Archive for the ‘Computing’ Category

280 Slides

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

A cool new online presentation tool:

http://280slides.com/Editor/

The slide show application is really nice in that it feels very much like a desktop application when in use, even down the way buttons and key presses behave. The object rotation is particularly clever.

Another thing that makes this one clever though is the underlying framework, which is said to compile cocoa like code into dynamic web pages. It will apparently even be opensourced at some stage!

ACM computer science key works

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

The ACM is offering free downloads of selected classic works of computer science to anyone who signs up.

http://www.acm.org/classics 

(via  Lambda The Ultimate and Dusty Decks)

Insanely transparent …

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

You can just see Steve Jobs stroking a white cat and telling engineers to make products “insanely transparent”, can’t you?

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(It’s actually an article about keyboards, but worth reading anyway)