1. “Off the Wall” (1979, Michael Jackson)
2. “Thriller” (1982, Michael Jackson)
3. “Triumph” (1980, The Jacksons)
4. “Dancing Machine” (1974, The Jackson 5)
5. “Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5″ (1969, The Jackson 5)
6. “Destiny” (1978, The Jacksons)
7. “Third Album” (1970, The Jackson 5)
8. “Got to Be There” (1972, Michael Jackson)
9. “Maybe Tomorrow” (1971, The Jackson 5)
10. “Invincible” (2001, Michael Jackson)
Embracing all of the World’s symbology would be too big a task for any semiotician. Symbols.com deals with mainly Western signs that are non-pictorial. So, continue reading for an explanation of the terms.
The word symbol is derived from the Greek word symbolon. In ancient Greece it was a custom to break a slate of burned clay into several pieces and distribute them within the group. When the group reunited the pieces were fitted together (Greek symbollein). This confirmed the members belonging to the group.
An ideogram is a special type of symbol, a graphic sign for an idea or concept. For instance, the graph represents the G-clef in musical notation and the switch for treble range on sound reproducing appliances. It is therefore an ideogram.
36:11 · An alchemical sign for gold-leaf or gold-foil, i.e. gold that has been pressed so thin that it can float on the breath. Gold was the only metal that the alchemists could hammer out to such extreme thinness.
Compare with 2609 and 2415 for gold.
Alphabetic letters are not considered ideograms proper in this work. But as the first letter in the alphabet A not only is a sign for a specific sound, but also denotes the idea of something that comes first. Consider expressions like “A grade” and “A-team”. A may therefore be regarded as a sign.
A sign is called iconic if it has some perceivable likeness to what it denotes. In the opposite case, it is called aniconic.
However, whether iconic or aniconic, graphical symbols and signs that are not pictures of easily recognized objects are called non-pictorial. These non-pictorial symbols and signs are the subject matter of Symbols.com.
Spezify è un motore di ricerca visuale che propone un modo più intuitivo di ricercare e visualizzare le informazioni.
E’ capace di ricercare contenuti tipo immagini, testo e video all’interno di siti come: Yahoo, Twitter, Amazon, Ebay e Bing.
I risultati sono presentati similmente a degli articoli di giornale e nella parte alta della pagina sono suggerite delle parole correlate alla query inserita.
Attraverso l’utilizzo della tastiera è poi possibile navigare e visionare tutte le informazioni in una singola pagina.
Spezify è un motore di ricerca visuale, ideato per ottimizzare le ricerche online filtrando i risultati e fornendo solo i contenuti migliori, pronti per essere consultati in maniera veloce ed intuitiva.
Doc Fetcher est ce qu’on appelle un moteur de recherche de bureau. Il s’agit en fait d’un outil similaire à la recherche de fichiers Windows, sauf qu’ici, c’est la technologie Google qui est utilisé (et le vieux chien 3D disparaît aussi au passage).
Doc Fetcher est un programme gratuit et opensource pour Windows ou Linux (où est la version Mac OS ?). Il vous permet donc d’accéder rapidement aux documents stockés sur votre ordinateur en tapant quelques mots-clés.
Comment ça marche ?
Tout simplement comme un vrai moteur. Doc Fetcher va crawler l’ensemble de vos dossiers et récupérer les différents fichiers qui s’y trouvent afin de constituer un index. La première fois, cela risque de prendre du temps (apparemment, le site indique 1 min pour 200 fichiers environ). J’ai cependant noté quelques fonctions intéressantes comme la recherche de termes directement à l’intérieur du code source (pour les fichiers HTML par exemple). Après cette indexation, vous pourrez personnaliser les critères de prises en comptes lors de la recherche.
Ci-dessous la liste des formats de fichier supportés :
HTML and plain text (both customizable)
Portable Document Format (pdf)
Microsoft Office (doc, xls, ppt)
Microsoft Office 2007 (docx, xlsx, pptx)
OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress (odt, ods, odg, odp)
Rich Text Format (rtf)
AbiWord (abw, abw.gz, zabw)
Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (chm)
Microsoft Visio (vsd)
Scalable Vector Graphics (svg)
J’ai pu rapidement tester sous Parallel mais j’ai quelques soucis de ralentissement général avec le programme. Si vous avez l’occasion de tester Doc Fetcher, que ce soit avec l’interface complète ou simplifiée, n’hésitez pas à déposer votre avis dans les commentaires.
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Embracing all of the World’s symbology would be too big a task for any semiotician. Symbols.com deals with mainly Western signs that are non-pictorial. So, continue reading for an explanation of the terms.
represents the G-clef in musical notation and the switch for treble range on sound reproducing appliances. It is therefore an ideogram.
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