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Getting the most out of your audio recording with Audacity
This article aims to show you some simple techniques to improve the quality of your voice recording quickly and cheaply (for free actually). But first things first: The best audio is the one you don’t have to improve. Some simple steps you can perform in advance to maximize quality: Use quality equipment. Here are some articles…
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Of maps and men
A very cool visualization of the imigration / emigration data: To remember: the relative sizes of countries / continents on most maps is not representative of the true ratios, because most map projections were not meant for that. If you want to play around with different projections, here is a nice page from Wolfram (unfortunately…
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Informative videos about copyright and remixing issues
Walking on Eggshells: Documentary about Remix Culture – via the comixtalk blog: Internet is Freedom – a speech given by Lawrence Lessig at the Italian Parlament – via the Security4All blog: PBS: Copyright Criminals – while the video is not online, you can watch the trailer and listen to some remixes inspired by it which…
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Recording test performance with Jenkins
In many (most?) systems performance is an important non-functional requirement. And even if you attained the required performance, it is useful to keep an eye on it to detect if a codechange involuntarily deteriorates it. Enter the Performance plugin for Jenkins. Using it you can record the performance (as in: speed of execution) of your…
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Audio quality redux
Yet an other example for how simple steps can improve the audio quality considerably. The clip below is taken from this blogpost (which I originally found trough Hacker News). You can find the processed version here, or use the controls below to do a quick A/B comparison of the two. The processing was very simple…
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Protein Shakes site review
This is something new for me: protein shakes. Medically I can’t offer advice about it (I’m weary about using foreign substances not recommended by a specialist), but the site certainly is has some positive signs: The badges at the bottom are clickable and they go to the respective sites which certify the site The domain…
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Using less with syntax highlight
You can use vim as your pager and obtain two benefits: syntax highlight and access to all the advanced commands (like search). You can do this under ubuntu by adding the following line to your ~/.bashrc: alias less=’/usr/share/vim/vimcurrent/macros/less.sh’ Note: You have to have vim installed (which doesn’t come by default, but it is as simple…