Rogers Cadenhead recently posted his thoughts on why the rssCloud concept “failed to catch on.”    This is a response to his post and an attempt to foster further discussion in the community.Blue SkyThe main idea behind rssCloud is that...
Topics: ajax, Feeds, iphone, News, Opinion, rss, rssCloud

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It has been a long time coming, but the Java library for RSS and Atom utilities called ROME has finally made it to version 1.0 (changelog). Thanks to all of the contributers and the hard work on the dev team for making it possible!  New to ROME? For a...
Topics: atom, java, News, rome, rss

{"title":"ROME 1.0 Released","post_url":"http:\/\/techbrew.net\/articles\/200903\/rome-1-0-released\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/techbrew","author":"mwoodman","date":"2009-03-11 19:44:33","summary":"It has been a long time coming, but the Java library for RSS and Atom utilities called ROME has finally made it to version 1.0 (changelog). Thanks to all of the contributers and the hard work on the dev team for making it possible! \u00a0New to ROME? For a..."}

Fox News has an “Automatic Transcription” feature for its videos.  The disclaimer of “may not be 100% accurate” is understated by 95%.  Here’s the presidential oath of Barak Obama, the way their transcription software...
Topics: Humor, News, obama, president, video, voice recognition

{"title":"President Obama - Lost in Translation","post_url":"http:\/\/techbrew.net\/articles\/200901\/president-obama-lost-in-translation\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/techbrew","author":"mwoodman","date":"2009-01-20 16:00:19","summary":"Fox News has an “Automatic Transcription” feature for its videos. \u00a0The disclaimer of “may not be 100% accurate” is understated by 95%. \u00a0Here’s the presidential oath of Barak Obama, the way their transcription software..."}

Ever wanted to defragment a certain file or collection of files on your Windows PC, without defragging the entire hard drive? Here’s why and how you can do it:Don’t Bring Me DownI recently noticed that one of my oft-used Windows...
Topics: contig, defrag, windows

{"title":"Defrag a Single File or Set of Files in Windows","post_url":"http:\/\/techbrew.net\/articles\/200808\/defrag-a-single-file-or-set-of-files-in-windows\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/techbrew","author":"mwoodman","date":"2008-08-20 15:46:16","summary":"Ever wanted to defragment a certain file or collection of files on your Windows PC, without defragging the entire hard drive? Here’s why and how you can do it:Don’t Bring Me DownI recently noticed that one of my oft-used Windows..."}

I happened across Jonathan Feinberg’s Wordle (”Beautiful Word Clouds”) visualization recently.  Pretty fun, but I instantly wanted a way to create one from an RSS feed. I didn’t see a way to do it, so I checked the FAQ...
Topics: ajax, applet, json, pipes, visualization, wordle

{"title":"Make a Word Cloud from your Feed","post_url":"http:\/\/techbrew.net\/articles\/200807\/make-a-wordle-from-your-feed\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/techbrew","author":"mwoodman","date":"2008-07-01 16:04:54","summary":"I happened across Jonathan Feinberg’s Wordle (”Beautiful Word Clouds”) visualization recently.\u00a0 Pretty fun, but I instantly wanted a way to create one from an RSS feed. I didn’t see a way to do it, so I checked the FAQ..."}