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Application UI goes back to basics: Jon Udell discovers WriteRoom, and makes an important point. I'm writing this column on a Mac-based imitation of a 1970s green-screen terminal. Hog Bay Software's WriteRoom, a free program for Mac OS X, advertises "distraction free writing" as its In WriteRoom's default full-screen mode ...
Deane | July 15, 2006 | in "Web Design and Usability"
Score: 82%
Here's an idea I came up with while on a walk tonight. There's a 50-percent chance it's already been invented if it has, tell me where to find it. The world needs a PC projector that will cache the displayed image. Say I'm tooling through my presentation in front ...
Deane | July 13, 2004 | in "Gadgets"
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Boring game? Hire a player: Sweatshops in China are hiring people to play MMORPGs at the early levels to earn money and more powerful characters which they can the sell for real money. That development has spawned hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of online gaming factories in China. By some estimates, ...
Deane | December 9, 2005 | in "Video Gaming"
See also: MMORPG
Score: 78%
Sitting outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia is a sculpture called Kryptos. It was sculpted by James Sanborn who was kind (evil?) enough to etch an encoded message on the surface: The message on the sculpture contains 865 characters in total. Sanborn has since revealed that the sculpture contains a ...
Deane | June 25, 2005 | in "Total Geek"
See also: cryptography, Kryptos, Voynich Manuscript
Score: 70%
About Fog Creek Software: I wanted to send Joel Spolsky an email today, and I was prowling around the Fog Creek site looking his email address when I stumbled onto this "About Fog Creek" page. It's well-worth reading (which makes it a glaring exception to the average "worthless by definition" ...
Deane | May 17, 2004 | in "Other"
See also: Fog Creek