Category: Agent K and the rest of the world

263 posts

Online mind mapping

by kai on 15/11/2007

Mind maps are nowadays a somewhat established tool for your own or collective brainstorming and organising your thoughts. Diane was looking for an easy solution to draw a mind map and after "verbally abusing" Visio for a few minutes :-), she found MindMeister.com - really cool. It allows you to create mind maps online, to share them with other people and to even trigger Skype meetings from in there. Read more in her blog.

Western Central Time in Australia?

by kai on 08/11/2007

I'm just working on a some sort of a timezone related piece of functionality and while doing some investigation towards all the timezones in OZ and NZ and the dates when they switch between DST and Standard Time, I came across a very odd purple bubble called WCT = Western Central Time. Does anyone know WCT in OZ? Come on, that must be some sort of easter egg from the guys at…

Read the full article →

OMG: The "Mega Business Byte" deal at the Duxton hotel in Auckland

by kai on 02/11/2007

Diane and I will go up to Auckland in pretty much exactly three weeks to attend the Muse concert up there. We've booked the flights a while ago but usually don't bother booking hotels until closer to the day (wotif.com has excellent offers). That's the prelude to the following story. I just went to wotif.com and had a quick look for that particular day (we're just up there for one night) and…

Read the full article →

Buzzword Preso

by kai on 02/11/2007

I assume everyone has heard of Buzzword, right? Oh, you haven't? Buzzword is an astonishingly good online text processor and Adobe has just recently bought Virtual Ubiquity, the people who have built Buzzword.

Just the other day there was a highly interesting Connect presentation for Adobe User Group Managers on Buzzword that I'd love to share with you guys. Have fun watching it!

Oh, btw: Diane has blogged about Buzzword as well, have a read!

Learning German by playing the Sims

by kai on 24/10/2007

I've got this link from JJ yesterday. It's a scientific research paper about learning German by playing The Sims. Very interesting read!

http://llt.msu.edu/vol9num1/purushotma/default.html

C64 OS X: Frodo is the way to go

by kai on 18/10/2007

Problem solved: Frodo. Freeware and works fine! :)

My Photoshop lesson of the day: PMS colors

by kai on 18/10/2007

Yikes. For a particular reason, a printing company has asked me to provide them with the PMS colors of a particular graphic. Great - with me being design challenged and barely able to explain the concepts behind RGB and CMYK...:) Don't even start with the tricky questions of "their" world :) I finally figured out that PMS is a standard in the printing world which makes a lot of sense as you…

Read the full article →

Lynda or Total Training?

by kai on 17/10/2007

I'm currently looking into getting a subscription for one of the large online training services, Lynda.com or Total Training.

I've looked into both, tried out a few things, but it's really hard to finally make up my mind. I also own DVDs from both companies and actually think they're both doing a reasonably good job.

Any opinions or suggestions what to get? No, "subscribe to both" is not a valid answer, sorry :)

Retro gaming again: M.U.L.E.

by kai on 17/10/2007

Not sure how I exactly found it the other day, but somehow I've ended up looking for one of my all time favourite computer games: M.U.L.E. I was thrilled to find that there is a page named World of M.U.L.E. - but even better - you can play M.U.L.E. online on with 4 players via the net using some combination of Atari emulator kits. You'd have to run it on Windows though, but well - a small price…

Read the full article →

Follow The Great Whale Trail

by kai on 17/10/2007

My political message of the day is to mention Greenpeace's Great Whale Trail. They've tagged humpback whales in New Caledonia and the Cook Islands and you can trace their movements on Google Maps. Obviously this campaign has a political motivation as well - to fight whaling!

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →