Monday July 07, 2008 Links for 7th July 2008
- Top 10 TED Talks
I haven't watched them all yet, but I can highly recommend the ones by David Gallo, Johnny Lee and Blaise Aguera y Arca. The last one didn't quite make my mandible transverse a vertical direction but navigating around the David Hockney style Flickr photo montage is definitely a wow moment.
- Simply Noise
Now the summer holidays are here, one of the disadvantages of working from home is when Duncan has one of his friends over and they are playing some kind of exciting video game. Even when they are on the other side of the house, I can still hear all the "Oh yeah!"'s and other loud utterances. If I need to concentrate on something, this is when I just plug in my head phones, visit this web site and set the slider to blank out their noise.
- The Pencil Project
"The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and open source tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
Top features:
- Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping
- Multi-page document with background page
- On-screen text editing with rich-text supports
- PNG rasterizing
- Undo/redo supports
- Installing user-defined stencils
- Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating...
- Cross-platforms
- Adding external objects
- And much more...
Gtk+ on Linux huh. I wonder just how much thought they've given to accessibility.
- 30 Most Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth
These are great. I should price out how much it would cost to have these printed out and framed by an online photo service.
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"Gtk+ on Linux huh. I wonder just how much thought they've given to accessibility."
Yup.... I'm going to refrain from my typical snarky commenting until I know for sure 'cause one never knows.... Besides first I must learn how Claws Mail works (or doesn't as the case may be) with Orca. :-( http://blog.grain-of-salt.com/index.php?itemid=388 At least one of the developers has now expressed an interest in the problems.....
What we need are toolkits that automagically make it impossible to create an inaccessible application. Things would JustWork(tm). Wouldn't that be nice?
Posted by Joanie on July 07, 2008 at 05:58 PM PDT #