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Slate computing – real world experiences part 1
January 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Over the weekend I had to go through a stack of CVs and covering letters from some applicants to a marketing position we are offering.
SL8 for reading docs
Usually this would mean opening our review and feedback list on one screen of my 2 monitor main workstation and reading the CVs on the other monitor (we have our recruitment stuff all managed from the HR area in our SharePoint intranet, so we have a library of all the CVs etc. and a second list where we rate them and make a decision on who to invite for interview|), while also running Skype etc. ontop of one of these while talking to my co-director.
This time I opened the review list on the workstation as usual, but opened the document library on my SL8 slate instead, in portrait orientation. This was a masterstroke! A simple touch of the finger and each CV in turn opened (using Office web apps directly in the browser – very fast!) and let me rapidly read the document, scrolling up and down with a swish of the finger while making notes and rating choices the other PC. [Read more...]
