Fashionable Knee Braces

road near future


If, like me, you can not wait to live with your iPad is a pleasure to peek potential in video made online at Apple showing the iPad to work:

web, mail , photos, video , music, but also and electronic publishing office - Keynote, Pages and Numbers.

more reason the show worth a visit if you have not yet decided whether a iPad is for you ...

Pokemon Online Brazilian

invisible ink

A recent post by Portrait with Apples talking about handwriting recognition using a stylus I brought to mind one thing that I wrote two years ago and I have recovered 's occasion, entitled "invisible ink"

I do not know how many of the players we have had in his hands an Apple Newton . I used it in 1997, fifteen days before it was withdrawn from the market. It is therefore worthwhile to remember that it was a hand-held computer, perhaps the first, with touch screen the ability to touch and handwriting recognition. It was a revolutionary device and many of its features have not yet arrived on modern operating systems such as the ability to process data as universal to all applications, just as he would a notebook or smart, rather, magic, Harry Potter.

The only fault of Newton was to be ahead of its time, when the market a device that is still not needed (although I remain of the opinion that the 2100 Newton was withdrawn the very same week that he started to have success ). At the end of the nineties instead met market success Palm, Handheld another, vastly more modest in characteristics and demands, but also in size and price. Later, with the revolution of mobile phones the "intelligent" features have been incorporated into the handheld smart phones, and it is likely that Newton will return to live in a future edition of the iPhone evolved.

One thing, however, the small U.S. Robotics Palm Newton was higher: in the comfort of writing. The fundamental difference is that while Newton claimed to understand human nature writing (this is often difficult for the human race itself) and even to guess the words written by searching a dictionary (with often humorous results), the small Palm was content to teach user Graffiti writing this and to require him to use that. Palm

then put together by combining the letters and words do not pretend to understand them. Empirical evidence shows, Graffiti alphabet was a very simple and intuitive to master, and after ten minutes the user was able to write quickly and accurately on their electronic tablet. When Palm introduced the Graffiti 2, trying to allow the user to write more naturally, the level of error in handwriting recognition grew to the point of making irritating to write with a handheld.

It is said that the development of Newton never ceased to Apple, and is probably under way in laboratories bunker iPhone ed iPod , ed i risultati saranno prima o poi sotto gli occhi di tutti. Ma una parte del DNA del Newton originale fa parte da tempo del codice di Mac OS. Si chiama Ink (inchiostro) e permette di scrivere non attraverso una tastiera, ma una penna appoggiata ad una tavoletta, di quelle usate dai grafici. Io ho una modesta tavoletta Wacom che risale ai tempi dei primi iMac (infatti è di color strawberry) ma funziona perfettamente, e di tanto in tanto, quando mi prende la nostalgia del Newton, mi diverto a scrivere qualche cosa “a mano”.

Siete curiosi di sapere come funziona? Vi propongo an experiment in real time. Now I take the tablet and write two sentences on these pages, promising not to take any subsequent correction:

hello I am a Mac to I Understand Your Wr, 'ting

hello i SOHO A Mac Ia and I understand your scriltuza

(English works better because Ink includes dictionaries English, German and French - not the Italian one).

To write the blog maybe you should continue to use the keyboard, unless you implement the Graffiti ... ;-)

(Mac Lovers Blog, January 18, 2008)

Driver's License Medical Withdrawal

spotlight

Nel 1985 la memoria di massa del Macintosh, rappresentata da un floppy disk, era di 400 Kb. Su quel disco trovavano posto il sistema operativo, l’applicazione ed i documenti. Il Mac di oggi ha mediamente 1.000.000 di volte quello spazio. Eppure l’interfaccia che gestisce i file, cioè il Finder , è grosso modo la stessa.

È per lo più usando il Finder, attraverso la metafora delle cartelle e dei documenti, che l’utente organizza lo spazio in cui archivia i propri dati. Va da sé che archiviare milioni di documenti presenta problemi diversi dall’avere due cartelle con una dozzina di lettere, il che costringe the user to a mental discipline and order which could however be a task for the computer.

To help you survive the jungle order Mac OS X since 2005 has incorporated a technology called Spotlight which consists of an advanced search of documents on the hard disk. Spotlight is a document that has a certain name, or the contents of which include a certain word. The research is quite sophisticated, allowing you to narrow your documents for a specific type, such as folders, images or movies, or documents created by a certain application, as well as search mail, or appointments or things to do.

Searches can be saved, creating smart folders that automatically update. Personally, I have smart folders to search for links, disk images, movies, or things to be completed (ie documents which have arbitrarily applied the tag orange)

a long time when I did not find an image I simply open a Finder window, select "all images" and then type a few words that are part of the title. The same thing applies for example to the lyrics.

Spotlight technology is what makes the difference - again between Vista and Mac OS or Linux. But in the last five years of life is inexplicably advanced enough. The Finder is not the only software to have trouble organizing data. Think of the world wide web: the dawn of the internet seemed normal hand write the address of a web page, as http://www.netvibes.com/bluebottazzi , but very soon he felt the need to a search engine to find us the data we need. Google is a search engine such as Spotlight is, but instead of rummaging in our search the entire hard disk, an immense spider web world.

The Google searches are very efficient in just a fraction of a second printing on our browser tens of thousands of results, sophisticated criteria ordered by relevance and timelines.

Spotlight searches are much less efficient. The timing of the research variables, including "very little" and 'a bit too " (also because it takes the search before I've finished typing: it is the most beautiful figure to respond after hearing the application), up to extreme situations in which research seems snookered.

But they are especially inefficient in terms of ordering the results. A simple search, that is for a single parameter of text (for example, "Blue Bottazzi" ) may be cause of headaches: the many results are displayed as documents of the Finder and are typically presented in alphabetical order. Apart from 'icon not give me any useful information. To rummage in them are forced to select them one by one by one (easy) thumbnail by pressing the space bar.

Much more useful would get a window similar to Google: icon, thumbnail information (eg part of the text), and buttons for restrict the search field. But most of all sort the results by relevance : first the documents that they have the search words in the title, then in the keywords e infine nel testo. E sotto-ordinati in ordine cronologico.

Va da sé che per rendere efficiente una ricerca è necessario fornire qualche informazione al ricercatore. Fin dall’inizio Spotlight ha accettato parole chiave sotto forma di commento , ma questa possibilità è immensamente sottovalutata dal Finder. Per inserire un commento l’utente deve selezionare il file, aprirne la finestra di informazioni (cmd-I), selezionare il campo dei commenti e finalmente digitare. Logica vorrebbe che queste informazioni fossero fornite al momento del salvataggio del documento stesso, nella apposita finestra che invece da 25 anni si limita a chiedermi il nome del documento e la sua posizione nell’hard disk. Perché non chiedere invece e soprattutto un commento (alias alcune parole chiave per la ricerca) e permettere eventualmente il salvataggio in un blob , uno spazio gestito a sua discrezione dal sistema operativo?

Macintosh permette anche di salvare le informazioni in programmi diversi dal Finder, come le fotografie in iPhoto , la posta elettronica in Mail , la musica in iTunes , e questi programmi sono molto ben integrati nel motore di ricerca del sistema. Ma questo sarà l’oggetto del prossimo post.

Intestinal Pain For A Week

hello Dave

In 1989, the Macintosh computer was the best imaginable also because it included HyperCard, a software as dramatic as literally forgotten that lets you design the interface of the computer and give life to their objects using the English language. My Mac opened in HyperCard, and the Finder used it as a utility that was opened only in case I need to directly manipulate the HyperCard file.Fra other things included a floating horizontal windows which took its name message box ( or simply the msg: HyperTalk great!) where I could give direct commands like "open this program" - Or anything else.

Of course, older operating systems such as MS-DOS or CPM or Apple DOS or Unix predicted good or bad command line text interface. The difference is that in the message box write in a language compatible with English. I had admired in the Apple II text adventures of Henry Colombini, that made my computer much more human. Type:

"I see a cat "

">> eat the cat"

" Yuck, yuck! "

I would have liked to talk the same way to my Apple II, the type "Here I am" or "go out" , to feel healthy with a "goodbye Dave" .

Later I often want a message box such as HyperCard for my next Mac. EVOKE a window by pressing apple-M to write "open Photoshop" or "show me the mail" or "open the last document" . I suppose it is not impossible to write a similar application using AppleScript but no one has ever done. I guess the computer of the future work (without Finder) by touching the screen elements and giving orders - by voice or keyboard.

And I imagine that the computer will greet me.