
Waking up
Originally uploaded by lucapost
A quick snap I took from the kitchen window between waking up and preparing coffe; its getting views but not enough to make it into Explore/interestingness …speaking of which , here’s the global situation of my account (sad!).
I wish the tools also exported the picture tags either as an extra info-box or as the post own tags…
Being an heavy user of the delicious extensions for Firefox, I never check the main site and missed the invitation for the preview of the new interface, thus I am about 2 months late for an Information Architecture analysis. Exploring around, I realised something useful is missing, and I filed my request on the forum Continue reading ‘Delicious: privacy levels for tags would be useful!’
Web sites as graphs: enter a URL and watch the DOM unfold in real time, simulating a set of particles reaching a minimum-energy equilibrium state.Found this randomly through Flickr; visually fascinating!Start from the HTML root element (black dot) and follow through your DIVs (green dots) hierarchy, then images and links (violet and blue respectively) etc.It can be easily extended into a semantic-structure analyzer, a validation tool; add mouse-over events showing nodes’ content and you have the coolest User Interface for any DOM-inspector Firefox extension (Firebug->Inspect included).The code is there, anyone …?
Did you just waste half-day figuring out how to export your .doc headings into .pdf bookmarks despite the linearity of the process as described in both MS Word and Acrobat Pro ‘help’ sections? me too!Worry not: NeoOffice (2.2.something) does it right! with all kinds of options clearly configurable in the print dialog. This is an important usability feature for any pdf document longer than 3 pages.
Accessibility notice: the document structure also gets exported automatically into pdf ‘tags’, which are the items screen-readers use to let users navigate the document.This had been the first case of real-word open-source nirvana for me!
Operator 0.8 is out, enhancements in the UI options: auto-hide toolbar + location bar + sidebar etc; the upgrade does not save your preferences, the button to add support for other microformats seems disabled -too bad, I was just working on an hAtom thing…
CORRECTION: the hatom.js should be added in the ‘User Scripts’ tab of Operator’s preferences, not in the ‘Data Formats’ one as I was trying to do… works great now!
Together with the new iMacs Apple presented yesterday iLife 2008, their ‘digital life-style’ software suite for managing photos and movies.
Integration with Apple’s own .mac online services has been enhanced and heavily publicized in Steve’s keynote; exporting pictures from iPhoto and sharing them with friends is a snap; album previews, slideshows and carousel viewing in full web2.0 ajaxified style, making you almost feel like dropping your flickr account and… wait a second: where are tags ?!?! Continue reading ‘the New .mac photo albums: OBTRUSIVE!’
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