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Early last week I was in the Bay Area, so stopped at my aunt's house to pick up family slides and hand carry them to Arizona for family to watch over Thanksgiving. Getting the slides through airport security was interesting, and I learned a few tips from the on duty manager, such as use the word "vintage" to describe the slide carousel that held slides from the 1940s. He joked with me that the "kids" at the scanners don't know when the '40s were, let alone know what a slide carousel looks like. Not that I was alive then either, but point taken.

Have you played with Crayon Physics yet?

Windows Journal is a basic note-taking application designed so you can handwrite, search those notes, convert to text when needed, insert images, and even print other documents into Windows Journal for annotating. It is extremely handy for freeflow notes or brainstorming, just as you would use a piece of paper. The low display resolution of a UMPC gives you an added bonus -- the Windows Journal page is approximately the size of an index card. This is useful for organizing project topics, references, or relationships. Here are a few example screenshots

MPC304: Adding Location-Awareness to Mobile PC Applications with MapPoint and Virtual Earth Frank LaVigne