Archive for the 'software' Category

It’s hard to predict popularity

By far, the most popular of my free utilities is doc2html, which converts (simple) MS Word documents into relatively clean HTML. It's downloaded around 150 to 200 times per month, and there've been peaks with upwards of 1,000 downloads in a month.
In contrast, my next most-popular program is Count Anything (a word-count program), which […]

Honyaku mailing-list code open sourced

I've open sourced the code for the honyaku mailing-list archive, and posted the code to Google code (I named it ml-archive because my plan is to make it a generic mailing-list archive site). The site is written in Python, using the django web framework. It's released under the MIT license.
One of the challenges I'm facing […]

Proof listening

I first heard about proof listening a few years ago in this JAT article. Proof listening for translation generally means using a text-to-speech program to listen to your translation. Microsoft provides a free TTS engine with voices (although they are somewhat cheesy). If you have Windows 2000 or later, it should already be installed, although […]

Count Anything version 1.1.1 released

I just released version 1.1.1 of Count Anything.
What is Count Anything?
Count Anything is a word-count utility. It runs under Windows, and supports a variety of file formats, including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as HTML and XML. It provides word and character counts, as well as Asian character counts. I haven't released […]