January 22, 2007
Stikkit -The smart sticky note
Stikkit is a new Web 2.0 application available which provides an interesting spin on web-based sticky notes. Unlike normal electronic sticky notes that simply allow you to create little yellow squares to capture mainly textural data Stikkit takes this one step further by trying to understand the content of the sticky note. For example is you start typing out the details for a meeting then it will actually create a meeting request and automatically name the note with the subject of the meeting. The best way to understand is to watch the videos on the home page.
Links
Stikkit.com
January 21, 2007
Lithium Network Monitoring Platform
Lithium is a cross platform network monitoring tool that can monitor your network components, servers and other appliances. It supports both linux, Mac OSX and Windows, with its core server components running on either OSX or Linux. It is possible to access the core server to access the various graphs and monitoring information either through the Windows and OSX console application or through its web-based user interface. There are also incident management capabilities built-in to provide support when one of the components in the network suffers a break in service.
Links
Lithium Corp Home page
January 17, 2007
Periodic Table For Visualisation Techniques
Ralph Lengler & Martin J. Eppler have produced a really cool periodic table of all the different types of visualisation methods. I have had to use many of these when developing presentations in my day to day work so even the simple collection of all these methods in one place is extremely useful. If you mouse over each of the elements a little example of the visualisation method is displayed. Also linked below is a copy of the paper about the table's development.
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Periodic Table
Paper About the Table's Development
