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 […]