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	<description>Collecting ideas since 1980</description>
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		<title>HTML5 audio caching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my latest coding endeavors is a text-to-speech interface for JavaScript using HTML5 &#60;audio&#62; elements to output synthesized speech from a server. To reduce the latency between a speech request and actual speech output, I'm using various levels of caching. One of these is the regular browser disk cache based on HTTP headers.
It turns [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindtrove.info/html5-audio-caching/</link>
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		<title>Ken Burns Effect in Dojo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a reference to the jQuery CrossSlide plug-in many moons ago. For some dojo.anim practice, I decided to implement its Ken Burns effect in a reusable Dojo widget a few days later. The code then collected dust in my Dropbox until today when I finally got around to sharing it.
Below is an example instance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindtrove.info/ken-burns-effect-in-dojo/</link>
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		<title>Spaceship! code at GitHub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I cloned the code for Spaceship! at GitHub to facilitate easier development by anyone interested. I'll push any future improvements I make there and consider my personal subversion repository dead.
http://github.com/parente/spaceship
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		<link>http://mindtrove.info/spaceship-code-at-github/</link>
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		<title>pyttsx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[pyttsx is a cross-platform text-to-speech package for Python. It has a simple API for producing speech, setting some basic engine properties, and getting start/stop/word callbacks.  pyttsx currently supports SAPI5, NSSpeechSynthesizer, and espeak, but it can be extended to support other engines and libraries.
The project BSD licensed and hosted on Launchpad. PyPI tracks downloads for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindtrove.info/pyttsx/</link>
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		<title>GtkBuilder/Glade on IronPython</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Stephane for his answer to my query about using GtkBuilder in IronPython. It turns out his Gtk#Beans package provides the magic sauce that is currently missing from gtk# trunk the current stable release.
For completeness, here's the code I sent him that accomplishes the same thing using the older Glade.XML object for those that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindtrove.info/gtkbuilderglade-on-ironpython/</link>
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		<title>Outfox in Greasemonkey revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was some traffic in the Outfox group about my GMail announcer userscript failing in Outfox 0.3.x. The Outfox API has improved quite a bit since 0.1.0, so it's no surprise my script no longer works.
Here's a new example script that does work with the latest Outfox 0.3.5 release. Instead of polluting the example with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindtrove.info/outfox-in-greasemonkey-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Spaceship!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Gary announced Outfox back in 2008, all manner of ideas for using speech and sound in the browser popped into my head. I've always had the boring demos (i.e., for adults) at Maze Day, so I decided to work first on a fun, somewhat educational, self-voicing browser game for the 2009 rendition. After all, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindtrove.info/spaceship/</link>
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		<title>IBM on 4/1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IBM intranet had a decent April Fools news article about "solving" time zone confusion by adjusting employee schedules to 1 work hour, 3 break hours, 1 work hour, 3 break hours ad infinitum to better accommodate what IBMers do best: hold meetings. 
Like many IBM news posts, the article included a video embed "for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindtrove.info/ibm-on-41/</link>
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		<title>Tidbit: doh.robot initialization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The doh.robot module for Dojo clicks a special text field inserted into the top-left of the test page during its initialization. If you obscure this magic field, the robot hangs.
If you're writing your test cases separate from the page under test (always a good idea), dojo.robotx craftily hides the iframe containing the page to test [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mindtrove.info/tidbit-dohrobot-initialization/</link>
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		<title>iPod Shuffle with TTS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's about time! Now when can I expect it on the other iPods? Just because they have screens doesn't mean I'm always looking at them.
Article at Gizmodo
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		<link>http://mindtrove.info/ipod-shuffle-with-tts/</link>
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