April 2005
VisiCal
VisiCal is a visual to-do manager. Select to-do items by moving the mouse over a to-do item. A darker outline appears. Change due date by drag and moving to-do items. Simply click and dragg on the items labels. Change priority when your cursor signals you to drag in order to resize the circle. Dragging to the outer direction increases priority, dragging it to inner directions decreases it. Change percentage of completeness by clicking in the circle. If pressing the Shift key and clicking diminishes it.
In progress: We are currently integrating more editing functionalities and personal bookmark management.
Java
January 2004
txtkit
txtkit is an Open Source visual text mining tool for exploring large amounts of multilingual texts. It's a multiuser-application which mainly focuses on the process of reading and reasoning as a series of decisions and events and provides content recommendations through collaborative filtering. Our servers offer four sources at the moment: Hans Ulrich Reck (german & english), Lev Manovich (english), "Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig (english). Due to its integrated parsing module, you can parse and use every text you like! Required Operating System: Mac OS X 10.3.
Honorary Mention Net Vision
Prix Ars Electronica 2004, Linz/Austria
txtkit was commissioned by Prof. Hans Ulrich Reck - project director with Prof. Georg Trogemann of KIT (Kunst. Informatik. Theorie.), a research project based at the Art and Media Studies department at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
Objective-C, OpenGL, Java, MySQL
January 2002
Minitasking
Minitasking is a free visual client for browsing the Gnutella network, released in April 2002. It provides a very different interface to P2P network spaces compared to the norm. Required Operating System: Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP
Award of Distinction Net Excellence Prix Ars Electronica 2002 Linz/Austria
Software Award transmediale.03 Berlin/Germany
Java, Flash