Although I’ve been trying to wean myself from PowerPoint, this is still an excellent set of resources from Michael Hyatt.
My Favorite PowerPoint Resources. I don’t know about you, but our business runs on PowerPoint. Last Friday, I led a seminar in Atlanta on publishing strategy with a group of 55 foreign publishers. Today, I made a presentation in Boston to some investors attending… [Working Smart]
This looks like it could be interesting. Now, if I could only find a way to get myself down to Melbourne.
Innovation Conference in Melbourne. I’ve been talking with a few guys like Buzz Bruggeman, Frank Arrigo and Mick Stanic about running a conference in Melbourne around the Nov/Dec timeframe that focuses on IT innovation. The theme I’m particularly interested in is “examining which businesses… [cameronreilly]
The new CIA factbook is in! The new CIA factbook is in!
Life is good. I’ll be downloading this shortly. This is the sort of useful tool I never would have found without weblogs and aggregators.
If ever there was a goodness…the iTunes Album Art Importer for Windows, written in .NET 1.1.
Thank you YVG Software Services as you have saved me time. The way to a programmer’s heart is by saving him/her time. You wrote the iTunes Art Importer, and it was your FIRST VB.NET Application. It uses the Amazon.com Web Service to find Album Covers for my iTunes collection – and it just works. Kudos to you, and God bless you. 🙂 And thank you iTunes for having a COM Automation interface. Ain’t that something, a little .NET, a little Web Services, a little OLE Automation and a hard problem is solved n times.
(See their importer, there below iTunes itself? Shiny, eh? I’ve set it off to find art for 4700+ songs. A few hundred in, and I’ve got a 90% hit rate.)
Nice to know, given how many organizations insist on using PDF files.
PDFs: not quite unlinkable. Turns out, you can link to a particular page in a PDF file, plus a whole lot more, including setting the zoom level and scrolling to a particular spot, all in a link. I still hate PDFs, but not quite as much as I did before. [phil ringnalda dot com]
If you’ve got the data, flaunt it.
Over on Dan Gilmor s eJournal there s a video of the Google Globe , an Earth rotating which shows the relative numbers of queries to the Google site in various parts of the world . Apparently Google showed this off at the D Conference earlier this week. We re not sure if it s really cool or downright creepy. If we were an alien invasion team sent to take over earth, we d first index all the human knowledge with a search engine then we d eventually eat them.
[Engadget]
My Unix experiences started with Unix V on a DEC Vax system in the early 1980s.Wish I’d done a better job of maintaining and extending those early skills.
Here. An amazing timeline!
Another great thing, of course, is all those clever folks helping you find things worth knowing about. Thank you AKMA for another resource I didn’t know about.
One of the Things the Web Is Great For.
I like online dictionaries, since much of the information I seek in a dictionary appears only in the heaviest, bulkiest, least portable and convenient sources. I d long relied on Dictionary.com, but if you have the bandwidth, Webster s Online tops everything else I ve seen.
Of course, if you just want the correct spelling or a simple definition, there s no need to call up all the overhead from Webster s. Webster s is for browsing and reveling more than elegant simplicity (though there must be a way of making the output from Webster s more elegant, without aggravating its bandwidth load).
I’ve downloaded the mp3s, but they haven’t made it to my iPod quite yet. Maybe tomorrow.
Listen to the sound of the Universe on your iPod.
The New York Times had a great story about Dr. Mark Whittle, a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia who has taken the cosmic background radiation of the universe and made a series of sounds.
For the first 400,000 years, Dr. Whittle said, it sounds like a descending scream falling into a dull roar.
So of course the first thing we did was google him, find the site and turn the .WAV files in to MP3s for our iPods!
Right click / option click this link to download a zip file of the 13 sounds we also combined them all in to one MP3 which is in the zip as well.
If you d like to read more about Dr. Mark Whittle s work visit his site, there are a lot of presentations and information regarding Big Bang Acoustics.
[Engadget]
I have a feeling I’m going to need this before too long.
Installing mod_python. If you’ve been wondering (like me) how to run Python programs efficiently under Apache, here’s an article on installing mod_python. [Windley’s Enterprise Computing Weblog]
