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AvantGo is AvantGone

Posted by admin on June 2nd, 2009

AvantGo, the once ubiquitous application for all PDAs, is shutting down its web sync service.  Users of the service have just begun to see banners stating, “Starting June 30, Avantgo will no longer offer mobile web content.” With modern wireless networks and browsers built in to new smartphones, the on device browser just couldn’t meet [...]

Yahoo SearchMonkey

Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2008

Yahoo has published another tool in their series of open technologies called SearchMonkey.  The principle is that website owners can create a “data service” that runs an XSLT on their site output and then pipe it to a “presentation application” that produces a custom L&F for search results relating to your site.

OCR with Tesseract

Posted by admin on May 13th, 2008

Optical Character Recognition is one of those technologies that has been around for a long time and never quite met customer demands. This is a common AI application, but I thought I’d see what’s currently available publicly instead of trying to write my own from scratch. The primary options I found were PHPOCR, [...]