianer Computer Corporation ("ICC"), a company that offered cutting-edge, full scale technology solutions to some of the world’s most respected businesses and organizations. As President of ICC, he has supervised hundreds of web development and custom software development projects. In 2001, Evan launch Unicentric, a company dedicated to helping people who help people. With Unicentric’s Case Management Platform (CMP), Evan has leveraged technology to bring state of the art technology into social assistance organizations by increasing their capacity to serve the public, manage their organization, and win government, state, and foundation dollars.
Evan was CTO of Wishbox.com from 2000 to 2001. Evan sits on committees and technology advisory boards for several philanthropic organizations, including the National Technology Board for United Jewish Communities, the United Jewish Federation and the Carnegie-Mellon University Dean Leadership Council. In 2000, the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project recognized Evan as one of the "Top 40 under 40" who makes a difference in Pittsburgh. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation named him as one of Pittsburgh's Fifty Finest in recognition of his activity in the community, professional success, and commitment to others through charitable causes. Evan has spoken at numerous non-profit agency retreats. Evan received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (1992).
Throughout his consulting career, Evan has helped organizations bring efficiency and efficacy to their operations yet keep the human touch of providing their services. Evan recognizes the benefit of keeping familiarity for employees while influencing the workflow to eliminate duplication and maximize results.
xInk™ Digital Writing
Certain information is more easily captured the old-fashioned way—on paper with a pen. The xInk Digital Writing system allows entering handwritten information on enabled paper forms (i.e. site visit reports, client assessment, etc.; at any location including in the field). The system leverages innovative technology that places a miniature digital camera in the tip of a pen to capture handwriting strokes as they are written on the page.
When the form is complete, the pen is docked, the information is downloaded and synchronized with the Service xPert database, and handwriting converted into data for management, tracking, and reporting on clients without the need for transcription and manual data entry. Unlike tablet PC solutions, use of the xInk system results in an original paper copy of the completed forms, which may include signatures, and provides a non-intrusive input capability.
• Convert handwritten (even cursive) information into digital data
• Enable automatic reporting against data in forms completed by hand
• Create and preserve original paper copies
• Capture handwritten signatures and include them in the digital records, complying with State and Federal guidelines.
xInk Digital Writing System
“The Magic Pen”
As Easy As 1, 2, 3
1. Print
Print the forms out of the Unicentric system on regular office paper and on standard office laser printers. Print directly from the Unicentric application. There is no ‘special paper’ to purchase. xInk Digital Writing System software simply adds a unique digital pattern in the background of each printed form. To the user, the pattern just looks like a light grayscale. The digital pattern is not visible to the naked eye.
2. Write
Write on the printed form with the xInk Digital Pen the same way you would with any ballpoint pen, because that is what it is - a refillable ball point pen. On the bottom of the pen, next to the ink tip, is a small camera that takes pictures of the digital pattern it sees while the pen writes, constantly recording the absolute position of the pen on the form. The pen isn’t scanning images - it’s capturing the strokes as they’re written on the page, that requires very little memory on the pen to capture hundreds of forms.
3. Process
Instead of having to manually type all the hand written data in to the system, just place the xInk Digital Pen in the included USB docking station or connect via Bluetooth to download the pen’s contents for processing. In the USB docking station, it takes about one second per form page to transmit. The encrypted XML vector file of the pen strokes is transmitted to our server-based system for processing into both an image of the completed form AND into the interpreted data from the form fields.
With both the electronic image of the completed form AND the interpreted data of all the form fields, xInk Digital Writing System server software routes the image and interpreted data directly to the client folder, form and fields. You can capture staff and client signatures.
Evan Indianer
Unicentric
3127 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
412-697-7208
www.unicentric.com
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