Building your own first broadcast with MX

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Giacomo Guilizzoni – QA Engineer at Macromedia writes tutorial in creating your first broadcast with Flash Communication Server MX. The article contains a nice streaming video swf which introduces you to some of the capabilities of the streaming server with a nice video and narration ::: www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flashcom/articles/broadcast.html
The tutorial also comments on the “Synchronizing a Flash presentation to streaming video” article written by Odopod.
Odopod and Macromedia created a Presentation with Jeremy Allaire showcasing the MX capabilities. It is an excellent taste sample on the focus of User Experience and “Rich Internet Applications” which Macromedia is addressing with their new MX products.

Word usage and identifying trends

In Archive by Fredy Ore

New Scientist report on an interesting topic of studying word-usage counts as a way of rapidly identifying new trends and sorting information more efficiently.
Developed by Jon Kleinberg from Cornell University in New York, his new algorithm identifys bursts of word use in documents. Unlike traditional techniques of simply counting words, this approach takes into account the rate at which the word usage increases and can potentially suggest and track new social trends.
::: www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993405

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Edward Tufte’s 2nd edition book of Envisioning Information

In Image, Visualization by Fredy Ore

I revist design master Edward Tufte’s website to look for his 2nd edition of his book, Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information (2nd Edition) and also to revisit the ASK-ET section, where users/people ask questions about information design and architecture topics.

Jeffrey Veen recently commented on the application of Tufte’s principles in a Mac OS X “chartjunk” software. His website now contains a new section on writings, essays by Edward Tufte.

Edward Tufte is a renowned information designer, who has written and spoken extensively on how we visually interpret and represent data/information.

www.edwardtufte.com

What is PGP?

In Archive by Fredy Ore

PGP stands for ?Pretty Good Privacy?. It?s an excellent public-key encryption package that you can use to secure communications from a client to server.
It is available also as an open source version and is owned by PGP Corporation. They are a recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and data storage, that allow and ensure confidential customer and individual information remains secure.
Over the last 6 years, PGP has built a global reputation for open, trusted, and highly reliable security products. PGP has thousands of corporate and millions of individual users worldwide, including many of the world’s largest and most security sensitive enterprises, government agencies, individuals, and cipher experts. ::: http://www.pgp.com
A listing of their products can be found here:
http://www.pgp.com/display.php?pageID=2

New Safari browser update

In Archive by Fredy Ore

A new update to the Safari browser has been released ::: www.apple.com/safari
The Safari Update 2-12-03 improves the compatibility with popular web sites based on Safari user feedback, further improves the performance of loading web pages and Flash content, adds support for XML, increases standards conformance and delivers improved application stability. The update also enables access to web sites that offer self-signed security certificates.