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PowerPoint may be in for some surprise. Given the limited evolution of Microsoft-based presentation solutions and the wide adoption of Flash as an effective format for presentation distribution, it appears as if the presentation market is indeed open to new alternative solutions that may provide greater ease of use and more design "intelligence" than PowerPoint has been able to provide in the last decade. Given also the fast growth and development of new podcasting and video tools, it is likely that a new breed of software and services will further enable small independent publishers in the creation of presentations that integrate video, audio, images in a seamless, TV-like fashion.
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Lust by Bergman © Delfi Ramirez @ Segonquart Studio 2006 |
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Carlos Mata Bijoux © Delfi Ramirez @ Segonquart Studio 2006 |
Information design is concerned with transforming data into information, making the complex easier to understand and to use.Addenda:
It is a rapidly growing discipline that draws on typography, graphic design, applied linguistics, applied psychology, applied ergonomics, computing, and other fields. It emerged as a response to people's need to understand and use such things as forms, legal documents, computer interfaces and technical information.
Information designers consider the selection, structuring and presentation of the information provider's message in relation to the purposes, skills, experience, preferences and circumstances of the intended users. To do this they need specialist knowledge and skills in graphic communication and typography, the psychology of reading and learning, human-computer interaction, usability research and clear writing, plus an understanding of the potential and limitations of different media.
Information architecture belongs to the realm of the abstract, concerning itself more with the structures in the mind than the structures on the page or screen. Information design, however, couldn't be more concrete, with considerations such as colour and shape fundamental to the information designer's process.
...() I've been working on Semantic Web since I've been working on the web, which is basically since 1989. The idea was the web should be a web for all media and now it's media in the sense of multimedia it's media in the sense of information for people Like web pages, like movies, like ... sounds so all the things produced by people and absorbed by people. The web has proved to be a space for. But the data out there which actually is also not so exciting perhaps but really important part of our lives, like economic data and data that runs the business is not on the web. So when you go to a website, ...and it's got data behind it in fact cos it's for example the weather website().... So the Semantic Web is about making that possible, but really is just completing the web vision. So we've been working on it for long time, and it just we ended up getting distracted by the others things that seemed more important at the time like multimedia()...
The best way to deal with less time is to do less paper work, less busy work, less abstracted work. This means do less stuff that isn'tt real. Less boxes and arrows. Less charts. Less documentation. Less stuff that is abstracted from the real thing,— the real product your actual customers will see.From: More Constraints:
Let your competitors kill themselves trying to solve the big complex problems."Let your competitors kill themselves trying to solve the big complex problems"...Well.
"Questions that say nothing ("It doesn't work!"); questions that make no sense; questions that shows a lack of information; questions that give classroom's mates wrong information. Questions of problems that turn out to be student error; questions of problems that turn out to be the fault of somebody else's course; questions of problems that turn out to be network (or machine) failures.
There's a reason why teaching software is seen as a horrible job to be in".
Operative Systems | OS | Visitors | Percent |
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Unknown | Unknow | 321 | 41,15% |
Windows XP | WinXP | 256 | 32.38% |
MacOS | MAC OS X | 128 | 16.41% |
Win2000 | Win 2000 | 48 | 6.15% |
Win98 | Win 98 | 14 | 1.79% |
Linux | Linux | 7 | 0.90% |
WinME | Win ME | 3 | 0.38% |
WinNT | Win NT | 2 | 0.26% |
SunOS | SunOS | 1 | 0.13% |
Choose variable names with irrelevant emotional connotation. e.g.:
marypoppins = (superman + starship) / god;
This confuses the reader because they have difficulty disassociating the emotional connotations of the words from the logic they're trying to think about.Simply brilliant.
Microsoft did not invent PowerPoint. That honor goes to a small company called Forethought, which released PowerPoint for the Mac in 1987. The company was then purchased by Microsoft and the Windows version of PowerPoint eventually hit the market in 1990...And the world hasn't been the same since.
... Kirschner's art is enabled by it. In Kirschner's case, that technology is Flash, the ubiquitous multimedia software language that powers countless Internet websites.We mentioned Mr. Kirschner before in this ( your ) blog.
Kirschner uses Flash to compose ever-changing pieces of music. These compositions generally consist of a set number of MP3s that are randomly layered simultaneously, and that can play for as long as the listener desires. A piece of music that is indeterminate — to borrow a word from John Cage, one of Kirschner's role models — has no inherent end.
TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. It will never change any component of the operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system updates.Nowadays, you might prefer Tinker Tool System. This allows you to change advanced operating system settings and offers a wide variety of maintenance features. The latest version comes with powerful new functions, e.g. verifying the integrity of preference files or removing superfluous language packages.
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Apaga y Vamonos - Switch Off Movie © Delfi Ramirez @ Segonquart Studio 2005-2006 |
Web 2.0 Cloud © Kosmar 2005 |
do or kill
sentence PHP language presents. It means a lot about the person who invented this language. do and stop
or delete if not done
?If you’re already a PHP Programmer, I’m sure you already know about a lot of the mistakes outlined here, and if not have a look at it in order to become a better coder.
From part one:
Improper use of printf
Misapplying Semantics
Lack of Inline Documentation
Too many variables, too much time
Rewriting existing PHP functions
Not separating client side from server side
Using Outdated Paradigms
From part two:
Not Following Basic Naming Conventions
Not Thinking Things Through: Databases & SQL
Lack of Error Checking
Overusing OO
Misusing Regular Expressions
Programming PHP Like It Was Some Other Language
Not Being Security Conscious
From part three:
Cut and Paste Coding: The Wrong Way
Not Having Project Code Guidelines
Not Doing a Code Review
Hacking at Design Flaws
Excluding the User from the Design Process
Not Sticking to a Project Plan
Getting Lost in Time
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The infamous “society of the spectacle” described by Guy Debord is more of a reality than ever. Thrust onto the public stage, newsmakers rattle on in real time; the pros and cons of serious issues are served up as sound bites; and cocktail-party lines supplant real understanding of the world’s complexity. Such debate in the public arena may be entertaining, but what is left of any substance when the frantic movement stops and the oh-so-democratic babble subsides?....I'm going to be, not physically, but virtually.
....The Rencontres provides such a space, in which to mull over these questions and many others. It welcomes the harvest of films that have reached maturity in the past two years. Each documentary manifests the complexity of its era and bears witness to the time required to develop a full-bodied vision of things.
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Clouds © Delfi Ramirez 2005 |
"The Processing Environment (Integrated Development Environment or IDE) is a simple and usable editor for writing and running programs. When the "run" button is clicked, the program compiles, the display window opens and the software runs inside. The toolbar provides functionality for running and stopping programs, creating a new sketch, opening, saving, and exporting. Additional commands are available through the menus. The message area gives feedback while saving and exporting and also shows the locations of errors when programs are compiled. The text area presents messages and can be written to with the print() and println() programming functions."
Pere Casasampera & Delfi Ramirez presents : Interzone © 1995 |
tell
or if the visible of sprite 5 then go to the frame
, were to me more human than today's standard dot syntax.smb://DNSname/ShareName
smb://IPaddress/ShareName
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Apaga y Vamonos - Switch Off Movie © Delfi Ramirez @ Segonquart Studio 2005-2006 |
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problems when publishing a compiled .swf in Flash MX 2004. I have not tested yet compiling directly from SE|PY.![]() |
Switch Off documentary by Manel Mayol © Segonquart Studio 2005 |
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Delfi Ramirez, composer. New York Times 2005 |
Anonymous commenting, while sometimes necessary, can be seen as cowardly. Build your identity and own your words by placing your name and weblog address on your comments wherever possible.A nice pursuit of education and how to act, say react, on comments.
#include "fuse_kit.as"
, use the line com.mosesSupposes.fuse.Fuse.simpleSetup();
which sets Fuse up to work in just the same way you're used to.com.mosesSupposes.fuse.lite.Fuse.simpleSetup();
http://delfiramirez.blogspot.com/atom.xml
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Apaga y Vamonos - Switch Off The Movie © Delfi Ramirez @ Segonquart Studio 2005 |
PowerPoint's failings have been outlined most vividly by Yale political scientist Edward Tufte, a specialist in the visual information designTrue.
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function and it's debug implementation.“Follow the money” is as good a way as any to define a company: the point of business is to profit.
This is why Apple is not, and has never been, a software company: their profits come from hardware sales — computers, and, now, iPods. Microsoft is a software company: their profits — billions of dollars every quarter — come almost solely from software.
Judged by their profits, Google is an advertising company. They don’t profit from search, they don’t profit from software. They profit by selling ads.