New software has `no boundaries or rules’: “A few hundred thousand lines of computer code could revolutionize the way people interact with computers, say its unlikely inventor and his backers.” Can anyone make heads or tails of this description? I can’t for the life of me envision how this would work or whether it would be the big deal this puff piece says it is:

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.

The cornerstone of NBOR is “Blackspace,” software for word processing, desktop publishing, slideshow presentation, graphics, drawing, animations, audio, photo cropping, instant messaging and real-time conferencing.

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. —SF Chronicle