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MESSAGE: (#416054) Re: Competitive intelligence software
AUTHOR: Ellen Naylor
DATE: 05/12/2008 04:15 pm
CATEGORY: Computers and Software
Reply To: (#392594) Competitive intelligence software
Author: Sergio Paulo Maravilhas Lopes
Date: 11/10/2008 11:37 pm
Hi Sergio,
Another resource is Arik Johnson's firm, Aurora WDC, based on Wisconsin.
I can't find their software report on the website, but you might want
to connect with him directly at arik.johnson@aurorawdc.com. I know his
company has an active practice around this space.
Best,
Ellen Naylor
www.thecisource.com
MESSAGE: (#416013) Screen font pdf Reader
AUTHOR: Nick Taylor
DATE: 05/12/2008 03:01 pm
CATEGORY: Computers and Software
Does anyone produced a pdf reader that automatically converts and
displays pdf text in a font that is easily readable on a computer
screen?
Most pdf documents have text that displays poorly when viewed on a computer
monitor, since the pdf format was designed primarily for printing
rather than viewing on a screen. Even when displayed at 100%, pdf text
can vary from ok to very fuzzy, depending on the document font.
MESSAGE: (#421195) Re: Screen font pdf Reader
AUTHOR: Andrew Denny
DATE: 13/12/2008 02:58 pm
CATEGORY: Computers and Software
Reply To: (#416013) Screen font pdf Reader
Author: Nick Taylor
Date: 05/12/2008 03:01 pm
Google Mail has just introduced an alternative way of viewing PDF
attachments - it displays them in the Google Docs viewer instead of
opening your native PDF reader.
You could try setting up a Google mail account and emailing the PDFs to
that, then viewing them that way. Just a thought.
MESSAGE: (#421198) Re: Screen font pdf Reader
AUTHOR: Andrew Denny
DATE: 13/12/2008 03:10 pm
CATEGORY: Computers and Software
Reply To: (#416013) Screen font pdf Reader
Author: Nick Taylor
Date: 05/12/2008 03:01 pm
Another thought is that different OSs tend to display text in
different ways, and this carries through to the browsers.
E.g. As I understand it Safari (on both Mac and PC) concentrates on the
'look' of the fonts, hinting to create a more accurate font 'shape',
whilst IE focuses on the sharpness of the individual pixels, creating
a 'bittier' less accurate font, but sharper in its appearance.
The upshot is that when you view a PDF within the browser, it can look different
in different browsers. I can't remember how Firefox does it, and
Gmail's PDF preview might well be optimised for Google's own Chrome.
My own preference is for Microsoft's way of doing it onscreen, PDFs feel
more 'readable' to me that way, but I'm sure you'll tell me I'm in a
minority :-)
There's a good description of this difference here:
http://digbig.com/4yagh
(sorry to be so technical, and I admit I'm not an expert anyway!)
MESSAGE: (#418593) Post-Online Information Show News
AUTHOR: Robin Neidorf
DATE: 09/12/2008 05:16 pm
CATEGORY: FreePint
Hi - it was great to see so many old and new friends, supporters and
Baristas during Online Information 2008 last week in London. We're
already hard at work on our FreePint Special Report -- be sure to
share your insights if you attended (or even if you watched from
afar), and request a copy of the report if you couldn't
attend:
Contributions: http://www.freepint.com/events/online-info-2008/
Request a copy:
http://www.freepint.com/events/online-info-2008/rsvp.htm
All contributors will have an opportunity to review their contributions
and will also receive the full report upon publication.
Some other items of note:
The winner of the FUMSI Citation for Most Useful Article is Judith Schilling's
piece, 'The EU: Closer than You Thought'
. Those nominating her
article offered a number of ways they used the information - including
Twittering the resources, posting it to their intranets, and sharing
it with their professional and lay research teams. Judith wins a
year's subscription to FUMSI, to share with her entire
location.
Martin Belam, our Share contributing editor over at FUMSI, offers
the following summary of his comments during our FUMSI briefings on
creating resilience in your career with information
skills:
http://digbig.com/4yafw
We'll also be posting photos shortly.
Online Information 2008 was a terrific show for us - thanks to the team
at Incisive Media for their hard work, and double-thanks to the entire
FreePint team for their outstanding efforts!
-Robin
Robin Neidorf
General Manager, Free Pint Limited
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MESSAGE: (#419163) Refrigerant gasses anyone?
AUTHOR: Maninder
DATE: 10/12/2008 10:51 am
CATEGORY: Company, Industry, Country and Product Research
Hi All,
I am dealing (trying!) with an enquiry on market information on refrigerant
gasses used within Europe!
He also wants to know the number of refrigeration compressors that are
installed annually in Europe and if possible past or future trends!
According to him keywords would be: Freon, Ammonia, R1234a, R22, R404a, R407c,
R410a etc.
Phew! Not the easiest one, but I am hoping someone out there will read
this and say "AHA! I know where to find that!" or maybe there is a
library out there who would hold this type of information if nothing
else? :)
Many thanks for your reading and thinking time.
Maninder :)
MESSAGE: (#420083) Re: Refrigerant gasses anyone?
AUTHOR: marc arenstein
DATE: 11/12/2008 05:53 pm
CATEGORY: Company, Industry, Country and Product Research
Reply To: (#419163) Refrigerant gasses anyone?
Author: Maninder
Date: 10/12/2008 10:51 am
http://digbig.com/4yafy
This article about a recent Frost & Sullivan report contains the
following
"Recent analysis from Frost & Sullivan of the European markets for
refrigeration compressors found earned revenues of $520 million in
2006, with estimates to reach $568 million in 2013." There may be
other press releases about other reports with useful detail available
in open sources.
MESSAGE: (#419846) Number of companies going bust by type
AUTHOR: tom
DATE: 11/12/2008 11:27 am
CATEGORY: Company, Industry, Country and Product Research
Hi there
I am trying to find out the number of companies by sector who went bust
during the last recession.
I.e. I would like to be able to show that in 1990 x media companies went
bust, 1991 y media companies went bust, 1992 media co's z went bust
and 1993 w media co's went bust.
I would prefer data for the UK but if that does not work US data would
work well too!
Any tips on sources would be most gratefully received!
Best
Tom
MESSAGE: (#422925) Scholarly journals - new service
AUTHOR: Roddy MacLeod
DATE: 16/12/2008 11:05 am
CATEGORY: Information Issues
Keeping up-to-date with the scholarly literature just became much
easier, thanks to a new service called ticTOCs - Journal Tables of
Contents Service.
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk
ticTOCs is a new scholarly journal tables of contents (TOCs) service.
Its free, its easy to use, and it provides access to the most recent
tables of contents of over 11,000 scholarly journals from more than
400 publishers. It helps scholars, researchers, academics and anyone
else keep up-to-date with whats being published in the most recent
issues of journals on almost any subject.
Using ticTOCs, you can find journals of interest by title, subject or
publisher, view the latest TOC, link through to the full text of over
250,000 articles (where institutional or personal subscriptions, or
Open Access, allow), and save selected journals to MyTOCs so that you
can view future TOCs (free registration is required if you want to
permanently save your MyTOCs). ticTOCs also makes it easy to export
selected TOC RSS feeds to popular feedreaders such as Google Reader
and Bloglines, and in addition you can import article citations into
RefWorks (where institutional or personal subscriptions allow).
You select TOCs by ticking those of interest - thousands of TOCs, within a
tick or two (hence the name ticTOCs).
ticTOCs has been funded under the JISC Users & Innovations programme,
and has been developed by an international consortium consisting of
the University of Liverpool Library (lead), Heriot-Watt University,
CrossRef, ProQuest, Emerald, RefWorks, MIMAS, Cranfield University,
Institute of Physics, SAGE Publishers, Inderscience Publishers, DOAJ
(Directory of Open Access Journals), Open J-Gate, and Intute.
For the full press release, please see: http://digbig.com/4yagb
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