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Out now! Webcam Flix version 2

Following the success of Flix 1.0 (as featured on PC Plus Spain's dvd for September 2006, issue 109), version 2 is now ready for download to make your time lapse webcam videos even better. New features include capture resolution of 640x480 and ability to use in conjuction with Windows Task Scheduler to capture frames at, say, 10am every morning.

Tags: webcam, Flix, time lapse, project

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Adverts on TV are usually rubbish, but occasionally a very funny advert crops up. Here's a whole collection of very funny ads.

Related: funny, adverts

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Cooking by numbers

Recipes often frustrate me... well cooking is all too frequently frustrating in itself but finding a tasty looking dish in the cookbook only to then have to run down to Sainsbury's for the ingredients gets tedious. I had this idea ages ago of getting together a database of good meals (and what was required to make them) so I'd then be able to query it according to what was already in the fridge. They've beat me to it...

See also: cooking, recipe

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Online hearing test

This is very interesting. Play various mp3s of tones at different frequencies and find out if you can hear them. You probably need reasonably good speakers though.

Tags: hearing, mp3

Visual search engines

Came across Riya recently which puts an interesting spin on the still fairly new wave of photo management websites. Riya can analyse the photos you give it using face detection and can guess very accurately who the people are in your photos (after some initial training of course). It can also do character recognition to spot signs and logos. Very clever!

Related: search engine, photo, Riya

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Free Windows Vista CD

Update: Page no longer exists!

By completing this quiz (http://www.microsoft.com/india/offers/vista/quiz.aspx), you can get a CD of Microsoft Windows Vista beta 2 sent to you for free. I'm not a Microsoft fanboy by any means but it could be interesting...

See also: Vista, Microsoft

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Here's a link to an audio clip that's relevant to today. Unfortunately I wasn't able to shorten it to the first 14 seconds or so... Be warned! There are a few rude lyrics thereafter (that I'm not sure I fully understand). Listen here.

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Google Code Jam 2006

A date has been set - September 5th.

Related: Google Code Jam