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Ikea-style instructions for computer algorithms

Yves Roumazeilles — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 07:36:54 +0000

Designed to help in a computer science and algorithms teaching course, these are great ideas of algorithm descriptions using only simplified drawings and no word (styled like Ikea assembly instructions).

I love them. Idea-instructions.

Scan a book like a pro

Yves Roumazeilles — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:26:06 +0000

The document scanner has long been a tool of the most usual appearance and scanning a digital copy of a document is now of such ease that anybody can do it. Nevertheless, there is a large gap between a pro scan of a full book and the slightly better than average Xerox-like copy that we all do.

Most of it comes from the use of masterful algorithms of cleaning, cropping, re-cropping, aligniment, correction, optimisation that are usually included in some very complex and very expensive pro software scanning tools. Thanks to Scan Tailor, this is no longer the cas. It is open source and it does it all like the pros.

Scan Tailor

Software galore

Yves Roumazeilles — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:37:18 +0000

We never can get enough of them, but our computers are sometimes overflowing. Software applications are everywhere, but how to choose the right one for the task at hand? I built a real collection of pages where you will be able to find nearly all you can dream for nearly all computers:

Five important security apps for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows
Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software
The Windows Apps You Never Need To Install
Battle of the Free Windows Software Firewalls; We have to admit that there is no longer any good reason to pay for your computer security under Windows.
Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications
Logiciels gratuits from TutoWeb.
Now, to look into the future, Sneak peek at OpenOffice.org 3.0
And, last but not least, for old dinosaurs, let’s remind you that you can still use VAX-VMS on your Linux PC. If you don’t know what I am saying, either you’re too young, or you never received a hacker education. Or both.