Thursday, February 14, 2013

Online LaTeX

LaTeX is a document markup language and the de-facto standard for writing research papers, especially where special formatting (such as math and chemical formulas) is needed.  It has a pretty steep learning curve, and if you don't really need to use it, its hard to justify learning for occasional use (or at least, that's how I've always felt about it). 

Enter WriteLaTeX, an online, real-time LaTex editor and collaboration site.

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Fuzzycast

File under: things I wish I had time to play with AND things that should be used more widely.

Fuzzycast is a multicast distribution system that allows for pause, rewind, fast forward of Video on Demand (VoD) content.  Multicast is useful for one-to-many distribution of content, but generally must be watched in real time (as it streams) by the clients. 

Fuzzycast addresses these problems.