A few hundred thousand lines of computer code could revolutionize the way people interact with computers, say its unlikely inventor and his backers.
Denny Jaeger, a musician and composer who spent the past decade developing the software, will unveil it Jan. 15, when people will be able to download a scaled-down version for free.
The software, called "No Boundaries Or Rules," or NBOR, includes an intuitive user interface for writing, drawing, compiling multimedia presentations and other PC tasks. It allows real-time collaboration and sends large files over the Internet at lightning speed.
Opening Blackspace results in a blank canvas where users arrange text or create sophisticated visual displays with only a few clicks and drags of a mouse -- without ever using the pull-down menus, icons, margins, tabs and fonts of Microsoft Word and other current word processing systems.
Canvases can be saved as common document titles -- such as schoolreport.doc -- or as a symbol, such as a star, logo, photo or dot. Instead of sending all the data over the Internet, the creator can send the symbol alone.
If the recipient has NBOR, he need only click on the symbol and the complete file will rebuild itself in the recipient's Blackspace, thanks to 500,000 lines of complicated code that Jaeger and eight developers abroad spent two years writing.
Posted by Ron at January 10, 2004 01:19 PM