Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Still Time to Win a Website from Blue Zoo Creative
More Fun than a Barrel of Monkeys
Hey there all you Zoo fans!
Due to the postponement of the NWA Men's Expo, we'll be extending our awesome Facebook fan page contest until April 24. We'll be giving away the prizes only if we reach 200 fans by that time, so make sure that you tell your friends..
We find this kinda situation akin to having a batch of monkeys escape from their cages and we gotta go wrangle them up.
Remember, you can win one of three prizes!
- A custom Blue Zoo Creative website and social media integration package worth $1800,
- A Do-It-Yourself Blue Zoo Website featuring our Design Monkey™ Assistant worth $397, or
- A Set of Ginsu© Knives worth $39
As always, watch out for the lemurs.Eric and Collin
Monday, March 28, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Dead Simple Data Mining with Data Science Toolkit-This is a cool tool!
The tools included at this time are:
- Street Address to Coordinates - Street Address to Location calculates the latitude/longitude coordinates for a postal address.
- File to Text - Converts PDFs, Word Documents, Excel Spreadsheets to text. Recovers text from JPEG, PNG or TIFF images of scanned documents.
- Coordinates to Political Areas - Returns the country, region, state, county, constituencies and neighborhood a point is inside.
- Geodict - Geodict pulls country, city and region names from unstructured English text, and returns their coordinates.
- IP Address to Coordinates - IP Address to Location calculates country, state, city and latitude/longitude coordinates for IP addresses.
- Text to Sentences - Removes any parts of the text that look like boilerplate instead of real sentences.
- HTML to Text - Returns the full text that would actually be displayed in the browser when an HTML document was rendered.
- HTML to Story - Takes an HTML document representing a news article or similar page, and extracts just the story text.
- Text to People - Spots text fragments that look like people's names or titles, and guesses their gender where possible.
You can learn about the sources of these tools here.
According to Pete, "It's essentially a specialized Linux distribution, with a lot of useful data software pre-installed and exposing a simple interface."
If you want to do intensive data mining, you'll probably want your own server. The Data Science Toolkit is available as either a VMware machine or as an Amazon EC2 image. You can find out more about this here. Alternately, you can find the source on Github.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Blue Zoo Websites is NOW Blue Zoo Creative and we're celebrating with a FREE website contest!
Blue Zoo Websites is NOW Blue Zoo Creative. We're more than just easy to make websites. Our services include custom web design/programming, social media strategy, digital advertising, and graphic design. To celebrate our relaunch, three of our fans at our new Facebook page will win a free website or a set of Ginsu knives. Just head over to our NEW Facebook fan page for details and register to win. We'll only be giving away these prizes if we have more than 250 fans, so make sure you encourage your friends to become fans as well.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Create a website using Dropbox and a text editor-Another crazy usage made from Dropbox
Here's my version: http://collincondray.droppages.com/. I hope they approve it soon!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Getting Tired of Charlie Sheen? Eradicate Him From Your Browser
Ah, how fickle fame can be when you’re rendered an Internet meme that draws its strength from insanity. Yup, the web is starting to grow weary of Mr. Charlie Sheen’s antics, as evidenced by Tinted Sheen, the Charlie Sheen Browser Blocker.
Yep, this browser extension for Chrome and Firefox blacks out all mentions of Sheen and his antics (i.e., words like #winning) from your Internets. Download it today, unless you’re one of the legions of folks planning to apply for his ad-sponsored internship position — or you’re following his famous Twitter account.
This little extension was whipped up by Greg Leuch, who also created a hack that turns your Twitter icon into an animated GIF, and JESS3′s Ex-Blocker plugin (which my Stuff Hipsters Hate co-blogger and I contributed to) and does basically the same thing as Tinted Sheen, just with exes.
Will you nix Sheen from your digital world?
