Monthly Archives: November 2009

Scanning Documents: Lessons Learned

By Peter Backx | Published: November 27, 2009
In a bit of continuity, I actually installed Ocropus and tried it out. Turns out, this really is beta software. There were a few too many loose nuts and bolts and I ended up going for a double headed VueScan and Evernote approach. Ocropus itself takes bitmaps as input and does not do the actual scanning. [...]
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TV Guide for the Internet, Clicker

By Peter Backx | Published: November 24, 2009
Clicker’s goal is a big one: trying to aggregate all sources of online video and showing you what is good, what is hot and what you should watch. Basically, a TV guide for the video content available on the Internet. Now, that’s certainly not an easy thing to do. There are millions of video’s available and [...]
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Discovering Clojure and Compojure at Devoxx 2009 and its Twitter Stream

By Peter Backx | Published: November 20, 2009
By the time you read this, Devoxx 2009 will be almost over. Another year of talks on all things related to Java. A great moment every year to discover new technology, rekindle with old colleagues and get inspired. This year I took my iPod Touch with me and tried to Tweet a little, when the [...]
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State of the Net 2009

By Peter Backx | Published: November 17, 2009
This post aggregates some general thoughts I’ve been having on the state of the Internet. I’ve been missing the authentic personal page. Are those gone, or have they simply become impossible to find? Remember Geocities, Fortunecity, where there other cities? It appears most of those free web hosts have either disappeared or have adopted a paying [...]
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Scanning Documents is Only Step One of Moving to a Paperless Office

By Peter Backx | Published: November 13, 2009
The paperless office seems like the nirvana of any minimalist. The total lack of paper on my desk and the ability to use file drawers for more interesting stuff, has appealed to me for a long time. But I have been held back by many worries, most importantly is how to store all this information [...]
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Theme Tester Wordpress Plugin for Live Theme Previews

By Peter Backx | Published: November 10, 2009
If your a Wordpress admin, how do you test your new or updated theme? If you’re anything like me, you have a local Wordpress installation to test the big changes and do the small things live on the blog (although you know you really shouldn’t). Well, there is a better solution and it’s called Theme [...]
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Chup, Platform Puzzler, Wonderfully Oldskool

By Peter Backx | Published: November 6, 2009
Another one of JayIsGames discoveries. This wonderfully simple game, called Chup. It’s a puzzle game disguised in an oldskool platform look. It has charm by the boatloads. When the chiptune music starts, you know it’s going to be fun. Don’t let yourself be distracted by the screen shots, you need to experience the simplicity of [...]
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Evolution in UX Design: Horizontal Layout

By Peter Backx | Published: November 3, 2009
I’m not sure what has happened lately, but it seems a new hype in user interface design has arrived: sorting the different windows horizontally. Let me give you a few examples. First there is the new Evernote: Now I love Evernote and this 3.5 version of their Windows client is a huge improvement over any previous one. [...]
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