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Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags.

LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL.

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from Ask a Mathematician / Ask a Physicist http://www.askamathematician.com by The Physicist

from zenhabits http://zenhabits.net by Leo

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Jint is a script engine based on the Javascript language. Using Jint, developers can provide fully scriptable applications, execute .NET code without compiling, or create external configuration logic, using the most used script language.

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from The View from Hell http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/ by Sister Y

Apart from two specialized document clustering algorithms, Carrot2 offers ready-to-use components for fetching search results from various sources including GoogleAPI, Bing API, eTools Meta Search, Lucene, SOLR, and more.

from The View from Hell http://theviewfromhell.blogspot.com/ by Sister Y

I know people that are great at starting projects, they are always on to something new and great. But it's not the same 'new and great' thing they were doing last week, they already lost interest because the 'hard' parts are finished and so they've moved on to the next challenge.

Never mind that nothing ever gets finished that way!

Then there is the architect. Definitely not a person to get dirty hands from dealing with the implementation of the lofty goals laid down in design specifications. At least 3 levels removed from any production problems.

The debugger couldn't be paid enough money to start from a blank page in order to get something new started. But throw him or her a hard-to-fix bug that has already stumped half the company and sure enough the fire starts to burn and the lights will be on at the office until the bug is squashed, no matter what it takes.

And finally, the finisher. The person that crosses every t and dots every i in order to get the last 10% (or is that 90?) of a project done.

The Rescue Remix provides a Free-Libre Open-Source data recovery software toolkit based on Ubuntu

from 1.00 FTE http://onefte.com by stuart

Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.

ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

Design View / Andy Rutledge - Gestalt Principles of Perception: 1 - Figure Ground Relationships

The goal of preparing wireframes is to solve design challenges regarding layout, and priority. This is usually done in wireframes through experimenting with layouts and the application of contrast, similarity and some other principles.

There is a simple solution: amend patent legislation such that no patent licenses have to be obtained solely for the purpose of compatibility. No patent licence should be required by law if a technology is used solely to enable communication with another information-technology product. I believe this would eliminate instantly the enormous threat that patents now pose to the progress of standardization and improved interoperability in our networked information society, without imposing unrealistic expectations on the process of examining and granting patents.

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Splinter is an open source tool for testing web applications using Python. It lets you automate browser actions, such as visiting URLs and interacting with their items.

gleeBox is an experimental project that takes a keyboard-centric approach to navigating the web. It provides alternatives to actions that are traditionally performed via the mouse. Some of these are radically more efficient than using a mouse, some not so much. In all cases, they are mostly meant for keyboard and command line lovers.

Ghostery sees the invisible web - tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.

Switching grocery lines, carrying an umbrella, talking out loud about a possible no-hitter in baseball—a sense of jinxing things arises because when negative possibilities come to mind, they seem more likely

from DOGHOUSE http://thedoghousediaries.com by doghouse

In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps that:

Use declarative formats for setup automation, to minimize time and cost for new developers joining the project;
Have a clean contract with the underlying operating system, offering maximum portability between execution environments;
Are suitable for deployment on modern cloud platforms, obviating the need for servers and systems administration;
Minimize divergence between development and production, enabling continuous deployment for maximum agility;
And can scale up without significant changes to tooling, architecture, or development practices.

Contact any business leader or innovator. Get a guaranteed response.

from Elezea http://www.elezea.com by Rian

from DOGHOUSE http://thedoghousediaries.com by doghouse

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A random collection of CSS examples and some help in using them.

In order to develop Git for Windows, these volunteers rely on a build environment that is based on the MSys/MinGW project. To sort out the confusion revolving around the naming scheme, let's have a look at this table:

The primary goal of eclim is to bring Eclipse functionality to the Vim editor. The initial goal was to provide Eclipse’s java functionality in vim, but support for various other languages (c/c++, php, python, ruby, css, html, xml, etc.) have been added and several more are planned.

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

from Say No To Life http://saynotolife.blogspot.com/ by Karl

Onion Browser is a minimal web browser that encrypts and tunnels web traffic through the Tor onion router network and provides other tools to help browse the internet while maintaining privacy.

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Veusz is a GUI scientific plotting and graphing package. It is designed to produce publication-ready Postscript or PDF output

It's important for programmers to challenge themselves.
Creative and technical stagnation is the only alternative.
In the spirit of the new year, I've compiled twelve month-sized resolutions.

Each month is an annually renewable technical or personal challenge:

Go analog.
Stay healthy.
Embrace the uncomfortable.
Learn a new programming language.
Automate.
Learn more mathematics.
Focus on security.
Back up your data.
Learn more theory.
Engage the arts and humanities.
Learn new software.
Complete a personal project.

All IT systems at some point in their lifecycle need to consider non-functional requirements and their testing. For some projects these requirements warrant extensive work and for other project domains a quick check through may be sufficient. As a minimum, the following list can be a helpful reminder to ensure you have covered the basics. Based on your own project characteristics, I would recommend the topics are converted into SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realisable, Timeboxed / Traceable) requirements with the detail and rigour appropriate to your project.

Cython is a language that makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python itself. Cython is based on the well-known Pyrex, but supports more cutting edge functionality and optimizations.

palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware made a list of the biggest regrets of the dying. Her list seems plausible. I could see myself—can see myself—making at least 4 of these 5 mistakes.

If you had to compress them into a single piece of advice, it might be: don't be a cog. The 5 regrets paint a portrait of post-industrial man, who shrinks himself into a shape that fits his circumstances, then turns dutifully till he stops.

The alarming thing is, the mistakes that produce these regrets are all errors of omission. You forget your dreams, ignore your family, suppress your feelings, neglect your friends, and forget to be happy. Errors of omission are a particularly dangerous type of mistake, because you make them by default.

I would like to avoid making these mistakes. But how do you avoid mistakes you make by default? Ideally you transform your life so it has other defaults. But it may not be possible to do that completely. As long as these mistakes happen by default, you probably have to be reminded not to make them. So I inverted the 5 regrets, yielding a list of 5 commands
Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.
which I then put at the top of the file I use as a todo list.

Turns program output into a rainbow