Sunday, March 28, 2010

Surfing the Google Wave

Last Tuesday, I've attended on of Google's Tech talks on the new GO language and Google Wave. As to GO language, well I wasn't that impressed, but I'll probably need to dedicate a separate post for that.

Google Wave talk was ok, I mean it was short, but it was enough to get a general idea on the topic. I believe Google Wave as communication tool has a lot of potential, but even more as a collaboration one. Inspired by the talk I am now looking at implementing my first Google Wave robot and extension the API is still very limited, but the new version is much better than the previous one....

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Okular - Ubuntu pdf viewing just got better

How often you  find yourself reading a paper and having the sudden urge to highlight something, to make a comment or just draw a circle around the text.

Well, today I've discovered Okular that has all of the above features and more:

"Okular is a universal document viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4.

Its development began as part of Google's Summer of Code program. The description of the project is located at KDE Developer's Corner. Okular combines the excellent functionalities of KPDF with the versatility of supporting different kind of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, and others.
The document format handlers page has a chart describing in more detail the supported formats and the features supported in each of them."

- from Okular website

ENJOY! :)