New Line Rider

Don’t know exactly how new it is but it’s pretty current.

LineRider Version 6.1

Right click, save as… to download.

New Theme

This theme is pretty simple, but note the headers.

On firefox, they’re slick images.  On IE .. who knows.

Broken Links

All the old fastwiki links are  broken now! Going to have to fix them.

Google

Interesting to know what google does about it.

Using Styling

It’s complicated to figure out how to make sure the documents are written when published to the site such that the result is using the site’s styling instead of word styling.

I’ll keep investigating!

Contents

1. What is Google Desktop Search (GDS)?
2. Searching Your Computer
   1. Checking if Desktop search is installed
   2. Doing a search
3. Tips
   1. Quick Search: CTRL-CTRL
   2. Toolbar Search
4. Summary

This post has a couple of purposes. First is to explain usage of Google Desktop Search. Second it’s a test of the Wordpress and Word 2007 inter-operability.

What is Google Desktop Search

Google desktop search answers the question, where did I save that file?

You should make it a personal goal to navigate the windows file-system. We can remove that human-computer torture from our lives.

Searching Your Computer

To search your computer with Google Desktop Search you must have the program installed.

Checking if Desktop search is installed

1. Look for the Google Desktop Search Icon in your taskbar.
   
2. If you see this icon, then desktop search is installed.
3. If you don’t see the icon, search isn’t installed. Download and install Google Desktop Search.

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Supplemental Results

Important pages of my web site are shown as supplemental results

Supplemental Results are not necessarily an indication of a quality filter flag. Pages that are perceived by the web site owner to be important, yet showing the Supplemental tag on their results may or may not be caused by factors that could be seen as a problem that needs to be or could be corrected. The supplemental index is seen as a secondary database of results for unique information appearing on, and sometimes only on less important pages, URLs that are unlikely to be looked or shown for generic search terms, but will remain in the index for more refined, obscure queries.

+ Symptoms: Pages of the web site that previously were shown as normal results are now Supplemental Results, thus rank significantly lower than other pages and web sites.

+ Common reasons: Inconsistent, linear, or otherwise corrupted navigation. Accessibility issues resulting in PageRank not flowing through the web site in a way its owners would like it to. Low PageRank of the pages on the web site. Duplicate content. Also, URLs that have been changed, redirected or deleted may be featured with their old versions in the supplemental index along with a cached snapshot of their last seen state up to a year. In these cases make sure to check whether the URL in question also shows as a normal result, which would be the updated version of the same page.

+ Resolution: Examine your web site structure thoroughly for duplicate content, navigational inconsistencies and link hierarchy. Also, as the web site is seen more and more important as a resource, gaining more quality inbound links will raise its PageRank and allow its inner-level pages to be viewed as a relevant result for broader queries, and may eventually be transferred to the normal index. Make sure to pass the proper amount of weight to pages to be considered important by using Anchor text links instead of javascript, flash, image links.

See more information and hints on the reworked Supplemental Results index , Duplicate content, proper Website navigation and PageRank in the related articles.

You may also open the + Website Diagnostics Panel to help you diagnose your web site.

This is Heading 1

This is a paragraph. It’s just something I threw together. This sentence contains a link to W3C, which you have probably visited. This sentence contains a link to someplace else. This is an offsite link. In the beginning was the word. And the word wrapped. I’ll be looking soon for opportunities to style this text. In the meantime it will do merely to occupy space.

I’m Heading 2

This is a paragraph. It’s just something I threw together. In the beginning was the word. And the word wrapped. I’ll be looking soon for opportunities to style this text. In the meantime it will do merely to occupy space.

Heading 3 here

This is a paragraph. It’s just something I threw together. In the beginning was the word. And the word wrapped. I’ll be looking soon for opportunities to style this text. In the meantime it will do merely to occupy space.

Heading 4: the final insult

This is a paragraph. It’s just something I threw together. In the beginning was the word. And the word wrapped. I’ll be looking soon for opportunities to style this text. In the meantime it will do merely to occupy space.

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Google recently added Experiemental Search to their list of Google labs options. I played with it and it’s kind of interesting.

The Search Pages

There are currently four different experimental search pages:

• Timeline and map views
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Left-hand search navigation
• Right-hand contextual search navigation

Bookmark all tabs from your keyboard and sync for later

It happens (to me at least) almost every day: You’re browsing around in Firefox and you’ve got one window full of tabs with interesting content you want to check out - or research you want to keep track of - but it’s time to turn off your computer and head out for the day.

For easy access to that set of tabs at home, just give a swift press of Ctrl-Shift-D to bookmark all the tabs in one folder, name the set of tabs (e.g., Research for later), then let your bookmark sync tool of choice (we prefer Foxmarks, but Google Sync would work, too) sync them up so they’re available from any computer you use regularly. You could use session manager to save that window, but for my money session manager is really only good for restoring my last session.

Article Source

Office 2007 - A Usability Revolution

Short and simple — and I’m talking specifically about Word’s integration with XML-RPC engines out there, such as Wordpress crosses the technology chasm and lowers the entry barrier to anyone who want’s to express themselves online.

Online Revolution

Big business silences Public Argument

Big business with it’s limitless resources caused a marginalization of the intelligent public. For a long time, the public forum, envisioned as this country’s forefathers as a balance of power has been silent.

Mainly the forum was drowned out by the noise of the television advertisements, their partisan “news” reports, and subtle inferences to the good life (a fantasy life lived by characters in major motion pictures). Their purpose, simple. Exposure and saturation of the brands.

The only pipeline of information was carefully tailored, censored and targeted; feeding the public a reality which only exists in the mind of the major motion picture’s screenplay author. Packaged and presented as truth of how we should be and feel, the ideals were positioned such that the consumers began to adapt them as their own.

The New People’s Forum

The Internet is steadily becoming more important and big business is taking notice. However, big business by no means of an imagination could it stretch its tendrils to silent every node. The search engine army is moving at a frantic pace to catalogue and index the content of this new public forum.

Freedom lost and Found

For years, freedom was lost, but now it’s found!

I’m a big fan of del.icio.us for organizing everything I read on the internet. I also use FreeMind for structured brainstorming and graphical organization as a mindmap. Displaying tags as a mindmap tree was an obvious fit. I figured it wouldn’t be too hard to transform an xml format from del.icio.us to the FreeMind file format.

DeliciousMind = del.icio.us + MindMap

A great benefit I found when I was researching, I discovered the mindmap format could also include weblinks on each of the nodes. This means you can click through the created mindmap tree and launch websites from your del.icio.us bookmarks directly within Freemind. On Windows, the links are even opened directly in your default browser.

Source

This is a picture of Notre Dame.

Posted from Word 2007 to Wordpress 2.2

Works like a charm. Wow! Can I update it?

Holy Updates from Word to blog!

Updating works too?! I’ll try updating from Word to this particular blog entry, it’s just the file I saved on my local computer. Somehow it’s got to maintain a synchronization; I wonder how much synchronization is maintained.

In any case, what I’ve seen so far, is really impressive.

Go Microsoft!

Had to first download Word 2007 (comes with MS Office 12, or MS Office 2007), then

1. click the round button, upper left corner
2. choose publish
3. register now
4. enter information

Here goes.

Does it make it?