If you spend any time at all writing on the web in text boxes and you use IE, then your gonna love ieSpell. It will spell check any text box for you, like the ones i use in MovableType. Very cool and worth the download.
Josh Cooper makes mention of a spelling utility for IE browsers. Unfortunately it looks as though success may have spoiled things - Account Frozen- Anybody aware of an alternative download site?
BTW Josh, I love the simplicity of your site's layout and look.
>>> Report from the futur[e|ists] All the big thinkers are hanging out at the Foresight Institute's retreat this weekend, and Dan Gillmor's taking notes: Ray Kurzweil is doing his usual amazing job of explaining the mind-boggling nature of exponential change -- the acceleration of progress. He's the ultimate optimist. His future is one where biology and machines become seamless, where machines and intelligence help humanity become (in my mind) somewhat disturbingly "God-like," for lack of a better expression. I also crave that future, because it is where we need to go. You have to take a lot of this on faith. Kurzweil says these changes, which will lead to advances that we truly cannot grasp at this stage, are inexorable and vastly more powerful than human civilization's greatest dreams today. "We will become these machines and merge with them," he says. Another line: "The universe will ultimately wake up and command its own destiny." Hmmm.Dan's been really good about going to all these hyper-leet events and taking realtime notes as they unfold. It's journalism 3.0! <<< [via boingboing]
Lot's of good stuff here... journalism 3.0 indeed.
As far as Kurzweil comments are concerned, I think it's humankind that needs to wake up actually, and face the reality that the universe already commands it's own destiny.
Paul Saffo comments on the evolution of media from mass to personal. See Emergence Ch. 4 Listening to Feedback for a detailed look at the process James Gleick's Faster also touches breifly on this topic in Chapter 8 In Real Time.
David Friedman discusses real space and cyberspace interfaces and makes mention of David Brin. I need to make good on my comment to Doug Miller do read some of Brin's works.
Bonsai is probably the best Windows outliner I've been able to locate to date. Thanks to Josh Cooper for the link.
Far from perfect, it does have it's shortcomings. Font support would be nice. Definable import capability would also be nice, but it does import CVS and text out-of-the-box.
The outliner is very intuitive otherwise and you can sync with your Palm and a full featured Palm version of the software. The absolutely coolest feature though has to be export from the desktop application.
Ultimately, exporting in Bonsai is only limited by your ability to code the output file using Bonsai's internal markup language. Out-of -the-box, you've got immediate capability to save as CVS, TEXT, or HTML. But there are also markup examples provided to demostrate export to XML. It only took a matter of 30 min or so to reconfigure this output to OPML. So cool.
Maybe Natara will add support for reading OPML internally at some point, but now it's only one-way. But, I'll take that any day over the limitations other outliners offer.
"I find myself using weblogs as a great sources of information. Although they are personal opinions, they're also good filters on certain topics. I regularly visit a collection of weblogs that together cover the span of my interests. Each weblog filters out the relevant information from the web and hands them to me in handy format. Anybody who read David Gelernter's book "Mirror Worlds" (see a small review here) must recognize the similarities with what Gelernter calls "the trellis". The trellis is a dataflow architecture, a little like a stack of filters so that the users at the topic are not bothered by the massive amounts of small details but are able to get the information they need. With weblogs these filters are actual humans, and they are way better at sorting information than any piece of software. The way Radio Userland offers users the oppertunity to subscribe to eachothers weblogs (and automatically incorporate the other's writings) is an excellent example of the similarities. I built my own trellis out of the weblogs on the topics I'm interested in. These weblogs in turn might use other weblogs etc. In my eyes this is a very powerfull idea and that is why I'm a big proponent of weblogs... but...I have the feeling we can do more for users." Unfortunately, I am too much of an NT (non-techie) to understand what the heck Berco is talking about throughout the rest of his rant, but it seems like a wonderful experiment. Take a look at 2blog. (from Daypop Top 40)" [via "steven"]
Oh...I get it. Actually, I've thought of this concept myself at an extremely high level. (Not to steal any of Berco's thunder on the idea.) I'm searching for the post to my weblog on the subject. (hmmm....no luck)
Anyways, I originally conceived the concept as a 'portable device' contaning your blog software and data. Portable meaning anything capable of storing both the application and the data and being accessible from a widely different number of devices. Berco improves this concept to include as well other services based applications (~ GoogleAPI searching). Even better yet, appearing to be somthing of a programmer, Berco's also got a working prototype.
With Bero's setup you carry your applications & data on a Disk on a Key (a glorified USB memory chip) and plug-in the chip to any USB compliant device and presto - access to the services stored on the chip running in it's own device independent (relatively speaking) web service based application.
It's kind of like being able to carry around the hard drive that contains your copy of Radio and then plugging it to any PC you want and being able to access the software from that PC. That's actually a very crude look at it though. The real power of this concept is that the portability of the data itself. Not just the device that it's on.
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