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cope - a command-line program colouriser
by karlcow
cope is a wrapper around programs that output to a terminal, to give them colour for utility and aesthetics while still keeping them the same at the text level.
A Central Nervous System for Earth: HP's Ambitious Sensor Network
by karlcow
HP Labs has joined the race to build an infrastructure for the emerging Internet of Things. The giant computing and IT services company has announced a project that aims to be a "Central Nervous System for the Earth" (CeNSE). It's a research and development program to build a planetwide sensing network, using billions of "tiny, cheap, tough and exquisitely sensitive detectors."
November 2009
How to Use DVD Shrink - Quick, easy-to-use guide for those unfamiliar with the DVD Shrink program.
by decembre
Recently, compressed domain transcoders have reached quite some popularity. These transcoders are based on algorithms designed to recompress an MPEG-2 stream in real-time for TV broadcast. These programs can transcode an entire DVD movie in only a few minutes, because they do not have to decode and re-encode the entire video stream, but only part of it. I will not go into a detailed explanation of the mechanisms used as they are quite involved but basically what you get is a size (and hence quality) reduction per time unit that cannot be rivaled by regular MPEG-2 encoders (though the latter category can yield better quality). DVD2One was the first program to be based on these principles, now DVD Shrink is the first free program to offer this functionality.
Sen:te - Goban
by Neewok
Use Goban to play the game of go against the program. Play with people on the Internet go servers or your local network. Observe live pro and amateur games on IGS, the Internet Go Server. Review and analyze games. Browse through joseki or fuseki libraries... Goban is a powerful, simple, fast go board for Mac OS X. Like Hikaru and Sai, use a Mac to play go!
Te Tuhi Video Game Machine
by ycc2106
This program turns still pictures into video games. It is free software, licensed under the GPL (version 2 or greater), and written primarily in Python and C
Scratch | Home | imagine, program, share
by ycc2106
& 9 others
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
Password Assistant | codepoetry
by rmaltete
(via)
Password Assistant simply calls the Mac OS X Password Assistant dialog on demand. If you close the window, just choose File → New Window (CMD-N) to get it back (or reopen the program).
Zcapes - Home
by ycc2106
example:A Zcape is a page someone built for an event or an object. Lets say it's the Zcape for people watching America's Next Top Model in the Netherlands . On this Zcape you wil find that people are posting their messages about what they think about the program. Also there is a filter on what people are saying on Twitter about the program. And there is a voting box about which model will leave in the next show. Thats it.
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October 2009
unum - Interconvert numbers, Unicode, and HTML/XHTML characters
by ycc2106
unum, a stand-alone utility program written in portable Perl which allows you to look up Unicode and HTML characters by name or number, and interconvert numbers in decimal, hexadecimal, and octal bases.
Scopus API: Home
by parmentierf
(via)
The Scopus Application Program Interface (API) enables you to search
the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and
quality web sources.
You can select Scopus data elements and create your own mashups.
The API returns Scopus data in a format that is easily integrated into
an application or your web site.
Computer Programming - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
by marco
"In Soviet Russia, computers program YOU!" ~ Russian reversal on computer programming
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Threads at daniel shiffman
by karlcow
Threading
We’re quite familiar with the idea of writing a program that follows a specific sequence of steps as outlined in, say, a main() function. A Thread is also a series of steps with a beginning, a middle, and an end. A thread’s sequence, however, can run independently of the main program. In fact, we can launch any number of threads at one time and they will all run concurrently. Visit the Java site for a more involved explanation.
This is incredibly useful when it comes to data mining, as we can have separate threads retrieving different pieces of information from the network. If one gets stuck or has an error, the entire program won’t grind to a halt, since the error only stops that individual thread. To create independent, asynchronous threads, we simply extend the Thread class.
technobabbler » Blog Archive » drive a webcam with python
by karlcow
I bought a USB webcam off of eBay quite some time ago, and I decided to connect it to my telescope with a little bit of hardware hackery. I'll have to see about posting a writeup on how I did that at a later time. Anyway, when I installed my camera software, I quickly found how horrible the program was. It gave a tiny preview of what the camera saw, and had no way of capturing images or video without waaaay too many clicks of the mouse. That's when I decided to write my own in Python.
Doug Hellmann: PyMOTW: resource - System resource management
by karlcow
Manage the system resource limits for a Unix program.
Linguistic Tree Constructor: LTC
by m.meixide
LTC is a free program for building linguistic syntax trees from text.
The user points and clicks their way to a syntactic analysis.
LTC is intended for quickly producing syntactic analyses of large amounts of text (think 100,000-200,000 words, or more).
The program does no analysis on its own. The user is completely free to draw the tree however he or she wishes. However, the program makes sure that the tree is a tree and not some other kind of graph.
MyCast your digital media with Orb 2.0 remote pc access software
by ycc2106
& 1 other
Orb is an free file sharing program that allows you to share all of your stuff over the internet. All that needs to be done on your home computer is install the program and a simple indexing of your files. It’s evident you’ll want to monitor the latter – you don’t want all of your personal stuff to wind up on the internet. Once that’s done, you can access the data from any computer or other device with an internet connection.
AutoHotkey - Free Mouse and Keyboard Macro Program with Hotkeys and AutoText
by ycc2106
AutoHotkey unleashes the full potential of your keyboard, joystick, and mouse. For example, in addition to the typical Control, Alt, and Shift modifiers, you can use the Windows key and the Capslock key as modifiers. In fact, you can make any key or mouse button act as a modifier. For these and other capabilities, see Advanced Hotkeys.
Headsprout: launch Mousing Around program
by ycc2106
Flash mouse english understanding simple words (not, first, second, last...)
September 2009
Appulous : The iPhone and iPod Touch Application Index
by sbrothier
& 3 others
As many iPhone and iPod touch owners have discovered, Apple's iTunes App Store has many flaws which render it useless to the common user. Apple has chosen to allow a multitude of ridiculous, worthless, poorly-represented applications through its "strict" screening process, nearly all written by mediocre programmers with a dream of getting rich quick. Many of these programmers game the reviews system, misrepresent their application in the description, and generally try to swindle the honest buyer. Applications generally do not cost much, but small fees add up. The iPhone/iPod community has wasted so much money on these programs, an epidemic has taken hold where people have simply stopped buying apps they aren't certain of so they don't find themselves purchasing yet another waste of a program.
Processing 1.0
by ycc2106
& 41 others
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain. Processing is free to download and available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Please help to release the next version!
MusicBrainz
by rmaltete
& 29 others
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections. Find out more in the introduction.
Xparameter - Faire un scan des tous vos fichiers vidéos - TUTO - Module films : Xlobby et Ant Movie Catalog (AMC)
by decembre
Utiliser Xparameter qui est un module qui permet de faire un scan des tous vos fichiers vidéos, afin de les importer correctement dans antmoviecatalog. Celà vous évitera de rentrer les noms des films un à un, ce qui serait franchement long avec une grosse collection.Ce module permet de scanner les films sur un ou plusieurs répertoires (aussi bien les réseaux) afin de créer une base de donnée (sous format Xml, codé en iso-8859-1) compatible pour AMC. de quoi ai-je besoin pour faire marcher tout çà? De rien! Vous devez juste avoir installé le dernier pack Xlobby. Pour plus de transparence, voici ce qu'il contient pour les films: -Xlobby bien entendu avec un skin FR compatible (Xmedia2+games) -Ant movie Catalog et son fichier movies.amc contenant votre base de donnée. Ce dernier se trouve dans C:\Program Files\Ant Movie Catalog\Catalogs\movies.amc -Xparameter pour l'import massif de films dans amc
