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[Labs.broqn.com] Broqn Labs Blog » 2005 » April: Some people may know about my mild obcession with usability and interaction-design (which goes with my plan of joining Interaction-Ivrea in a near future). So it is only logical that I begin writing about it here at Broqn Labs. So to start things up, I have to link to interaction-design.org, a new peer-reviewed portal/encyclopedia on IA, Usability and User Experience. You’ll probably want to have a look at it if you’re into this sort of stuff.

[Labs.broqn.com] Broqn Labs Blog » Software: Spotlight: This was probably the feature I was the most curious about because of my interest on how to deal with file metadata, and how to use that data to effectively increase productivity. If you still haven’t heard of it, what spotlight does is monitor file save procedures, reading file metadata, and recording that metadata into a database. This catalogue of data is then searched whenever you click the spotlight icon and type a few keywords. It will automatically filter results on type, date, author and a few other tags.

[Labs.broqn.com] Broqn Labs Blog: Basically, it works. After the initial index (which took a while considering it had to go through over 140gb of my earlier work, email and junk), metadata was stored into the database and a few queries were enough to attest that indeed spotlight may be one of the best additions to an OS in the last couple of years. It works generally fast (I’m still not sure how many lines of debugging are still on this build to consider this a final statement), and results are good. The way you can sort everything is apple-like.

[Labs.broqn.com] Broqn Labs Blog » Osx: Spotlight: This was probably the feature I was the most curious about because of my interest on how to deal with file metadata, and how to use that data to effectively increase productivity. If you still haven’t heard of it, what spotlight does is monitor file save procedures, reading file metadata, and recording that metadata into a database. This catalogue of data is then searched whenever you click the spotlight icon and type a few keywords. It will automatically filter results on type, date, author and a few other tags.

[Remotely.org] Windows XP and rsync: A few specifics regarding my situation: I installed rsync as an administrator on a Windows XP machine (the client), and set it up to sync with a Linux machine (the server) that already had rsync installed. Without those conditions, this guide will probably be useless to you. That being said, I’ve also included a link to a guide for setting rsync up on Mac OS X, and I believe that the official rsync page has a guide for setting it up under Unix/Linux.

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