Paul Stretch is a piece of open source software capable of extreme time stretching a piece of music. It creates amazing euphoric style music from the most mundane of pop. Here you’ll see samples and a howto to get your started stretching your own tracks.
Paul Stretch download
stretched Bieber song on SoundCloud
Howto make your own Paul Stretch tracks
Thanks to Nasca Octavian Paul and some experimental 800% stretching of music tracks a new music genre is being born. Or that’s the buzz as I’m writing this. Alternate link for stretched Bieber song originally on SoundCloud.
Paul Stretch software itself is solely for extreme stretching of audio tracks, it adds some smoothing algorithms to turn what would otherwise be lumpy mess into what can be a most amazingly euphoric sounding seascape of musical symphony.
Justin Bieber? For real?
Sometimes verging on cacophony but overall sounding like a back drop of long echoing female-vocal calls with synth like cymbals and crashing waves Justin Bieber’s “U Smile” at 800%. You can try it at SoundCloud where this 35minute track is being featured.
Make your own stretched audio tracks
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Reducing HTTP requests by combining CSS files.
@media in CSS
how to combine CSS files
So Google suggests to me that I combine my CSS files to save HTTP requests. How to do that?
Joining print and normal stylesheets
It’s quite easy when you have separate stylesheets (CSS) for print and regular styles to combine them into a single CSS file. This would work for other @media [media] sections too like mobile.css files. Here’s an example cropped from a live site:
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Quick how-to, or at least how-I, for upgrading the Silverstripe open source CMS. Oh, one minor grip … it didn’t work FIXED.
Silverstrip CMS upgrade (FAIL FIXED)
Backup
Of course you keep up to date backups so it goes without saying. But just in case you lose today’s data you should first backup your database and your web-root to. I simple downloaded the whole of my Silverstripe web-root to my local machine (using FTP with the Krusader application). Then I logged into my hosts admin pages and used phpMyAdmin to run a dump of my database (“Export” it’s called).
As I’m a belt-and-braces kinda guy I also used my hosts backup system (via Plesk Control Panel) to take a full domain backup whilst I was in a backing up sort of mood.
Purge
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First thoughts on new internet access speeds provided by fibre-to-the-premises. This is an enlarged version of a submission to HN.
Incredible download speeds
Dialup to broadband
The move from dialup rates of 28.8kbs to ADSL (broadband) rates of 2Mbps changed the internet experience markedly from being largely static to allowing streaming video. It has also coincided with an apparent move towards the web (hypertext over HTTP over TCP/IP) and away from other protocols like gopher (which also sits atop TCP/IP).
From a mainly textual start the web has gradually become a rich multimedia globally accessible interface. The greater bandwidth available to carry data to end users has enabled rich media sites like YouTube to take off as well as making the sharing of static images and music (Flickr, GrooveShark, etc.) extremely easy and efficient. Now, for those in areas with broadband (>1Mbps) access to the world wide web, socialising that relies on the communication of large volumes of multimedia content or near-instantaneous text or voice communications (IM apps like AIM or GTalk and VOIP like Skype) has become commonplace.
The web but 200 times faster
What’s the new game?
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However here’s a review of the current state of OCR on linux distros from a user perspective. I’ve looked at OCR for Linux briefly before when considering PDF editing and OCR of text-as-image in PDF documents but it’s not really relevant to this.
Note this article is not yet finished!
Optical Character Recognition
OCR – What is it?
OCR applications take an image of text as their input and output the textual equivalent, or at least the applications best guess. Simples. Applications for this sort of thing should be readily apparent – editing documents that you scan in, performing automated content tagging, indexing images by textual content, reading receipt data, these sorts of things.
Popular linux OCR options
The most popular projects in OCR under linux are, in no particular order:
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