Archive for November, 2006
Accessory for browsing and editing XML documents
The XML format for data and documents is becoming increasingly common and is rapidly becoming a standard format used in many applications. Most home PCs probably do not have any software designed explicitly for manipulating files in this format although browsers or Notepad will display XML files. Microsoft has released a free editor for XML [...]
Those hard to find 800 numbers
Some companies seem never to want to talk to any of their customers. Nowhere in their literature do they list a telephone number for customer service. They usually have a Website where sometimes, but not always, there is an email address. If you have a problem and send an email, however, you get a canned [...]
Searching images and video
Although searching text-based material requires some clever programming to be really efficient, at least the basic material is just the text itself. Searching graphics is an entirely different ball game. Given a lot of photos, for example, how does a computer determine which pictures contain apples? If the titles all contain the word “apple” that [...]
