Stories
Understanding how the federal government spends our money is on all of our minds, especially this time of year. I recently pulled out an old tool I build last year to visual the State of Oregon spending, and reworked it to help visualize Obamas 2012 Federal Budget. I wanted to set what my priorities were regarding the federal budget. I'm not 100% finished, s...
Using the Google Docs List API you can convert high-resolution PDFs or images into editable text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
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I spent some time this evening researching file size limitations for Google Docs. Here is what I found:
Documents - 512,000 characters, regardless of the number of pages or font size. Uploaded document files that are converted to Google documents format can't be larger than 1MB.
Spreadshe...
Google is partnering with the Czech National Library to digitize up to 200,000 works from the historical collection dating back to the 11th c...
Google Docs Listing API provides document translation at file upload.
When upload a document you can enable document translation with the following parameters:
targetLanguage=x
sourceLanguage=y
Google can also autodetect the source...
It makes me hopeful to see the top news stories are protests in Libya, Wisconsin, and China. The world is on fire.
Most of the time I feel pretty powerless when it comes to politics in our country. As I see it I have two ways to express myself:
Voting
Taxes
Voting always feels like I'm forced to pick the lesser of two evils. Very rarely do I ever have positive...
Amazon made some more tweaks to Amazon S3 that make it even easier to host your entire static web site at Amazon S3
I haven't seen much movement forward in the e-commerce / payment services space for a few years now. Granted there are a lot of players in this space, but nothing that has been game changing.
Setting up a site for e-commerce has always taken time. Its not a quick process. Paypal has made most of the advances in this space, but it still can take several hours to get up and going with their Paypal basic, and could be days to get up an...
Google launched a powerful new big data visualization tool today. The Google Public Data Explorer allows users to upload their own datasets for visualization and exploration.
Jasondb is a cloud-based, RESTful JSON database designed to replace MySQL as the database in traditional web development
Jasondb persists the data in the same JSO...
Paper.li is a Software as a Service (SaaS) that organizes links shared on Twitter and Facebook into a newspaper-style format.
In 2007 the popular statue Rodin's Thinker was stolen from the Singer Laren museum and damaged whi...
I'm learning more about distributed technologies like TeleHash and Kademlia and matching with other wireless infrastructure knowledge I have. Telling in fictional stories helps me apply and understand in my brain. Here is one story from Egypt.
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Next I wanted to merge my Polaroid Photo Layout in CSS with my images from Flickr with Zend.
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I’m learning more about distributed technologies like TeleHash and Kademlia and matching with other wireless infrastructure knowledge I have. Telling in fictional stories helps me apply and understand in my brain. Here is one story from Egypt. 
This code sample is something you can find easily on the Internet, but I want to include it in my series about creating a photo book with Flickr.
Its easy to pull photos from Flickr, all you need is a Flickr API<...
I just made the upgrade from my IPhone 3GS to IPhone 4. I 've been waiting because it is really a luxury, not a need.
However my IPhone is getting slower and kinlane-productions2ally keeping me from doing work.
I chose not to have the store transfer my data, I enjoy doing myself and rewiring my world. Finding new ways of doing things if poss...
We think the hackathons that we do in Silicon Valley are intense, checkout this photo from Egypt.
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I love the central role computers, mobile phones, Internet and electricity plays in shaping the world!
