Archive for the 'Demos' Category

What’s Taking so Long?

03Sep07

I learned the rather inconvenient truth about exporting slides for the web, including the most typical formats (export to one big QuickTime movie, export to PDF, export to Flash, export to a series of linked images): None of these handle presentations with embedded movies (they typically show up as still images, if anything at all), [...]

The Future, as it Looked from 1987

03Jun07

An oldie but goodie has resurfaced on YouTube, at least for people who were in Boston in 1987 and attended MacWorld Expo (or were followers of Apple Computer, as it was called back then). At that event, then CEO John Sculley showed a ‘The Knowledge Navigator’, a short film produced by The Kenwood Group for [...]

Quickly Explaining Tech in Plain English

01Jun07

A web site called Common Craft has been doing a nice service for us techie types by producing clever little videos that explain some rather arcane subjects like RSS:

And now they have a new video that explains the concept of Wikis and why you would use one:

They are well done, and charming the way that [...]