Title: Unity in VMware Fusion for Mac OS X
Abstract: Demonstration of VMware Fusion’s upcoming Unity feature which allows users to interact with Windows applications on Mac OS X as if they were Mac applications.
Source: TUAW.

Oggi ho partecipato alla “Giornata di Informazione Tecnologica” organizzata dal Centro di Ateneo per i Sistemi Informativi (C.S.I.) della “Federico II“. In questa giornata Microsoft Italia ci ha deliziato con un programma di tutto rispetto:

1. .Net Framework 3.0
2. Windows Presentation Foundation
3. Office System 2007
4. Microsoft SQL Server 2005
5. Windows Vista

Dopo questa intera giornata di auto-fustigazione (resistere dal picchiare fisicamente i Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist è davvero una ardua prova…), solo in uno modo posso esprimere quello che vorrei dire a tutta la società di Gates: ECCOLO QUI!

Ringrazio mio fratello Fabio per il contributo audio: non avrei saputo fare di meglio!

This web service software takes multiple word processor files (typically .doc) and converts them to OpenDocument and HTML.

Web Service receives .doc file and converts it to a Oasis OpenDocument 1.0 which can then be converted to HTML, RSS, or any XML format.

The resulting OpenDocument is then optionally converted to HTML or any XML. This is done with XML Pipelines, an approach that supports XSLT, breaking up content over headings or sections, and saving those results to multiple files (e.g., chapter1.html, chapter2.html…).

The result is returned in a .zip file.

Official Web Site.
The software is a PHP Script that expose a WS and a Web Interface, that help and symplify to reach its aim.

Source, OSSBlog.

Chapter: Apple Human Interface Guidelines
Section: Keyboard Shortcuts Quick Reference
Extract:
As you implement keyboard shortcuts in your application, use this table to find:

* Which key sequences are reserved by Mac OS X.
Users rely on these shortcuts to perform the specified actions no matter which application is currently running (these include shortcuts reserved for accessibility purposes). Do not override these shortcuts.

* Which key sequences are recommended for common application tasks.
Users expect these shortcuts to mean the same thing from application to application. Provide these shortcuts if your application performs the associated tasks. You should avoid using these shortcuts for other purposes.
Link: click here.

Imagine an Integrated Desktop Search Engine that re-index every work you write, every file you create, every “content”… as you do that things… in a very discreet way.
Every developer will thinks it’s a very difficult “mission”, it isn’t?

Ok, but take a look here:

The GNU/Linux Semantic Storage System (GLS³) is a solution designed to facilitate the management and retrieval of your data. It is a solution that distances you from thinking about Where you store your data to What your data is. With GLS³, you can organize and retrieve your data based on their semantics, based on What they mean to you, and not based on their hierarchical location.

GLS³ is an open source semantic storage solution for GNU/Linux that indexes your data, extracts from it metadata and relevant information, allows you to organize it using queries and tags, an API to allow Developers to integrate searching and organization capabilities in their application, an extensible plugin-based Type System, shared schemas between applications through an API, a pseudo file system for backward compatibility, a web interface, As-You-Type searching and more.

I suggest also to take a look to the published demo-videos: these are very interesting and… pregnant!

Continue…

Microsoft becomes a part of the project ODF-converter: it’s hosted on Sourceforge (M$ on Sourceforge ?!?!?!? What’s next time? Bush that fight on a real battle-field??!?!? ).

If ODF does not give you any “trigger”, read here.
Anyway, the most important thing to know is the interest of M$ to release various plugins to enjoy conversion between her proprietary-formats and Open Documents of OASIS.

Source, Ziobudda and Arabian Phoenix dot com.