Mark_Lenovo
All,
The SimpleTap site is live today - www.lenovo.com/simpletap
Visit the site today and learn more - a link is available to download SimpleTap for use under Windows 7 on supported models.
Mark
ThinkPads: S30, T43, X60t, X1, W700ds, IdeaPad Y710, IdeaCentre: A300, IdeaPad K1
Mark Hopkins
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I have it loaded on this X200 tablet, and it's pretty neat! Just one finger-touching since it's an older model, but I like having the controls right there especially in tablet mode.
Jane
ThinkPad Slate, T410s, X301, X200 Tablet, T60p, HP TouchPad, iPad 4, iPhone 4S, IdeaTab A2107A
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badvice wrote:
Tried many times. Download link doesnt work. Broken link?
Just tried it, and it's working here.
Jane
ThinkPad Slate, T410s, X301, X200 Tablet, T60p, HP TouchPad, iPad 4, iPhone 4S, IdeaTab A2107A
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Mark_Lenovo
Badvice,
The links are good, but I suspect some performance issues with the site. It loaded for me but took a bit longer than I would have expected and have experienced at other times. I would just suggest trying it again soon. 
JaneL,
Good to know. While not supported officially on older models, it sounds like you have it working on an early X200 multitouch model. Could you share a bit of your experience using it? Single tap to launch, or just launch from the docked red spot?
I trust the tiles move and behave as otherwise expected? How about the display brightness and other features, do they work? I wonder if someone upgrades and X61 with multitouch to Win 7 whether it will work?
I'd love to hear from some customers who gave it a try....
Mark
ThinkPads: S30, T43, X60t, X1, W700ds, IdeaPad Y710, IdeaCentre: A300, IdeaPad K1
Mark Hopkins
Program Manager, Lenovo Social Media (Services)
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Mark_Lenovo wrote:
JaneL,
Good to know. While not supported officially on older models, it sounds like you have it working on an early X200 multitouch model. Could you share a bit of your experience using it? Single tap to launch, or just launch from the docked red spot?
I trust the tiles move and behave as otherwise expected? How about the display brightness and other features, do they work? I wonder if someone upgrades and X61 with multitouch to Win 7 whether it will work?
Sorry to have taken so long - I meant to answer this yesterday and got tied up.
Yes, my X200 tablet is a little older than erik's. So far I'm enjoying playing with SimpleTap! I've completely cleaned off my desktop except for the trash can and the docked SimpleTap launcher - very uncluttered look but with everything I need just a tap away.
I've created a handful of tiles pointing to web sites and programs that I use regularly and used erik's icons that he created for Lenovo's forum and blogs. See for yourself:
http://img262.imageshack.us/my.php?image=x200table
tsimpletapu.png
Some of the tiles came out better than others (I don't think my tablet is as high-res as erik's). The ones for Zuma (if you haven't played Zuma on a tablet, you've really missed some fun!), Plants vs Zombies, Tweetdeck and, of course, erik's are sharp and clear. Google Wave and Twitter, not so much. You can see Peachy, one of Bill Morrow's birds, on the tile for TPF. SimpleTap picked up the default VBulletin icon for NBR. It's kind of fun to play pinball with them and watch them scatter across the screen... :-)
I particularly like having web sites on a tile when I'm using the X200 in tablet mode. I don't even have to get the stylus out
Jane
ThinkPad Slate, T410s, X301, X200 Tablet, T60p, HP TouchPad, iPad 4, iPhone 4S, IdeaTab A2107A
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JaneL wrote:
Some of the tiles came out better than others (I don't think my tablet is as high-res as erik's).
my tablet is 1280x800 -- the same resolution as yours. i get fuzzy icons, too, depending on the image used. everything gets resized to 50x50 pixels no matter what. starting with a favicon.ico (which is typically only 16x16 pixels) results with a blurry upsampled image. going the other way typically isn't as bad. the forum/blog icons start out at 50x50 and should look sharp on everyone's system.
to answer mark and lee's curiosities, SimpleTap has proven itself extremely useful in tablet mode. i used it over the weekend to show a 32-page catalog to a potential client and found the enhanced multitouch panel made the tablet act like a tablet should -- intuitively. between flicks and pinch-to-zoom to navigate and SimpleTap to change brightness on the fly, i felt like i had a true presentation device rather than just another piece of hardware.
my only gripe with SimpleTap is that my two-finger double-clicking prowess is possibly lacking. i find that i have to tap solidly without going too quickly for the digitizer to recognize my actions. this may be a setting in windows that i need to tweak.
one of my indispensable apps to use in industrial design is autodesk sketchbook pro. i have a wacom intuos4 tablet that i use daily with my thinkstation so moving to an X200T was easy. i've set one of my tiles to launch sketchbook so i can make a quick sketch if i have my tablet and am not near a piece of paper. i still prefer pen and paper but don't mind using the tablet when making quick sketches.
my only gripe with the X200T so far is that i wish it had WXGA+ (1440x900) resolution instead of WXGA (1280x800). trying to use design apps with lots of pallets on a low-res display can be a daunting task. this was one area where the previous SXGA+ X60/X61 tablets excelled. all they needed was enhanced multitouch and a user with tiny fingers.
(edit: fixed typo)
