Category Archives: Software

Random notes

Posted on May 15, 2008 by acb

Everything seems to be running fine to judge from the error logs: a few robots complaining that they find themselves hors texte, a place that structuralists believed could not exist; I have meanwhile been running around when not writing nonsense … Continue reading →

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Ultimate procrastination

Posted on November 20, 2007 by acb

Thanks to John Naughton I have just stumbled upon a site which appears to list every public or semi-public talk being given in or around Cambridge University. It is a glorious searchable toyshop of interesting ideas and almost the best … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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I hate software (rollup post)

Posted on August 18, 2007 by acb

# I was trying to install the Flickr plugin for MT and got a message about being out of disk space. It turns out that in two months, *220 MB* of spam had silted up in the inbox where I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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It had (haved?) to come

Posted on May 29, 2007 by acb

bq. LOLCODE is a much better language than Ruby, and so we need to work hard to make LOLCODE ON MONORAIL the standard web development language! For a stunning example of what can be done with this almost completely natural … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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An unusual software plug

Posted on April 16, 2005 by acb

I’ve said this before, but “Abby FineReader”:http://www.abbyy.com/finereader_ocr/ is the best 70 Euros I have ever spent on software and proof that the stuff built in Russia is much better than its American rivals. I am using it this afternoon to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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too clever by half

Posted on April 8, 2005 by acb

I wasted five minutes this morning trying to get the “RSS feed”:http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/election2005/atom.xml from the _Guardian’s_ election blog working in Opera. The icon was there, but nothing I tried seemed to subscribe me. I dragged, I dropped, I clicked and control-keyed. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A wonderful discovery

Posted on February 18, 2005 by acb

I have been completely overwhelmed by “Picasa.”:http://www.picasa.com/index.php Once upon a time, I played solitaire when I was on the phone, to keep the rest of my mind bubbling along. Now I fool with my picture library, straightening them out and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A neat gimmick

Posted on January 23, 2005 by acb

“Yahoo Desktop search”:http://desktop.yahoo.com/ is elegant. It’s not perfect, but it’s very quick, and has important advantages over Google’s. It doesn’t rely on IE; it can be tweaked to search openoffice files and display their context in plain text — actually … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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an awful warning

Posted on December 13, 2004 by acb

Adobe Acrobat 3.whatever for the palm is a horrible piece of software. I have been trying an ebook in Adobe DRM format. It has one good point: you can shift the book and its activation between computers. But on a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Ecco open sourced?

Posted on December 7, 2004 by acb

I can hardly believe this, but one of the most original and useful programs of the last fifteen years may finally be “available for improvement.”:http://www.compusol.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl for some time now Ecco has been given away free as a donwloadable binary, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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