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Author: Espen Klem
Live in Oslo
Interaction Designer at Knowit Amende. Interested in human beings and technology. Tinkering with search in the browser.
Idea: Your life, searchable through Norch – NOde seaRCH
How to make your online life searchable through Norch, NOde seaRCH, IFTTT and Google Drive Spreadsheet. Your own lifeindex - available through search.
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Norch – It needs a logo!
Norch, the Node Search Engine, needs a logo. I've been tinkering a little with some font tests, the Node hexagon and something that could be understood as a magnifying glass. Made a ASCII art version a bit more dense. Testing font faces. Titillium Web Regular looking good for now (bottom, left). Testing colors. Prefered font, … Continue reading Norch – It needs a logo!
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5 reasons Lebron is the future, or why the Norch Search Engine will rock
The Lebron stack Last week, I saw the future. Wohaa, that's always a great feeling. I've seen it in earlier weeks also, but now it was even brighter than before. For me, it's still called the Lebron Stack as Max Ogden explains it and consists of LevelDB, Browserify and npm. All this is mostly happening … Continue reading 5 reasons Lebron is the future, or why the Norch Search Engine will rock
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Crawl interfaces for Norch running inside your browser
Posted earlier on Search Nuggets. Got an idea a while back on how we could use the JavaScript/Nodejs Search Engine Norch so that the users would have their own search server inside the browser. The main takeaway from this would be that you don't need to install anything to test the search engine. Since last … Continue reading Crawl interfaces for Norch running inside your browser
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Idea: Search server running inside your browser
Got an idea to use the browser as a virtual machine for Norch. Norch is Fergus McDowall's pet project: A search server written in JavaScript and based on Node.js and LevelDB. Since it's JavaScript, and HTML5 local storage has the same key/value storage as levelDB (HTML5 local storage for Chrome actually is levelDB) it has the … Continue reading Idea: Search server running inside your browser
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Plexiglass solvent working well
Finally some really good news. The solvent works well and is quite easy to handle. Some small air bubbles caught between the layers, but think that will be better next time. The laser engraving is looking better than what I hoped for. Eager to see how this looks with LED lights.
