Long exposure webcam

Some Nimisis software that's been popular with star gazers and academics is Exposure, which makes long exposure images with a webcam. There's a new version out now which allows users to set where to save the resulting image and also what format, i.e. compressed or uncompressed.

To download go here.

Tags: Exposure, long exposure, webcam, software

Time lapse drawing

This very talented artist recorded his drawing being created using Nimisis.com's webcam timelapse software, Flix.

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Now a Dofollow blog

Nimisis.com is now a "dofollow" blog. That means that any outlink to a website left in the comments won't have the "nofollow" tag. To explain, a link with the "nofollow" option tells search engines not to follow the link and therefore won't assign the external website any extra ranking. So now, unlike most blogs out there, this option will be omitted. As long as the comments are worthwhile, it doesn't seem right to give the contributer no credit for their trouble, hence the change.

This is only on a trial basis, as there is a risk of abuse, but hopefully it'll be permanent!

MS Word doc to text converter

A while back I wrote some anti-plagiarism software. It compares all the documents in a folder against each other for evidence of copying. The feedback is that it needs to be able to accept more file formats, in addition to plain text (.txt) format, in particular Microsoft Word documents. So I've made a free utility that can batch convert files from doc to txt format. Popular software source files such as .cpp, .java (and many more) can now also be checked.

Download and try it out here.

Tags: Collusion, plagiarism, software, education

Watch every South Park episode

South Park studios is allowing visitors to watch every single episode online for free. I'm not a fan particularly but I think it's good when things are made free to the public. Unfortunately this service is not available outside US yet, but maybe soon...

Related: South Park

Real time website statistics

Want to see your website's visitors the moment they arrive? Interested in where they came from and how they navigate around your pages? Well, you can with Live Web Stats, which is now out of beta and available for webmasters with PHP and MySQL on their servers to purchase and install.

A demo page is here.

See also: statistics, webmaster, php, mysql, seo

Euro 2008 wall chart

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Noticed in Switzerland last week that everywhere you looked there were posters for the upcoming European football championships. So I guess it's not too early to bring out the MS Excel spreadsheet for the tournament. All the fixtures are listed and group standings are calculated as each goal is scored. Download from Sportomaniac.

Tags: football, wallchart, Euro 2008

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Online world country quiz

Below is a famous CNN gaff showing Switzerland after it had apparently invaded the Czech Republic. Would you have spotted it? Here's an interactive world country quiz that tests your knowledge of world geography.

Related: geography, Google Maps, mashup

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