Those of you who follow me here or somewhere like Twitter might know that I was invited to Microsoft yesterday for meetings. Apparently my name had been coming up in conversation and several people there wanted to see me. I thought I’d write up here about my experience at Microsoft’s UK campus and split this into a two-part [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
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gHacks go to Microsoft
As a new Windows MVP I’ll be having my first meetings next week with Microsoft at their UK head office in Reading. It’s going to be very interesting as it’s my first official visit to the company and, more importantly, a meeting that’s been requested by them rather than me. I’ll be meeting with the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Topicmarks Summarizes Text Documents For Faster Learning
Would not it be great if you could get a two paragraph summary about Shakespear’s Hamlet instead of having to read the whole book? The answer is no of course, but bare with me for a moment. Sometimes you do not have enough time to read all of a text document. Maybe you have a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Create Automatic Page Summaries With WikiSeer Keynotes
Sometimes web pages offer that many information on a specific topic, that it would take half an hour or more to read through all the available textual information. That’s fine if you got the time for that, not so if you are in a hurry and only need the essentials, or a summary, of what [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 10
Improve Online Reading With Readability Bookmarklet
Online reading is not the same as reading a newspaper, book or magazine. The main reason why it is not the same are the many options that webmasters have of displaying text on their websites. They can select different fonts, font sizes, font weight, colors and many more aspects. Newspaper and books on the other [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
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Book selection 2.0 with LibraryThing
I’m not kidding, it can sometimes take me 10-20 minutes to figure out what to read. From a book’s title you might not be able to derive anything from the story, and even if you read the back cover you may be left in the dark, you definitely won’t know what quality the writing is. [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
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Hands free reading for lazy bookworms
There are three places where I read a lot. My table while eating, my bed (usually eating as well) and on the John (after eating). I usually struggle in my bed and at my desk because I can’t get the damned book to stay open, or at least be readable while open. So far I’ve [...]