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VRML Export 2007 (Windows)

VRML Export 2007 is an ARX application for AutoCAD 2007, Architectural Desktop 2007 and Mechanical Desktop. It allows to export 3D solid objects to VRML2 format Virtual Reality Markup Language for instance for Internet publishing. VRMLout offers many options for setting up VRML properties.

Tags: Microsoft Windows, VRML, XANADU, VRML Export 2007, VRMLout, Virtual Reality, Scripting Languages, Emerging Technologies, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2007-05-02

Excellink 16.2 (Windows)

Excellink is an ARX application for AutoCAD 2007. It allows to bi-directionally hot link attribute and geometrical block data (insertion point, scale, rotation) between an AutoCAD drawing and an Excel sheet. Block properties can be driven from Excel. For room schedules, BOMs, lists, and computed attributes. A separate version for...

Tags: AutoCAD, XANADU, Excellink, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems

Software downloads 2005-12-01

The curse of moving

I move too much. I'm currently moving closer to Los Angeles, because for all intents and purposes, where I live puts me practically in Hawaii. At least, that's what you'd conclude if you looked at my monthly gasoline bill. I'm not entirely sure why I move so much, since I...

Tags: Xanadu

Blog posts 2005-09-14

Additional Resources

We live in media as fish live in water

The other day I was looking for a quote by Ted Nelson, a computer pioneer and maverick thinker. I found it: "We live in media as fish live in water." This is very descriptive of our daily lives, imho. As I searched, I was reminded of...

Tags: Media, Video Game, Video, Computer, WWW, Macintosh Interaction, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-02-05

Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?

Is Stiglitz the official economist of open source?Counter nominationThat's all well and good, but Yochai Benkler (http://www.benkler.org) has actually been doing serious research and publication on [i]software libre[/i]Economists hate each other!It is a joke - no two econmists will ever have the same opinion. It was interesting to read your...

Tags: open source, Stiglitz

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Spin patrol: Curious timing on AOL's 'we're growing like gangbusters' announcement

Spin patrol: Curious timing on AOL's 'we're growing like gangbusters' announcementYeah, a BIG surprise to me too!Esp. when you overhear last weekend conversations that they're 'hangin in there' at Sat. morning soccer games Moms will talk and talk in Ashburn... Leak, lose-lips or freedom of speech - whatever. Move...

Tags: America Online Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Will the opened stay unbroken?

Will the opened stay unbroken?SharePoint monopoly?in what market?Look, even if Sharepoint only had some "proprietary .Net API", it would be a trivial matter to wrap those in Web Services - .Net's WCF web services are very standards compliant.But SharePoint already has a Web Service interface.What's the big deal?Interoperability solutions are...

Tags: Groupware, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Web service, Web

Discussion threads 2007-11-21

Google exec challenges Berners-Lee

Google exec challenges Berners-Leeand last on the list"They won't need Google" (or anyone else for that matter...)Tim, Google, and all thatOK guys, it's time to read Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu docs again. No reason to reinvent.too funny ...... it makes my belly hurt. Get this:"We deal with millions...

Tags: SEARCH, Storage, Google Inc., incompetence

Discussion threads 2006-07-19

City of Lights 3D Screensaver 1 (Windows)

Soar above the beautiful City of Lights, a modern Xanadu. Ride through the night on a fantastic helicopter tour of the rainbow-colored metropolis. City of Lights 3D screen saver is waiting for you to come on board. The campaign is on ice.

Tags: 3D, Helicopter, Pixel Paradox, Corporate Governance, Microsoft Windows, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-06-28

ePrecis - next generation search

ePrecis - next generation searchPreviewSeekI'm personally amazed with PreviewSeek which self-proclaims to be "the world's most advanced search engine."Using the same query "What happened to Ted Nelson Xanadu?" no quotes the first result was a 1995 feature from Wired magazine specifically talking about what happened to Ted Nelson and Xanadu...

Tags: ePrecis, Ted Nelson Xanadu, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-10-27

ePrecis - next generation search

One of the disruptive start-ups contenders emailed to me was a new search engine called ePrécis, described as "An English language processing API". According to Ward Johnson, the person who emailed me about this, ePrécis was developed by a group of linguists at the University of Minnesota. They...

Tags: ePrÃ

Blog posts 2005-10-26

Linux and trademarks

Australian regulators rejected attempts by Torvalds to register Linux as a trademark. Personally, I think Mr. Torvalds has the right to the Linux trademark. As others have pointed out, it's pretty clear Mr. Torvalds coined the term. Unfortunately, a lot of water has gone under the Linux bridge, and now...

Tags: Linux, Torvalds

Blog posts 2005-09-16

Intel lets Linux into Centrino camp

Intel lets Linux into Centrino campOne more step for Linuxanother leap for "computing kind".We've got no interest in this proprietory stuffIt makes no difference if Intel add Centrino support to linux or not. We linux hackers have no interest in those proprietory hardwares and drivers. Intel, open the source for...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Intel Centrino, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-01-19

Audiophiles listen in on Microsoft's efforts

Audiophiles listen in on Microsoft's effortsJust their DRM minidriver"improved audio playback and audio device driver support for Windows"Isn't this just their mini driver for their DRM'd audio? The one that handles all the messy certificate exchanges.Just Download & Install iTunes...iTunes allows you to RIP to AAC (MPEG4), MPEG3, AIFF or...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Microsoft Windows, Digital media, Digital music, Operating systems, Apple iTunes, Apple Inc., Audiophiles, Microsoft Corp., Monster Cable, digital-rights management, I-Tunes

Discussion threads 2004-04-29