Inside Contextual Menu Items, Part 1

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Inside Contextual Menu Items, Part 2

Inside Contextual Menu Items, Part 2 06/05/2004 01:17 AM
By Steven Disbrow, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Synchronizing Menu Items, Part 2

Synchronizing Menu Items, Part 2 07/12/2004 08:57 PM
DDJ Jul 13 2004 0:51AM GMT

One-button access to Firefox's
contextual menu

One-button access to Firefox's
contextual menu 08/11/2004 11:52 AM
I just noticed this behaviour in Firefox. If you hold down the mouse button, after about two seconds the contextual menu will pop-up. This seems to only work in Firefox. This is a real boon for laptop users who use the built-...

QuickAccessCM - Contextual menu file
manager

QuickAccessCM - Contextual menu file
manager 05/13/2004 06:43 AM
The macosxhints Rating:[Score: 9 out of 10]Developer: Abracode / Product Page Price: Free Do you get the most out of the Finder's easily customized contextual menu (the one that appears when you control-click on a file or fol...

WebPrint Plus X 3.0 adds OS-wide
contextual menu, more

WebPrint Plus X 3.0 adds OS-wide
contextual menu, more 02/10/2004 02:43 AM
MacEase announced on Monday that version 3.0 of its WebPrint Plus X system-wide printing enhancement utility is now available. The new edition adds a contextual menu that gives you access to WebPrint Plus X from any application, a preference for launching it as an invisible background utility, system-wide keyboard shortcuts that toggle its visibility and instantly print the Clipboard contents, additional customization preferences and more.

10.4: Mail attachments via the Finder's
contextual menu

10.4: Mail attachments via the Finder's
contextual menu 06/17/2005 04:40 PM
I wanted something like the "send to" option I have under the contextual menu at work on Windows 2000. I know I can use the Services menu, but that isn't in the contextual menu by default. It turns out this is really easy wi...

10.3: Auto complete text snippets via
the contextual menu

10.3: Auto complete text snippets via
the contextual menu 12/02/2003 12:38 AM
Auto complete text works fine with Option-Escape (see this hint), presenting a very long list of words with a scrollbar, ready to get selected. But auto complete text also works with the contextual menus; just click the right...

"Debugger Window Menu Items: Where
should they be?"

"Debugger Window Menu Items: Where
should they be?" 06/18/2004 08:48 PM

McDonald's Launches Healthier Menu Items
(AP)

McDonald's Launches Healthier Menu Items
(AP) 04/15/2004 10:17 AM
AP - Coming soon to a McDonald's near you: Adult Happy Meals, featuring salad, bottled water, pedometer and advice to walk more.

Inside the Xbox 360, Part II: the Xenon
CPU

Inside the Xbox 360, Part II: the Xenon
CPU 06/05/2005 10:53 PM

Part I of this series covered Microsoft's vision for dynamic content creation in the next generation of console games. In this article, Part II, we take a closer look at this CPU, codenamed Xenon. We cover the design of its individual parts, and we'll talk about how each part fits with the vision outlined in Part I.

Instead of spending hardware on an instruction window that looks for ILP at run-time, the Xenon instead relies on the programmer to structure the code stream at compile time so that it contains a high level of thread-level parallelism (TLP). In order to take advantage of the high level of TLP that the Xenon expects programmers to have worked into their Xbox 360 applications, the processor groups its large number of execution units into three separate cores, each of which individually contains a relatively small number of execution units. The many parallel threads out of which the programmer has woven the code stream are then scheduled to run on those separate cores.

The architecture of the individual PowerPC processor cores that make up the Xenon is covered in as much detail as is currently possible, and we also pull together what is known about the high-powered, 128-register vector unit that forms the heart of the Xenon's procedural synthesis capabilities.

Inside the Xbox 360, part I: procedural
synthesis and dynamic worlds

Inside the Xbox 360, part I: procedural
synthesis and dynamic worlds 06/05/2005 10:53 PM

This article is the first in a series that takes an in-depth look at the Xbox 360, with a particular focus on the hardware that makes it tick. I'm talking about the triple-core PowerPC processor that forms the heart of the new console, as well as the ATI GPU. In Part I, I take a look at the nuts and bolts of how Microsoft plans to implement one of the most hyped of the new console's many capabilities: procedural synthesis.

The Xbox 360's solution to this problem is to store high-level descriptions of objects in main memory, and have the GPU procedurally generate the geometry (i.e., the vertex data) of the objects on the fly. So in the case of our forest, main memory stores information about the tree, like the type, size, location of each leaf, etc., along with other relevant data like the direction of the prevailing wind. This information is passed into the Xbox 360's Xenon CPU, where the vertex data that defines the polygons out of which the tree is made are generated by one or more running threads. These threads then feed that vertex data directly into the GPU (by way of a special set of write buffers in the L2 cache, but more on that later). The GPU then takes that vertex information and renders the trees normally, just as if it had gotten that information from main memory.

The article also covers some high-level aspects of the Xbox CPU's design, discussing how those parts work together to synthesize in-game objects on the fly.

Inside MOM Database Maintenance, Part
II: Building a Data Warehouse

Inside MOM Database Maintenance, Part
II: Building a Data Warehouse 12/26/2004 12:41 PM

Inside the Mind of the Searcher Part II:
Search Behavior Explored

Inside the Mind of the Searcher Part II:
Search Behavior Explored 06/29/2004 10:47 AM
Source: Search Engine Guide - Search marketers have to step back from our obsession with tactics and look at the bigger strategic picture. We have to understand behaviors of our target customers. We have to fully explore the nature of...

Beyond the Moon: Inside Bush's space
plan (part 2 of 3) | SpaceRef - Your
Space Reference

Beyond the Moon: Inside Bush's space
plan (part 2 of 3) | SpaceRef - Your
Space Reference 01/18/2004 09:16 AM
second installment up .. more detailed account .. Part 2 .. 2

spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=916
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Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - Inside
-really inside - one of the world's
fastest computers (USATODAY.com)

Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - Inside
-really inside - one of the world's
fastest computers (USATODAY.com) 09/03/2004 10:25 AM
USATODAY.com - Yesterday I stood inside what is probably the world's third-most-powerful supercomputer - the Terascale Computing Facility at Virginia Tech. (I say "probably" because the testing won't be done till next week - the Department of Defense is using it right now and can't be interrupted.) It's composed of 1100 Macintosh G5 computers running in parallel.

ATTRIBUTES CONTEXT MENU (free): Adds a
context menu to all files and folders to
quickly modify their system attributes

ATTRIBUTES CONTEXT MENU (free): Adds a
context menu to all files and folders to
quickly modify their system attributes 10/28/2003 11:06 PM

The problem with contextual advertising

The problem with contextual advertising 05/31/2004 08:15 PM
Great musings on contextual advertising by John Battelle. He says that they aren't all they're cracked up to be because the advertiser has no control on where the ads will show up, and so they can have a real relationship with the audience, or the publisher, for that matter.

It's this relationship which I find entirely missing in all these contextual, behavioral, paid search networks. Sure, they are "relevant" to either a search, or to the content they match. But they are driven by metadata and the actions of only one of the parties - the content of the publisher for example (AdSense), or the actions of the audience (Claria, Revenue Science, Tacoda, etc.). As far as I know, none are driven by an understanding of the give-and-take that occurs between all three parties in a consensual relationship mediated by the publication. A site which has only AdSense or behavioral advertising fails to value (or monetize) the community connection between audience, publisher, and advertiser. Advertisers in these networks are not intentionally supporting the publication, and by extension they are not supporting the community the publication has created. In essence, they are not being good citizens of the community where their advertising is being displayed.

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Mac Gems: Contextual Moves

Mac Gems: Contextual Moves 06/24/2005 04:54 PM
Move Items X lets you move (and copy and alias) items via contextual menus.

Atomz to Add Contextual Advertising

Atomz to Add Contextual Advertising 09/23/2004 05:57 PM

10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the
keyboard

10.3: Navigate contextual menus via the
keyboard 11/02/2003 01:02 PM
While a contextual menu is open, typing the first letter of an item in the contextual menu will focus the cursor on that menu item.

10.3: New contextual menus available in
Adress Book

10.3: New contextual menus available in
Adress Book 11/06/2003 11:13 AM
I have noticed some new Address Book features that I don't think were available in Jaguar (at least, some of them). The new items are accessed by clicking on the heading title (home, work, etc.) in the address card itself. Th...

DragThing gets enhanced contextual
menus, more

DragThing gets enhanced contextual
menus, more 04/26/2004 10:25 AM
TLA Systems has updated DragThing, the dock application for Mac OS X (10.2 or later), to version 5.1.1, which adds enhanced contextual menus, AppleScript support and speed improvements...

Ask MacSlash: Resizing Contextual Menus?

Ask MacSlash: Resizing Contextual Menus? 05/04/2004 11:04 AM

Google contextual ads: working for
humanity

Google contextual ads: working for
humanity 07/23/2004 06:36 AM
Letters special Delicious juxtapositions

Yahoo Contextual Advertising Program
Looks a Sure Bet

Yahoo Contextual Advertising Program
Looks a Sure Bet 03/14/2005 05:10 PM
WebmasterWorld members have been tracking the shadow of a Yahoo contextual advertising program for over a year. That shadow is becoming more and more defined. Recent statements by company reps - both on and off the record - indicate a program launch is imminent.

Kuleshov effect: meaning is too
contextual for metadata

Kuleshov effect: meaning is too
contextual for metadata 01/02/2004 05:58 AM
Danah Boyd has posted an interesting rumination on the "Kuleshov Effect," wherein a still image is freighted with opposite emotions by adding different soundtracks to it. The most interesting question this raises for me is: how can we expect "accurate" tagging of the subjective content of an artistic work ("Happy boy," "Pretty dog") when there are such fundamental conditionals dependent on context?

Lev Kuleshov was a Russian filmmaker. Because of the political climate of Russia, he was left without access to actual film. Instead, he constructed films by splicing film and telling his story in a collage-esque manner. In addition to his style of film, he's known for something called the Kuleshov Experiment. In this experiment, an image of a man's face is shown juxtapositioned with various other images immediately following. Viewers thought that the man's emotion changed even though it is exactly the same shot.

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Contextual Advertising In Email May Be
Patented - And Not By Google

Contextual Advertising In Email May Be
Patented - And Not By Google 05/19/2004 07:17 PM
Here we go again with more pointless patent battles that will do more to hold back, rather than encourage, innovation. While Google has made the big publicity splash (with both good and bad publicity) concerning their Gmail offering that puts contextual text ads alongside email based on the contents of the email, anothe r company applied for a patent on a similar idea well before Google applied for their own patent. Now, there's almost certain to be some sort of patent battle concerning this type of offering, which will do little (if anything) to help ensure better solutions reach the public. Instead, it will just tie up lawyers in a long term battle that will pay off handsomely for lawyers - but only delay innovation for end users. Besides, I still wonder how such an idea is patentable? It's not as if it wasn't obvious. Hell, even I came up with the idea before Google announced their product - and if I could think it up, it's pretty hard to say that it's "non-obvious."

What about Microsoft's upcoming
contextual advertising system?

What about Microsoft's upcoming
contextual advertising system? 03/14/2005 04:54 PM
I keep reading all these speculative posts about Yahoo getting into the contextual advertising game, being "poised" to compete with AdSense, and so on. But what surprises me is how little chatter about Microsoft I read. If people really think that MSN Search is Microsoft's only assault on the cash cow in Mountain View, there's some really good crack getting smoked. Maybe it's time to review Google's financials and think like like the monoplist that Microsoft is. If you wanted...

Yahoo Introduces YQ Contextual Search
Results

Yahoo Introduces YQ Contextual Search
Results 02/05/2005 09:42 PM
"...contextual search technology that analyzes the contents of the Web page you're viewing and then gives you a list of search results directly related to what you're reading."

Yahoo Launch Y!Q, Contextual Search
Option

Yahoo Launch Y!Q, Contextual Search
Option 02/05/2005 09:46 PM
Search engine Yahoo has launched a new tool for users searching online called Y!Q. Similar to existing "related links" options, the tool offers users pages of a similar context to the one the user is viewing. The service is already in operation on Yahoo! News, with examples of stories on George Bush linking to sites on the American president.

Yahoo is offering the service for Internet Explorer users (<a href="http://yq.search.yahoo.com/splash/embed.html">downl oad</a>) and Firefox users (<a href="http://yq.search.yahoo.com/splash/firefox.html">dow nload</a>), letting them do contextual searches without going to Yahoo. Yahoo is also offering code to allow webmasters to <a href="http://yq.search.yahoo.com/splash/embed.html">embed </a>Y!Q in their pages.

Yahoo's new tool is another option for searchers who are becoming startlingly similar to gleeful children receive far too many gifts at Christmas. Yahoo's most recent financial report noted that ad revenues from searches were proving more profitable and important. It, like the other search companies, wants more users and wants them keep on coming back; the problem is a complex one.

It’s difficult to have a system that gains strong user loyalty on search engines; the most successful so far has been Google's simple and effective search results. Google still maintains its 60% market share and is by far the largest of a growing pack. Google today moved their local search tool to the front page of the site; although still only in beta form, the tool has proved successful and effective at return accurate results. As if to do one better, Amazon's version of local search on A9.com adds pictures of shop fronts and streets. Expect more presents from the search companies soon.

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Yahoo Offers New Y!Q Contextual Search
Tool

Yahoo Offers New Y!Q Contextual Search
Tool 02/05/2005 10:09 PM

Don't Blinkx Now: Contextual Search
Built Into Your Desktop

Don't Blinkx Now: Contextual Search
Built Into Your Desktop 06/17/2004 08:53 PM
Om Malik is talking up a new software product called Blinkx, which he says gives him the same feeling Google gave him when he first met with the Google folks early on in their existence. It's a desktop (Windows only) application that integrates with your various applications to do contextual search across news, websites, and your computer to try to match any relevant info to the webpage, email or document you're reading at the time. Honestly, it sounds like a Windows version of Nat Friedman's Dashboard program. I haven't played around with it that much yet, but in looking at Om's page about Blinkx, it quickly pointed out to me that the SJ Merc had written about them yesterday as well. Who said the search space was a done deal? Just as all the big search players are figurin g out a desktop search plan, this startup seems to have come up with something that's fairly useful.

Overture Will Separate Bidding for
Contextual Listings

Overture Will Separate Bidding for
Contextual Listings 01/07/2004 07:05 PM
Jupiter Research analyst Nate Elliott said Google risked alienating advertisers by forcing them to pay the same price for clicks from a Weblog as they would ...

Quigo Takes to Niche Markets with
Contextual Ads

Quigo Takes to Niche Markets with
Contextual Ads 06/22/2004 10:02 PM
A small online ad company turns to niche markets to offer an alternative to sponsored link leaders such as Google and Overture.

Google Faces More Competition for
Contextual Listings

Google Faces More Competition for
Contextual Listings 02/17/2004 03:51 PM
dmnews.com Feb 17 2004 8:01PM GMT

Inside the Beltway - The Washington
Times: Inside the Beltway - September
07, 2004

Inside the Beltway - The Washington
Times: Inside the Beltway - September
07, 2004 09/25/2004 09:10 AM

Paid Contextual Advertising Driving
Search Towards Personalization

Paid Contextual Advertising Driving
Search Towards Personalization 09/23/2004 05:12 PM
Source: Search Engine Guide - There have been recent articles stating that contextual advertising is beginning to flat-line. Speculation that the sector is starting to dry up is more likely an indicator that a new twist or innovation on content...

Open Safari Google contextual searches
in new tabs

Open Safari Google contextual searches
in new tabs 04/22/2004 10:34 AM
Command-Control clicking on highlighted text in a Safari window will bring up the standard contextual menu. However, when the "Google Search" item is selected from the menu, the results open in a new tab, unlike the regular ...

Google is offering more contextual
search results, including package
tracking options

Google is offering more contextual
search results, including package
tracking options 12/13/2003 04:50 AM
Google now tracks packages .. direct from the help page .. Search By Number

google.com/help/features.html#number
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