[p2p-research] University of Washington's Prefab tool promises to 'unlock the desktop'

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Sepp, thanks for eventually looking into the implications of this, if you
have time,

Michel

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Ryan <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:

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>  University of Washington's Prefab tool promises to 'unlock the desktop'<http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/university-of-washingtons-prefab-tool-promises-to-unlock-the-d/>
> via Engadget <http://www.engadget.com/> by Donald Melanson on 4/1/10
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>  <http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=56581>
> The University of Washington may be overstating things a just a tad with a
> headline like "what if all software was open source," but the so-called
> "Prefab" software tool developed by some researchers at the university does
> indeed manage to pull of some fairly impressive tricks. The short of it is
> that the tool promises to you let you (or developers) modify any application
> without actually modifying it. To do that, the software constantly looks for
> easily identifiable elements of an application (dialog boxes, scroll bars,
> buttons, etc.) and then "alters their behavior" by effectively taking over
> your display, leaving the actual program running in the background and
> displaying the augmented version instead. According to the researchers, the
> possibilities from there on out are virtually endless, and include things
> like adding iTunes buttons to your Word toolbar and tweaking Photoshop to
> display previews for a whole range of effects at once. Head on past the
> break for a quick demo video, and look for more to be unveiled at the CHI
> 2010 conference in Atlanta next month.
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> [Thanks, Keith]
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