Monthly Archives: August 2006

Open source OCR in the wild

About as sexy as an eye exam, but damn, this technology is difficult to get right. So yesterday Google announced the open sourcing of Tesseract OCR, character/text-recognition software it developed back in the 80′s that it claims is better than most of the open source alternatives (I’d believe that) but not quite as good as [...]

Speed up WordPress with NoPingWait

It’s been a huge mystery for the past 6 months. I figured it was either TextDrive or something else I’d done to make blogging to FactoryCity so painfully slow (something invisible to everyone but me). But, after stumbling upon a great list of plugins (via Digg) I discovered a plugin called NoPingWait that solves the [...]

CanUX 2006

Thought I’d pass this along (like Tara has) since two of our friends, (Kevin Cheng and David Crow) are involved: CanUX 2006, the Canadian User Experience workshop, is rapidly approaching. Held in Banff, we’re bringing in a set of industry leading speakers. Because CanUX is a grassroots event, it’s an amazing deal – only a [...]