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1st October 2001

Redesigning the OS X Dock

“The Dock is by far the most controversial feature in Mac OS X. It attempts to single-handedly serve as a replacement for the Apple menu, popup windows, WindowShade, the Control Strip, spring-loaded folders, and various of the other user-friendly features Mac users have gotten used to over the past fifteen years or so. Needless to say, these are big (and numerous) shoes to fill, so one would expect nothing less than a killer app, right?”

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1st October 2001

The TAO of Topic Maps

“Topic maps are a new ISO standard for describing knowledge structures and associating them with information resources. As such they constitute an enabling technology for knowledge management. Dubbed ‘the GPS of the information universe,’ topic maps are also destined to provide powerful new ways of navigating large and interconnected corpora.”

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1st October 2001

Security Bibliography

“Computer security is in the spotlight more than ever since the September 11 terrorist attacks. To help you find the best resources to protect your systems, we’ve pulled together this list of the best security books by O’Reilly and other publishers.”

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1st October 2001

Miner3DSITE

“Miner3DSITE allows creation of information-rich web pages where users interact with its content. Its visualization space, the new user interface, engages users to work more intensively and improves the online experience. Miner3D multiplies the information space and its dynamic hi-density user interface makes possible to display even hundreds and thousands search hits, results or data point on single computer screen. It enables information-rich designs, developing intuitive searching applications, information retrieval systems, sitemaps, file managers, navigational systems and interactive real-time applications with live connections to databases.”

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1st October 2001

Redesigning the OS X Dock

“The Dock is by far the most controversial feature in Mac OS X. It attempts to single-handedly serve as a replacement for the Apple menu, popup windows, WindowShade, the Control Strip, spring-loaded folders, and various of the other user-friendly features Mac users have gotten used to over the past fifteen years or so. Needless to say, these are big (and numerous) shoes to fill, so one would expect nothing less than a killer app, right?”

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