(Deutsch) Unterlagen Workshop “Rechtradikalismus und neue Medien”
October 27th, 2009
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How to clean your mighty mouse
October 7th, 2006
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i also had some problems with my Mighty Mouse where the scroll ball stopped scrolling down 
i did a quick research and found this link from apple where you’re told how to feedclean your mouse.
and yes, it really worked, i took a wet cloth rubbed the nipple of the mouse in all directions while holding the mouse upside down and voil? – it works again.
if i get problems again in the future or if this doesn’t work, you can try to repair the mouse by dissasembling the enclosure. How this is done without breaking the mouse can be found here
Text to speech
April 2nd, 2006
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I just followed a link from a plone product (Speechcast 0.01) to the webpage of the MARY text to speech project at http://mary.dfki.de/. This is a very promising project that aims to build a open source text-to-speech system, based on a JAVA server client system with the ability to build webbased services. I was completely surprised how well this works. The first few voices i tried were just like the normal “robots”.
But if you like to hear how text-to-speech works nowadays then head over to http://mary.dfki.de/online-demos/java-interface (you need java 1.5 web plugin) and select one of these voices:
- time-awb (English, male, limited)
- dfki-zeit (German, female, limited)
- dfki-bundesliga-excited (German, male, limited)
- dfki-bundesliga (German, male, limited)
i never heard such emotional computer generated voices – that’s the right way! Imagine what this could do for blind people or how you could generate automatically podcasts from your texts or how you convert a book for studying on your ipod 