Videogrep – search through movie dialogue (using .srt files) and make supercuts of the results. Check some of their examples at the bottom of the page – these are pretty cool.
Tag: search
BriefCam – The Video Synopsis Company
BriefCam – The Video Synopsis Company
BriefCam® Syndex powered by Video Synopsis® technology offers a powerful set of video review tools for locating events of interest rapidly and accurately. Reach targets more quickly than ever before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fISfDd35sXU
I think this is super cool.
Searching CakePHP pages
CakePHP framework comes with the default PagesController which is an awesome out of the box way to build a website of mostly static pages. There is one rather annoying limitation though – no search option. If you need a website of mostly static pages with search functionality, you are out of luck. I spent a good chunk of time Googling (searching, eh?) for a solution and even talking to people in #cakephp IRC channel. The best alternatives, it turned out are listed in this StackOverflow answer:
There is no built in way to search static pages as they are just files on disk.
You have three options
- Build a model to hold the data somewhat like a CMS so you can use mysql search.
- google search for sites
- the more hacky approach of reading the contents of all the pages and using preg_match() or similar on the contents to find matches.
The first option is probably the best depending on your use case. The second option is the easiest if its public facing content. The third option is a horrible idea
Since I need the solution for a public facing website, it looks like I’m gonna go with Google Custom Search Engine option.
logstash – a tool for managing events and logs
logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). Speaking of searching, logstash comes with a web interface for searching and drilling into all of your logs.
It is fully free and fully open source. The license is Apache 2.0, meaning you are pretty much free to use it however you want in whatever way.
logstash is now a part of the Elasticsearch family!
Long-Form
Read-later apps let you separate reading from finding, since they ideally happen with different mindsets and environments. This is necessary not because browsing aggregators, timelines, and feed readers is given too little time — people happily devote hours to it — but because the goal is to “get through” them and keep checking for new items, keeping readers in a skimming, active, dismissive mindset that’s hostile to attentive reading.
Instapaper’s usage data backed this up: there was almost no correlation between article length and number of saves on Instapaper. People routinely saved everything from three-paragraph Lifehacker posts to 10,000-word feature articles. The most-saved sites were usually just the most popular sites read by the kind of people who knew about Instapaper, not just the longest articles they found.
Nobody was saving Lifehacker posts because they couldn’t read three paragraphs right then: they saved them because they wanted to attentively read them, which wasn’t going to happen in their current context.