You can check it out here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tesseract-ocr Tesseract is a tool HP released a while ago for recognizing text within images. I just compiled and ran it. Seems cool but only works with tiff files and so far I’ve only gotten it working with their sample included file. Using Ubuntu and with the standard GCC [...]
Many of you probably know about the leaked aol searches that happened a while ago. Besides being completely hilarious they also made people aware of the fact that search engines store all your search results, being logged in to the services makes it all the easier for them too. So to alleviate that at least [...]
So I finally learned cURL well enough to make Letmeparty.com decent at posting MySpace blog entries through the SMS system. It is free as always but not extensively tested, so any and all feedback is of course appreciated! I hope you enjoy it.
As many of you may be aware, TextAmerica.com plans to shut down its free service accounts and wants to hold your pictures hostage. Starting July 1st, you will have to sign up by paying $99/year and they provided no way to retrieve your pictures if you decide to cancel the account. So being a nice [...]
I just made a small site during my spring break that allows people to post to their blogs via SMS text messaging. You add your blogs to the site along with your phone number and when you send an SMS to the special number, it posts that message to all your blogs! Check it out [...]
After much frustration and headbanging, our university’s LUG (Linux Users Group) got our university’s wifi working on Linux! For a long time, we were able to authenticate our accounts in its Radius server using wpa_supplicant but just could not get the DHCP to release an IP to either dhclient or dhcpcd. Well finally Roberto tried [...]
I just recently put together a little script that will check an email address for incoming MMS (picture messages) and post them to a vBulletin thread. It is based off the work of a great script by Adrian Heydecker (http://wavestyle.ch) that h e made for the WordPress blog. I hacked it up for vBulletin. It [...]
Well I’ve decided to go back to the basics: PHP and MySQL. Ruby on Rails was just too confusing for me and I wasn’t prepared to learn an entirely new language + framework to do the same things I can already do much easier in PHP. Sorry RoR, there are a lot of cool things [...]