...from: http://www.macworld.com/2005/03/secrets/mayosxhints/index.php http://www.newmediamanuals.com/podcast/OMT-Summarize-Services- OSX_030.mp3 http://www.acqyr.com/home/2004/02/summarize_your_.html
- Sherlock's Lost Translation: Sherlock has a built-in translation function (it actually uses the SYSTRAN engine http://www.systransoft.com/index.html). Launch it. Click the Translation "flag" button. Enter the text you want translated. Click translate.
Here's an example: By far, there's too much information surrounding us all. It's close to impossible to absorb everything! After all, we live in the "knowledge economy" so reading reports, articles, emails and documents is a part of our every day life.
Serlock's translation: French: De loin, il y a trop d'information nous entourant tous. Elle est près d'impossible d'absorber tout ! Après tout, nous vivons dans l'"économie de la connaissance" ainsi les états, les articles, les email et les documents de lecture est une partie de notre chaque vie de jour.
Greek: Κατά πολύ, εκεί πάρα πολλές πληροφορίες που περιβάλλουν μας όλοι. Είναι κοντά σε αδύνατο να απορροφήσει όλα! Τελικά, ζούμε στη "οικονομία γνώσησ" έτσι διαβάζοντας τις εκθέσεις, άρθρα, τα ηλεκτρονικά ταχυδρομεία και τα έγγραφα είναι ένα μέρος της κάθε ζωής ημέρας μας.
...and back: By far, there is too much information surrounding us all. It is close to impossible to absorb all! After all, we thus live in the "economy of knowledge" the states, the articles, the email and the documents of reading is a part of our each life of day.
By far, there very a lot of information that surround us all. It is near impossible it absorbs all! Finally, we live in the "economy of knowledge" thus reading the reports, articles, the electronic posts and the documents it is a part of our each life of day.
...and, of course, English->Japanese->English->French->Greek->French->English: Very, they are there of many data elements which surround us whole. It is roughly impossible thing which absorbs of all! Very back, we lived in the <economy of knowledge>, consequently the State of the book, the article, the ELECTRONIC MAIL and the document it is a part of our everyday lifes.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ - Summarize Proust: "By far, there's too much information surrounding us all. It's close to impossible to absorb everything! After all, we live in the "knowledge economy" so reading reports, articles, emails and documents is a part of our every day life."
So begins one description of Apple's OS X "Summarize Services". To summarize, "Summarize Services" is a service which will summarize a large body of text attempt to distil out the essence - you get to choose how much distillation takes place.
Here's an example where the text has been taken from: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/proust.htm. This entry has 13 paragraphs and nearly 2000 words (according to Microsoft WORD).
OS X's "Summary Services" at summarize to setting 1 and "Paragraphs": --------------------------- Remembrance of Things Past does not have a clear and continuous plot line. The narrator is Marcel. He is not Proust but resembles him in many ways. Marcel is initially ignorant - only slowly does he begin to grasp the essence of the hidden reality. At the end he is preparing to write a novel which is like the one just presented to the reader. Marcel's childhood memories start to flow when he tastes a madeleine cake dipped in linden tea such as he was given as a child. "And as soon as I had recognised the taste of the piece of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-blossom which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why this memory made me so happy) immediately the old grey house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like a stage set to attach itself to the little pavilion opening on to the garden which had been built out behind it for my parents (the isolated segment which until that moment had been all that I could see); and with the house the town, from morning to night and in all weathers, the Square where I used to be sent before lunch, the streets along which I used to run errands, the country roads we took when it was fine." --------------------------------
Microsoft WORD summarizing at 1% setting: --------------------------------------- From 1882 to 1889 Proust attended the Lycée Condorcet. Proust suffered from asthma throughout his life.Proust and Bergson knew each other socially. ---------------------------------------
Microsoft WORD summarizing at 5% setting: -------------------------------------- From 1882 to 1889 Proust attended the Lycée Condorcet.(Proust inReading in Bed, selected and edited by Steven Gilbar, 1995).
From 1895 to 1899 Proust worked on an autobiographical novel that remained unfinished. Proust suffered from asthma throughout his life. Proust is generally considered a pioneer of the modern novel. Proust's work widely influenced authors in different countries, among them Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. One biographer mentions that Proust liked tight underwear.
A prolific writer, Proust also was an avid letter writer. ---------------------------------------
You can access OS X's "Summarize Services" by selecting a piece of text (email, text document, web page) and choosing "Summarize" from the Application>Services menu. Changing the settings will dynamically change your summary.
WORD provides an AutoSummarize... tool in the Tools menu.
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Use iTunes to Organize PDFs Looking for a different way to organize a massive collection of PDFs? Use iTunes. That’s right, iTunes. When Apple released The Complete U2 digital box set last year, it distributed the collection’s liner notes as PDF files. To make sure people found them, Apple modified iTunes to handle PDF files in its library. The side effect was that iTunes (thanks to its Smart Playlist feature) also became a good way to organize large PDF collections.
To test this out, just drag and drop a PDF (or several) onto iTunes. It will show up in your library, with its Finder name listed as its song name. To organize your PDFs, use smart playlists. Create a new smart playlist (File: New Smart Playlist) and set the conditions to Kind Contains PDF. Select the Live Updating option and click on OK. Now you have a playlist that contains all your PDFs. If you name your files following a certain pattern, you can add rules to the smart playlist to further sort your PDFs. Make a Recipes smart playlist that gathers all files whose names (“song” names) start with Recipe. Or create a medical-journals smart playlist that gets all the files with the prefix "Med_".
Double-clicking on the iTunes entry for this document will open it using OS X's Preview.
Wayne