IAIS: Galileo Videolexikon Fraunhofer IAIS lieferte neben der Ausarbeitung der Projekt-Idee die nötige Technologie, um die große Menge an Galileo-Sendungen im Videolexikon ohne manuellen Aufwand durchsuchbar zu machen. Mittels Audio-Mining-Verfahren werden die Sendungen automatisch erschlossen. Eine Spracherkennungs-Software wandelt dazu den Audio-Kommentar der Clips zunächst in Text um. Anschließend extrahiert das System daraus relevante Schlagworte (‚Tags‘), die den Benutzern der Seite als Suchbegriffe vorgeschlagen werden. Der Benutzer kann die Suchbegriffe kombinieren, und wird so schrittweise zu dem Thema geführt, das ihn interessiert. Mit dem Launch der Seite lassen sich im Galileo Videolexikon zunächst die Sendungen, die seit 2008 im Fernsehen ausgestrahlt wurden, online durchsuchen.
The Best Free Software of 2012 For years, PCMag has brought you an ever-bigger, ever-better list of desktop software that will cost you absolutely nothing. As of last year, we shook things up a bit. Instead of an annual look at the best free software, we went monthly. Since software can cost thousands, you might wonder why and how you can score immensely useful programs for free. This happens for the very good business reason that developers often try to gain traction with the public by giving away their product, or at least a "lite" version of it, in the hope that you'll upgrade to a paid version. It's called the freemium model. We're throwing in all the worthy apps that run on Windows 7 and 8, the latest MacOS, and of course, the cloud-based Web apps that run in a browser like Chrome, Firefox, or IE to use anywhere. Look for a new category of free software titles every month. Topics from 2014:
Get Internet Access When Your Government Shuts It Down These days, no popular movement goes without an Internet presence of some kind, whether it's organizing on Facebook or spreading the word through Twitter. And as we've seen in Egypt, that means that your Internet connection can be the first to go. Whether you're trying to check in with your family, contact your friends, or simply spread the word, here are a few ways to build some basic network connectivity when you can't rely on your cellular or landline Internet connections. Do-It-Yourself Internet With Ad-Hoc Wi-Fi Even if you've managed to find an Internet connection for yourself, it won't be that helpful in reaching out to your fellow locals if they can't get online to find you. If you're trying to coordinate a group of people in your area and can't rely on an Internet connection, cell phones, or SMS, your best bet could be a wireless mesh network of sorts--essentially, a distributed network of wireless networking devices that can all find each other and communicate with each other.
www.cd3wd.com - alexweir1949 - cd3wd - High Quality Technical Development Info for the Third World - and the SEEV fraud-proof voting system for the Third World - last updated 2011/03 10 Useful Findings About How People View Websites Eyetracking and research have studied how people look at websites. Here are 10 useful findings you can use. 1. Top left corner gets the attention first When users land on your site, their eye path starts from the upper left corner, and moves on from there. According to this eyetracking study these areas get the most attention: Similar findings came from a study by Yahoo. Are you familiar with the Gutenberg diagram? Image credit The fourth, bottom right terminal area is where you should place your call to action. Designers can download a useful Gutenberg Diagram PSD overlay here. 2. Most people don’t read, but scan. Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read website content in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe. Image credit This is why you want your value proposition in the top and why your menu should be either top horizontal or on the left, vertical. How to design for F-patterns? A similar study called this the golden triangle. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Broken on Purpose: Why Getting It Wrong Pays More Than Getting It Right Many of us managing Facebook fan pages have noticed something strange over the last year: how our reach has gotten increasingly ineffective. How the messages we post seem to get fewer clicks, how each message is seen by only a fraction of our total “fans.” It’s no conspiracy. Facebook acknowledged it as recently as last week: messages now reach, on average, just 15 percent of an account’s fans. In a wonderful coincidence, Facebook has rolled out a solution for this problem: Pay them for better access. As their advertising head, Gokul Rajaram, explained, if you want to speak to the other 80 to 85 percent of people who signed up to hear from you, “sponsoring posts is important.” In other words, through “Sponsored Stories,” brands, agencies and artists are now charged to reach their own fans—the whole reason for having a page—because those pages have suddenly stopped working. This is a clear conflict of interest. It doesn’t end with Facebook, either.
Vorhilfe.de - Vorhilfe 10 Puzzle Websites to Sharpen Your Programming Skills - StumbleUpon Solving programming puzzles is a fun way to develop your logical and problem solving abilities. Also, when you’re familiarizing yourself with a new programming language, solving puzzles for that language can help speed up the learning process. Here are the top 10 popular programming puzzle sites that will help test your thinking and improve your programming, problem solving, and logical thinking skills. 1. Programming Praxis is a blog that includes a range of interesting problems with solutions usually available in several different programming languages. 2. CodeKata is a blog of programming puzzles written by Dave Thomas, who’s most famous for the groundbreaking book, Pragmatic Programmer. 3. TopCoder is an active programming community of developers who love to solve puzzles. 4. 5. Facebook has a collection of very challenging programming puzzles that–should you manage to solve them–could result in you getting a job at Facebook! 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 99 Prolog Problems * Bonus: Mind Cipher
Password Generator Using the same password for multiple email, shopping and social networking websites is risky, it means that a security breach at one website will compromise all your accounts, possibly even leading to identity theft. So, the idea is that you memorise just one, reasonably long/secure master password and use that to generate a set of non-dictionary passwords. Copy and paste the new password(s) into the website and set your web browser to remember them. All the websites get different passwords, but you only have to remember one! Using a different PC? For any website that's not on the list, just type the name into the 'Custom' box (the last one in the list) and press Generate. This password generator works using Javascript, entirely within the page, no data is ever passed back to my server. Credits Simon Sheppard, Sept 2016
wdwip.tv 20 Useful OS X Tips Because we are all different, operating system developers always put more than one way of doing things in their systems. One example is there’s often keyboard shortcuts, menus and toolbars in applications for doing the same thing. Consequently, it’s very easy to get into the habit of doing things a particular way without ever learning other ways. Hopefully for the average user there might be at least one tip here that you weren’t aware of and that will be useful to you. By the way, if you have a single button mouse, where it says “right click”, substitute with “control-click” . 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. The Option key is a hidden treasure trove. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Now, if you are like “The Hackmeister of OS X”, rather than scoffing, let us know a few of your favorite lesser known tips.
AncientX.com - Ancient Astronauts, Planet X, Nibiru, NASA, Jason Martell's Research Dan Rodney's List of Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts & Keystrokes For years I’ve collected these keystrokes. I hope they help you become the power user that lies within. I have tested them on Mac OS X El Capitan, but most should work on older versions of Mac OS (such as Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion). After macOS Sierra comes out I will update as needed! Menu Symbols Finder App Switcher Managing Windows & Dialogs Dock Dashboard Working with Text Only work in some apps (Safari, Mail, TextEdit, etc.) Screenshots Saved to the Desktop as a PNG file. Spotlight Mission Control Startup, Restart, Shutdown & Sleep Safari Apple Mail Preview Miscellaneous Emacs Key Bindings Only work in some apps (Safari, Mail, TextEdit, etc.)