Saw this cool logo on the web recently. View all logos here
Monday, June 30, 2008
VexEd with WebEx
For a recent activity of mine, I needed to view a user's computer remotely. The activity required me to take screenshot of the user's application as he browsed through it. I googled for a suitable application on the net and could not find anything decent. So I resorted to webex.
I have used webex earlier with clients from their account. Seeing the 14 day trial access i registered and scheduled a meeting. It sent me a mail with the username and password and another mail with the meeting details. However, everytime i clicked on any link provided by webex, I just got to see this screen.
This eternal ambigous vexing message kept appearing for a long time and nothing else happened. the first time i assumed that meeting is actually in progress and asked the invitee to join it too. But to her it showed meeting not started. I tried to set up another meeting and waited for half an hour for it to start but nothing happened. It says if you close this window the meeting will end. Which meeting? the one that's not started yet? or is it started in a parallel universe?
and what is that perpetually disabled return to meeting button? Does this mean am I already in the meeting? Wher is a damn meeting dude?
Does anyone know a decent application for remote desktop viewing where i can take screenshot of the remote viewer, kindly let me know. Thanks!
I have used webex earlier with clients from their account. Seeing the 14 day trial access i registered and scheduled a meeting. It sent me a mail with the username and password and another mail with the meeting details. However, everytime i clicked on any link provided by webex, I just got to see this screen.
This eternal ambigous vexing message kept appearing for a long time and nothing else happened. the first time i assumed that meeting is actually in progress and asked the invitee to join it too. But to her it showed meeting not started. I tried to set up another meeting and waited for half an hour for it to start but nothing happened. It says if you close this window the meeting will end. Which meeting? the one that's not started yet? or is it started in a parallel universe?
and what is that perpetually disabled return to meeting button? Does this mean am I already in the meeting? Wher is a damn meeting dude?
Does anyone know a decent application for remote desktop viewing where i can take screenshot of the remote viewer, kindly let me know. Thanks!
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Great video on understanding social media
A simple ice cream example and how it grows and gains tags and recommendations.. Simple example to learn about how social media works.
Watch Here
Watch Here
Is QWERTY bad for typing?
Did you know that the QWERTY keyboard is designed to slow typing down?
In the earlier days when there were no keyboards and only typewriters, QWERTY was the common layout. It was designed for the typewriters. Prior to QWERTY there were a couple of experiments done but it was soon found that people became very efficient at typing and the wpm(words per minute) rose to an incredible number. Because of this the typewriter keys would jammed. Getting them straight again would waste time.
When keyboards came into being, it were the typists who first became its users. So the layout was kept the same. Nobody bothered to change it afterwords fearing its lack of acceptance. Hence we have inherited the QWERTY keyboard.
Problems with QWERTY?
Dvorak keyboard - An Alternative
Then came the Dvorak Keyboard patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak, an educational psychologist and professor of the University of Washington in Seattle,William Dealey as an alternative to the more common QWERTY layout. It has also been called the Simplified Keyboard or American Simplified Keyboard but is commonly known as the Dvorak keyboard or Dvorak layout.
Although its not proved that this is a better alternative but 2 world records of maximum wpm has been broken using Dvorak. Some of its advantages are -
It was actually implemented by Apple Computers once in its iBook computers.
In the earlier days when there were no keyboards and only typewriters, QWERTY was the common layout. It was designed for the typewriters. Prior to QWERTY there were a couple of experiments done but it was soon found that people became very efficient at typing and the wpm(words per minute) rose to an incredible number. Because of this the typewriter keys would jammed. Getting them straight again would waste time.
When keyboards came into being, it were the typists who first became its users. So the layout was kept the same. Nobody bothered to change it afterwords fearing its lack of acceptance. Hence we have inherited the QWERTY keyboard.
Problems with QWERTY?
- Most frequently used characters are placed on the left of the keyboard whereas most people are right handed.
- Frequently used keys are placed so close to each other that it increases the chances of error.
- Increased learnability due to more left hand usage.
Dvorak keyboard - An Alternative
Then came the Dvorak Keyboard patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak, an educational psychologist and professor of the University of Washington in Seattle,William Dealey as an alternative to the more common QWERTY layout. It has also been called the Simplified Keyboard or American Simplified Keyboard but is commonly known as the Dvorak keyboard or Dvorak layout.
Although its not proved that this is a better alternative but 2 world records of maximum wpm has been broken using Dvorak. Some of its advantages are -
- Study based on letter frequency and physiology.
- Letters should be typed by alternating between hands.
- Frequent letters should on the home row and under the strongest fingers.
- Least common letters should be on the bottom row.
- Right hand should do more typing.
- Diagraphs should not be typed with adjacent fingers.
It was actually implemented by Apple Computers once in its iBook computers.
Samorost - Detective Game
Play Here
This is a nice detective game where one has to find clues to move further.
Rack your brains and think laterally.
Join the dots and put 2&2 together.
Memex - Internet's first visualization in 1945 By V Bush
"The memex (a portmanteau of "memory extender") is the name given by Vannevar Bush to the theoretical proto-hypertext computer system he proposed in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think. The memex has influenced the development of subsequential hypertext and intellect augmenting computer systems."
"Photocells capable of seeing things in a physical sense, advanced photography which can record what is seen or even what is not, thermionic tubes capable of controlling potent forces under the guidance of less power than a mosquito uses to vibrate his wings, cathode ray tubes rendering visible an occurrence so brief that by comparison a microsecond is a long time,... "
"Bush described the device as electronically linked to a library and able to display books and films from the library and automatically follow cross-references from one work to another."
"The physician, puzzled by a patient's reactions, strikes the trail established in studying an earlier similar case, and runs rapidly through analogous case histories, with side references to the classics for the pertinent anatomy and histology. ...There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record."
Read the paper - As We May Think
Read about Vannevar Bush
"Photocells capable of seeing things in a physical sense, advanced photography which can record what is seen or even what is not, thermionic tubes capable of controlling potent forces under the guidance of less power than a mosquito uses to vibrate his wings, cathode ray tubes rendering visible an occurrence so brief that by comparison a microsecond is a long time,... "
"Bush described the device as electronically linked to a library and able to display books and films from the library and automatically follow cross-references from one work to another."
"The physician, puzzled by a patient's reactions, strikes the trail established in studying an earlier similar case, and runs rapidly through analogous case histories, with side references to the classics for the pertinent anatomy and histology. ...There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record."
Read the paper - As We May Think
Read about Vannevar Bush
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