Category: Web/Tech
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Followup on PowerGramo (voice recording for Skype)
I’ve had a chance to try out PowerGramo (Skype voice recorder for Windows) and it sounds incredible! It starts recording as soon as the call is initiated – you have the option of turning it off right away, but this is a nice feature as you don’t have to remember to turn it on. Of…
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More RSS to voice
Strange, I’m honestly not even looking for these things, and already I’ve tripped across another RSS – voice/podcast service. This one’s called Feed2Podcast, and it features a male robot voice instead of a female one like Talkr uses. Again, it’s pretty decent, and if you want to, you can subscribe to my male robot podcast…
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Podcasting with The Distant Librarian (sorta)
This is a little experiment. I just found a service called Talkr that will take any RSS feed and turn the text into an mp3 file, read by a nice robot female voice. It’s surprisingly good! Not only can you give them an RSS feed to turn into mp3s, but I can, and have, given…
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Skype Recording
Will Richardson at Weblogg-ed posts about Skype Recording using a free plugin called PowerGramo. Not a single one of my Skype contacts has signed in this AM so I haven’t tested it, but it seems pretty straightforward. As per usual, it only works on WinXP and Win2K, sorry Macfans 🙁 Will raves about it, and…
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HarperCollins Plans to Control Its Digital Books
I wonder if they’re going to ask permission of all their authors first 😉 Seriously though, as long as this collection is openly available to the standard search engines I think this is a great idea that they’re taking matters into their own hands. Said the HarperCollins CEO "We didn’t like being seen as Luddites,"…
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Triangulation 1: Google Print
One of my favourite podcasts is Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech (TWiT). Very high production values and good, current topics. Leo and John C. Dvorak (not my favourite) have started a new podcast called Triangulation, in which they have three experts (presumably they will always be two of the three?) discuss a given topic. …
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Recordings of The Battle Over Books now available
As reported on BoingBoing, here’s where you can get the .mp3 or .mov (as a torrent) of the Battle over Books debate on the Google Book Search project that was held Nov 17th at NYPL. I don’t recall hearing any buzz after the event, so am looking forward to listening.
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PubMed Search Result RSS Feeds
This has probably been mentioned before, but I don’t recall seeing it. Just logged on to PubMed and was greeted with this very obvious and cool announcement:
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Amazon Tag Cloud
Hey, Amazon does tag clouds (aka concordance) – I hadn’t seen this before! (click for full size). Interesting text stats too…
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Free RSS to JavaScript Service
RSS-to-JavaScript.com appears to be a good alternative to Alan Levine’s Feed2JS service. Both of these allow you to repurpose an RSS feed in the style of your choosing simply by inserting a small snippet of javascript and some CSS code (both generated by these services) into your website. RSS-to-JavaScript.com also has a nifty little animated…