The one thing I have to say is the mind notices the positive changes first when dealing with a new os.

Not the same thing. I believe matt's talking about Ubuntu for Android, which is a Canonical project to create a phone with a docking station, that acts as both a desktop and a phone.

Admit it, this article was posted for the sole purpose of being a double whammy of Gizmodo reader pandering plus Android fan troll bait. I can see you over there, cackling evilly while watching the pageviews rising and all the pink comments flooding in. ;)

Thanks for the info. My results were flaky but slightly skewed toward the left eye, and I'm a lefty, so your suggestion sounds good for me. :)

E.g. with the pointing at object test, if I close each eye my finger appears either side of the object. The triangle test, I actually get two triangles while focussing beyond them

I'm left-handed and it seems like my dominant eye is the left one. At least, the left eye's the one that was closer with both tests — neither eye completely passed both, but the left was closer to passing than the right for each. I hope that makes sense, because I realise I'm not explaining very well.

Ooh, nice. Last time I looked (a while back, apparently) there seemed to be no interest in a Windows version. Good to know, even though I don't have any real need for the port. :)

Kabikaboo is good for organising thoughts, and sounds like the kind of thing you're interested in. You can organise thoughts, and cross-link them, so that, say, if a chapter has multiple important characters, the info pages for the characters appear as tabs for the chapter, for quick reference.

You might also want to give infinite design a try for the infinite canvas. Sketchbook and ID are my go-to programs most of the time, depending on if I want more tools or more canvas. ID seems to work best when you're doing something that doesn't need a lot of pen swapping, so it might be a good fit.

Youtube and Google (in general) does both. If you're not logged in, they track recommendations by cookie. You can wipe out the cookie and completely reset them both. I know this because I had to deal with it before; I got sick of Youtube giving me useless/strange recommendations because of videos friends would link…

Then that's probably the way to go for him. I'm a long-term Debian user so I'm more familiar with their ports (and they have a ton of them). Ubuntu doesn't deal with quite as many, which is understandable, so I didn't want to say they had it when they might not. :)

Quill sounds like it would be a good fit, but it may require a pressure-sensitive pen. Not sure. It's only a buck, try it and see if it works out and refund if not. :)

I was hoping this would introduce me to some new apps I hadn't heard about before, but nope...the only two Android votes are the ones I already have. I expected more of an Android turn-out here, considering there are actually Android devices with real digital pens, unlike the iPad.

If you're familiar with Ubuntu, either see if Ubuntu has a powerpc port (not sure) or use Debian (which does). Since Ubuntu's based on Debian, things will be reasonably familiar, though Ubuntu adds its own stuff on top, so there will be some differences.

In Honeycomb as well, I believe.

Thinkpad tablet user here; it came with a pen and I love it. I'm an ex-PDA user, so maybe I'm biased, but I prefer using the soft keyboards with the pen. Especially ones like Swype, it's a lot easier to slide the pen around than my finger, and obscures less of the screen usually. :D

There are already Android devices like that. Most use N-Trig (a couple HTC devices, Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet), which works pretty well but feels different than Wacom. Then there's the Galaxy Note, which uses Wacom tech to make the pen work.

Well, I wasn't trying to say that you should be using one, just that the 'droid ones are usable enough, and that there's enough of a difference in the two types of devices, that there are reasons someone might choose one versus (or in addition to) the other.

I love the idea of hybrid notebooks like that, and you're right, that is a sexy piece of kit, but i didn't see anything about it having a pen :( I wish more tablet (and TabletPC-esque) devices would come with that option. It's the killer feature of that sort of device, IMO: having a sort of digital paper, not…

Nope, it's Android (3.1). Should be getting ICS soon, it was supposed to be due this month. Sorry I wasn't clear about that. It's the device I have Infinite Design and Sketchbook Pro on, along with a handful of other pen-friendly apps like Quill. :)