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Museum in a Box
Museum in a Box
Museums are the vaults of the world that represent us and our histories. They are deeply human constructs, and we love them. But, not everyone can visit a museum, and even if you can visit, you might only see about 5% of the collection, and even then, chances are you can’t touch anything, and you interact through glass and esoteric wall labels. It’s difficult. Our mission is to help museums increase to their collections, and bring cultural education into hard-to-reach places. At the centre of our world lies the Box. It’s a small, friendly, internet-connected, Raspberry Pi-powered thing, and has speakers inside. When you place an object on it, that triggers an audio response. It’s simple, versatile, and portable. So simple in fact before too long you’ll realise this flexibility lets you fill the Box with any story you can think of.
·museuminabox.org·
Museum in a Box
Speech to text in the browser with the Web Speech API - Twilio
Speech to text in the browser with the Web Speech API - Twilio
The Web Speech API has two functions, speech synthesis, otherwise known as text to speech, and speech recognition, or speech to text. We previously investigated text to speech so let's take a look at how browsers handle recognising and transcribing speech with the SpeechRecognition API. Being able to take voice commands from users means you can create more immersive interfaces and users like using their voice. In 2018, Google reported that 27% of the global online population is using voice search on mobile. With speech recognition in the browser you can enable users to speak to your site across everything from a voice search to creating an interactive bot as part of the application. Let's see how the API works and what we can build with it.
·twilio.com·
Speech to text in the browser with the Web Speech API - Twilio
Datasette — Datasette documentation
Datasette — Datasette documentation
Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape or size and publish that as an interactive, explorable website and accompanying API. Datasette is aimed at data journalists, museum curators, archivists, local governments and anyone else who has data that they wish to share with the world. It is part of a wider ecosystem of tools and plugins dedicated to making working with structured data as productive as possible.
·datasette.readthedocs.io·
Datasette — Datasette documentation
Extract Text from Images with Google Drive OCR - Digital Inspiration
Extract Text from Images with Google Drive OCR - Digital Inspiration
There are online tools that let you convert images to text using OCR but did you know that you can use Google Apps Script to easily build a similar tool for free. Build a form that accepts file uploads, publish as a web app and then send the file to Google Drive via Apps Script. The server side script can OCR the image and return the extracted text as output.
·labnol.org·
Extract Text from Images with Google Drive OCR - Digital Inspiration
Making of OpenStreetMap Haiku
Making of OpenStreetMap Haiku
Here's what's happening: we automated making haikus about places. Looking at every aspect of the surroundings of a point, we can generate a poem about any place in the world. The result is sometimes fun, often weird, most of the time pretty terrible. Also probably horrifying for haiku purists (sorry). Go ahead and give it a try.
·satellitestud.io·
Making of OpenStreetMap Haiku
Sourcery
Sourcery
Sourcery is a not-for-profit service that gives researchers access to documents that can't be found online by paying other researchers to find them. It aims to streamline the process that researchers go through by providing one simple platform that works at any collecting institution in our service area (currently New York City, Boston, and Storrs; coming soon to Providence, New Haven, Washington, DC, and other cities). Just provide the document’s citation information, and Sourcery will do the rest. When you submit a request, the app finds and notifies Sourcery-registered researchers working near the repository where your document is located. One of these remote researchers will claim the job, call the document from the archive, take a picture of it, and send it directly to your desktop or mobile device.
·sourceryapp.org·
Sourcery
Introducing the CC Search Browser Extension - Creative Commons
Introducing the CC Search Browser Extension - Creative Commons
Creative Commons (CC) is working towards providing easy access to CC-licensed and public domain works. One significant step towards achieving that goal was the release of CC Search in 2019. Through this search and indexing tool, we’re making a plethora of CC-licensed images accessible in one place. As CC Search expands to include more than just images, CC is also developing a suite of applications and interfaces to help users across the world interact, consume, and reuse open access content. The CC Search Browser Extension is one such application.
·creativecommons.org·
Introducing the CC Search Browser Extension - Creative Commons
Tools 4 noobs - tools you didn't even know you needed
Tools 4 noobs - tools you didn't even know you needed
This website is meant to be a collection of useful scripts and widgets that anyone can use (and eventually also add on their website). Because we appreciate free software, we will keep all our tools free of charge and some even open source.
·tools4noobs.com·
Tools 4 noobs - tools you didn't even know you needed
Project Naptha
Project Naptha
Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image.
·projectnaptha.com·
Project Naptha
Earthquakes with exaggerated depth
Earthquakes with exaggerated depth
Earthquakes between July 2017 and July 2018. Earthquake depth is exaggerated by a factor of 8. Click on each earthquake to find out more about its magnitude and depth. Original data from USGS. Made by Raluca with ArcGIS API for JavaScript.
·glowy-earthquakes.glitch.me·
Earthquakes with exaggerated depth
Balance Braces, Parentheses, Brackets, and Tags in Your Code
Balance Braces, Parentheses, Brackets, and Tags in Your Code
I developed this site to give programmers an easy way to visually balance braces (a.k.a., curly braces), parentheses, brackets, and tags in their computer code. I was frustrated by Dreamweaver's Mickey Mouse method of balancing braces, which highlights only the one section of code enclosed by brackets surrounding the cursor, which must be manually placed with the mouse. In contrast, my method doesn't require you to place the mouse cursor, and in one step it gives you an intuitive way to visually check if your braces (or parentheses, brackets, etc.) are balanced. You can easily determine which braces open and close any given code section (they're highlighted in the same color). My brace balancing utility allows you to balance braces no matter how deeply nested they are, and their nesting is also immediately apparent visually.
·balancebraces.com·
Balance Braces, Parentheses, Brackets, and Tags in Your Code
How to use Google Sheets as a CMS or a database - Noteworthy - The Journal Blog
How to use Google Sheets as a CMS or a database - Noteworthy - The Journal Blog
Over the past week, I shared multiple demos in Twitter where I showcased different sites powered by Google Sheets. Several people were curious as to how I had built them, and I promised writing a Medium article (my first one, please be kind! 💜), so here it is! Before I get into the guide, I want to explain why this may be useful or what possible uses this could have. Being an alternative to a CMS or database, it obviously has the same capabilities as an equivalent, but being Google Sheets, there are several added advantages
·blog.usejournal.com·
How to use Google Sheets as a CMS or a database - Noteworthy - The Journal Blog
Patternify | CSS Pattern Generator
Patternify | CSS Pattern Generator
Patternify is a simple pattern generator. I built it to save myself the pain of launching Photoshop just to export a 2px by 2px stripe pattern. Not only can you build your pattern online, but with the base64 code, you don't even need an image file anymore: just include the code in your CSS and you're ready to go!
·patternify.com·
Patternify | CSS Pattern Generator
Better TweetDeck, supercharge your TweetDeck experience
Better TweetDeck, supercharge your TweetDeck experience
Your TweetDeck, your rules! One of the focuses of Better TweetDeck is customization: Want to see only @usernames on tweets? No problem. Want an absolute time format for tweets? Sure. Missing the square avatars ? We got you. Wish TweetDeck's UI was a bit more minimal? Check this out! Miss the old dark theme? You're in luck! Preferred when characters were counted with actual numbers? We hear you.
·better.tw·
Better TweetDeck, supercharge your TweetDeck experience
Website Themes & Skins by Stylish | Userstyles.org
Website Themes & Skins by Stylish | Userstyles.org
Stylish offers customization and personalization for the appearance of virtually any webpage in the world through styles created by the Stylish community. To use these styles you need to download the Stylish browser extension.
·userstyles.org·
Website Themes & Skins by Stylish | Userstyles.org
SocioViz is a free Social Network Analysis tool for Twitter. Do you need a social media analytics software for Social Media Marketing, Digital Journalism or Social Research? Have a try and jump on board!
SocioViz is a free Social Network Analysis tool for Twitter. Do you need a social media analytics software for Social Media Marketing, Digital Journalism or Social Research? Have a try and jump on board!
SocioViz is a social media analytics platform powered by Social Network Analysis metrics. Are you a Social Media Marketer, Digital Journalist or Social Researcher? Have a try and jump on board!
·socioviz.net·
SocioViz is a free Social Network Analysis tool for Twitter. Do you need a social media analytics software for Social Media Marketing, Digital Journalism or Social Research? Have a try and jump on board!
The javascript spreadsheet
The javascript spreadsheet
jExcel is a lightweight vanilla javascript plugin to create amazing web-based interactive tables and spreadsheets compatible with Excel or any other spreadsheet software. You can create an online spreadsheet table from a JS array, JSON, CSV or XSLX files. You can copy from excel and paste straight to your jExcel spreadsheet and vice versa. It is very easy to integrate any third party javascript plugins to create your own custom columns, custom editors, and customize any feature into your application. jExcel has plenty of different input options through its native column types to cover the most common web-based application requirements. It is a complete solution for web data management. Create amazing applications with jExcel javascript spreadsheet.
·bossanova.uk·
The javascript spreadsheet
Intro.js - Step-by-step guide and feature introduction for your website
Intro.js - Step-by-step guide and feature introduction for your website
When new users visit your website or product you should demonstrate your product features using a step-by-step guide. Even when you develop and add a new feature to your product, you should be able to represent them to your users using a user-friendly solution. Intro.js is developed to enable web and mobile developers to create a step-by-step introduction easily. Intro.js is open-source and free to use. Share the project with your friends.
·introjs.com·
Intro.js - Step-by-step guide and feature introduction for your website
Colorize Black and White Photos – Algorithmia
Colorize Black and White Photos – Algorithmia
Bring new life to old photos by automatically colorizing them using the Algorithmia API. It's as easy as pasting in a URL above. We're excited to introduce cloud hosted deep learning models on Algorithmia. The Colorful Image Colorization microservice is a computer vision algorithm trained on a million images from the Imagenet dataset.
·demos.algorithmia.com·
Colorize Black and White Photos – Algorithmia
Online tools for random words, Word to HTML, other free tools.
Online tools for random words, Word to HTML, other free tools.
This website features text and html changing, converting, and generating tools designed to save you time making web pages or preparing content for web publishing projects or other groovy stuff. Or even use the site to make a random choice. If you've ever needed to convert plain text to html paragraphs, alphabetize text, generate random words or remove line breaks then this website can save you from hours of needless manual labor.
·textfixer.com·
Online tools for random words, Word to HTML, other free tools.
Social Feed Manager
Social Feed Manager
Social Feed Manager is open source software that harvests social media data and web resources from Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and Sina Weibo. It empowers researchers, faculty, students, and archivists to collect, manage, and export social media data. By running Social Feed Manager on behalf of their communities, cultural heritage and research organizations can provide an innovative service.
·gwu-libraries.github.io·
Social Feed Manager