Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
Monday, November 19th, 2007
A small project that I have been working on for a while is now public. It is intended to reprint public domain books from the Internet Archive via on demand printing technology. Here is how it works:
1. You request any public domain book from the Internet Archive.
2. The book is processed and submitted to Lulu, a no upfront fee print on demand company.
3. You can order the printed book from Lulu at cost (almost, a small under $1 fee
is surcharged to cover cost of conversion servers rented from Amazon EC2).
The project is called "Public Domain Books Reprints Service" and can ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
My company just redid our site - it is very minimalistic. Check it out at www.solidmatrix.com. We are also launching our product into alpha - Emerald CRM at www.emeraldcrm.com. It is a web based software system for managing small business, especially service businesses. It covers scheduling, billing and customer management. ...
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
About two years ago I coded a small experimental search engine for books which used Ajax and Amazon web services. Recently, I went back to the same concept and put up a new experiment - a meta search engine for book information that aggregates book data from about 60 different ...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
For a while I have been working on a hobby project trying to make a meta-search engine that you can use to search multiple search engines by tag. The catch? No server side components. This search engine works client side only from the user's browser by using RSS feeds from ...
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Friday, November 17th, 2006
After reading this gushing Techcrunch post on how good Wink's new people search feature is (it searchs all of three networks!), I decided to see if I can do the same via Google's new Custom Search Engine service. The result which can be tried below, is a new project: www.socialpeople.net ...
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Following a comment on this post I hacked up an unofficial RSS feed for Kashrus Alerts. This is done via scraping this web page at Kashrut.com. The feed is here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/KashrutDotComKosherAlerts
It contains alerts from all major agencies around the world.
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
(This is a followup on an earlier post about availability of GPS info on Sprint PCS's CDMA network)
Recently I had a short email exchange with someone at Sprint about obtaining access to their LBS information for the use in my company's products. My company targets a small vertical niche market ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
A recent problem that I have been having is the need to constantly monitor security advisories for the software I use on this site, my personal computers and the servers at work. So far I have been doing that by reading CERT's twice-a-month Security Bulletins and SANS's twice-a-week RISK newsletters. ...
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
I took a little time today to add support for the following to the SingleSub project:
FeedBlitz
Google Reader
NewsIsFree
Squeet
(For those wondering, SingleSub is my little project that allows to use a single RSS subscribe button to subscribe to multiple readers)
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2005
I just put up a new website offering free searches and access to resources for those who study the traditional texts of Judaism. The site uses OPML and opml2search tool.
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