Month: December 2010

Weekly Lifestream for December 27th

Reading Time: 3 minutes Posted Weekly Lifestream for December 19th. Shared » SaltyDroid vs. WikiLeaks. Shared 4-Hour Body – Six Minute Abs. Shared A Graph Processing Stack |. Shared Raising money for a hackable, open hardware-based USB protocol analyzer – Boing Boing. Shared ‘Taxi’ Actress Marilu Henner Has Super-Rare Autobiographical Memory Ability | PopEater.com. Shared XBoot Creates Your Own…
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Weekly Lifestream for December 19th

Reading Time: 2 minutes Posted Weekly Lifestream for December 12th. Shared Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America | Threat Level | Wired.com. Shared Open Source Digital Forensics. Posted Learning Faster – Automatically Extract Highlighted Text from PDF Documents. Shared Yawas – Yet Another Web Annotation System, Firefox and Google Chrome Extension to Highlight Web Pages.

Learning Faster – Automatically Extract Highlighted Text from PDF Documents

Reading Time: 8 minutes Overview I never really considered myself a “highlighter” until a couple years ago.  Back in school I would, on occasion, highlight some interesting passages while doing homework or reading books and jot them down later.  More often then not though many of those highlights would go to waste.  After all, what good are highlighting interesting…
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Weekly Lifestream for December 12th

Reading Time: 2 minutes Posted Weekly Lifestream for December 5th. Shared PDF Document Inspector. Shared Scraping pdf annotations. Shared webtest: com.canoo.webtest.plugins.pdftest.htmlunit.pdfbox.PdfBoxPDFPage.java. Shared UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. Shared assertTrue( ): A workaround for Acrobat JavaScript’s lack of a Selection API. Shared Law Offices of Michael Tracy. Shared Creating Shazam in Java – Redcode. Shared Patent infringement – Redcode. Shared…
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Weekly Lifestream for December 5th

Reading Time: 4 minutes Posted Weekly Lifestream for November 28th. Shared Adobe PDF Reference Archives | Adobe Developer Connection. Shared Sonar. Shared Denis Papathanasiou» Blog Archive » Extracting Text & Images from PDF Files. Shared Poppler. Shared how to extract word coordinates from PDF – Mombu the Computer Design Forum. Shared PDFMiner. Shared Innate Numbers? – Radiolab. Shared How…
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