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Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of the C++ programming
language, defends his legacy and examines what's wrong with most software code.
Presentations are becoming increasingly visual and less
textual. Converting every concept into an image is the challenge and, at the
same time, the solution.
The economic divide is a non-issue, but the usability and
empowerment divides alienate huge population groups who miss out on the
Internet's potential.
his thoughts about what really holds people back are interesting.
- 16 Nov 2006 - Find language schools and language courses worldwide on
the Internet Course Finders, your first
information source online for
language courses, boarding schools, hotel schools and other international
study programmes. From the Librarians Index to the Internet.
- 14 Nov 2006 - The LangaList had an interesting item about
Microsoft Research, the things
they are doing, and the
things they offer users to try out.
- 09 Nov 2006 -
Software Learns to Tag Photos. Thousands of online images from Flickr
have already been tagged accurately by a new software program, by James Lee,
in Technology Review, 9 Nov 2006.
- 07 Nov 2006 -
Building a Better Book Reader by Kate Baggott, in Technology Review,
03 Nov 2006.
Publishers are tapping into a young audience by sending books
to cell phones and flashing the text before users' eyes--one word at a time.
- 02 Nov 2006 -
Google
Launches Custom Search Engine Service, by Chris Sherman, Executive
Editor of SearchEngineWatch, on 24 Oct 2006.
Want
your own Google-flavored specialized search engine for your web site or blog?
With Google's new Custom Search Engine service, it takes just minutes to set
up your own unique search engine.
- 31 Oct 2006 -
Hack: How
to Steal an Election: Princeton University computer scientists expose
the weakness of a diebold voting machine, by Daniel Turner, Technology
Review, 31 Oct 2006
- 26 Oct 2006 -
this item
in a recent Librarian's Index to the Internet newsletter caught my
eye:
"Web 2.0" has become a catch-all buzzword that people use
to describe a wide range of online activities and applications, some of
which the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been tracking for years.
As researchers, we instinctively
reach for our spreadsheets to see if there is evidence to inform the
hype about any online trend. This article provides a short history of the
phrase, along with new traffic data from Hitwise to help frame the
discussion."
- 24 Oct 2006 -
A First Look at Windows Vista. "Microsoft plans to introduce its new
operating system to consumers in January. Is it worth upgrading?" by Erika
Jonietz, Technology Review, 20 Oct 2006. By the way, Microsoft is
releasing its new
browser this week. If you have your Windows update set to automatic,
apparently you will be automatically updated with MSIE 7 sometime this week.
If you are interested, Patrick Crispen has put out
a Tourbus note on the
new browsers.
- 17 Oct 2006 - I was asked recently about organizing files in a laptop.
Coincidentally, several newsletters recently offered some ideas on that
topic. A contributor to FreePint suggested:
-
Copernic as a useful local search alternative to both Google Desktop and
Windows Explorer
- he also suggested using Taxonomy Warehouse if one is unclear about how to arrange files and data
in a logical structure. I doubt that most of their offerings will be of
interest to you, but knowing who they are and what they have to offer might
be useful in a future work/life situtation.
- 12 Oct 2006 - French in Action - "on this website, educators and students can partake of
52 half-hour programs at their leisure." From Scout Report.
- 10 Oct 2006 - R.I.P. WYSIWYG, from Jakob Nielsen's
Alertbox, 10 Oct 2005. A comment on
the evolution of programs like MSWord and Word 2007.
- 05 Oct 2006 -
Make
Windows XP Run Faster! I noticed several of you are encountering slow
responses from your laptops. I saw this item in Tourbus and thought
it might prove useful.
- 03 Oct 2006 -
The
Global Technology Revolution 2020, from RAND Corporation (via the Scout Report). "In this 316-page work, the authors assess a sample of 29
countries across the spectrum of scientific advancement with respect to
their ability to implement a number of key technology applications,
including cheap solar energy and wireless communications. Along with the
work’s four primary chapters, visitors can also make use of the eleven
appendices, which include explorations of related themes, such as technology
and terrorism and leading trends in information technology."
- 28 Sep 2006 - Design vs. Usability: which side are you on?, by Juan C. Dürsteler,
Inf@Vis, 04 Sep 2000. The topic has been around for a long time and
still isn't decided.
- 26 Sep 2006 -
Visual Branding
(the visual impact of brands), Inf@Vis, 08 Jun 2004. Why you
might want to create a visual identity for yourself.
- 21 Sep 2006 - no class; optional lab
- 19 Sep 2006 -
Top Ten Web
Design Mistakes of 2005, Jakob Nielsen, Alertbox, 03 Oct 2005
- 14 Sep 2006 -
10x10 - 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time by Jonathan J.
Harris, FreePint, 06 Jan 2006
- 12 Sep 2006 -
Teen's warning on the gospel of Wikipedia, by Soumya Srinagesh,
CNET.news
- 07 Sep 2006 -
Putting Pictures in Their Place, Kate Green,
Tech Review, 05 Sep
2006.
- 05 Sep 2006 -
Smart Computing Daily Tip Archive,
Librarians' Index to the Internet, 2006. Note that there is an article here about Knoppix.
- 31 Aug 2006 -
A Window into Vista: What's the buzz about Microsoft's next OS?, Karen Epper Hoffman,
Tech Review, 12 Jan 2006
- 29 Aug 2006 - Domesday
Redux: The rescue of the BBC Domesday Project videodiscs; the story of
the challenges of newer technologies; from Current Cites, 06 Sep 2003
- 24 Aug 2006 -
Getting started with "Getting Things Done", Jan Verbogen in
FreePint,
16 Jun 2005