Welcome to freeDive: Data sharing for everyone
freeDive transforms Google Spreadsheets into searchable databases that can be embedded in web sites.
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ANU Quantum Random Number Server
This website offers true random numbers to anyone on the internet. The random numbers are generated in real-time in our lab by measuring the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum. The vacuum is described very differently in the quantum mechanical context than in the classical context. Traditionally, a vacuum is considered as a space that is empty of matter or photons. Quantum mechanically, however, that same space resembles a sea of virtual particles appearing and disappearing all the time. This results in the fact that the vacuum does not possess a zero-point energy, and consequently the electo-magnetic field describing this vacuum possesses random fluctuations in phase and amplitude at all frequencies. By carefully measuring these fluctuations, we are able to generate ultra-high bandwidth random numbers. This website allows everybody to download our quantum random numbers, assess in real time the quality of the numbers generated and learn more about the physics behind it.
David Hanson: Robots that "show emotion" | Video on TED.com
David Hanson's robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an "emotional" live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future where robots truly mimic humans. David Hanson merges robotics and art to design life-like, social robots that can mimic human expression and emotion.
node.js
Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
google-refine - Google Refine, a power tool for working with messy data (formerly Freebase Gridworks) - Google Project Hosting
Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.
Wildlife Control - Analog or Digital
animation video featuring the soundcloud api
Desmos | A Better Calculator
We set out to reimagine the graphing calculator from the ground up, building on the best technologies available. This is beautiful, powerful, intuitive math that lives in your browser. Graph multiple functions in vivid color and watch them update as you type. Save your work to the cloud or share it with friends. Transform your computer or tablet into a math engine. This is just the beginning—and it's all completely free.
PivotX - The Powerful Open Source Blog CMS
Yes, it's a blogging tool - and a pretty brilliant one if you ask us - but PivotX is also a great tool to maintain more complex websites as well. Its powerful core and flexible template system make it easy for developers to adjust and extend. No matter if you want an easy-to-use, robust blogging tool or are looking to push things to the max - PivotX offers the best of both worlds.
5 Easy Ways To Download & Convert Online Videos
Streaming video websites are such a big part of our lives, it’s hard to remember a time when they didn’t exist. These websites revolutionized our computer video experience – no longer do we have to download every single video we want to watch – it’s all right there! But the opposite is also true. Sometimes sending a link or embedding a video is not enough, and we need the actual file, or only its soundtrack. And when that happens, the default FLV file format rarely cuts it. Luckily, there are several downloaders-converters out there that make it easy as pie to download videos and convert them into almost every possible format.
Aaron's Twitter Viewer
I made this little program so you can view and link to a whole conversation from Twitter in context.
Art.sy - Discover fine art
Art.sy is a new way to discover art you'll love, featuring work from leading galleries, museums and private collections around the world. Art.sy is powered by The Art Genome Project, an ongoing study of the characteristics that distinguish and connect works of art. Art.sy evaluates artworks along 500+ characteristics—such as art-historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities—to create a powerful search experience that reflects the multifaceted aspects of works of art.
Transcribe - free online tool to help with transcription of interviews or audio recording
Transcribe audio without alternating between an audio player and a text editor.
The CUNY Academic Commons Announces The Commons in a Box Project | Academic Commons News
The CUNY Academic Commons is proud to announce the establishment of The Commons in a Box, a new open-source project that will help other organizations quickly and easily install and customize their own Commons platforms. With generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the CUNY Academic Commons team will launch the free software project by assembling new and existing WordPress-based community and collaboration tools into a single installation package.
Tuna Ipsum | A Fishier Lorem Ipsum Generator
Does your lorem ipsum text long for something a little fishier? Give our generator a try… it’s fishy!
Tweephone
UP digital Bureau and Unteleported tech agency proudly present the world’s first analogue Twitter client — Tweephone. Tweephone is a joint project of two friendly digital firms. As the first anniversary of UP Digital Bureau was approaching, Unteleported tech agency had decided to present their friends with an execution of the UP’s geeky, yet interesting and challenging idea.
Tangle: a JavaScript library for reactive documents
Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents. Your readers can interactively explore possibilities, play with parameters, and see the document update immediately. Tangle is super-simple and easy to learn.
bl.ocks.org
This website is a simple viewer for code examples hosted on GitHub Gist. Code up an example using Gist, and then point people here to view the example and the source code, live! The main source code for your example should be named index.html. You can use relative links to other files in your Gist. You can also use absolute links to shared files, such as CDN-hosted jQuery, Polymaps, Raphaël, etc. You can also include an optional README; Markdown and plain text are supported.
jsFiddle - Online Editor for the Web (JavaScript, MooTools, jQuery, Prototype, YUI, Glow and Dojo, HTML, CSS)
JsFiddle is a playground for web developers, a tool which may be used in many ways. One can use it as an online editor for snippets build from HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The code can then be shared with others, embedded on a blog, etc. Using this approach, JavaScript developers can very easily isolate bugs. We aim to support all actively developed frameworks - it helps with testing compatibility. (full Interview)
Second Hand Songs
Find out who performed the original version of a particular song, or who covered that song. Unlike many related sites, we try to be as complete as possible (not just performer and song title, but also songwriters and original media) and order the data in a reusable and maintainable way.
Flickr RSS Feed Generator
Mac OS X has a screen saver that takes an RSS feed of images as a data source. Naturally I thought Flickr would provide good RSS feeds for tags, and users. Flickr offers these feeds, but unfortunately limits them to 20 items and does not offer any sorting or filtering options. To gain more control over RSS feeds of Flickr images, I made this Flickr RSS Generator. This generator uses the Flickr API to retrieve images determined by parameters you specify and returns an RSS feed, whose URL you can paste into the screensaver options screen in OS X.
Zeega
Zeega is an open-source HTML5 platform for creating interactive documentaries and inventing new forms of storytelling. Zeega will make it easy to collaboratively produce, curate and publish participatory multimedia projects online, on mobile devices and in physical spaces.
Bonus: How To Mashup RSS Feeds With Yahoo Pipes | Yahoo Pipes Tutorial
This 2 part tutorial will teach you how you can mashup several RSS feeds into one using Yahoo Pipes, then customize the look and feel of it with the magic of CSS.
How to: Display any rss feed on your WordPress blog
Do you ever wanted to be able to display any rss feed on your WordPress blog? If yes, here’s a simple code that will get that thing done. Do you know that WordPress have a function, called wp_rss(), which is nothing else than a built-in rss reader?
cc:to me
With cc:to me it's super simple to email yourself notes from anywhere. Use the bookmarklet to send yourself a note or a piece of any website along with it, or you can text us. The cc:to me bookmarklet lets you add or drag any kind of web content onto it: text, images, or entire articles.
HTTP Archive
The HTTP Archive tracks how the Web is built. The HTTP Archive code is open source and the data is downloadable.
Wireless Dead Drop = WIDROP
WIreless dead DROP- "an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space."
How to Create Thumbnail Images using PHP
This tutorial will describe how to create thumbnail images on the fly using PHP. Furthermore you will learn how to process a whole folder of images and create their thumbnails. Since this requires the GD library, you will need an installation of PHP with at least GD 2.0.1 enabled.
RoboHash
Robohash is a easy web service that makes it easy to provide unique, robot/alien/monster/whatever images for any text. Put in any text, such as IP address, email, filename, userid, or whatever else you like, and get back a pretty image for your site. With hundreds of millions of variations, Robohash is the among the leading robot-based hashing tools on the web.
ifttt
ifttt puts the internet to work for you by creating tasks that fit this simple structure: ifthisthenthat Think of all the things you could do if you were able to define any task as: when something happens (this) then do something else (that).
Paper.js
Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface.