System Architecture

Have you ever carefully created a chart or graphic and then pasted it into a report only to discover you needed to change it later? Apps should work together so you can make this sort of change with just a few clicks. That's now possible thanks to a ...

Spotlight integration with Tiger and its apps tilts the scales back toward Safari, Address Book, iCal, and Mail for your core applications. Matthew Russell shows you how this intelligent technology enables you to find just about anything, anywhere, regardless...

The essence of the digital hub is that there is one entity that stores data, and many modules connected to the hub and to each other through the hub. This hub-and-spoke architecture works well to solve many business problems, where you have many users...

Mac OS X Tiger is the 5th major release of macOS, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Mac computers. Tiger was released to the public on April 29, 2005 for US$129.95 as the successor to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Included features were a fast searching system called Spotlight, a new version of the Safari web browser, Dashboard, a new 'Unified' theme, and improved support for 64-bit addressing on Power Mac G5s. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger also had a number of additional features that Microsoft had spent several years struggling to add to Windows with acceptable performance, such as fast file search and improved graphics processing.

Spotlight is a system-wide desktop search feature of Apple's macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and visionOS operating systems. Spotlight is a selection-based search system, which creates an index of all items and files on the system. It is designed to allow the user to quickly locate a wide variety of items on the computer, including documents, pictures, music, applications, and System Settings. In addition, specific words in documents and in web pages in a web browser's history or bookmarks can be searched. It also allows the user to narrow down searches with creation dates, modification dates, sizes, types and other attributes. Spotlight also offers quick access to definitions from the built-in New Oxford American Dictionary and to calculator functionality. There are also command-line tools to perform functions such as Spotlight searches.

Automator is an application developed by Apple Inc. for macOS, which can be used to automate repetitive tasks through point-and-click or drag and drop.

Desktop search tools search within a user's own computer files as opposed to searching the Internet. These tools are designed to find information on the user's PC, including web browser history, e-mail archives, text documents, sound files, images, and video. A variety of desktop search programs are now available; see this list for examples. Most desktop search programs are standalone applications. Desktop search products are software alternatives to the search software included in the operating system, helping users sift through desktop files, emails, attachments, and more.

NEPOMUK (Networked Environment for Personal, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge) is an open-source software specification that is concerned with the development of a social semantic desktop that enriches and interconnects data from different desktop applications using semantic metadata stored as RDF. Between 2006 and 2008 it was funded by a European Union research project of the same name[2] that grouped together industrial and academic actors to develop various Semantic Desktop technologies.

Recoll is a desktop document search application for Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows and MacOS, based on the Xapian search engine library.

Recoll is a desktop search tool that provides full-text search in a GUI with a few mandatory external dependencies. It runs on many Unix-like operating systems and is mostly independent of the desktop environment. Recoll has been ported to OS/2, and is planned for integration into the OS/2-based ArcaOS.

Strigi was a file indexing and file search framework (see desktop search) adopted by KDE SC. Strigi was initiated by Jos van den Oever. Strigi's goals are to be fast, use a small amount of RAM, and use flexible backends and plug-ins.[2] A benchmark as of January 2007 showed that Strigi is faster and uses less memory than other search systems,[3] but it lacks many of their features[citation needed]. Like most desktop search systems, Strigi can extract information from files, such as the length of an audio clip, the contents of a document, or the resolution of a picture; plugins determine what filetypes it is capable of handling.[4] Strigi uses its own Jstream system which allows for deep indexing of files. Strigi is accessible via Konqueror, or by clicking on its icon, after adding it to KDE's Kicker or GNOME Panel. (In GNOME desktop, it is called the Deskbar applet.) The graphical user interface (GUI) is named Strigiclient.[4]

TinySPARQL is a file indexing and search framework for Linux and other Unix-like systems. It is written in the C programming language.

Beagle is a search system for Linux and other Unix-like systems, enabling the user to search documents, chat logs, email and contact lists. It is not actively developed.

What if we weren’t using apps? What if our computers were just showing us documents and the appropriate tools to edit them? This was the vision of Bill Atkinson when he created Hypercard. To create a software that could allow users to mix different data, and to link them together. Your contacts and your notes about your meetings shouldn’t be in separate apps. Your ideas and their developments should be together because one is growing out of the other. What we need is interactive information. by Paul Rony

The way we think, organize and share information has been top of mind for me this week (and probably every week since I started working on Kosmik). The problem of organization is as old as knowledge work itself. It goes much further than files, folders, or computers. by Paul Rony

Kosmik's journey from native apps to a versatile web-based platform with the release of version 2.7. by Paul Rony

A thought we had at Kosmik this week: we have (unintentionally) built one of the more radical browsers out there. by Paul Rony

Kosmik is transforming web browsing by creating a spatial interface that enhances workflows, promotes creativity, and enables real-time collaboration. Discover the journey from the iMac to today's browser evolution and what the future holds for personal computing on the web. by Paul Rony

This year, we had the opportunity to join the ranks of Spotify and Klarna by receiving seed investment from Sweden-based, early-stage venture capital firm Creandum along with re-investment from our current investors including Alven capital who had led our pre-seed round. This funding means that Kosmik is here for the long haul and that we have all the resources we need to keep building a more robust, complete and powerful product. by Paul Rony

The only part of our digital ecosytem that is not (yet) in the cloud is the desktop of our computers. Kosmik chages your creative workflow by giving you a place where you can browse the web, retrieve assets from pages and organize them seamlessly. It comes with a multiplayer mode to share the boards and finally realizes the dream of the digital hub. by Paul Rony

As messy as it is, the desktop is a precious digital artefact where we can scatter our files, move things around and give them meaning just by putting them in a certain spot. The desktop is a re-assuring concept, you know that you can always save anything to the desktop, you know that below this stack of windows and files there is a space that you can always go back to. It is also the only “visual” space on your computer, forcing you to deal with what is on screen. by Paul Rony

Kosmik is the visual canvas for knowledge management. Kosmik allows you to write, create large media collections, browse the web and share it all with your team! No more folders, bookmarks or infinite message threads.

An automation center of excellence brings the focus, strategy and cohesion needed to make automation really work across the organization.

I'm writing this mostly for the sake of my own mental accounting, so I can look back at this years from now and gauge whether my assumpti...

PostgreSQL offers powerful full-text search capabilities, eliminating the need for complex tools like Elasticsearch in many Rails apps. This guide walks you through building fast, efficient search features using PostgreSQL’s built-in functions, with tips on performance, ranking, and integration gems like pg_search. Simplify your stack without sacrificing search power!

There are a number of methods to input Esperanto letters and text on a computer, e.g. when using a word processor or email. Input methods depend on a computer's operating system. Specifically the characters ĵ, ĝ, ĉ, ĥ, ŭ, ŝ can be problematic.

How can I play my playlist (m3u, pls) on Firefox OS? If those formats aren't support, are there any other formats or workarounds to have your own playlists (instead of only albums and the predefined