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

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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

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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

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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

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A video demonstration of software is often far better than static screenshots, and is often more convenient to distribute than arranging for a live demo. This tutorial will show you how easy it is to record a video “screencast” of most...
Topics: screencast, software, video, windows media encoder, wme

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