If you’re on a Mac, running Tiger, using OpenOffice or – my recommendation – NeoOffice, then you probably want to install NeoLight to make your documents searchable with Spotlight.
NeoLight
September 18th, 2005
Privacy Enhanced Computer Display
September 16th, 2005
This Privacy-Enhanced Computer Display is a nice idea from Mitsubishi. It’s 4 years old, and it’s not clear it ever progressed beyond being an idea.
Thanks to Tom for the link. Oh, and talking of Tom, I found this post pretty memorable reading.
Paper comes to life
September 16th, 2005
One of the projects I’m currently working on is Exbiblio. For some time now, the web site has been somewhat vague about what it is we’re actually doing, though it described our general area – making paper more interactive. But over the next few weeks, we plan to release rather more information, and it’s started with the publishing of a whitepaper called ‘The Paper Renaissance’, which you can find at the bottom of this page.
Watch this space…
Curved Space
September 13th, 2005
I know Einstein had a stab at this, but I’m starting to make my own deductions about the non-linearity of space-time. It turns out that walking distance, for example, is dependent on the nature of the environment in which you’re walking.
Strap a rucksack and some walking boots on me, and point me at the open road, and I’ll happily walk fifteen miles. Put me in an art museum, on the other hand, and, though I’ll enjoy the experience almost as much, I’ll want to sit down after a few rooms. Thus we can deduce that Museum Miles are longer than Hiking Miles.
On Saturday I was at IBC – the huge International Broadcasting Convention – at the RAI convention centre in Amsterdam. It was interesting, but I came away absolutely exhausted. Which reminded me of a fact I’d long forgotten: that Trade Show Miles are the longest of all.
Chateau Naughton
September 13th, 2005
Another lovely photo on John’s blog.
1.5 Billion Customers
September 9th, 2005
Apparently there are now 1.5 Billion people using GSM. Wow.
SocialMac
September 9th, 2005
At Foo Camp I wrote about the fact that Mac users seemed to be account for about 50% of the attendees.
I counted here at Our Social World and it’s about 25-30%. The difference is probably partly due to a slightly less techie audience, and partly due to not being on the West Coast, but it’s still well up on the overall Apple market share.
Quickipedia
September 9th, 2005
Tom Coates gave a talk earlier this morning and mentioned that he didn’t have an entry on Wikipedia. By lunchtime, someone in the room had created one for him.
Tom’s from the BBC, is a very nice guy, and has a good blog here, by the way.
VoodooPad
September 9th, 2005
This is just another plug for VoodooPad, one of the Mac apps that has a permanent place in my Dock.
I mentioned it a while ago as a general note-taking utility; I find I haven’t used it very much for that, but there is one situation where it works very well for me; taking notes in conferences. Creating lots of short pages, one for each talk, very easily, finding pictures of the speakers on the net or taking them on a camera as I go along and just dragging them onto the pages, typing in URLs that are mentioned and having them automatically become links. Having just enough text formatting for the task, and so forth – it’s great.
And best of all, it has a Spotlight adaptor which means that I can find any page in any of the documents using Spotlight. This size of page is a good granularity for search results, I find, and yet because I write notes for a whole conference in one file, I don’t need to create lots of little files and think of lots of filenames.
Our Social World
September 9th, 2005
I’m at Our Social World, an interesting conference about blogging and other forms of social networking which also is conveniently within cycling distance of my home.
We were all encouraged to bring laptops and we’re all, of course, being very ‘social’ – IMing each other, posting entries like this, and so forth. It’s bizarre to see posts popping up in my RSS feeds from people just the other side of the room. It’s fun, if you’re at a conference, to type its name in quotes into Technorati. The challenge here is to get the balance between being electronically social and just chatting to the person next to you.
iPod Nano
September 7th, 2005
Like the small size of the iPod shuffle but wish it had a display? Today, Apple announced the iPod Nano, and the Mini has quietly vanished from the Apple site.
Oh, and there’s a Motorola phone with iPod functionality, but we’ve known about that for so long that it would be pretty unexciting even if you could get it from anybody other than Cingular.
It is the only phone I’ve seen with stereo speakers, though!
Definition
September 7th, 2005
from my brother Simon:
Riders of Rohan
A wild and noble people who ride their steeds with pride across the plain, defending their realm against the evil of the two towers, dressed in stylish, light-weight, quick-dry travel wear.
Those not from the UK may be confused : click here
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