Robin Williams plays Spore
Spore is an ambitious game designed by Will Wright.
There is a great video with him showing Spore: Will Wright and Spore and Robin Williams presenting Spore.
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July 25, 2006
July 21, 2006
Dinoco
I watched the latest Pixar's creation "Cars" a few days ago, and they often have something more behind the obvious. The Dinoco company is the one from the gas station in Toy Story 1:
July 13, 2006
Paper-thinking vs Tinderbox
I used to think about a problem using only paper and pencil like this:
Using Tinderbox, now I have a documented, searchable, "query friendly" way:
I can search all problems, look for all the solutions, mark problems as solved or non solved, mark problems that need research, all without sacrificing my "visual needs" in the process.
July 5, 2006
VoodooPad 3
VoodooPad 3 is the new release from Flying Meat, three versions this time; Lite, Standard and Pro.
The Pro version has several features: document level encryption (opposed to page level encryption on the standard version), triggers, page meta data and page sharing via an internal web server.
Other great features: Palettes, Print to VoodooPad PDF Service,Tabs, "Recently Updated" and "Recently Viewed" lists ( shown as palettes )
You can check the complete list here.
All the new features are great and moves forward the application in terms of usability and value to the user but the one that really caught my eye since the beta was the page meta data.
Each page can have a set of key/value pairs defined by the user. Right now the feature is a little basic but for the users that needed this, it is a great addition. You can access/use the page meta data in three ways:
1. The Info Palette of the page:
2. Script Plugins
If you need to find all the pages with a meta key named "bought" and with a value of "no" you write a plugin to do the search. Something to keep in mind is that the meta key values are not typed, the values are just a string.
One of the things that in my opinion will add a great value to the meta data feature is incorporate the meta data in the normal search in a way that eliminates the need for a plugin when all you want is just locate pages with a specific key or key/value pair.
I find the meta data feature a great addition because it adds another dimension for the meta information related to each page, you can now use: links, categories and meta data.
For example, you can have a "Books" category and add each book you want to read (or have read) as a page to that category and then you can have a meta key named "buydate" and another "readdate" and make a plugin to show the books that I want to read but have not bought yet. You can even add an ISBN meta key with the corresponding value for later use in Amazon for example.
3. Triggers
You can associate one or more scripts ( a page that is a script ) to each trigger.
To expand the previous book example, you can write a plugin that sets the initial two meta keys when the user closes a page and the page category is "Books". Now this could be better with a "Page added to category" trigger, although it doesn't exist at this moment having this functionality already in the application could bring more triggers in the future.
One of the interesting things with this type of applications is that its value increases with its use over time, the more information inside of it with good classification features, the more useful it is for the user.
VoodooPad is a great application with a great price if you are not using it, give it a try!.
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