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Bringing gopherspace back to modern operating systems and browsers
Low-bandwidth with high efficiency and enhanced legacy access, right from your modern computer! Quickly connect to downloads, services and servers maintained across the global Gopherspace using your favourite client and the Overbite Project's free open source, cross-platform integration software.

Read our position statement: Why is Gopherspace still relevant?

Ars Technica has a nice retrospective of the Gopher protocol. It’s a no-nonsense information presentation mechanism that places content squarely at the forefront. No pictures-of-text or confusing and inconsistent navigation elements to slow you down: navigating one Gopher site is the same as navigating any other Gopher site.

Firefox provides native support for the Gopher protocol, and the Overbite project provides an enhanced add-on for Firefox, as well as an Adobe AIR standalone Gopher client. Old protocols die hard, I guess.

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Ontologies by SeCo

The ontologies are the base for creating semantic web applications. As a part of SeCo's research projects, the ontologies below have been created either based on existing vocabularies or from scratch.

General ontologies

• The Finnish General Upper Ontology (YSO) - Yleinen suomalainen ontologia YSO
• The Actor Ontology (TOIMO) - Toimijaontologia TOIMO
• The Finnish Time-Location Ontology (SAPO) - Suomen ajallinen paikkaontologia SAPO
• The Finnish Geo-ontology (SUO) - Suomen paikkaontologia SUO

Culture

• History Ontology (HISTO) - Historiaontologia (HISTO)
• ICONCLASS Ontology - Kuvataiteen ontologia
• Ontology for museum domain (MAO) - Museoalan ontologia MAO (MAO on Ontology Server)
• Ontology of Applied Arts (TAO) - Taideteollisuusalan ontologia TAO
• The Finnish Ontology of Photography VALO - Valokuvausalan ontologia VALO

Agriculture and Forestry

• The Agriforest Ontology (AFO)

Health

• Medical Subject Headings (MeSH, FinMeSH)
• The European Multilingual Thesaurus on Health Promotion (HPMULTI) - Terveyden edistämisen sanasto TESA/HPMulti

Kollas upp. Studiebesöket!!!

For people our Web site provides a standard search engine interface that has been extended to allow people to precisely describe the information they are trying to find. On a traditional Web search engine you might search for information about a person by using the keywords ‘John’ and ‘Smith’. This search may produce results ranging from biblical passages to iron working techniques that you must then sift through. Our site allows you to specifically search for persons (foaf:Person) that have a first name (foaf:firstName) of ‘John’ and a last name (foaf:surname) of ‘Smith’. You could then go on to perform another search to locate news articles (rss:item) that were authored by (dc:creator) that same person. We accomplish this by allowing you to describe your search using the well-defined vocabulary terms (dc:creator, foaf:Person, ...) used on the Semantic Web. Only information that exactly matches your search is returned in our results.

For computers, our site provides a web service with similar capabilities. Intelligent software agents submit precise queries to our service describing the information they need to perform a task. Our service returns to them only the information that exactly matches their request in a form that they can understand.

Mockups - en trevlig bekantskap

Thursday, October 29, 2009 av JohanDesign, Interaktionsdesign, Utvecklingsprocess

Mockups från Balsamiq är ett mycket trevligt och användbart program. Det är framför allt tänkt att användas för att skapa skisser och wireframes, men med lite fantasi kan man tänka sig många olika användningsområden såsom personor och flödesscheman.

 

En av fördelarna med Mockups är att det går snabbt jämfört med papper och penna. Man kan testa idéer utan att lägga ner en massa tid. Det går också att länka mellan olika skisser vilket innebär att det är ett utmärkt verktyg för interaktiva prototyptester på användare.

 

Gränssnittet består av en stor yta som ser ut som ett rutat papper dit man drar in olika designelement från en meny i överkanten. Varje element är sedan redigerbart på olika sätt. Möjligheterna är i det närmaste oändliga och bara fantasin sätter gränserna.

 

Testa Mockups direkt på Balsamiqs webbplats: www.balsamiq.com

Tags: mockups, prototyp, verktyg

One Response to “Mockups - en trevlig bekantskap”

1. Mats Eriksson
   October 29th, 2009 at 2:38 pm

   Så otroligt lustigt. Jag hade precis tagit fram block och penna för att skissa på ett gränssnitt, när jag såg detta inlägg dyka upp i rss-läsaren.

   Tack!

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Do you wish there was a way to combine all that Wolfram Alpha and Google goodness together when you search for something? Now you can with the Wolfram Alpha Google extension for Firefox.

Setup & Options

Once you have the extension installed you will notice a new “Status Bar Icon” in your browser. The icon acts as a quick on/off switch to enable or disable combining search results.

These are the options for the extension…all focused on display properties.

Note: You will most likely want to activate the “Always show scrollbars on Wolfram Alpha frame.” option (see below for an alternative way to access the scrollbar).

Wolfram Alpha Google in Action

For our example we decided to do a search on Singapore. As you can see the search results are displaying nicely side-by-side (terrific!).

Here is a close-up of the Google results…

And a close-up of the Wolfram Alpha results (very nice!). Just for fun we left the Wolfram Alpha frame scrollbar deactivated to show a nice option for it…

Notice the “Show scrollbar” option in the lower right corner. You can easily control when you want or need the scrollbar without it always being active.

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Once Google Reader added manual controls to its new "Send To" menu, you knew some delicious URL tweaks would follow. Some already have, including a "Save as PDF" trick from the Digital Inspiration blog.

If you want to save a Reader feed item as a PDF, email a full blog post to somebody when you only see a partial item, or work more intelligently with social services, Amit Agarwal has your hook-up. Head to Settings in Reader, click the "Send To" tab, then hit "Create Custom Link" at the bottom. You'll be asked for a Send To link name, a URL with replacement codes, and an icon location. The link below has all three of those for its tweaks, including one that creatively uses the previously mentioned PDF Online converter.

We are, of course, open to your own suggestions and codes that extend Google Reader through this neat little open door. Share the links and URLs in the comments, and we'll possibly pick them up for a meatier post down the line.

Download Your Google Reader Stories as PDF & other 'Send To' Hacks [Digital Inspiration]

Send an email to Kevin Purdy, the author of this post, at kevin@lifehacker.com.

Google is planning to launch what it’s calling a “buy anywhere, read anywhere”digital books program called Google Editions.  The launch is scheduled for the first half of 2010.

The books can be purchased from any computing device, and then read on any other device.  This gets around one of the major problems and criticisms of the Sony eBook Reader & the Amazon Kindle — digital rights management that limits the download vs. access on different devices.  Another nice feature is that once you access a book on a device, it’s cached and therefore you can read offline as well.  Nice!

Now, if only Google could come up with an alternative to iTunes using the same access model, they would truly (and I do mean truly) rule the world of computing and digital content.

If you want to read more, Teleread and Engadget have good commentaries on Google Editions’ effect on eBooks.

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