Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Yeah, I Can Read The Sign Too For the past several months this blog has carried the Gnomedex sign that you (all one of you) can see over to the right. It says "we'll be there." Well unfortunately I won't be going because my business is just too busy right now and it happens to fall right before my son's birthday to boot. So I guess I'm going to miss out on seeing Iowa. OK, so I'm not going to miss Iowa. But I will be missing out on meeting some real interesting people and some of my favorite bloggers. Anyway, if you (all one of you) can get there, hoist a cup of coffee in Chris's honor for me. 9:17:25 PM

Popout Prism This news item comes courtesy of the LangaList Newsletter: Xerox PARC (Palo Alto research Center) invented many of the technologies we take for granted today--- the GUI, the mouse, the laser printer,ethernet, and more. Now, they're trying their hand at a browser: Reader Greg Rice writes: Popout Prism is a Web Browser designed as an experiment at PARC laboratories - free download: ==== Want a peek into the future? Popout Prism is a Web Browser that reduces the amount of time users spend looking for information in Web pages. By creating visual "popouts" that emphasize critical elements in Web pages, Popout Prism draws users' attention to the right information. The Popout Prism is particularly useful when searching for information in long documents and in large collections of documents. It's also useful for anyone who's visually impaired, as well as for anyone showing web pages on a data projector to a group of people You can go here to download a 90-day trial version (1 Mb). 1:32:34 AM