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TeamCue, Internet Synchronized Metronome for Virtual Concerts

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For those who host virtual concerts (aka telematic ensembles) like the folks in Music and Arts Technology at IUPUI, now there is a great new Web 2.0 product called TeamCue, providing internet-based synchronized metronome support for the musicians around the world.

This TeamCue simply works as a regular metronome, but synchronized with all other TeamCue Players in the same Group (usually just a piece of music). Here's a blog post about what TeamCue does.

Pros:
Totally Web 2.0, so no installation required
Fully compatible with Mac, Windows, Linux, and iPod Touch / iPhone!
Super easy configuration (in fact, no configuration at all)

Cons:
Not yet available.

Right now it's still in beta, but soon it's gonna be publicly available for testing.

So check it out!

Pagico organizes my life.

Visit Pagico website for more info...

First attempt on making documents with CodeX: it's great!

Having been playing with CodeX these days, I learned that making beautiful outlines in CodeX costs just seconds, not hours as before.

Well, actually it's pretty easy and good looking(2 steps in all!).

Step 1: Make your page.
blah blah blah.........


Step 2: Select a style to export with.

Style selection

Well, it was really a surprise when my first glance on these styles: beautiful, elegant.

Just click on any of them will get you a well done document.

See this image below, that's the page I make in one of my previous posts...



Great looking, isn't it? :D

CodeX: the most beautiful note manager ever seen!

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Just saw it from this post, after a few minutes playing with it, I'm impressed by what I see. Haven't used it for a very long time, so this time I'll write a little on it. And more to come, certainly. :D

Oh yes, CodeX provides free trials, so you may want to check it out. It's sweet. :D



First, everything in CodeX is organized in "Pages": notes, ideas, plans, files and lists can be added to a page.

That's a page!
Everything inside a page is called "segment", and you can re-order them using drag-and-drop. Very simple to layout your page.




Main window - Did I miss something today?

As you can see from above, the main window provide me a quick glance of my schedule and checklists for today. And, under the checklists is the list of my recently used pages, so that everything I need is just there for me to pick up.

Oh, yeah. You might have seen that from the image above, that I have already picked up my suitcases and now I can go hiking anytime --- The lists in CodeX allows you to mark/unmark it. it's a very sweet design if you make to-do lists a lot.


Generally speaking there are lots of sparks but I'm gonna cover something really useful, to me at least.

I write papers a lot.(No, that's not a "Academic Paper" P:) So "Save As" could be the most important feature to me for obvious reasons.

Now in codex I can use the "snapshot" feature which allows me to take snapshots of my pages really fast and easy.



As you can see from the image above, the little camera icon is lit because I've clicked on it and the black "film-alike" panel is shown.

Clicking on the left icon in the black panel will take a snapshot of your page immediately, and the snapshot will be shown next to it. Yes, I've taken one so you can see how it works.

Every time I need it, I click to show the panel, and just by another click on the little camera icon, the panel will disappear and I can get back to my work.

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In short, CodeX is really a sweet productivity program, and it is and looks user-friendly.

It's as if the first time I used it, I knew that some really dedicated people came up with something that works really well.

Well, I gotta take some rest now. More to come. :wink:

Greetings everyone!

Haven't been here for sometime... Maybe it's a good time now to re-start writing blog?

:D

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有一天,老师带一群小朋友到山上采水果,
他宣布说:“小朋友,采完水果后,我们统一一起洗,洗完可以一起吃。”
所有小朋友都跑去采水果了。
集合时间一到,所有小朋友都集合了。
老师:“小华,你采到什么?”
小华:“我在洗苹果,因为我采到苹果。”
老师:“小美妳呢?”
小美:“我在洗蕃茄,因为我采到蕃茄。”
老师:“小朋友都很棒哦!那阿明你呢?”
阿明:“我在洗布鞋,因为我踩到大便。”

相册更新啦!

今天突发奇想在相册里贴了些大学好友的照片,欢迎各位同学去看啊!

陌生人就算啦, 看不出门道的嘛。:D

附上相册的地址:点这里!

:D

厦门 - 世界合唱比赛

今天刚刚从厦门参加了世界合唱比赛返京,甚是辛苦!

暂时占个位置,过段时间把感想发上来。

有兴趣的朋友可以到相册先看看照片

形容厦门,就一个字:漂亮!!!

:D

从软件设计上看苹果与微软的理念差异(一)

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软件在使用上的复杂程度一般和软件的用户水平相关。
一般来将,为普通甚至是初级用户设计的软件的各个方面都应该是简单明了的;而为高级人员,例如是绘图师等等专业人员设计的软件则需要注重功能强大,而可以一定程度上舍弃软件的易用性。

但是,伟大的微软就不是这么干的。本文使用大名鼎鼎的office组件:Word和苹果的文字处理软件Pages进行小小的对比就可略见一二。


word 的属性设置窗口


pages 的属性设置窗口

一句话也不必多说,各位看官自有评价。

在看软件的工具栏......

Word中可选择的工具栏那真是....相当多啊...
而默认的(刚安装过软件之后,自动摆在你面前的)功能图标也至少有20个以上。


再看pages...人家功能也一点不弱,但是,这图标的数量估计还不够word的1/3呢。
何况软件的默认功能图标也只有不到10个(窗口顶部工具栏中)。

软件的理念差异自然明了。

于是,我们不尽要问了:一个面向初级(甚至是最低端)用户的软件,微软你为何要做得这么复杂呢?

为了不偏袒苹果pages,我得说明一下word和pages二者在功能上无本质区别。而pages唯一不能做到的就是类似visual basic之类的宏语言。当然,pages也具备很多word连想都不要想的功能。

寻求志愿翻译!

具备掌握除中文之外语言的朋友们,如果您愿意为国产软件出力并进行语言包的翻译工作,请点击这里访问开发日志获取关于翻译软件的详细信息。

目前已经制作接近尾声的语言包有简体中文(Simplified Chinese),和英语(English)。目前比较需要的语言有:繁体中文、日文、法文和德文。

点此访问 CodeX Apps 的开发日志

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