war related entries http://www.nimisis.com/tags/war copyright 2007 URL shortener I've come across. Bookmark it and use it when you're emailing a long web address to a friend or posting a link on a site.

There's also an API that programmers might find useful. Twitter, for example, automatically substitutes links that are thirty or more characters long. Perhaps you'll be able to find a use for it!

Tags: URL shortener, forwarding, redirection]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/shorter_than_tinyurl Tue, 27 May 2008 23:55:08 GMT
To download go here.

Tags: Exposure, long exposure, webcam, software]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/long_exposure_webcam Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:39:57 GMT 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]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/ms_word_doc_to_text_converter Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:00:31 GMT plagiarism among students and so I've written a little piece of software as a tool to aid teachers in the fight against it. The application is called Collusion and allows users to select a folder on their hard drive that contains the students' essays. These are then checked against each other for evidence of "copy-and-paste".

This is version 1.0. All feedback, via the contact form or the Nimisis software Google group, would be greatly appreciated!

Tags: software, education, Collusion, plagiarism]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/software_to_detect_plagiarism Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:47:49 GMT
More details are here, together with an example. All comments are very welcome.

Tags: algorithm, programming, code, software]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/extra_mile_algo_standard Thu, 24 May 2007 19:37:41 GMT I've set up a couple of Google groups for some of the software I've written, namely Flix and Warp. (Their respective groups are here and here.) These two applications are particularly well suited to have their own group or forum as Flix is about making timelapse videos and Warp is about making funny photos, so I'm hoping that folk will feel free to share their creations!

Tags: software, Google, Flix, Warp]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/new_google_groups Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:08:47 GMT Google PageRank calculator. If you have a website and want to do some search engine optimisation this will hopefully be a useful tool.

I thought I'd also use this entry as a place where comments can be posted for PR score comparison purposes, so feel free to add what your site scored, how many pages were crawled and the number of calculation iterations performed.

Tags: Ranker, seo, webmaster, software]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/google_pagerank_calculator Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:01:21 GMT
What's contributed to such a poor performance? Take your pick from under-preparedness (Harmison's epic wide at the very start of the 1st Test Match at Brisbane hinted at that), Giles dropping Ponting before he became a centurian at the Adelaide Oval, not picking Panesar till the 3rd Test or key umpiring decisions that were poor (just ask Andrew Strauss what he thinks of his LBWs).

But there's hope. Collingwood, Pietersen, Alistair Cook (almost Boycottesque yesterday), Panesar, these guys have all had their moments and I've probably missed a few other notable performances. Also, in terms of sessions won (if you watch Test cricket that way) England have come away from sessions on top just as many times as the Australians this series. For example, but for a ridiculous hour at Adelaide on the last day, England had won almost every session.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if this Ashes series ends 3-2. Then England will really be kicking themselves. Another prediction - Warne's going to get fined before the series is out for his shameful and unrestrained histrionics after almost every delivery. If wooing umpires in such a way is not bringing the game into disrepute, I don't know what is. Sheikh of Tweak? Histrionic Geek.

Tags: Ashes, cricket, Shane Warne]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/the_sheikh_of_tweak Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:32:30 GMT

Tags: Picasa, Google, photo, software]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/picasa Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:00:48 GMT
For more details see this page.

Tags: Ripper, software, time lapse, project]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/ripper_v10_out_now Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:03:11 GMT