Tenone Design introduces Inklet, $24.95 software that transforms your trackpad into a graphic tablet.
Inklet allows your trackpad to emulate a pen tablet. When you’re using a Pogo Sketch, a stylus for your iPhone ($14.95), the trackpad even becomes pressure sensitive. It works with the handwriting recognition built into OS X and includes an advanced algorithm to detect unwanted trackpad touches.
In terms of compatibility, Inklet will function on newer MacBooks that have multitouch enabled and are running OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard. At $24.95, it’s a fraction of the price of hardware tablets such as the Wacom tablet.
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Marvelous right? Right. Except, it doesn’t seem to work with anything unless you’ve got Photoshop installed. :/ It reportedly uses Photoshop to let you scribble the note down and then the text is copied over to the software needed.
Would be great to see this work with natively with Evernote for example.
Nevertheless, impressive. Now watch the video.
> It reportedly uses Photoshop to let you scribble the note down [...]
No, I think you misread that. The source article says:
> That particular system still uses the same window used for Photoshop but this time it is overlaid on a notepad [...]
“Window” here does not refer to an application window, but to the drawing region. The wording is a bit difficult, but you were also a bit quick with your conclusion. To me, the text seems to say that while you switch from Photoshop to a notepad as active application, the drawing region (or “canvas”, or “overlay” if that is more clear) stays on the screen and can be used on top of the notepad.
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