Here, for OS X, is a native PDF editor (or PDF based word-processor, depending on how you look at it). It seems interesting; and perhaps “easier” than LaTeX.
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Tag Archives: Business
A Native PDF Editor
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Serious Statistics Programs Pay for the Fun Ones
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Here is an article that explains how one of the four co-founders of SAS, a statistician, has an awesome job where the serious product (SAS) pays for him to develop the fun product (JMP).
Note: That is an understatement, as it probably would pay for him to stare at the ocean for the rest of [...]
You Might Be Better At Business Than You Think
Friday, September 4, 2009
From this post:
The talk was simple. Come up with a product, charge money for it, make more money than it costs to run it, and you turn a profit! This is the formula that’s been in place since business began. Yet in front of a group of new tech entrepreneurs it seemed like a revelation, [...]
Maybe Java and C# are the F-16 of the IT world
Monday, July 27, 2009
Emerging Technologies
The U.S. Air force Air Demonstration Squadron , also known at The Thunderbirds, started out in 1953 flying F-84 Thunderjets. The F-84 had been flown for the first time in 1946. In 1955 they upgraded to the F-84F Thunderstreak. One year later they broke the sound barrier with the F-100C Super [...]
Orbitz detects known customers and increases their prices
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Someone told me a few months ago that Orbitz will detect and raise prices for some customers. It didn’t occur to me to check this until last night. I found a good deal on Orbitz for a hotel+car package, but looked around the web for better deals. After a few minutes, I reran the search [...]
The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
Saturday, June 6, 2009
It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
– Guy Kawasaki
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Learning to Let Go
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Here is a good article about learning how to let go of your past investment so that you can be free to move in the right direction moving forward.
It must be very hard and counterintuitive to do so; but perhaps that is just backwards thinking on my part!
iPhone Barcode Scanners and Boosting Innovation
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Here is a good article about a barcode scanner library for the iPhone. One interesting thing is that the imaging library used in the app is available in a SDK sold by the company.
It seems that the application is meant to drive sales of the API.
I suppose this is not a new idea, [...]
Justifying GNUPlot
Saturday, June 6, 2009
GNUPlot has always seemed like a great tool for presenting data in a visually compelling manner.
This might make it easier to do so. I am waiting for the right opportunity to justify buying it :).
Using mapping tools for information sharing
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Here is an article about an interesting application of mapping technology.
I wonder what kind of business ventures might be driven from such an approach.