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BYTE As The World Waits ZDNet, the leading purveyor on technology news, is backing a new service called SpotOn which should make life easier and cheaper for anyone who has a clear idea of what they are looking for on the Net. The service has a pretty nifty interface — think of it as a browser within your browser. The service includes a bookmarks manager that can be pre-loaded with the entries on your machine — or all your machines — which will thereafter be available to you from any location. Beats having to carry them about on little slips of paper, as most road warriors have to do. For those of us who aren’t too Net-savvy — and I guess we’re all on a learning curve — the service also runs comprehensive web tours on specific areas of the Internet. SpotOn can be downloaded from http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?47156. It works just fine except that your machine might slow down a bit afterwards. If that happens, just clear the disk cache of your browser. Escher
Unlimited Curiously enough, Escher, who died in 1972, was neither a mathematician nor a scientist by training, though his work led to advances in both disciplines. He was just a man who suspected that the world was not exactly what it seemed to be. Just like the rest of us. Home
Publishing Printmaster used to be a must-have in the early days of the small office/home office revolution overseas. Now, it’s here in India, where non-traditional ways of working are just beginning to catch on. Printmaster is a one-stop shop for offices which do not have the resources to either buy their own publishing solutions or outsource the work to a professional. If you have access to a large-format laser printer which can take various grades of paper, Printmaster gives you the freedom to publish posters, greeting cards, office stationery, banners and promotional material on just-in-time schedules. You won’t run up the overheads of a bulk print order, nor have to chase cunning and recalcitrant printers. The package is a bit redundant now in that its 4,600 graphics and 200 fonts are outclassed by the spread of freeware on the Net. But it does allow you to use your own libraries picked up from the Net. More to the point, it offers more than a thousand templates suitable for printing dummies, which make it easy to produce professional-class output by changing just a few lines of text, for instance. The
package comes with a built-in editor which is flexible enough to build
documents from scratch. This is obviously not a substitute for a full-feature
layout package or PhotoShop, but it is more than sufficient for the needs
of a small company. In fact, it saves them the headache of learning to
use professional publishing tools just to get a few cards made. ( The writer can be reached on pratik@crosswinds.net) |
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SpotOn
is strong medicine for the World Wide Wait. It caches ahead so that you
can load it with a list of URLs that you intend to check out in a session.
While you look at the first, the others pre-load on your hard disk so
that you don’t have to wait for them to show up when you move on
to them. A very useful feature if you run off a slow dial-up link.
Escher’s
work is particularly intriguing because no one has been able to entirely
decide whether he was an artist, a mathematician or an illusionist. Art
schools teach his works to explain perspective. High school mathematics
teachers use it to bamboozle geometry students. Crystallographers find
that his art illuminates their faceted worlds.