It has been a long time coming, but the Java library for RSS and Atom utilities called ROME has finally made it to version 1.0 (changelog). Thanks to all of the contributers and the hard work on the dev team for making it possible!   New to ROME? For a quick tutorial on how to [...]

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Fox News has an “Automatic Transcription” feature for its videos.  The disclaimer of “may not be 100% accurate” is understated by 95%.  Here’s the presidential oath of Barak Obama, the way their transcription software heard it: “I. — Barack Hussein Obama I solemnly swear Barack Hussein Obama do solemnly swear. That I will execute the [...]

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Ever wanted to defragment a certain file or collection of files on your Windows PC, without defragging the entire hard drive? Here’s why and how you can do it: Don’t Bring Me Down I recently noticed that one of my oft-used Windows applications was getting slower and slower. After checking the usual suspects in Task [...]

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