WritePad

App Name: WritePad
Developer: Stan Miasnikov
Category: Productivity

Here’s one from the Windows Mobile scene, come to grace the iPhone and iPod Touch.  Back in my WinMo days there existed a suite of textual applications from PhatWare, which included PhatPad and PhatNotes, two of what I would consider the essential apps for any WinMo users.

PhatWare’s main product was actually the thing that drove these apps: Calligrapher, their advanced handwriting recognition engine which allowed you to write on the screen in natural block letters or cursive script, whichever you felt more comfortable with.  So scrawled, PhatWare’s engine would convert the handwriting to plain text and insert it into whatever you were writing in at the time.

It was surprisingly effective and regognized everything I threw at it with few…

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