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Introduction Project Sikuli, a machine-vision research project from MIT, allows users to write scripts that automate UI-driven tasks. This tool, while very powerful and simple, can cause a number of headaches if you’re not careful. In this post, I’ll talk about some issues you might encounter, as well as how to avoid them. If you’ve never used Sikuli before, you can see demos here, or download the IDE here. 5. Not...
Read MoreWe’ve been seeing an increasing number of corporate customers look into SharePoint. The New York Times has a nice summary on the growth of Microsoft SharePoint that echoes our observation. One of the challenges that users run into is that they expect SharePoint to be the end-all collaboration solution. In reality it’s a bunch of pieces that let you build a collaborative solution. In this blog post, I’m going to show you how you can...
Read MoreA few posts back, we talked about why search on the desktop works a lot better than it did just a few years ago. In this post, we’ll talk about how desktop search hasn’t kept up as the way we find and consume content on our computers has changed. As recently as 2000, the deluge of emails, files, podcasts, blog posts and everything else that we have to keep track of was more like a drizzle. The average hard drive held about...
Read MoreDesktop search has come a long way in the past few years. In this post, we’ll explore how the technology behind all of the major desktop search options has changed based on web search innovations. In the follow-up posts, we’ll talk a little bit about how desktop search is different from web search and how it has both succeeded and failed at making interacting with our computers better. We’ll share a few tricks for...
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